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Filed under: Office, Productivity

BoxCycle: the Internet does cardboard boxes

BoxCycle
You're paying way too much for moving boxes. At least, that's the premise behind BoxCycle, a site that lets you buy and sell boxes cheaply to others in your area. If you've got a business that buys more boxes than it needs, list them for sale, and a buyer will come pick them up. If you're moving and you need to buy boxes, just put in your zip code and pick some up near you.

BoxCycle isn't quite perfect. Most of the boxes we could find were in the New York/New Jersey area, so hopefully a bit of publicity will get more listings up in the rest of the country. BoxCycle also takes a cut for facilitating the transactions, much like other online marketplaces. Although I think the idea behind BoxCycle is a good one, the infrastructure to buy and sell boxes locally is already out there: it's called Craigslist. Other than encouraging people to redistribute their boxes locally instead of throwing them away, which is commendable, it doesn't seem to bring anything new to the table.

Filed under: Hardware, How-Tos

DIY Life : Recycling your old electronics


We know, being responsible is just so, hard. Electronics which run the nifty software we cover and love contain some nasty stuff that's not so friendly for the environment when left to rot in a landfill. So what's a gadget oving geek to do? Recycle.

Our newest little sister, DIY Life, has a great article on the basics of responsibly recycling your old gear. So, clean out that junk drawer and put those useless gadgets where they belong!

By the way, DIY Life posts all sorts of nifty tips, tech related and not so tech related. If you've got a hankerin' to get your tinker on, check 'em out and find some weekend projects.

Filed under: Security, Windows, Productivity, Microsoft

"Previous Version" file system support coming to Vista

Ars Technica is reporting that versioning support will be implemented in Vista at the file system level, allowing users who have System Protection (enabled by default) running to simply right-click a file to access a "Previous Versions" menu (now I know why Vista's hard drive requirements are so steep). Previous Versions will also monitor backups made of files with Vista-aware backup applications, so it will only show versions of the file made after the last backup.

As usual, there could easily be privacy and security concerns among the corporate IT crowd, as Previous Versions can make copies and track versions of files on network drives as well. As icing on the cake, the term 'deleted file' might also become a thing of the past, as Previous Versions can restore files even after being removed from the recycle bin.

Check out Ars Technica's full writeup of everything Previous Versions will have to offer.

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