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Scarcity – The Good and the Bad

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Personal computing devices in the home were thousands of dollars in the 1980’s when we got our first system. According to PC Magazine’s PC timeline , the cost in today’s dollars of a PC in 1981 was $7564 people have more computing power in their phone than we had, for much less money. Why is scarcity bad?

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Smilebox Review and Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

Since the service’s launch in June 2006, more than 15 million people have installed the desktop Smilebox service and more than 180 million Smilebox creations have been played worldwide.” The best part is that Smilebox recognizes when I add new photos to my computer and lets me upload them to Facebook and/or Twitter in seconds.