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Backblaze B2 Offers Dirt-Cheap Cloud Storage for Half a Penny Per GB a Month

Backblaze B2 Offers Dirt-Cheap Cloud Storage for Half a Penny Per GB a Month

There isn’t much you can buy for less than one cent these days, but you can store a whole lot of files in the “cloud” for $0.005 a month with Backblaze’s new B2 storage service. It’ll even give you 10GB for free.

Backblaze B2 is similar to Amazon S3 (which starts at $0.022 a month) or Amazon Glacier (which costs a penny per GB). It’s pay-for-what-you-use online storage—petabytes of space, even—that you can use as a backup solution (like you can with Glacier) or to host files on the web. B2 seems to be built with developers in mind, in fact, since there’s an API for it and you can upload or download data using the command line (CLI).

Like Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, you pay for both storage and retrieval (downloads). Downloads cost $0.05 per GB, so this isn’t really a Dropbox replacement or for frequently accessing files. But you could store 100GB of photos or videos there for safekeeping for just $0.50 a month, which is pretty cool.

The service comes with a web interface to upload or download files into your buckets, as well as alerts for when you’re reaching a storage limit you said. If you need to download a big bunch of files at once, you can get a flash drive with your files sent to you (128 GB) for $99 or a USB hard drive (3 TB) for $189.

In any case, if you sign up you’ll get 10GB of storage to try B2 out for free.

B2 Cloud Storage | Backblaze


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Your phone is a lightsaber in Google’s desktop browser game

Since real lightsabers don’t exist (yet), Google and the studios behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens are offering the next-best thing: A program that turns your smartphone into a lightsaber, which then takes out bad guys on your computer screen. Lightsaber Escape is live now — open it in your desktop browser and then punch in the unique URL on your phone (or vice versa), and you’re good to go. Your phone becomes a lightsaber handle and, as you move it around, the actual glowing sword moves on the desktop.

Lightsaber Escape is a Chrome Experiment that Google made in conjunction with Lucasfilm and Star Wars visual-effects studio Industrial Light & Magic. It uses WebGL for the 3D graphics, plus WebRTC and WebSocket for the real-time communication between your phone and desktop. It may be a Chrome Experiment, but this one works in other browsers, too.

If Chrome and Safari can get along, maybe there’s hope for the First Order and the Resistance, after all.

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Speed Up OS X Photos by Reducing Motion

Speed Up OS X Photos by Reducing Motion

We all know about the motion effects in iOS, but it turns out they’re tucked away in OS X as well. OS X Daily points out that the Photos app has it, and you can speed up performance by turning it off.

Open up Photos, then Head to Photos > Preferences and select the General tab. Click on “Reduce Motion” to disable the various animations, and you’ll be on your way to making Photos a little less cumbersome to use. If you feel like your Mac’s been pretty slow lately, you might try disabling a few other animations.

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Speed Up Photos App in OS X with Reduce Motion | OS X Daily


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Frontier Firearms Offers 5% Discount for Christians, Sells Christian Carry Pins

Brant W. Williams is the owner of Frontier Firearms, a gun store and shooting range in Kingston, Tennessee. Williams read the news of attacks on Christians in mass shootings in Oregon and in Charleston, South Carolina. He read of … Read More

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