What you can do about soaring hard drive prices

Can you believe the price of a typical, everyday 1 TB hard drive at Newegg has TRIPLED in the past month? And you can’t buy two of them – you’re limited to one.

Here’s what happened to cause the buying panic – and what you can do to cope.

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Buy SSD laptops now – before prices jump

There’s a serious knock-on effect from increased hard drive prices. Ultrabooks and SSDs aren’t going to get any cheaper, at least in the near term.

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(Also, please take a look at the first Comment. You can ignore the others.

The thousand-dollar penalty for re-using passwords

It’s a tough lesson to learn.

Windows Secrets Newsletter Top Story.

How to find out if your email address has been pwned

A remarkable list, and it only takes a minute to check.

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Browser share numbers show Chrome way up

And Internet Explorer is slowly falling below 50%.

Fascinating how the worm… er, the market has turned this year.

InfoWorld Tech Watch.

Hard drive prices go through the roof

Consumers are getting gouged, but by whom?

Hint: if I were you, I’d wait a couple of months to buy a hard drive.

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Windows Event Viewer scam

I finally had a chance to write up a description of the whole scam.

It’s serious – and something that many, many people fall for. The ones who really need to know about it generally aren’t the kind who read Windows Secrets Newsletter. We really need to spread the word.

Windows Secrets Newsletter.

Will Apple’s “Slide to Unlock” patent stomp on Android or Windows 8?

Short answer: No.

But the long answer is quite interesting, I think.

InfoWorld Tech Watch.