Business Use
- MyFax, $10 per month: MyFax provides us with an incoming fax line. While we have a fax machine at home, it's never in Receive mode because it shares a line with our other phones. MyFax receives our faxes and then puts the pages into a PDF file and emails the PDF to my email acct, which also allows me to read faxes received during the day from work.
- Strongspace, $14 per month: Strongspace provides 6 GB of storage space where we can store backups of critical files offsite.
- StatCounter, $9 per month: StatCounter lets me keep track of all the web statistics for all of my websites with just a snippet of Javascript per site. I use this service to track all of the ways that people reach my websites.
- TypePad, $8.95 per month: I don't actually use TypePad but I keep a basic account there so I can keep up on what new features are being added to the Moveable Type blogging engine that powers the site.
- KeepMedia, $4.95 per month: A very inexpensive news service which lets me read dozens of magazines and papers for which I would usually have to have a full subscription. Example periodicals include BusinessWeek, NewsWeek, Esquire, USA Today. Have been using this less and less lately so I might cancel this soon.
- Backpack, $5 per month: A very useful site for collecting and sharing digital information regarding concepts I am working on.
- Cell phones, 2 for $150 per month: Waaaaay too expensive for how much I use it.
- Comcast, $95 per month: Ah, the cable and Internet connection bill….my favorite. Not. Am hoping that the a la carte channel selection concept goes through soon.
- Basecamp, free: This is an excellent online project management website. I use it only for managing one project: Narrative.
- Ta-da Lists, free: A nice little task management application – sort of a simplified Basecamp – which lets me track the other tasks on my mind.
So the total for business services is just under $300 per month. We just switched this weekend to Cingular with the goal of reducing that service cost a bit. The following services I keep just for personal use:
Personal Use
- UT2004 Server, $10.50 per month: I rent space on a game server so Petey and I can have low-lag Unreal Tournament 2004 games.
- World of Warcraft, $14.99 per month: I play this every weekend in the late evenings. As of this posting I have a level 21 mage, level 18 warlock, and a level 11 rogue.
- Ventrilo by Darkstar, $4 per month: A great voice conferencing client which allows multiple people to talk to each other at the same time. Great for communicating during quests and raids in WoW.
- Flickr, $25 per year: Possibly the best online photo sharing website. I pay the extra $2+ per month so I can have a ton of extra “sets“.
- XM Radio, $12.95 per month: I listen to XM whenever I am in the car.
So another $45 for personal services. All together, almost $350 per month for services related to the digital world.