Service Reviews

Comprehensive reviews of cloud services, hosting platforms, and digital tools to help you make informed decisions.

1Password

$49.99 Free Trial

1Password is an excellent choice to keep your passwords secure and easily available. They offer extensions for Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox along with desktop applications for Mac and Windows. The app can autofill forms, save your password data and offers tools such as secure password generation. The download is a fully functional demo for 30 days.

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AirVPN

$7.75

AirVPN features a fantastic perspective to privacy, and has the technical power to back it up. With the support for VPN through Tor and excellent speed and dependability. Works with Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.

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Blink Camera

$129.99 Often On Sale. Check Website for Current Price.

Blink cameras offer an easy to use home security camera system that is easy to setup, use and mount pretty much anywhere. The XT cameras are weatherproof and function well outdoors even in cold. Free cloud storage is an added bonus and the iOS and Android apps are easy to use and manage your cloud storage and cameras.

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Backblaze Personal Backup

$9.00/Month, $99.00/Year, $189.00/Two Years

Backblaze makes personal backup to the cloud easy and fast. By automatically selecting all user files to backup Backblaze is the point and shoot of cloud backup. With desktop apps for Windows and Mac, users can quickly and easily have their data backed up to the Backblaze data centers and rest easy knowing their data is safe in the event of a computer disaster or other calamity.

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Block Posters

$0.00 Premium Poster $5.00

Free easy to use service to create large prints or posters. The free version displays the Block Posters logo in the printout. For $5.00 you can remove the logo.

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Carbonite

$6.00 All prices billed annually. Basic: $6.00/month. Plus: $9.34/month. Prime: $12.50/month

Carbonite has been around since 2005, and offers a solid cloud backup service for users. Certainly the fact that they have been around for 15 years shows that they are serious about being around for the long haul. If all you need is to backup one computer with mostly photos and office documents then Carbonite might be perfect for you.

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Cashboard

$8.25 Per Month

Cashboard is online software that helps businesses and freelancers manage their time and finances better. It includes time tracking, invoicing, and online payment processing through Stripe/PayPal. Simple project management Effortlessly track time & expenses Send professional invoices with 1-click Get paid instantly, accept credit cards Devices supported : Web based, Mobile website optimized for mobile devices

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CloudFlare

$0.00 $25.00/Month or $240/Year

CloudFlare provides a content delivery network and distributed domain name server services, sitting between the visitor and the CloudFlare user's hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites. Its network protects, speeds up, and improves availability for a website or mobile application with a change in DNS. Easy to use website CDN and security options. Only $20.00/month for the first website. $5.00/month per additional website/month. Easy to configure page rules. Additional speed up options to speed up website files. Easy to use DNS editor.

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CloudConvert

$0.00 Paid Packages Start at $8.00

Need an easy to use tool to convert files from one format to another? CloudConvert makes it quick and easy to convert files and even grab website snaps and save them to the format you need. They also offer an API for those wanting to integrate the app into their own websites and projects.

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Cloudways

$10.00 Plans start at $10.00/month depending on hosting provider chosen.

Cloudways offers a great balance for people wanting the power and speed of cloud hosting with the ease of use of shared hosting. They are an excellent option for those that just want a web host that works and takes care of the many small details. If you are looking for a new web host I would recommend you give Cloudways a try. The speed and ease of use make it easy for anyone.

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Dashlane

$0.00 $39.99 / Year for Premium

Dashlane is more than just a password management app, it also features an encrypted digital wallet and auto form fill features. A very well rounded app that will help you keep your passwords and your digital life safe and secure. The premium version allows you to sync your data across your devices.

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Degoo

$0.00 Plans start at $3/month.

Degoo offers a large amount of free backup storage and for those in a very tight budget might be worth looking into. The free storage does come at a price though, with the desktop app trying hard to install other apps as well at the option for the desktop app to also mine cryptocurrancy for the company. There are better cloud backup services available out there but if you are on a very tight budget or just love the idea of having 100GB of free space then Degoo is for you. TL;DR The Degoo desktop app is seriously lacking in features such as scheduling, incremental backup and more. If you are serious about purchasing a subscription with a cloud backup service look at Backblaze or IDrive.

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DesignEvo

$0.00 Free: If you give credit. Basic: $24.99. Plus: $49.99 One time fee.

DesignEvo is a cross-platform including web-based, Android, iOS, Mac) for designing impressive logos in seconds. With nearly 10,000+ wide range of pre-set templates would let you find a template to match your industry and website. And have more choice to pick an awesome logo templates. Besides, it has an extensive collection of resources, including 1,000,000 icons, hundreds of fonts, and shapes. DesignEvo makes your designing assignment easier to be done with its practical tools by dragging, dropping and clicking. Description supplied by DesignEvo.

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DigitalOcean

$5.00 Per Month

State of the art cloud hosting to get your website or web enabled app up and running fast. With monthly rates starting at just $5.00/month the pricing and speed can't be beat. Add in an account with ServerPilot to help manage your Droplets and you have an excellent and easy to use combination that I recommend.

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The DesignCap Poster and Flyer online creator is a free and simple to use online option for those needing to make a poster or flyer. Easy to use and free this tool will certainly help people with their occasional poster and flyer creation needs.

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dlvr.it

$0.00 Plans start at $8.29/month

An easy to use service to help automate regular social media tasks. The free plan has enough options to help websites and blogs that only post occasionally with support for 3 sites or feeds and 2 social profiles. Websites that need more posting done than the free account offers will need a Pro account.

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Free, open source Duplicati is a great tool for those wanting strong encryption on their backup with the ability to upload to an ever expanding list of cloud storage providers.

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Evernote

$0.00Plus Plan Starts at $28.99/year.

Life can be complicated but Evernote will help you stay on top of everything. Write notes, collect information and even discuss and present it easily with Evernote. With apps for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android Evernote is everywhere you need it to help you stay organized.

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Organize as you type Group notes together with hashtags. Simply put a pound sign ( # ) in front of any word to add a note to that category. Access anywhere Fetchnotes is accessible on the web, iPhone, or Android. Share with anyone Just tap the at sign ( @ ) and type a name in your address book, a username, an email or a phone number to share. Find anything, fast Filter your feed to certain hashtags, people or just a string of text. Collaborate instantly Receive a notification whenever someone shares or edits a note with you. Tools to get things done Archive your notes when you're done with them.

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Feedly

$0.00 Paid packages start at $65.00/year

Feedly is the premium RSS reader that does so much more. Offering features such as: Power search Shared collections Faster polling Connect to Buffer Connect to Hootsuite Connect to Evernote Connect to IFTTT and more.

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FlexClip

$0.00 Paid plans start at $5.99/month billed annually.

If you are looking for a quick and easy video editor to create short social media videos, family video or highlight clips FlexClip might be just what you are looking for. Tons of free templates and royalty free media to get you started and to add to your videos.

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Flippa

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Have a website or web property to sell? Flippa is an excellent resource to buy or sell your website. The number on website for buying and selling website on the Internet.

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Freedcamp is a web-based project management tool and organization system for single or multiple users collaborating using cloud computing. The company was launched in 2010 in Santa Barbara, California. Freedcamp is free for unlimited number of users and projects. Users are provided a number of basic applications on initial sign-up and can add additional applications later on. The core applications allow users to assign tasks to people, set milestones, schedule events on a calendar, use discussion boards, and track time spent on tasks. Freedcamp's free apps include: To-Do's – Shared task lists Discussions – Forum boards File Storage – Advanced file management Milestones – Deadline setting Calendar – Event scheduling Time – Time tracking Password Manager – Securely storing passwords Tasky – Private task list

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Grasshopper Virtual Phone System

$12.00 Paid plans start at $12/month.

Grasshopper Phone will have your business sounding professional in no time with features like: Keep your existing number – Maintain your brand Get a toll free or local number – national or local presence Multiple extensions – for everyone on your team Call forwarding to mobile phones – work from anywhere Voicemails transcribed – delivered to your email No new hardware – use your existing phones Send business text messages – from your toll free or local number

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HideMyAss is a great all around VPN service now owned by AVG when they purchased the parent company of HideMyAss, Privax. With clients for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android HideMyAss might be a little more expensive but they make it easy to setup and use a VPN.

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Want to save time managing your businesses social media profiles then Hootsuite is a great service for you. Not only can you manage Twitter, Facebook. Linkedin and Google+ accounts you can easily post to all of them and reply to people all from the easy to use Hootsuite dashboard. Offers free and pro versions. Can manage mulitple accounts on different social media services. Schedule messages and tweets for the perfect time for you and your business for maximum benefit. Know when people are talking about you and your brand by tracking brand mentions. Analyze social media traffic and get vital analytics. Millions of satisfied users us Hootsuite everyday.

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IDrive Backup

$69.50/Year, $139.00/Two Years

IDrive is a good cloud backup service with a wide range of features that many will find useful to help protect their data. The multiple device backup of Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone into one account make it easy to backup and manage all your data from different places and keep it safe.

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Incapsula

$0.00Pro Plan starts at $59.00/site/month

Incapsula wants to help you get the most out of your website while keeping your website safe from hackers and bad bots. Offering tools such as a web application firewall, DDoS protection and a content delivery network.

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Insync

$29.99 15 day free trial available.

Insync is a feature rich Google Drive client for Windows, Mac and Linux. The ability to sync and manage Google Drive files for multiple accounts and automatically convert files to Microsoft Office or OpenDocument are fantastic and make Insync perhaps the best Google Drive desktop client available today. Certainly worth the one time payment for those features alone. The added feature of it supporting OneDrive in the near future will make it worth looking into when it is added.

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LastPass

$0.00 Premium version $36.00/Year, Family Plan $48.00/Year

Update Jan 10, 2023. Since the latest information came out about the LastPass breach I no longer recommend LastPass. In my opinion they have lost the trust of their users. I highly recommend you look into Bitwarden for your password management needs. LastPass helps you to manage all of those passwords in a secure and easy way. Whether you are using the browser extension or the mobile version your passwords are securely encrypted and only available to you. You can easily generate secure passwords and keep all those hard to remember passwords in one place.

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Livedrive

$8.99 Offers a 14 day trial but requires a credit card to signup.

On the surface Livedrive appears to offer a decent backup service that is easy to use. Unfortunately it is only on the surface, the service lacks the ability to add a private encryption key, charges to much for basic backup, and then makes it confusing to choose what plan and features you need all in an effort to make sure you pay the most you can actually pay. Add to that the need to give them a credit card to even trial the service and call a UK number to cancel Livedrive adds up to a service you should just avoid. The headaches are not worth the cost of this service.

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Koofr

$0.00 2GB Free. Plans start at 0.5 € ($0.57 USD)/month for 10GB

Koofr offers some interesting features can help you tie together your could storage services by helping you search the other services you have accounts with. The ability to create your own private cloud storage for your own devices easily is a nice way to help access files without having to rely or upload files to Koofr.

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MailerLite

$0.00 Free plan up to 1000 subscribers. Paid plans start at $9/month.

Email is still the best way to stay in contact with people making having an email subscription list an essential part of all online businesses. Whether you run an blog, an online store or something in between you need to be able to reach your most engaged users and email does it. MailerLite is an excellent service to get started creating and emailing your subscribers. Easy to use tools to create signup forms, emails and a great selection of automated tools to send emails.

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Multcloud

$0.00 Free. Plans starting at $9.90/month.

Allows you to manage, transfer and sync files and folders easily between cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive and long list of others. Questions about their ownership being located in China does cause some concern and should be considered before trusting this service and company with sensitive data.

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pCloud

$0.00 10GB Free. Plans start at $47.88/year.

pCloud offers an affordable, unique cloud storage and sync service that people should consider. The option to purchase lifetime plans makes the service even more affordable in the long run. pCloud is also one of a few services offering decent apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS allowing you easy access to your files no matter what device you are using.

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NordVPN

$8.00

You don’t become one of PCMag recommended services by being bad. Pricing starts at $8.00/month but you can save considerable amount if you purchase a longer subscription.

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Pipes

$0.00 Paid plans start at $5/month for up to 10 pipes.

This new version of Pipes has the same feeling as Yahoo! Pipes and can help you make easy changes to website feeds for personal use. More complicated manipulations can be difficult to accomplish and with many websites blocking bots from accessing pages and feeds it can be difficult to make feeds that work consistently.

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Mailgun

$0.000 - 10,000 emails free, pricing starts at $0.00050 after that.

Running email servers sucks. You need to deal with spam, hackers and often unhappy customers when the email servers go down. Not to mention if you already use an email service you love, like GMail, it is often easier to be able to just use it for all your email. Mailgun helps take away the pain and stress of email for your domain, especially if you are using a service like DigitalOcean or AWS.

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Plex

$0.00 Premium Plex Pass start at $4.99 USD / Month.

Plex makes it easy to enjoy your media no matter where you are. With apps available for PC, Mac, Android, iOS, Xbox and more. The premium version offers some unique features over the free version but the free version is perfectly suitable for the majority of home users. Plex is one of those apps that people serious about their media should run.

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Pushbullet

$0.00 Pro version starts at $39.99 / year.

Pushbullet is the productivity app that connects your phone and browser to keep you in regular contact easily throughout the day. The pro version is not very expensive and you will easily forget how much you will rely on this app the more you use it.

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Free easy to use service to create large prints or posters. Upload an image in JPG or PNG format and you can preview how it will look printed out one different sized paper and how many columns and rows of paper you would like.

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Replit Review

Free tier available, Core plans from $20/month

A comprehensive review of Replit as a cloud development platform, covering its AI capabilities, collaborative features, and real-world usage including redesigning CloudeeReviews.

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ServerPilot

$0.00 Paid Plans Start at $10.00/month/server

Easy to use service for setting up cloud servers on services like DigitalOcean, Linode, Rackspace and many other cloud hosting services. Want to quickly setup a cloud server without the hassle of needing to worry about whether you remembered everything? ServerPilot makes it easy to take advantage of services like DigitalOcean without the headache of always needing to use the command line.

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RunCloud

$0.00 Pro plan starts at $10.00/month

Introducing RunCloud, hassle-free PHP web application & server management panel. What you can achieve by using RunCloud? Manage Unlimited Number of Servers Deploy Unlimited Web Applications Add Unlimited Domain Names Multiple PHP Versions Simple Database Creation Automatic Update Configurations Script Installer (WordPress, Joomla, etc) You can connect dedicated servers, Digital Ocean, Linode, AWS, Vultr, Amazon Lightsail, and other KVM based VPSs to RunCloud. Say goodbye to you terminal and try our FREE trial pro plan today! * Description provided by RunCloud

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Soon is a better way to help you keep track of all those things you want to remember to do. A to-do/bucket list that will help you remember to do all those things that often are forgotten. To-do lists currently support the following categories: Movies TV Series Books Restaurants Bars & Clubs Museums Hotels Cafés Places

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Spanning Backup

$40.00 14 Day Free Trial

Spanning backup makes it easy to backup your Google, Office 365 and Salesforce accounts. Just because your account is out in the cloud does not mean you should not back it up. Spanning makes it quick, easy and affordable to keep your information safe in the event you lose your cloud based data. Spanning starts at $40.00/user/year but with our discount code you can save $5/user. Don't leave your cloud accounts unprotected, backup them up today!

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SplashID

$0.00 Pro Starts at $1.99/Month or $19.99/Year

SplashID is often considered the best password manager available. You can get basic functionality for free on one device but for only $19.99/Year you get features like password sync, access on any platform and password sharing.

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Squarespace is a web based content management system (CMS) that offers a website builder, blogging platform and hosting service. The service allows individuals and businesses to create and maintain websites and blogs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarespace

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StableBit CloudDrive

$39.95 30 day free trial.

StableBit CloudDrive creates a virtual hard drive that acts and behaves like a real physical hard drive. The cloud drive can be located on one of several cloud storage providers or on a local drive giving you the benefit of trust no one encryption on a local drive. Currently supports Amazon S3 Box Dropbox File Share FTP Google Cloud Storage Google Drive Local Disk Microsoft Azure Storage OneDrive OneDrive for Business

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Storj

$0.00 25GB free for first 12 months. Storage $0.015/Month Bandwidth $0.05/GB/Downloaded

End to end encrypted cloud storage using peer to peer blockchain technology. It could very well be the future of cloud storage, content delivery networks and backup. A future where only you have access to your data and it is spread out over a peer to peer network that is made up of hard drive space rented from other users on the network. Storj has made that future available today, but they do have room to grow as far as friendly end user applications. Storj certainly appears to be leading in the race with a usable distributed cloud storage network.

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Sync.com

$0.00 5GB Free. $96/year.

Offers an easy to use, and most important, secure cloud storage service. Along with desktop apps there are also Android and iOS apps available to allow for easy access to your files from pretty much anywhere.

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Syncthing

$0.00 Free Open Source

Syncthing is a great open source product that delivers what it intends to, free, open source syncing across multiple computers and platforms. It works well but it does have some challenges including not being as easy to use as many of the non-open source alternatives. Where it does shine is when you need an easy to use sync service for multiple computers running different operating systems.

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The Old Reader

$25.00 Premium plans start at $3.00/month or $25.00/year.

If you are looking for an easy way to stay up to date with all your favorite websites The Old Reader makes it easy to subscribe to your favorite websites RSS feeds. You can then read all the latest posts in one place. The free version allows you to subscribe to 100 RSS subscriptions, enough for most people to stay up to date with all your favorite websites.

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Free easy to use service to create large prints or posters. Upload an image in JPG or PNG format or submit a URL and you can preview how it will look printed out one different sized paper and how many columns and rows of paper you would like. Excellent service and highly recommended if you are looking for a way to print posters at home.

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TinyPNG

$0.00

Easily optimize your PNG and JPG images for faster downloading and bandwidth savings. Free easy to use PNG and JPG image optimization. Offers free WordPress plugin and Magneto extension. Free Photoshop plugin. Developer API to integrate into your own code.

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Trello

$5.00/user/month

Trello offers an easy to use way to organize and manage pretty much anything. From complex projects to your personal day to day using Trello is as easy as creating cards and lists but powerful enough to let a whole team work on the same project in an office or around the world. The free version offers: unlimited boards, lists, cards, members, checklists, attachments, basic integration with Box, Drive, and Dropbox with file attachments up to 10MB in size. The freemium model of Trello makes it ideal for individuals and small businesses to get started while the business class features will not break your businesses budget. The business class version of Trello offers: Everything you love about the free version of Trello, integration with Evernote, Github, Google Hangouts, Mailchimp, Salesforce, Slack, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more, file attachments up to 250MB, group and organize all of your team's boards with collections, maintain control with immediate, one click access removal for former members, stay secure by controlling who can create public or private boards, keep company information private with restricted membership invitations, add personality with custom board backgrounds and stickers and priority email support with a human being and a guaranteed 1 day response time during business hours.

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TunnelBear

$0.00 Paid plans start at $9.99/month

TunnelBear is one of the easiest to use VPN services available with easy to use apps for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. With TunnelBear you can easily keep your data and privacy safe no matter where you are. Great for securing your data when you are using public wifi hotspots and other insecure locations. They offer a limited free option that gives you 500MB of free data every month great for occasional use.

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TurboTax (Canada)

$0.00 $20.99 Per Return at time of review.

Easy to use tax software approved by the CRA. Simple returns are free and standard returns are only $20.99/return.

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Vertopal is an online platform for converting computer files to a variety of file formats. Their main goal is to provide the best conversion quality without needing to install third-party applications.

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Viglink

$0.00

Viglink will help you easily monitize your website content by auto linking and managing your affiliate links.

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VyprVPN

$9.99

Offers some very easy to use apps to make it easy to get your VPN connected. Works with Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Unlike many other providers they make a point of saying they own all the equipment that they use so no thrid party has access to your data.

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The app offers some interesting features including: Free cloud storage – unlimited free cloud storage. Streaming support – simple to use full screen stream player. Unlimited storage – there is no limit to upload files. Secure – secured by military grade 256 bit encryption method. However this app and service have some serious issues and I would recommend anyone thinking of using it steer clear.

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Weebly

$0.00

Weebly offers a free online website creator. It uses a simplistic widget-based site builder that operates in the web browser. All of Weebly’s site elements are drag-and-drop. Weebly works with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux computers and automatically generates a mobile version of each website. Weebly lets site owners use a subdomain name if one is available. Users can buy a domain name from Weebly or re-direct it from elsewhere. The default site URL is “yourname.weebly.com” (yourname being whatever you want it to be as long as it isn’t taken) but it can be changed if you already own a domain name. Weebly offers its users iPhone and Android Apps so that they can monitor their website traffic statistics, update blog posts and respond to comments, and add or update products if the user has an e-commerce online store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebly

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WhistlePhone

$0.00 Premium Features Start at $9.99/Month

Get free calling, texting and voice mail on what ever device you are using. WhistlePhone helps to reinvent the phone with the help of the cloud. More features are available for premium users.

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Wix

$0.00

Wix is a cloud-based web development platform that allows users to create HTML5 web sites and mobile sites through the use of their online drag and drop tools. Users may add functionalities such as social plug-ins, e-commerce, contact forms, e-mail marketing, and community forums to their web sites using a variety of Wix-developed and third-party applications.

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Xata

$0.00. Pro starts at $20/month

An easy to setup and use serverless database service with plenty of storage even on the free tier for personal projects. Paid plans start at only $20 per month.

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Zamzar

$0.00 Paid plans start at $9.00/month.

Zamzar is an easy to use file conversion service based in the cloud. If you need to quickly convert a file from one format to another or need to convert a file from the Internet to file you can access Zamzar is an excellent choice. You can convert files up to 100MB in size and the service is free, but you can create an account starting at $9.00/month to convert larger file sizes.

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Zoolz Intelligent Home

$0.00 Personal 100GB starts at $35.88/year

If you are looking for a decent Android backup service Zoolz might be worth a try. In my Windows testing I was unable to actually backup any files. This makes the service useless for computer backup. The application would run the backup job but no files would actually be sent up to the service. After trying over multiple days I eventually gave up.

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