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Great ROI

Great ROI

At times, we make expensive software/hardware purchases, and get no ROI (return on investment). Other times, one procrastinates buying items that cost less than a lunch, and yet provide amazing ROI. Here I list a few items I got over the last couple of years that I can only wish I purchased earlier.

- Better antenna for my router. No point on even thinking about it. Just around U$20 well spent (link).

- Password manager. I got a family license for 1Password (link). My requirement was support for Windows and Mac and Windows Phone. No matter which one you pick, you need to move on to use a password manager, and forget about passwords.

- CCleaner Professional. For little more than a pizza, you will have a cookie-clean computer (link).

- Squidguard. It is free, but you will have some configuration to do. Well worth it: navigating the Internet was never the same afterwards. Seeing pages mostly without ads totally changes your experience (link). And it ads "some safety" for the family browsing (although not that great in that area).

- NAS. I have two Synology devices, with WD Red drives. The result is absolutely fantastic performance. Only caveat: I got a model with a low-end CPU (the DS413j) that cannot do all the things of the models with better processors (like the DS1512+). Despite it still providing great ROI, I regreat not "investing more", because it would provide more return.

- Office 365. Kind of amazing how the install process got better. The process of creating/editing documents is way ahead of competitors. Sharing the documents across machines still lags behind. If Microsoft fixes the "SkyDrive/OneDrive" mess over the next couple of years, then Office will have a great chance of defending its turf with Office 365.

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