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Registering a domain name is like trying to sign-up for and find the real cost of a cell phone plan. I couldn't find a good, unbiased and up-to-date domain price comparison (some try to funnel you to sign up for a particular registrar so they can earn a commission; I have affiliate links, but my chart is sorted by price alone!). This was pretty comprehensive, but out-of-date.   Now, this one is pretty close (Sept. 2012) , but didn't include pricing. So after personally visiting a bunch of registrar sites, I came up with the price list below. For today's post, I'm reserving comment about the quality or morality of most of these registrars, but I highly recommend doing an online search or checking a site like Better Business Bureau to make sure you're not going with a bait-and-switch type of company. These are all for a .com name, 1-year registration ignoring the introductory pricing (in other words, these are the year 2 and onward prices). These were checked

This happens to me from time to time. Attempting to cut or copy text from within my VirtualBox guest (Windows XP) fails to work on my host's clipboard. The quick-and-dirty solution is to end the VBoxTray.exe process in the Windows guest's taskmgr (if your guest is *nix, you'll need to find the PID in 'ps' and kill it by PID), and then run VBoxTray again from the Guest Additions directory (for example, C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox Guest Additions) Came across this tip from the following VirtualBox bug ticket #6150 trail: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6150

What is the deal with these MEElectronics earbuds?  I see them in various daily deal sites (Groupon, etc.) and e-mails which make them out to be deep discounts, but I think this is their whole marketing plan: set a really high MSRP and then sell them on deal sites as 50%, 60%, 70% off.  I finally got riled enough to check out their reviews and see that they actually aren't that bad.  But there are better ones out there (check out the really affordable Panasonic RPHJE120 , which I own).  If you're still curious, there's a decent review over on CNET  for the MEElectronics A151 buds.