Prepaid is good, but some plans let you get on a family plan without a contract. (In my view, signing a contract for anything less than the really expensive phones is not worth it.) So if your husband already has a cell phone, for about $10 a month you can share his minutes and probably call him and anyone else on your carrier for free.

You can also find barebone phones for cheap on ebay or craigslist, just make sure they work with your carrier.

Prepaid for me worked out to less than $10 a month. I went with T Mobile prepaid, and bought the phone (a workhorse) with the pre-pay set up package (about $50 or so at the time).

Served me for years. Only upgraded because the iPhone was a gift.

Which I rarely use as a phone, but use ALL THE TIME as a browser.

Do you still get WiFi on the bus to work?

There's new iPhone firmware out. It appears to fix the randomly crashing Safari issue finally! Huzzah!

Other than that, it doesn't appear to do anything. And it's, like, a 200mb download. Don't get an iPhone if you don't have broadband.

I'm going to finally start using the digital camera I got last month. First, however, I'm going to replace the 16mb memory card that came with the thing, so I can store up lots of photos on my trip to Florida in April.

Any suggestions for which card I should get that'll give me the best bang for the buck?

(FYI, my camera is a Canon PowerShow A720 IS, if that makes any difference to which card I should buy.)

Kathy, you have a metric buttload of choices. I've used SanDisk, Kingston, and PNY brands with no problems to date.

Yeah, you can get a pretty big one for not too much money, these days--my sister and I bought a digital camera for our brother for Christmas, and I was surprised to see how cheap all the memory cards were! Though I suppose as all the cameras get bigger you need a bigger card, but...

I know some people prefer to have just one big card, on the "I'm never going to bother switching it in or out or losing anything" theory, and others prefer to have a few (possibly smaller) cards, on the "what if something happened to one of them/the camera got stolen and all my good pictures from this trip were on it" theory.

A card bigger than 2GB might not work in your camera, though.

A card bigger than 2GB might not work in your camera, though

The 720 supports SDHC cards, so she can at least go to 4GB.

A card bigger than 2GB might not work in your camera, though

The 720 supports SDHC cards, so she can at least go to 4GB.

This was my main concern, and my instruction book gives precious little info on memory cards, other than how to format one, insert it, handle it, and how many photos cards from 16mb to 512mb will take.

Thanks for the help, everyone! I'll probably spring for either a 2gb or a 4gb since they're both pretty cheap.

edited to change the 2/4mb to a gb--big difference!