Dollars Saved

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If, however, you are reading from my home on Blogger.com, you'll notice the Dollars Saved counter over on the right. This shows the dollar amount you can save by using the free programs highlighted here, instead of their commercial alternatives.

If I was clever, I'd find a way to calculate the total dollars saved for all readers combined, maybe dollars per page times unique visitors, to get something like the McDonald's "Over 99 Billion Served" thing. But guess what? I'm not that clever. number over there on the right. What is it, you ask? Well, it's a running tally of the total bucks you can keep in your jeans if you install and use the software featured on this site, instead of the for-pay alternatives.