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When the Internet's Mega-Pricey

Time is money, but that's especially true when you're traveling and paying through the nose for a slow Internet connection. Over at Macworld, Christopher Breen's reporting from aboard a ship charging $0.40 to $0.70 a minute for slow Internet, and he's trying to keep those costs down. Some of the instructions he gives are Mac-centric and require a little computer savvy, but the general principles, such as getting your browser to automatically open the Web sites you really need while you're doing something else, and configuring your e-mail program to only download the first parts of massive e-mails, can be applied to PCs as well.