Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Quick Hits
12:15 Soapy saviour
12:30 iPlot
12:50 Libyan shopping
13:10 Deathly bug repellent
13:25 Online backup services
13:45 Buying happiness

The Fine Print
First up, soaping up to save lives. We're speaking to a travelling salesman in the US who's set up cleantheworld.org. He recycles those unused hotel soaps, shampoos, conditioners, sewing kits and even shoe shine pads all in the name of helping others.

At around 12:30pm we're back in the This Way Up veggie iPlot . Today we're planning what to plant. We've got a list of crops as long as my arm but what's realistic for our small urban garden?

Then before the news we'll head to Libya where life's changing for consumers as sanctions have been lifted over the past few years. Overseas holidays are an option again and the big retailers are moving in. Ian Black the Guardian's Middle East Editor's just got back from Tripoli.

At 1.15pm summer's coming and so are all the insects! We're talking to a Canadian biologist who just might have found the ultimate bug repellent. He found that all kinds of dead insects give off the same smell when they die and use this as a signal to warn their mates.

Then at 1:25pm more of our lives and memories are getting stored on things like PCs and laptops, whether that's photos, movies, songs or emails. But as I found out last year hard drives do fail so if you want to be safe the golden rule is to take copies of stuff and make sure you store at least one copy somewhere else. This week, storing important data on the web so it's off site and up in the cloud. We'll look at some free and easy ways to make copies of all those important files plus review some of the paid services that offer unlimited storage and simple to use software to manage the whole process.

Some of the online back up and storage services (free and paid)
Mozy
Jungle Disk
Carbonite
Apple's MobileMe
Dropbox
Windows Skydrive
Nice review of Carbonite and Jungle Disk here

Email services mentioned (with freemium and premium accounts)
Gmail
Yahoo
Hotmail

Photo & video Storage sites mentioned
Picasa
Flickr

And before we go they say that money can't buy you happiness but apparently handling some cash can make you feel better about yourself and even help you to overcome physical pain or social rejection. Even better it doesn't even need to be your own money!

TRACKS
Track: Pop Art Blue
Artist: Zero 7
Album: Yeah Ghost
Label: Atlantic
Broadcast at: 12:25

Track: So Many Girls
Artist: The Nextmen featuring Dynamite M
Album: Join the Dots
Label: Universal
Catalogue #: 714748
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: Thing for Me
Artist: Metronomy
Album: Nights Out
Label: Because Music
Broadcast at: 13:45