I just wanted to let you all know that because of the incessant advertising throughout the World Series, you actually encouraged me to watch the games much faster than their broadcast time. How? I own a Tivo.
This is the first year I have watched the World Series where there are more ads than baseball [...]
I have had it with customer service at major organizations. Seriously. OK not with all companies, but most every time I need help from a customer service representative, I get treated like crap – like I am a bother to them. I realize the customer is becoming an afterthought; but still…would it kill [...]
Just a friendly reminder to you Radiohead fans, today is the day that their new album has been released as a download only from In Rainbows. The site is under heavy loads today, so you might want to wait until later. Pay what you want for the album, but please…be fair and pay [...]
I have written before about the benefits of USB Thumb Drives as portable backups for your important information…we use them in our emergency kit to store backups of our credit card #’s, ID’s, insurance contacts, etc, and I also carry one in my messenger bag – just in case. Always on the lookout [...]
In a move sure to set the music industry on fire, Radiohead has announced that their new album “In Rainbows” will be available only online…and you can pay what you want for it. Don’t want to pay? No problem. Want to pay $20? No problem. From Time:
Drop In Rainbows’ 15 songs [...]
If you happened to be one of the early adopters of the iPhone when it came out, you got royally screwed Tuesday when Apple announced a $200 price drop on phones purchased after Tuesday. Of course, if you know anything about Apple it’s to not buy anything of theirs during the first few months, [...]
If you are not already doing so, you should really think about using rechargeable batteries around your house. Sure, they might be more expensive up front, but you don’t have to buy batteries for a very long time (if ever) and you don’t have to throw any into the trash, which helps the environment as [...]
I got this question from a reader the other day: “I always see a lot of personal finance advice sites tell people to give up their daily lattes in order to save money. If I really love iced lattes and they help me through my day; does it really make that much of a [...]
The website Raising 4 Boys has put together a great list of the “sales tax holiday” days by state that you should check out before heading out in August to buy the back to school goods for your kids. Be sure to go find when your state’s tax holiday is!
Although I don’t need it (thanks to Apple), you can get a copy of McAfee’s Internet Security Suite 2007 for free after rebate from Office Depot. It costs $69.99, but after 2 rebates of $60 and $10 it costs you nothing and you even make a penny on the deal. Pretty good deal [...]
For anyone seriously considering buying a new Apple computer, you might want to get a move on. If you are an educator, attending school or taking classes (even part time) or know someone who is, if you buy an Apple before September 16th you get a free 4GB iPod Nano (worth $199 bucks!) and you [...]
If you are a Firefox user (and if you aren’t yet, I am sorry!) and you do a lot of online shopping, you might want to get this extension from How To Be Web Smart that compares the price of something you want at sites like eBay, Amazon, Shopping and Shopzilla. Once you enter [...]
Two days ago, we went ahead and spent over $2,000 on a new computer. Believe me, it hurt like hell to spend the money, but sometimes you reach a point where in order to move forward, you have to drop a few dimes. My old computer, a 6 year old Apple G4, was [...]
You know you have heard the ads on the radio and TV…“We’ll beat any advertised price or your mattress is FREEEEE!”. Annoying, huh? Sometimes funny, but getting old the longer they run on the air. Anyway, you might have heard that ad at some point and thought about going to them with [...]
I am sure that everyone has their vice that eliminates money from their bank account; I know we have some. But this morning I came across another way…buying clothes and jewelry that the stars wear on your favorite TV shows. SeenOn! finds the items that you see on TV and provides links to where [...]
