By LKnerl(view all posts by LKnerl)
at 8:55AM Tuesday January 10, 2012
under
Loose Change
If you're an avid freebie-finder, deal-seeker, or giveaway enterer,
you likely use Facebook as part of your daily arsenal to get more
for less. Facebook is one of the hottest online properties
for companies to tout their special savings offers, newest
sweepstakes, or even customer loyalty rewards. If you're like
me, you check your message daily, and likely do so only after being
prompted by the bright red number hovering over your message
notification icon.
Were you aware, however, that this is only alerting you to half
of your messages -- the half that likely won't tell you about the
most valuable opportunities?
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By benjamindsearle(view all posts by benjamindsearle)
at 8:57AM Monday January 9, 2012
under
Newsworthy
The
iPhone
4S comes with one of the most revolutionary features we've seen
on a phone yet: Siri. For those of you who haven't seen the
commercials yet, and have managed to avoid the hype, Siri is a sort
of personal assistant within your phone. You can talk to your
iPhone in natural language, and Siri is the program that sorts out
what exactly it is that you're asking for and tries to get it for
you.
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By Dealman(view all posts by Dealman)
at 11:57AM Friday January 6, 2012
under
Loose Change
Image courtesy of ICanHasCheezburger
This week we have a money app for kids, money apps for adults, ways to make sure you use those money apps, Apple's problems, cheap oil, and saving money at your job.
Plus, an animal year in review.
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By BeckyHarks(view all posts by BeckyHarks)
at 9:57AM Friday January 6, 2012
under
Newsworthy
Image by Richard Cordray (Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo
submission) [CC-BY-SA-3.0],
via
Wikimedia Commons
In a outlandish move, President Barack Obama enlisted Richard
Cordray (
someone just informed me that it WAS NOT Rob Corddry
of the Daily Show, so perhaps it wasn't an outlandish move on the
President's part after all...) as the
new
Head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday
January 4, 2011. I'm not exactly sure what a Head of Consumer
Financial Protection (
a lilting "HCFP" acronym) does,
besides punish the bad bankers and financial players, but I do know
what I want him to do for me personally.
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By pmiller(view all posts by pmiller)
at 7:56AM Thursday January 5, 2012
under
Newsworthy
Photo courtesy of Roger Price, via FlickrEvery year, Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain
celebrates "Public Domain Day." This is the day-- January 1st, to be
precise-- when works officially pass into the public domain. This means
that old movies, books, TV shows, cartoon characters, and other works of
art will officially become free to download, watch, share, alter,
distribute, and otherwise enjoy.
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By benjamindsearle(view all posts by benjamindsearle)
at 6:57AM Monday January 2, 2012
under
Money Saving Tips
I read the news this fall about the floods in Thailand with about
the same level of interest that I suspect you all gave it. Natural
disasters always make me sad for the victims, but unless I knew
someone in the area it usually slips from my brain pretty quickly
afterward. The thing that I failed to realize was that Thailand is
a major manufacturing center for a lot of products that come
straight here to the US to be sold.
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By Dealman(view all posts by Dealman)
at 11:57AM Friday December 30, 2011
under
Newsworthy
Image courtesy of ICanHasCheezburger
This week we have Sears problems, the Kindle bonanza, SOPA news, surviving scams, best apps of the year and financial resolutions.
Plus a
fierce lion.
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By pmiller(view all posts by pmiller)
at 9:55AM Thursday December 29, 2011
under
Newsworthy
Photo courtesy of Mike Kalasnik, via FlickrIf you're like me, you change your car's motor oil religiously. The
"Every Three Thousand Miles or Every Three Months (
Whichever Comes
First)" standard might as well have been carved into slabs and
hand-delivered by Moses.
And, if you're like me, you've been doing it
wrong this whole time.
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By Dealman(view all posts by Dealman)
at 11:54AM Friday December 23, 2011
under
Newsworthy
Image courtesy of ICanHasCheezburgerThis week we have self-gifting, cooking gourmet from the pantry, smartphones killed the digital camera star, Boxing Day, answering the eternal question: do women overuse credit cards?, and tips for regifting.
Also, cat wrapping.
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By BeckyHarks(view all posts by BeckyHarks)
at 9:58AM Friday December 23, 2011
under
Newsworthy
As the automobile industry radically works to reconstruct itself in
order to
save itself, the fallout has included the demise
of a beloved brand of car or two. While the departure of a major
car brand may
feel alarming, this is nothing new to
manufacturers and consumers.
On Monday, December 19,
Saab -- the unconventional, yet charming
Swedish car company -- filed for bankruptcy. Saab was a relatively
small force in the US market, but it had a fairly militant
following of people who appreciated how different and sleek the
brand of cars were, as compared to other car companies. The
once-proud company is expected to liquidate all remaining
inventory.
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By pmiller(view all posts by pmiller)
at 8:58AM Thursday December 22, 2011
under
Newsworthy
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