A new payment network, called Revolution Money, is poised to take PayPal’s place. I personally have never had a problem with PayPal but because they are not a bank, and can’t be regulated like one, the possibility of them freezing your account is very real, and has caused many people to get very upset over the years. They can put a hold on your money for up to 6 months while they investigate what they think might be fraudulent activity.

Some very important people got together to try to give us all a better option, and they just might be able to pull it off. The people behind Revolution Money are Ted Leonsis (Vice-chairman of AOL and owner of Washington Capitals), Steve Case (co-founder of AOL), David Goldman… Continue reading

Posted on April 10th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
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It’s Black Friday, folks, but instead of fighting the crowds at the malls, you can find all the on-sale stuff online too. What a fun, fun, fun, fun day to be able to shop and get bargains, bargains, bargains! I’m going to be doing a lot of shopping at Amazon’s Black Friday Sales Event. Amazon will be offering hourly deals from 6am to 6pm PST along with thousands of products on sale for a limited time. Also, we all get gift wrapping for $.99 per item. Sweet!

So take some time off today, spend a little money, and have fun!

Amazon.com Widgets

Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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Yahoo! just unveiled Mash, its newest social networking space. Of course, you have to be invited to participate at the moment, as is the norm with these Web 2.0 beta things. Once you have a Mash profile, it appears that you then can invite unlimited amounts of people. I might be wrong on that, but I don’t see any limits, anyway. So, I’ll be happy to give invites to anyone and everyone who subscribes to my blog feed.

Of course, there’s no real way for me to know that you’ve subscribed to my blog, so I’ll just have to trust you when you say you did. Simply tell me you subscribed by using the contact form below, and… Continue reading

Posted on September 17th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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My entire weekend was ruined when my computer died early Saturday morning. I wasn’t entirely surprised. My computers tend to give up the ghost every 2-3 years, and the latest had lasted nearly 4 years. I wasn’t too worried. I have backups, right? Well, yes, sort of. For some reason, my backups stopped happening 4 months ago. I don’t know why. So my latest backup is really old. It’s time to move to the online backup model. After getting my new computer into a workable state, I researched online backup options, and thought I’d share what I plan to use (so you can too).

First of all, I was amazed to find Mozy. This service is free for the… Continue reading

Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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UPDATE: NO MORE GRANDCENTRAL INVITATIONS ARE AVAILABLE. I’M ALL OUT, SORRY.

Have you heard about GrandCentral yet? Google just acquired the company, and for now at least, it is free. I have to say that this is the coolest use of technology I’ve seen in a long, long time. Maybe because I’ve moved a lot in my life, but dealing with phone number changes is a real drag for me. GrandCentral eliminates that problem for me - forever. The premise behind GrandCentral is that you can have a phone number tied just to you - forever. It’s not tied to a location or a phone - it is tied to you. No matter how many phone numbers you have - home… Continue reading

Posted on July 6th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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Have you ever been to Woot.com? I just discovered it a few days ago, and I just love it. Woot is an online store that only sells one item each day, and that item is usually DEEPLY discounted. A new item is shown every day at midnight (CST) and is there until sold out, or until midnight comes along again. If it sells out, it is not replaced with a new item until midnight. So it really is just one item per day. They sell some really nice stuff too, at some really great prices, mostly electronics I think. But the fun part is finding out what the day’s deal is - kind of like the old “Blue Light Special”. Hey… Continue reading

Posted on June 30th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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