As a followup to my recent posts about protecting your passwords and securing your financial documents, I just wanted to share some tips for increasing your DropBox storage space without spending a dime…
As a reminder, DropBox is an online file storage and synchronization service. Whatever you put in your DropBox (basically just a folder on [...]
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How to Increase Your DropBox Space for Free
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Published on February 10th, 2011 - 7 Comments
Filed under: Online
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Securing Financial Documents on Your Computer
Written by Nickel - 11 Comments
Last week, I wrote about protecting your passwords and other sensitive financial data, like account numbers. Today I want to go a step further and talk about protecting electronic documents – tax returns, Quicken files, bank or brokerage statements, etc. – that you may be storing on your computer.
Going paperless
I’ve been gradually transitioning over to [...]
Published on February 9th, 2011 - 11 Comments
Filed under: Identity Theft, Online
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Filed under: Identity Theft, Online
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Top Ten Web-Based Money Management Tools
Written by Guest Contributor - 26 Comments
This is a guest post from Tom Becker, a personal finance writer who specializes in detailed reviews of business bank accounts at Money Choices.
It seems that each decade brings new and innovative ways to manage your money. In the 1990s, you could use simple PC-based software to track basic income and expenses. These later evolved [...]
Published on February 2nd, 2011 - 26 Comments
Filed under: Online
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Free Holiday Wi-Fi From Google Chrome
Written by Nickel - One Comment
While tracking my wife’s flight today, I discovered that Google Chrome is sponsoring free wi-fi on AirTran, Delta, and Virgin America domestic flights from November 20th, 2010 through January 2nd, 2011.
To access the free connection, simply enable wi-fi on your device, select the “gogoinflight” network, and launch your web browser. You’ll be redirected to the [...]
Published on December 13th, 2010 - One Comment
Filed under: Frugality, Online, Travel
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Online Shopping Gone Horribly Wrong
Written by Nickel - 15 Comments
Over the weekend, I ran across a fascinating – and somewhat disturbing – account of a new approach to e-commerce. You can read the full article from the NY Times. I’ll just summarize it briefly here, and then talk a bit about what you can do to protect yourself from this sort of thing.
The backstory
This [...]
Published on November 29th, 2010 - 15 Comments
Filed under: Online
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Depositing Checks With the PayPal iPhone App
Written by Nickel - 10 Comments
Earlier this week, PayPal updated their iPhone app. While there were a number of minor improvements, there was one major change that really stood out. They added the ability to capture and deposit checks into your account.
This sort of remote deposit has been around for awhile, though it’s been limited to a relatively small number [...]
Published on October 8th, 2010 - 10 Comments
Filed under: Banking, Online
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The Best Travel Websites
Written by Nickel - 5 Comments
I’ve just returned from a cross-country trip and my wife is about to head out on one of her own. I thus thought that now might be an opportune time to talk a bit about travel planning.
Not surprisingly, we do virtually all of our travel planning online. What follows is a rundown of our favorite [...]
Published on September 27th, 2010 - 5 Comments
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Free Amazon Prime for Students and Parents
Written by Nickel - One Comment
Not quite three years ago, I signed up for Amazon Prime, which offers free two day shipping and discounted overnight shipping ($3.99/item) with no minimum purchase requirements on millions of items. If an item is eligible for “Super Saver Shipping,” then it’s generally eligible for Prime.
In short, I love this service. Yes, I could wait [...]
Published on September 20th, 2010 - One Comment
Filed under: Frugality, Online
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Banks and Credit Unions That Accept Online Scanned Check Deposits
Written by Nickel - 13 Comments
I’ve long thought that being able to scan and deposit checks via upload to your bank is an amazingly handy feature. Unfortunately, our primary banks don’t offer this “remote deposit” functionality – yet – so we’ve been left out in the cold.
A brief history of remote deposit
USAA Bank become the first major bank to offer [...]
Published on August 4th, 2010 - 13 Comments
Filed under: Banking, Online
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How to Add Linked Accounts to ING Direct
Written by Nickel - 3 Comments
As I noted when I wrote about closing our HSBC Advance saving account, I’ve been trying to streamline our finances. As a part of this process, I’ve also decided to interlink our remaining accounts more effectively.
As has been the case for years, the “hub” of our online banking system is ING Direct, so today I [...]
Published on June 28th, 2010 - 3 Comments
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