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Beyond the Shopping Cart: Checking Out with PayPal.com
What Is PayPal If you shop at eBay, you may be familiar with PayPal as the preferred payment option. But you can make PayPal your pal for much more. Whether you want to collect funds for the girl’s night out, send money to your college student, or pay for the fishing pole on a local hobbyist’s website, PayPal is a convenient and secure way to send and receive money online, and it offers services far beyond checking out items in an online shopping cart. How It Works PayPal is a Web-based financial broker that acts as a trusted middleman to… Continue reading...
YouSendIt.com Securely Sends Large Files
If you’ve ever clogged your email inbox with large files, exceeded your email storage limits, or hassled with burning and shipping huge media files on a CD or DVD, check out the simple and useful file transfer services offered by YouSendIt.com. Ordinary folks can send and receive large files with ease and use advanced technological features that enhance tracking, security and efficiency. Getting Started Getting started is simple with YouSendIt.com’s free “Try It Now” feature. “Guests” do not need to register and you won’t have to install special software. To begin, enter the recipient’s email address, an optional email subject… Continue reading...
Fiverr.com: The things people do for $5
Would you pay five bucks for a surprise book choice, back links to your blog, a new recipe or a photo gift? Fiverr.com is the five-buck marketplace where people find what they need or share what they’ll do for five dollars. Products and services for sale are called “gigs,” and you’ll be surprised at what you can find. Buying a Gig Browse the site for free using the search box at the top right. You can find gigs for sale by entering terms like: “anniversary gift ideas” “photo enhancement” “language translation” “recipe ideas” You can also browse some of fiverr.com’s… Continue reading...
Beyond Web Search with Wolframalpha.com
WolframAlpha.com is more than a website; it is part of an ambitious project to provide accessible, calculable, interpretable data to everyone from noobies to the most sophisticated scientists. Traditional web searches like Google look for information on the Internet’s publicly available web pages. Wolframalpha.com elevates web searches to a new level by accessing its computational knowledge databases that run on clusters of modern computer processors. What Is Wolframalpha.com? Wolframalpha.com is the brainchild of Stephen Wolfram, the genius behind Mathematica and Wolfram Research. Wolfram and his team want to offer all of the world’s systematic knowledge into computable and accessible formats… Continue reading...
