Get the Best Deals When Purchasing Your New Car

If you’re in the market of purchasing a new vehicle, then you should be using TrueCar to do it. Search the TrueCar database by make and/or model to find out what you ought to be paying for that new vehicle. TrueCar presents a bell curve so you can understand what the best price is on that particular make/model.

TrueCar pulls all its pricing information from reputable car dealers, so no need to deal with that sketchy ad on Craigslist or to haggle with any salespeople. You get the best price in writing before you even show up to the dealership. Best of all, these results are customized to your area, so, for example, if you live in Chicago, you’ll be seeing the best price for that make and model in Chicago.

To make the whole process easier, once you learn the best price on the car that you want, you then select a dealership nearby that has a car at that price. Once you select the dealership, a salesperson will contact you. Yes, CONTACT YOU to set up an appointment. You also are able to print out a “price certificate” before you go to your appointment, so you can show the salesperson what you are looking for. All dealers found on TrueCar are part of the TrueCar network, so they are expecting that you want the best price on your vehicle.

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Best Essay Wins a Fully-Loaded Drive Through Coffee Stand!

Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee today, making the United States the leading consumer of coffee in the world. Obviously, despite this recession, the coffee industry is still doing well. You can be a part of this big, steady industry by participating in this essay contest. Write a 1,000-word essay, be anywhere other than Alaska, Hawaii, New York, Rhode Island, and Delaware, and you could be a proud owner of a new coffee stand, and a new business.

Essay topic is: What is your definition of the American Dream? How will this coffee stand help you improve your life? Entry must have full contact information, attached 1,000 words or less essay, and $50 Google Checkout payment to be considered valid. Contest entries are accepted beginning August 18th, 2011 to October 18th, 2011 11:59pm. No entries will be accepted before or after. Winner will be notified via phone and email no later than November 15th, 2011. This is a contest based on skill. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges who will determine the best valid written entry. Contest requires a minimum of 300 entries and no maximum entries. There is no statistical probability of winning as the winner is determined based upon the skill and quality of their essay.

Winner Receives:

• Fully loaded drive-through espresso stand — A Value of $15,000
• 8′ x 10′ with dual drive up windows
• New roof and gutters
• New energy efficient windows
• Italian-Made Faema Espresso Machine
• Cash Register (not pictured)
• Internal water pump, heater and filter
• Shelving units and counters with cupboards
• Lids, cups, sleeves, straws, napkins
• Refrigerator & Freezer
• Balloon Machine for Promotion
• A-Frame Signs for Promotion
• Includes additional 3 compartment sink (some counties require these)
• Includes Bright neon signage (not pictured)
• Includes shipping up to 100 miles from Seattle
• Easy to setup at any location!

HOW TO ENTER:

Entrants can register for the contest in two locations:

• a) Website Entry: To enter the contest via the sponsor’s website, entrants must; (i) visit http://onlineessaycontest.com/coffee-stand-essay-contest.html (ii) Submit Full Name, Address, Phone Number, and Email Address via online form along with non-refundable $50 USD Entry Payment.
• b) Post Mail Entry: To enter the contest via the sponsor’s website, entrants must; (i) visit http://onlineessaycontest.com/coffee-stand-essay-contest.html (ii) Submit Full Name, Address, Phone Number, and Email Address via online form along with $50 USD Certified Cashier’s Cheque or Money Order payable to NW Internet Marketing, LLC.

Limit one entry per person.

No refunds will be issued.

To receive acceptance notification by mail, please include a Self-Addressed, Self-Posted envelope with your entry.

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Gift Cards No Longer Have to Be That Impersonal, Last-Minute Gift

Gift cards have that awful reputation of being a thoughtless gift. No time taken to really think about what this person might want or really need. Now, that changes with Giftly. Giftly allows you to make custom gift cards, choosing up to three places where its good and setting a value. The card itself can even be personalized, adding your own photo and changing the font and font colors to your liking. I just purchased a Giftly card for my mother’s birthday, and I made the font purple because her favorite color is purple.

It’s a perfect idea if you need to get something for someone far away, and don’t want to ship anything or order anything online. With Giftly, you can choose to send it via email or through Facebook (snail mail option coming soon) and even set the date that you want it sent. No worries of the gift being lost in the mail, or arriving early, or being suspected as a mistake and sending it back. With Giftly’s personalization options, the person will know that this gift card was intentionally for them. You also don’t have to worry about the gift card expiring or getting lost, as Giftly covers those as well.

Giftly isn’t bound by geography or business size, so it’s applicable in all 50 states, with everything from your neighborhood mom & pop shop to the corporate conglomerate. Overall, with Giftly, you can actually give something that the person will really want: a gift with thought.

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Round Up Your Credit Card Purchases with SwipeGood

Donating to charities doesn’t have to be a tough decision, nor does it have to be a lot money. SwipeGood makes this whole process easier by taking the loose change of your debit and credit card purchases, and then giving you the choice to donate that loose change at the end of the month.

Here’s how SwipeGood works. Once you enroll your credit/debit card with SwipeGood, every purchase you make gets rounded up to the nearest dollar. So for a $50.50 purchase of groceries, $0.50 will be given to charity. At the end of the month, SwipeGood will send your total donation amount to the charity or cause of your choice, with approximately 300 charities to choose from. To participate in SwipeGood, consumers have to enroll their credit card and the service will track your purchases. You can set a limit to the amount you want to donate each month, and only one credit/debit card can be enrolled per person.

“There’s too much friction. People have to decide, first what is the right amount to give. Second, what is the right time—now, or at the end of the year, or when the recession is over? Third, finding the right cause where my money will actually make a difference, which organization is going to use my money in the right fashion,” said Steli Efti, one of the co-founders of SwipeGood, in Xconomy. “People have to make a lot of decisions based on very little information. That results in a lot of people postponing or dropping out of the process. We thought, ‘Why isn’t there a simple and elegant solution where I can make giving to charity part of my daily life, something that ties into my normal behavior?’”

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If you only need a car for a few hours, just rent it from someone nearby

A personal vehicle is an expensive investment. You have to pay for car insurance, do regular maintenance, and get a safety inspection every year. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get more than convenience out of your vehicle?

Well, now it’s possible with GetAround. GetAround enables car owners to rent out their underutilized cars safely and securely to a community of trusted drivers. People in need of a car can rent one by the hour using the Getaround website or iPhone app. For as little as $6 an hour, users can conveniently rent cars from people nearby by the hour, day, or week and save hundreds of dollars on car payments, auto insurance, and maintenance. Car owners, while making a positive impact on the environment, can make money by renting out their cars to help offset the high costs of car ownership. By building a community founded on trust and technology, we make it easy to get around!

Right now, GetAround only has cars in the San Diego and the Bay Area. Cars are typically driven eight percent of the time. All that money you spent on buying and maintaining it goes to a mere eight percent. Increase that percentage by finding trusted drivers with GetAround, and earn some financial return on your investment.

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NervePoint Introduces a Free Password Self-Service Solutions

Earlier this month, NervePoint Technologies launched its password self-service solution, Access Manager. Access Manager Self Service shifts the responsibility of password management from the help desk to the end user. Users can effortlessly and securely unlock their own accounts and reset their forgotten passwords without needing to raise a single support ticket! Nervepoint Access Manager Self Service provides administrators with the ability to easily monitor password usage without the headache of another client or endless configuration all in a clean and friendly interface. Best of all, it’s free!

Access Manager Self Service is currently in its beta release, but it provides small to midsize businesses with a free alternative to the costly identity administration products out there. What makes it special is that we have minimized the need for configuration which means that a company can get this app up and running in minutes and start gaining the benefits right away.

Since it comes packaged as a VM for ease of installation, all you need is a VM player, an SSL-enabled Active Directory and employees. Access Manager Self Service does all the rest – a company can begin yielding the benefits immediately.

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MyPageKeeper Detects Spam and Malware Posted on Your Page and Feeds

If you want to protect your personal profile page from dubious urls and malicious content, then you need to get MyPageKeeper. MyPageKeeper is an app that notified you when anything suspicious is posted on your page or in your newsfeeed. It also allows you to submit suspicious urls, if you happen to come across any on Facebook.

MyPageKeeper is a response to a recent surge of malicious activity on Facebook. This includes the distribution of fake links luring users into free flights on Southwest Airlines and videos of Osama Bin Laden’s death, and also news that 1.5 million Facebook user names and passwords were for sale on an underground hacker forum.

“Facebook is the new web,” co-founder Sazzadur Rahman said. “It provides a fertile ground to spread malware, since users trust links and posts seemingly from their friends. Hackers have realized this, and they have started using it to distribute malware and conduct identity theft.”

Hundreds are already using this free app with good results. Not many people are thinking about web security now, but this has begun to change. MyPageKeeper protects your Facebook profile and online reputation. Hackers, malicious individuals and even Facebook friends can unknowingly post malicious content on your wall. Visitors to your wall may get infected with viruses, or may get scammed by phishing campaigns. Using MyPageKeeper puts you in charge of what content can be allowed on your wall and news feed. You have the power to protect your friends visiting your profile from getting infected with malware, as well as yourself.

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Fun2Rent Offers Peer to Peer Recreation and Powersport Rentals

Fun2rent is an online listing that connects owners of powersport vehicles, such as dirt bikes, snowmobiles, and ATVs, with potential renters, who are looking to rent for fun and wish to reduce the financial strain of owning the powersport vehicle. Owners can then charge others for using their vehicles.

Fun2rent has both owners and renters go through certain hoops to make sure that both parties are able to be held accountable in case anything happens. Renters need to be at least 21 years old and possess a valid drivers license. Owners are provided with $300,000 in liability coverage if they choose to have a listing (it’s a free listing too). Owners also get to choose to whom they rent. Those who have never ridden a snowmobile or personal watercraft vehicle can through a an online safety course with Fun2Rent. Plus, renting through your neighbor will be much cheaper than renting through a shop or recreational facility.

The site is currently in beta testing, so there aren’t a whole lot of rental options yet. But it’s a neat idea if you have a recreational vehicle that just sits in your garage for 350 days out the year. Why not let someone else enjoy it, and makes some money from it in the meantime?

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Friendslist is the Craigslist Specific to Your Social Network

Who is more trustworthy than your friends? Probably no one. So, why go through the middlemen like Craigslist does when you can just connect to your friends to find the goods and services that you need? That’s exactly was Friendslist is trying to do. Currently in a limited beta version, Friendslist is a listing service that taps into your social network. At least all the listings on Friendslist are legitimate, unlike some of the listings on Craigslist.

“Nobody is trying the very approach that made Craisglist work in the first place, the social approach,” said co-founder Jonathan Wegener in Techcrunch. “We think people are the best platform in the world. They are the best brands and the best marketers.”

All you have to do on Friendslist is add your friends. Say you work at a company that’s looking to hire a sales representative. You have a friend, Joe, in sales, so you put a job posting on his page. That listing then goes out to Joe’s friends, with Joe acting as the middleman. Joe doesn’t even have to do anything, except be your friend.

Will Friendslist be able to unseat the great Craigslist? Maybe, if Friendslist can really create a brand of legitimacy.

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Bring the online on-site with this nifty LED sign

Twitter can be kind of clunky to use, running into that fail whale all the time, or sifting through all those new tweets in order to find something good. Now, Twitter can be brought to use with Twisplays, a simple LED sign that lets you broadcast whatever stream you want to broadcast. Whether it’s your own, your company’s, or simply a collection of the streams you follow, Twisplays share Twitter with anyone and everyone, including folks who don’t even have a Twitter account. Businesses can use this as a way to promote their business, offering last minute details and generating easy leads. Those who love Twitter but still want a life can use this in their home to stay up to date with what’s happening in the Twittersphere.

Twisplays are one-line LED signs. They are 26″ long X 4″ high X 1.5″ deep. They weigh approximately 3 lb. They are not completely wireless gadgets, as they still need to be plugged into a computer via USB connection (they also need to be plugged into an electrical outlet, although that’s a given). Twisplays come with mounting brackets and can be screw-mounted on a wall or mounting board or hung from a screw, nail or hook (from a wall or ceiling) and can rest upright on a table, desk or shelf – or placed on a floor or table-top display stand.

Twisplays currently only come in a black casing with scrolling text in alternating colors, so feel free to change the colors to match your company colors or an occasion, like green for St. Patrick’s Day.

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