How To Pay With Your PayPal Balance On Sites That Don’t Accept It

I’m at a point in my Internet-obsessed life where PayPal is the preferred payment method that I choose to pay for just about anything. If you’re a self-employed person who works online and from home, I can imagine you being in a similar predicament. PayPal is convenient and easy to use. You can pay for anything with PayPal. However, there are a whole lot of places to shop online that don’t seem to be as crazy about PayPal as I am. Amazon is a good (and unfortunate) example. They don’t accept payments via PayPal. However, there’s a crafty little maneuver...

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Four Places To Find Your Windows 8 Product Key

Windows 8 and 8.1 PCs no longer have a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) sticker with their product key printed on it. This helps prevent theft — people can’t just glance at a sticker on your laptop to get your Windows product key. On the other hand, you can’t simply look at a sticker on your Windows PC when you reinstall the operating system. You’ll have to find the 25-digit product key elsewhere. Having your product key is necessary if you want to download Windows 8 or 8.1 installation media from Microsoft. Their downloads require a valid product key. It’s also...

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New Twitter Profiles, Lytro Illum DSLR, Aereo Hearing, OS X Beta Testing [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, new Facebook-like Twitter profiles for all, the Lytro Illum DSLR, #myNYPD hashtag fails, the Aereo hearing concludes, OS X beta testing free for all, and a sauce bottle cap fix by students. New Twitter Profiles Available To All Soo now my twitter profile looks like facebook… How original. — Lax (@BryanJoL) April 23, 2014 The new Twitter profiles first unveiled a couple of weeks ago are now available to everybody using the Web version of the social networking site. As previously noted, the new profiles make Twitter look a lot more like Facebook than it...

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9 Password Managers To Make Use Of [We Ask You Results]

Creating and remembering passwords for every website you interact with is a real pain in the ass. Unfortunately, it’s also an essential part of a life spent at least partially online. We sought to find out your strategy when it comes to passwords, and the informative results are detailed below. Password Managers FTW! We asked you, How Do You Manage Your Passwords? It turns out that most of you don’t manage your passwords, or at least not alone. Instead, the majority of people participating in the discussion let a password manager do the hard work of creating and/or storing passwords...

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Can’t Afford Podcast Hosting? Try These Free Alternatives

If your podcast is outgrowing the space you have on your blog, the time has probably come to find a new home for it. But if you’re already paying for hosting, this might be beyond your budget unless you can find somewhere to host your musings and discussions for free… Yes, Free Podcast Hosting Exists! Has your podcast taken on a life of its own? Does your website or blog seem to revolve around organising recordings and uploading new editions, rather than focusing on its original core aim? In such a situation, it’s a good idea to give your podcast...

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