The 10 Most Common Passwords
August 26, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under General, safety
Identity theft hits close to home for me. It was only a few years ago that a family member’s social security number was used by someone in a respected profession to obtain a credit card. Fortunately, this issue was caught pretty quickly, thanks to the credit card company’s rule of activating the credit card only from the applicant’s phone.
It is disturbing that our identity and social security information has to be so carefully guarded, but even more upsetting is how someone can damage our credit if they obtain our personal information. According to PC Magazine, we are can make ourselves vunerable through the …read more
Dell computers on sale
January 31, 2008 by kellys
Filed under budget, money saving idea, sale
My DH is a computer geek. No, wait … a genius. And yes, I am not biased in any way HAHA! But he said that today is the last day to get really good deals on Dell computers. Evidently, today is Dell’s last day of the year so call them and finagle your way into a great computer for pennies on the dollar.Good Luck!
Buy New or Make Repairs?
May 15, 2007 by Karen Weideman
Filed under financial matters
My computer is in the shop. :( Is there a way that I could whine to you with just words? It is hard to whine to you without a whiny tone. LOL
Yesterday I came home from my trip from seeing my mom and when I walked in the door my computer was restarting itself over and over again. I kept hearing it making blipping noises. I watched it repeatedly do the same thing. It seemed to be searching for a place to start from.
We tried several things to fix it ourselves. After many attempts, hubby took it to the shop. I …read more
