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I work for trades! Web design for vacation rental!

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I love bartering my services! I was able to get a few Christmas gifts one year as a result of trading web design for products. Web design can get expensive, but I like to work with clients to make it more affordable for them.

I would love to take an Orlando vacation in September of 2011 (dates, even month, negotiable). Hotels can get pricey and cramped for a family of 6. We rented a vacation home for our last trip and really enjoyed it. I’ve been looking at homes for rent for the past week to see what’s out there. One thing I’ve noticed is that many personal websites look very unprofessional, lack great pictures or are just outdated. When I come across a nice website with a great layout and wonderful images, I’m more inclined to spend time on the site and look at the details, even marking it as a potential. An unprofessional site makes me take a quick glance and move on. A nice, professional site will bring you more bookings. Bookings mean money for you!

I would like to offer my services in exchange for a one week stay in Orlando. I am in search of a home that will sleep six, 3 or more bedrooms, with a private pool preferred, close to Disney. I will update or build you a website showcasing your home. I’ll even take new, updated photos of your home upon our arrival! We’ll work out the details privately.

If you or someone you know might be interested in my offer, contact me so we can work something out!

Sell more with Pretty Posts?

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I recently ran across this site and decided to give it a try. I’ve been trying to sell an all terrain stroller for quite awhile on Craigslist. I’ve lowered the price several times. I’ve gotten several people interested, but no one follows through with the pick up. Irritating.

Pretty Posts provides layouts for Craigslists, Ebay and other classified ads networks. Basically anywhere you can input html, you can use their layout. You upload your images, type up your description or input other information and they format the posting. Their free package gives you 3 templates, 50MB of space for images and the ability to save 3 posts. The Premium package is $5/month and gives you access to all layouts, 500MB of image space and unlimited post saving ability.

I went with the free package to test things out. The layout is nice and attractive, but will it work?

I had a few inquiries right away. Even a serious buyer. That buyer, however, backed out on me at the last minute. Apparently he couldn’t meet me due to car issues. A week and a half in to my test and I still have the stroller. If this thing sells, I’ll be sure to update, but it isn’t looking promising. The first week did bring me a few more emails, but no sale. Maybe I’ll switch to one of the other free themes next week.

Firefox: View Saved Passwords

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It’s no secret I’m a big Firefox fan. I rely a lot, maybe too much, on Firefox for my browsing. There are so many useful extensions and Firefox sports the best ad blocker I’ve come across. Yes, I use Firefox to remember passwords to countless sites. There often comes a time when I need to use a different browser and I have no clue what my password could possibly be. Thankfully Firefox makes it super easy to view the password you have saved while visiting a login page.

Navigate to the login page of the website. Right click anywhere on the page and select “View Page Info”

In the pop up window, click the security tab and then the “View Saved Passwords” button

In the next pop up window you’ll see all the usernames you have saved associated with this particular login page. You’ll see a button at the bottom to “Show Passwords” which will enable a password column for you to view the passwords.

Now you can view all of your saved logins for any site.

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Eliminate even more spam with Gmail

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Sometimes you want to register on a website, but you hesitate thinking you’ll end up getting tons of spam mail. Gmail makes it easy for you register at websites and never see an email from them or from anyone to which they may sell your email address. It takes just a little creativity on your part.

First, you must read my previous article “One Gmail Account, Many Addresses.” Basically, Gmail ignores the periods in your email address, so you could put a dot anywhere and gmail will still deliver your email to you. For instance, me@gmail.com is the same as m.e@gmail.com and .m.e.@gmail. It’ll all end up in your inbox.

So, how can you use this to your advantage? Easy. You’ve found a site you really want to register for, maybe it’s to get a freebie e-book or something. You’re a bit hesitant because the site doesn’t look completely trustworthy and your afraid they’ll sell your email address or send you tons of spam. Let’s say your normal gmail address is yourname@gmail.com (and if you happen to be yourname@gmail.com, I sincerely apologize!)

Go to the settings area of your gmail account and click on filters. In the To: line, put in your email address with a few periods added that you’ll remember, maybe yo.urna.me@gmail.com.

Click next step and select “Delete it” then “Create Filter”.

Now, go over to the suspicious website with information that you absolutely must have and register with your newly created filtered email address, yo.urna.me@gmail.com. Any mail sent to this address will be automatically deleted. It doesn’t matter what they do with your email address, you’ll never see any messages sent to that address.

You could also do various things, like create a folder and have all of those emails sent to a folder that you can periodically check, just in case something useful comes through. This way you could filter through your pre-filtered emails.

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