I don’t pretend to be a financial wizard, but when I was looking for a new savings account with a higher interest rate than my current brick and mortar bank was giving me, I found adding an ING Direct Orange Savings account was the move for me. Their rate was ten times what I was getting when I signed up and as of the time of this writing their Orange Savings account offers a variable 3.00% Annual Percentage Yield (effective 03/19/08).
Maybe ING Direct is for you.
NOTE: A variable interest rate isn’t for everyone, so if you’re not sure how it works do some homework. A good start may be googling variable interest rate and doing some reading.
DISCLAIMER: As with everything on this blog I’m just talking about what works for me and I don’t make any guarantees. Heck, I love ING for savings but I’m not getting paid to advertise for them. I believe opening a savings account with ING is a good decision, but you should do your own research on the subject and make your own decision as it fits your lifestyle and financial circumstances.
For those of you who subscribe to feeds via email, when do you prefer to get the email in your inbox? I’ve currently got FeedBurner set to deliver between 9 pm and 11 pm but below are all of the choices offered. Leave a comment and let me know what time works best for you!
Google’s Adsense blog recently wrote Make the move…to Google Accounts about updating your Adsense account to a Google account. Sounds like a winning combination I luckily made at the outset. What I didn’t think about was which Google account I used. I’ve got an Adsense account in one Google account and my Analytics account is tied to a different Google account. Luckily FeedBurner allowed me to sort of neatly tie the two together, but I will still have to figure out how to merge these two accounts together.
Well, I guess the Feedburner blog’s (FeedBurner to the rescue again!) Into the wild: AdSense for feeds article has pointed my next move - putting Adsense into the FeedBurner feed. With Google on your side for blogs sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you win!
Who keeps getting fingerprints on your monitor? With Windows 7 it might be everyone! I think someone got iPhone envy and said “Hey, let’s make the next version of Windows like an iPhone. Only without phone service. Or …” So now everyone’s fingerprints will be all over my monitor, thanks Microsoft!
I’ve made a couple of posts recently about Gmail and had feedback that for some people Gmail runs slow. You might want to try these one at a time to see if they help. If you do the first one and Gmail’s fast enough then why go on?
This post won’t solve everyone’s but you can try these tips for a start. For more information, some suggestions have links to Google’s Gmail Help Center labeled “(read first)”. These links should open in a new browser or tab and will give you more info on what you are about to do:
Log into Gmail, click Settings and on the General tab you will see a dropdown where you can set the number of email conversations per page, set it to its lowest setting of 25 conversations per page. Don’t forget to save changes.
(read first) While you are ion Gmail’s settings click on the Web Clips tab and uncheck the “Show my web clips above the Inbox” checkbox. Don’t forget to save changes.
Read the Google Gmail Help Center’s help item Gmail is Slow
(read first) Disable chat, scroll down to the bottom and click “turn off chat” in the second line from the bottom
(read first) View in HTML, scroll down to the bottom and click “basic HTML” in the second line from the bottom
(first make sure you have all you need to reactivate/re-install) Minimize javascripts and remote calls - are you one of those cutting edge users that’s tricked out Gmail? Maybe you’ve skinned Gmail, are using it as your personal online hard drive, have it showing your Remember the Milk to do list, or other Gmail-related add-ons or plug ins? If you’ve got enough of them it may slow down your Gmail, try turning some or all of them off and see if it makes a difference.
(read first) (also read first) Try turning off your contact’s pictures. Click Settings and on the General tab to the right of Contact’s Pictures Only show pictures that I’ve chosen for my contacts. If you haven’t chosen any pictures then you shouldn’t see any.
Turn off snippets. Click Settings and on the General tab to the right of Snipetts click “ - Show subject only.”
Do you have like 100 different labels? Maybe you’ve got too many… try pairing down the number of labels you use and get roganized at the same time. Especially if your Inbox has LOTS of emails and the function of the archive button is a mystery.
