Author Archives: J.D. H.

AT&T mobile insurance vs AT&T mobile protection pack

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If you are buying a phone from AT&T online, you will likely be prompted to choose one of the following: My question was: what exactly is the difference between “mobile insurance” and “mobile protection pack”. The answer is, not much. Specifically, the “protection pack” adds: “personalized technical support; and an app to find your device.” The insurance is the exact same that you can get for $3 less if you choose only the insurance. What is surprising is that many phone manufacturers

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GoDaddy changes manual renewal to auto-renewal. Lame.

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GoDaddy: “Unless you have specifically selected the manual renewal option, your purchase includes enrollment in our automatic renewal service” This domain was set to manual renewal and I did not even notice an option during the checkout process to “keep” it that way, instead GoDaddy automatically set it to automatic renewal 🙁 I am not a fan of that. On renewal why not have leave it at the domain’s previous renewal designation?

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Disable Android lock screen, ‘None’ option missing?! [SOLVED]

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I had a lock screen that just would not be disabled on my LG G.Pad 8.3 tablet 🙁 Turns out it was because multiple users were enabled on my tablet. Deleting the extra users and just going back to my primary user allowed me to set the Lock Screen to ‘None’. Woot! 🙂 More info on lock screens and things that can cause them to go awry: How to Disable the Lock Screen in Android | Phone Tipshttp://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-disable-the-lock-screen-in-androidVirtually every new

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Discover 5% Cashback Calendar (online retailers: Apple & Amazon!

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Discover has a very nice 5% cashback category this quarter: online retailers and department stores! It is nice to see they are trying to fight back against Chase Freedom and other newer cards. Coupon codes are great for the holdiays, but a blanket 5% cashback may be even better 🙂 Just login to your discover card account to signup! POPULAR ONLINE RETAILERS Amazon.com Apple.com BarnesandNoble.com Netflix.com Overstock.com PayPal.com Target.com Teleflora.com Walmart.com Zappos.com POPULAR DEPARTMENT STORES Bloomingdale’s Carson’s Dillard’s JC Penney

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Galaxy S5 screen repair, iheartrepair review

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In August I broke the glass on my Galaxy S5 screen and sent it to iheartrepair.com for repair. Overall the process went quite smoothly: Pros: Simple ordering process Coupon code available for discount Turn around time was quite short: 2 days for delivery 2 days for repair 2 days for return delivery Upon completion of the repair they promptly emailed photos of the device, it looked GOOD! 🙂 They carefully packaged the phone for shipping Phone was fully repaired Cons:

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Bathroom tile choices and bidets

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Samantha just picked out our tile for the bathroom and the kitchen, I think it is going to be AWESOME! Also, we are trying to decide whether to put a bidet in our master bath. Any suggestions/thoughts from readers? I had never thought about getting one before but after seeing the info on bidet toilet seats from bidet.org I am thinking a bit more about it. They help support Weblogs.us and I would like to help support them! In other house news,

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