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Chase Quick Deposit outside the USA

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Some good news from Chase: It is nice that they are listening to their customers! 🙂 From: Chase Online Subject: You’ll still be able to use Chase QuickDeposit (SM) on your mobile phone outside the U.S. We recently told you that we were making some changes to the mobile version of Chase QuickDepositSM that would result in customers not being able to deposit paper checks from outside the United States and its territories. After hearing from customers, we reconsidered. So,

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How to pair Pebble smart watch with HTC EVO 4G LTE

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My Pebble arrived recently and I was quite bummed that it did not seem pairable with my HTC EVO 4G LTE 🙁 Thankfully, after a bit of experimentation, I was able to pair the two lovely devices. Here is how: #1 Make sure Bluetooth is ‘on’ for both devices #2 Go to the Bluetooth pairing screen on the EVO and choose, Menu -> Search for devices #3 You should see a screen similar to the one below: #4 Choose ‘Pair’

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ASUS Q200E hard drive upgrade instructions (replace w/SSD)

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The Q200E is a great little laptop that is generally available for about $449 at Best Buy. The Q200e and the other similar models sold elsewhere (X202E, S200E) are definitely one of the best touchscreen Windows 8 laptop options out there! Unfortunately, they are all shipped with a relatively slow hard drive and the RAM is soldered in. The only other thing the Q200E is lacking is Bluetooth 🙁 EASY PERFORMANCE UPGRADES: You can now replace the slow hard drive

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Open multiple PDFs in seperate Foxit Reader windows

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When doing taxes or any other task requiring document comparison, it can be very handy to view PDFs side-by-side. Unfortunately, many PDF readers today (including Foxit Reader) default to opening PDFs in tabs and you cannot ‘pull’ a tab out to make a new window. However, there is a simple workaround: open multiple instances of Foxit Reader and then open (or drag/drop) your files to whichever Foxit window you want. 🙂 First though, you need to do is enable the ‘Allow

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Get Chase 1099 tax documents online in PDF format

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Need to quickly get your 1099-INT from Chase? Don’t worry, it is easy! 🙂 Here are the steps: #1 Login to you Chase account #2 Select the ‘Customer Center’ link at the top of the page #3 Click the ‘Order 1099’ link: #4 Voila, you can now download your 1099 tax documents with the greatest of ease: Summary Easy huh? 🙂 I give Chase 5/5 stars for this very handy feature. This is also a very nice change from other

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Drastically improved search for jdhodges.com (WordPress based blog)

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While using the internal search feature on my blog recently, I realized how worthless it was. As an example, searching for ‘exede review‘ came up with a bunch of mildly relevant results but by far the most relevant search result was on the second page. Not good. 🙁 Default WordPress search stinks The reason this happened is that by default WordPress sorts search results by date. So if you happen to have some recent posts that contain a keyword, they will

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Acer Aspire V3-771G memory upgrade

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Intro The Acer Aspire V3-771G is a very capable 17.3″ laptop that can often be found for a bargain price if you shop around. However, one of the nicest features about this laptop is its extreme upgradeability. It is an easy machine to work on and with a small amount of work you can have up to 32GB of RAM and dual SSDs (or hard drives). 🙂 For a non workstation machine, this amount of upgradeability is quite rare! Upgrade details To give you

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Gmail Blue, TOO advanced?

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It has been unbelievably hard to use such a groundbreaking product as Gmail Blue and not be able to tell the world about it. Now that the NDA has been lifted, I can finally talk a little about Gmail Blue. Before the full review and benchmarks, which I am sure many other sites will have as well, I feel a word of warning is in order: +Sure, I love Gmail Blue. It really is light years ahead of the competition. Nobody else has that much Blue. Period. -So what

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