Jeanne Marie Hoffman

Former bartender, still a geek. One equal part each cookies, liberty, football, music, travel, libations. Stir vigorously. +Jeanne Marie Hoffman Jeanne on Twitter

Amazon Offering $0.99 Video Rentals This Weekend

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Amazon is offering $0.99 rentals on a bunch of movies this weekend–180 of them to be exact. In addition, some of the $0.99 rentals are available for purchase at $6.99.  You have 30 days to start the rental and then anywhere from 48 hours – 7 days to watch, depending …

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Drugstore.com Shutting Down by End of Month

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Drugstore.com has been a source of great deals.  It usually sells household items for less than Amazon.com, and was a good use of the free Shoprunner benefit that comes with the American Express Platinum  Card.  (It was recently tightened up, but used to be free 2-day shipping on any purchase). I …

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Do Frequent Flyers Age Faster?

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Nothing makes me feel younger than the ability to jetset to a beach somewhere (or Las Vegas!) to chill out. That’s why I was surprised when I saw this article about how frequent travel ages us. From Fast Company: In Cohen’s review of the literature, he found that this mobile …

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Get KIND Sample Box for $10 plus Get $10 Amazon Credit

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Edit:  This item is now unavailable.  Sometimes Amazon has brought them back after a few days, but no idea if that will happen here.  Thanks, Richard! Amazon has another sample box for sale.  Amazon has been doing this thing where they offer a sample box for $10-$15.  Each sample box …

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68 Million Emails and Passwords for Dropbox Users Made Public

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In 2012, there was a data breach into Dropbox’s files.  The data breach occurred because one employee didn’t vary his passwords and also used his corporate password for his LinkedIn profile–which experienced a data breach. After four years (for some reason), those 68,000,000 emails and passwords were released onto the …

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