As a young adult, I have seen too many times a friend or acquaintance of mine being stuck with large amounts of overdraft fees on their checking account. Overdraft fees have a tendency to snowball. It’s not unheard of to see a overdraft in the morning and by days end have over $100 dollars in charges on a account.

A friend of mine happens to work for a major national bank and had some tips on what to do if you get hit with the snowball effect of overdraft fees.

Call Your Bank

• Do this right away. Many times people assume that they …
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If you have moved or thought about moving in the past, then you know how big of a challenge it can be. Luckily there are great resources such as Relocation.com to help plan and complete your task. If you’re still just contemplating moving or about to call the moving truck, either way, Relocation.com has help for you.

Relocation.com can help you sell your house, find a new house, and find a moving company all in one site. Another great feature is the ability to get quotes from moving companies for …

If you’re like me and have been trying to come up with effective and original ways of promoting and distributing your Wordpress themes, then you know it can be a daunting task. The traditional way of promoting a Wordpress theme is to upload it to a popular theme directory site. The downside I have found to this is the lack of exposure, as your theme gets buried and almost never sees the light of day.

I had a spur of the moment thought last week about using torrents to promote my theme. I figured, I have looked up Wordpress themes on …

Elgg is a open-source social networking platform for building a community based website. Think of a fully customizable MySpace of your own. Elgg V1.0 just launched on August 18th and every week there are new plugins being released from community members. Elgg’s Full Package comes with quite a few useful plugins, but these plugins from the community really bring Elgg to the next level.

• Be Myspace’s Tom v1.0 1.1

  The Be Tom plugin automatically adds the user of your choice to a newly registered users friend list. Hence the name Be Tom. On Myspace every new user automatically has …

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Acorn is a grassroots organization that works to register low income voters in hopes of alleviating the problem with disenfranchised voters in America. Acorn has once again come under fire for allegations of election fraud in multiple states. Last year Acorn was forced to pay $25,000 in fines to improve oversight in King County, Washington, where I happen to be a registered voter.

The fact of the matter is that the 7 people that were charged with voter fraud, in my county, worked for and represented Acorn. These people were motivated by money, not election fraud. This was a isolated case …