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Online Deposits

Yesterday I received an email from my credit union announcing a new feature called Online Deposits. You can now deposit checks by scanning them. What an incredible feature!

With Online Deposits, you can deposit original personal checks, corporate checks, and cashier’s checks using a scanner connected to your computer. Once you scan the front and back of the check, the electronic image is sent to BECU with the deposit information.

And like ATM deposits, most deposited checks are made available immediately up to a certain amount.

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Fake Steve on why Google really left China

Fake Steve at it again with the conspiracy theories! This one doesn’t sound that far-fetched to me.

As for Google suddenly growing a conscience, come on. You know why Sergey freaked?

It’s because he found out that his own employees in China were actually working for the Chinese government, and were using their access to Google’s internal systems to steal information about Google’s precious little search algorithm. How can you do business in China if everyone you hire is going to steal from you? That’s why Google is backing out.

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Searchable App Store on the web

Stumbled across this the other day.. It looks like a site that aggregates Apple’s App Store data.

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Google Public DNS Servers

Made the switch. They’ve done this for speed. I also consider them more secure than Comcast’s. Check out the link for how to set up.

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Readtwit

Been using this for several weeks and find it very handy. It creates an RSS feed of all the links in your twitter feed.

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Let the mayhem begin.

Back on NNTP… While I was gone they added SSL encryption, super cool!

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Unofficial Simplenote Backup

I’m a big fan of the Simplenote iPhone app. It’s simple and no nonsense with automatic syncing to the cloud and a nice search function. This site enables quick backups of your notes database, just in case…

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Mass Search and Replace for WordPress

Had a need for this tonight and went looking… Found this incredibly useful WordPress plugin that enables mass search and replace in your MySQL database directly from WordPress. With great power comes great responsibility so be careful with it!

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WPtouch for WordPress

Brilliant plugin for WordPress that displays your blog in an iPhone inspired theme when viewed with mobile browsers. Super cool, using it on both blogs.

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WordPress Backup to Gmail

Going to try this, stat!

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