Posts tagged money
Tipping Etiquette Around the World. Another great infographic from the MintLife blog.
AT&T’s DataPlus Plan Lowers Your Monthly iPhone Bill by $15
- Do nothing and keep paying $30/month for the “Unlimited” data plan (which I believe actually has a 5GB limit).
- Change to the DataPlus plan without renewing your contract and start paying $15/month for 200MB. If you go over, it will cost you another $15 for every 200MB.
- Change to the DataPro plan without renewing your contract and start paying $25/month for 2GB, and $10 for each additional gigabyte.
Note that once you change to one of the new plans, you won’t be able to go back to the “unlimited” plan. To determine which option you should choose, you need to figure out how much data you’ve been using. Here’s how:
- Go to http://www.attwireless.com and log in to your account.
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From the “Account Overview” page, click on the “View Past Data Usage” link, as shown in this image:
You will see a bar graph detailing your data usage over the past 6 months. If it looks like the one below (i.e. well below 200MB per month), then switching to the DataPlus plan is a no-brainer. On the other hand, if you’ve been using more than 200MB, but quite less than 2GB, then you can still save $5/month by switching to the DataPro plan.
- To change plans, click on “My Services” at the top, and then click on “Manage Features”, as illustrated below:
- Scroll down to the “iPhone Bundles” section under “Web, Text & More”. Choose your desired plan and click the “Next” button at the bottom of the page.
- Choose the effective date and click “Next”. I chose “Backdate to the first day of my current bill cycle.”
- Review your changes, click “Submit”, and you’re done!
“ It’s likely that hand-sanitizer users falsely believed they were protected from flu and thus deferred vaccination, which is by far the more effective way to prevent its spread. According to the Centers for Disease Control, only one in five Americans was vaccinated by early 2010—and just one in four health care workers and high-risk patients got the shot.”
10 Foods You Should Buy Organic
HowStuffWorks has a list of 10 foods that are worth spending more money on:
- Meat
- Dairy Products
- Eggs
- Coffee
- Peaches (and other fruits with thin skins)
- Potatoes
- Peppers (and other veggies)
- Leafy Greens
- Baby Food
- Anything you eat a lot of
and 10 that aren’t:
- Asparagus
- Avocados
- Bananas
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Kiwi
- Mango
- Onions
- Papaya
- Pineapple
How to land a six-figure book deal
Simple. Post a recipe for sausage stuffed and wrapped with bacon, aka the Bacon Explosion, or come up with a site called This is why you’re fat. This obsession with outrageous food is baffling. Just check out these impressive stats for the latter site:
* On February 1, we came up with idea, bought the domain name, designed the blog and began creating an image archive from the crazy food photos circulating the Web.
* On February 9, we launched the site to the public, opening it for submissions.
* In under 24 hours we reached over 1 million page-views, over 2 million page-views in under 48 hours and over 3 million in under 3 days.
* Within the first two weeks since the site’s launch, This is Why You’re Fat showed the highest traffic of any blog on the Tumblr platform ever.
* In under a month since the site’s launch, we have received over 2,000 submissions, not counting those sent via email.
* In under a month, the site has swelled to almost 4,000 followers on Tumblr
The Crisis Of Credit Visualized is a superb animated explanation of the financial mess du jour. This project was completed by Jonathan Jarvis as part of his thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
