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LifeLock is offering a free copy of H&R Block At Home Deluxe during the month of March if you sign up for its  LifeLock Identity Protection program.
LifeLock is known for its pledge for $1 million guarantee for members of the LifeLock Identity Theft Protection service if they become victims of identity theft. What the [...]

The Wall Street Journal is one of those websites I visit everyday. I have it on My Yahoo home page, so I can get all the news rather quickly. In fact, I have used stories on the WSJ as basis of my posts many times in the past. The problem with the WSJ is that [...]

From December 1 to Christmas, Amazon.com is offering a new song, hand-picked by Amazon MP3 editors, everyday to its customers for free. That’s 25 free MP3 downloads in 25 days. Today’s free song is “Joy to the World” by Casting Crowns. Check out Amazon 25 Days of Free page to get your free MP3 daily [...]

I got my free subscription of both the BusinessWeek and Forbs last time when the free offer was available early this year, so the deal is real. Now it’s alive again, so if you are interested, you can use this link to get the free magazine if you want to have it. All you need [...]

A little more two weeks ago, I wrote a post on where to get free one-year subscription of BusinessWeek magazine. I didn’t really expect the magazine to come because I had similar experience before with some promised free magazines that never arrived. But this time I am pretty surprised when I saw the latest issue [...]

Here’s another promotion from Schick for its Quattro Titanium Razor/Trimmer. It was almost a year ago when Schick had a similar promotion.
Even though I realized that there are already a bunch of razors in my closet, I signed up to get another one anyway because it’s free and I never pass a free stuff that [...]

Not sure whether you will get what is promised or not, but I figure it doesn’t hurt to try this free offer.
To get the free, one-year subscription of BusinessWeek, all you need to do is complete a short, one-page survey on MP3 player, costing a minute or two of your time. At the end you [...]

Don’t have a GPS unit yet? Get one for free.
KeyBank, which used to offer free iPod in the past for its checking accounts, now gives Garmin nüvi GPS for free if you open an new account April 24, 2009.
Two models of Garmin GPS are offered in this deal: nüvi 205W GPS ($159 value) for either [...]

Did you trade stocks or ETF/mutual funds in 2008? If you did, do you find it’s sometimes confusing about your investment cost basis,  taxes on capital gains, or capital losses carry-over? It wasn’t easy for me at tax time a few years ago when I first started to trade stocks while using pen & paper [...]

In case you can use it, TurboTax is offering a FREE, downloadable version of TurboTax Business 2008, valued at $. The software can only be used for your business, not your personal tax filing (click here if you are looking for personal TurboTax software, here for Quicken $20 off offers).

To download the software, you need [...]