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Coupon Alert Toolbar: Saving Money Just Got Easier


Coupon Alert is a new type of rewards site which, instead of rewarding its members with currency or prizes, rewards its members with coupon and promotional codes for the retailers they visit.

With the difficult state of the economy and the new television show featuring “extreme couponing,” people are become aware of the savings to be had simply from using coupons to do your basic shopping.

Coupon Alert uses this motivation to enlist new members. Coupon Alert is free to join, but there are certain things you must do in order to collect your “rewards.”

Coupon Alert: Saving Money Just Got Easier. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

What is a Rewards Site?

A basic rewards site works by having the user download their toolbar and use their specific search engine to do all their searching online. These sites will pay you a couple cents for your online actions, just for doing the same things you do online all the time.

These sites get paid by advertisers to track your information and give it to them, so they better understand the online search habits of their target market. The reward sites, in turn, pay their members to allow them to track their information.

Many times people feel that reward sites “aren’t worth it” because of the small payouts people get, though technically they are still receiving money for doing the things they would normally do for free.

Coupon Alert: Saving Money Just Got Easier. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD


How is Coupon Alert Different?

Coupon Alert offers member rewards in a different way. You download the Coupon Alert toolbar, and when you search products or item, the toolbar will alert you to companies online with coupons or promotions related to what you are searching.

In addition, if you visit a website that currently has active coupons or promotions, Coupon Alert will automatically “alert” you to that. Finally, Coupon Alert will also keep track of promotions that are getting ready to expire, so their members won’t miss out.

In order to get these benefits from Coupon Alert, you must download their toolbar and switch your homepage to their specific search engine, MyWebSearch. If you are not actively using their search engine and toolbar, then you won’t receive the benefits.

Coupon Alert: Saving Money Just Got Easier. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD


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25 Worst Passwords of 2011 Revealed


If you see your password below, STOP!

Do not finish reading this post and immediately go change your password -- before you forget. You will probably make changes in several places since passwords tend to be reused for multiple accounts.


Here are two lists, the first compiled by SplashData:

1. password

2. 123456

3.12345678

4. qwerty

5. abc123

6. monkey

7. 1234567

8. letmein

9. trustno1

10. dragon

11. baseball

12. 111111

13. iloveyou

14. master

15. sunshine

16. ashley

17. bailey

18. passw0rd

19. shadow

20. 123123

21. 654321

22. superman

23. qazwsx

24. michael

25. football

Last year, Imperva looked at 32 million passwords stolen from RockYou, a hacked website, and released its own Top 10 "worst" list:

1. 123456

2. 12345

3. 123456789

4. Password

5. iloveyou

6. princess

7. rockyou

8. 1234567

9. 12345678

10. abc123

If you've gotten this far and don't see any of your passwords, that's good news. But, note that complex passwords combining letters and numbers, such as passw0rd (with the "o" replaced by a zero) are starting to get onto the 2011 list. abc123 is a mixed password that showed up on both lists.

Last year, Imperva provided a list of password best practices, created by NASA to help its users protect their rocket science, they include:

It should contain at least eight characters

It should contain a mix of four different types of characters - upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters such as !@#$%^&*,;" If there is only one letter or special character, it should not be either the first or last character in the password.

It should not be a name, a slang word, or any word in the dictionary. It should not include any part of your name or your e-mail address.

Following that advice, of course, means you'll create a password that will be impossible, unless you try a trick credited to security guru Bruce Schneir: Turn a sentence into a password.

For example, "Now I lay me down to sleep" might become nilmDOWN2s, a 10-character password that won't be found in any dictionary.

Can't remember that password? Schneir says it's OK to write it down and put it in your wallet, or better yet keep a hint in your wallet. Just don't also include a list of the sites and services that password works with. Try to use a different password on every service, but if you can't do that, at least develop a set of passwords that you use at different sites.

Someday, we will use authentication schemes, perhaps biometrics, that don't require so much jumping through hoops to protect our data. But, in the meantime, passwords are all most of us have, so they ought to be strong enough to do the job.
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