Can I Still Exchange Those Old Five Pound Notes? Now they're no longer legal tender, what exactly can you do with the old five-pound notes? Haha! You thought you'd spent all your old £5 notes. That is... until you found that bunch of them in the drawer. Well, never mind. Because, according to the press, your bank will probably still take them. And in return, they'll give you some nice, shiny, plastic, unfoldable, unstraightenable new ones. Don't go to any bank though. If … [Read more...]
How to Save Kindle Highlights to Evernote
Got lots of those yellow and orange highlights in your Kindle book, and want to read them all on one page? There's an easy way to do that. It gives me a neat Evernote page with my notes laid out just how I like them. A Google search will reveal a few ways to export your Kindle notes into Evernote. Most go into lots of details. Many are complex methods. Some need you to download a Chrome extension. So I thought I'd share my simple method. Here's how I do it: How to Export Kindle … [Read more...]
How to Put an Amazon Affiliate Link on WordPress
How do you put one of those nice looking Amazon boxes on your WordPress website or blog, and start earning some affiliate income? Thankfully, it's quite easy. And here's how to do it. Amazon Associates on WordPress On the Amazon homepage, scroll to the bottom of the page. Click the Associates Programme link. In the search box, enter the name of the product you want to promote. As an example, let's search for the book "Known". Your search should reveal the product … [Read more...]
Why I Waste Time on Facebook
"I've absolutely no time for Facebook! "And why do I need to know what people have had for breakfast, anyway?" I could tell that any attempts to reason with my friend were fruitless. But I wanted to help him see the business benefits. I wanted to tell him how social media had been so useful to me. I wanted to demonstrate the fantastic set of free tools he could use. But no. He wasn't interested. End of conversation. "Listen to these massive Social Media benefits!" If I'd been … [Read more...]
How to Get Paid for Shopping
I hate shopping. So I cheat a bit. I buy online. That makes it a bit less painful. But even when I shop online, I think it's only fair that I get something in return for my troubles. That's why I love cashback websites such as Quidco and TopCashBack. They give me some money back on my shopping. But it's not like at the Supermarket when they ask if you want some cash back - but end up taking it out of your bank account. Nope. This genuinely is money given back to you. Too … [Read more...]