Category Archives: Free Stuff

Oracle rocks!

By Jacob Allred | Published: February 13, 2010
Cur­tis, an Ora­cle employee, con­tacted me a week or two ago to ask for per­mis­sion to use data from the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor at Ora­cle. I freely license the data under both a Cre­ative Com­mons license and the GPLv3. While these licenses are won­der­ful licenses for peo­ple work­ing on open projects, they leave a bit [...]
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Songbird

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 31, 2009
I have recently become a huge fan of Song­bird, a free multi-platform media player based on Mozilla’s XUL­Run­ner. If you are any­thing like me, you may be ask­ing your­self what makes Song­bird spe­cial or worth your time. Why not just keep using iTunes, VLC, or Win­dows Media Player? Here are my rea­sons for choos­ing Song­bird over [...]
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Be The Match Registry

By Jacob Allred | Published: October 16, 2009
Just got an email let­ting me know that I’m offi­cially part of the Be The Match Reg­istry (for­mally known as the National Mar­row Donor Pro­gram). I signed up a few weeks back when there was an offer to waive the nor­mal reg­is­tra­tion costs (the offer may still be valid). After a week or so of wait­ing, [...]
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A Local Vacation

By Jacob Allred | Published: May 28, 2009
I was dri­ving home the other day when my cell phone rang. I didn’t rec­og­nize the num­ber, but I always answer my phone. It was some lady from Colo­nial Cross­ings of Williams­burg call­ing to let me know I won a 2 day/1 night vaca­tion in Williams­burg. I was like, uh, lady, I live in Williamsburg. No you [...]
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New ABA number search site

By Jacob Allred | Published: January 29, 2009
I’ve launched (or rather, my com­pany has launched) a new site that makes it easy to look up banks, rout­ing num­bers, ABA num­bers, and other ABA related info. ABA Num­ber Lookup is super easy to use and can be incred­i­bly use­ful. Lets say you need your bank’s rout­ing num­ber, but they have a thou­sand help pages [...]
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Free Gift Cards

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 5, 2008
Over the past sev­eral months I have been able to save a good amount of money by using free gift cards. NuRide Accord­ing to NuRide’s web­site: NuRide is the nation’s largest online rideshar­ing com­mu­nity where mem­bers are rewarded for shar­ing rides. NuRide is free to join and free to use and is sup­ported by spon­sors who reward NuRide mem­bers [...]
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