Ilyce Glink's Blog

Welcome to Ilyce Glink's blog! Here you'll find Ilyce's latest insights on personal finance advice, real estate advice and consumer issues. Come back often for timely and interesting posts on a wide variety of topics.

Magic Jack and more!

Are you sick of paying huge cable bills? What if you deconstructed what you pay for (phone, TV, Internet) and started to look at unusual ways of accessing the content you want through technology?

Loads of WSB listeners have been trying Magic Jack (www.magicjack.com; $40 for the first year, $20 per year after that)and found it much less expensive than paying the phone company $40 per month (or more) for local or long-distance service. When it comes to TV, you can watch so much of your regularly programming online. Try sites like Sling.com, and Hulu.com. Or, go to the website of your favorite shows and see what's playing there.

You might also want to look at Google.com/talk, iCall.com, YahooVoice, Skype, and others.

What's your favorite site to consumer content? How do you save on your cable/tv/phone bill?

Labels: Clark Howard, Technology, WSB

posted by Ilyce Glink at 1:35 PM 0 comments

Barbie iDesign: A Good Technology Game for Girls

If you're looking for a good holiday gift for your tech-savvy girl, you might like the new Barbie iDesign. I saw it first at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Take a look:

Labels: Barbie, Girls, Technology

posted by Ilyce Glink at 9:18 AM 0 comments

Voltaic Green: Check out this video on Solar Backpacks

Imagine charging up your technology while walking to school. The new solar backpack (they're making solar-powered briefcases as well) from VoltaicGreen.com is pretty cool.

Labels: Green, Technology

posted by Ilyce Glink at 9:15 AM 0 comments

Check Out New YouTube Videos

We've just posted several new green technology videos to the ExpertRealEstateTips YouTube channel. Take a look. Let us know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ExpertRealEstateTips

Become a subscriber and you'll get email updates when we post new videos.

If you want to learn what the EPA's Energy Star logo means and what it can do for you look at those videos. You can also hear what companies such as Sony and Panasonic are doing to save energy and save you money.

Want to stop buying gas for your transportation? Look at the Vectrix electric scooter.

And if you want to learn about new ways to control your light fixtures we have videos for that.

Labels: Compact fluorescent bulbs, Expert Real Estate Tips, Green, Technology, YouTube

posted by Melanie G. Rogers at 12:48 PM 0 comments

Updating from March 8, 2007 Clark Howard Show

Want to save money on gas? Check out www.cheapskateshopping.com. The website bills itself as being "professional cheapskates" and they have great information on various credit cards that give you cash back and other deals when you purchase gas (and other items).

For those of you wondering about that new piece of equipment from Sony that turns videotapes into DVDs, it's the Sony DVDirect VRD-MC3 and it costs $218. Check it out online at www.sony.com.

Labels: Clark Howard, credit cards, Gas, Technology, WSB

posted by Ilyce Glink at 1:22 PM 0 comments

Inman Connect in New York

Right after the show, I'll be hopping on a plane (first trip for 2007, for those of you keeping track at home of my air miles) to New York. I'm attending Inman's Connect 2007 in Manhattan and I'll be staying at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, just where the ball was dropped a week ago.

At this conference, I'll be talking about Video on Demand for the Internet which, as many of your know, if a subject near and dear to my heart. If you're interested in learning more about the conference, find out about it at www.inman.com.

I'll be in New York until Wednesday night, but I'll try to Blog about the cool real estate technology that's being introduced -- the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) is also this week, so I'll see what I can find out and post here about that show even though I'll be in New York.

Have a great week.

Labels: Real Estate, Technology, WSB

posted by Ilyce Glink at 10:29 PM 2 comments

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