Posts made by redmed

I’m looking for a good profile manager for my Android phone. I started using Llama to silence my phone when I’m in specific buildings using Llama’s cell tower locator. Worked great, was free and was light on battery usage. Did I mention it was FREE! Then I got my new smartphone with Nougat and my beloved Llama was not as dependable. I started using MyProfiles which I do like very much. Instead of using which cell tower I was being fed off I started using the WiFi in the building as the trigger. To save on battery life I also used the Bluetooth connections in my vehicles as triggers to turn off WiFi while in the vehicle. That is when I discovered that MyProfiles limited me to three trigger events unless I pay to get MyProfiles+. Being the cheapskate I am, and not wanting to give my financial info to Google, I started looking for a free profile manager. That led me to Sfen which so far seems to work but has limited Icons to tell what state my phone is in and I can’t get the cell tower locator to work yet. Any good profile manager advice from my fellow PhatWalleter’s?

@frugalfreak said in Post your favorite windows software thread:

cute pdf
open broadcaster
ClocX
Paint shop pro
Jasc Animation
Audacity
VLC
Rocket Dock
Google earth pro
squigglemark
vegas movie studio 11
imgburn

Win 7 x64

FYI
Went to install “Cute PDF Writer” and Malwarebytes found a PUP in it.

@mikk1 said in Good Forums With Info On Stocks:

The problem I found with sites that do have robust banter is that the shills outnumber the real people.

Come to think of it, that’s exactly the same reason I left $0.42 in my Wells Fargo brokerage account after my “advisor” tried to convince me that liquidating some equities and re-investing in funds with a 5.25% front load was a good idea. Took them 3 statement cycles to catch it and liquidate my account.

True. But at least sometimes you get information not commonly available. Just as anything in life you have pick thru the junk to find treasures.

1. ClickTray Calendar www.waseu.de I have been using this for years. I would be lost without it. Looks simple and dated at first but the more you use it the more uses you find.
2. Simplenote one notepad to share between PC’s Smartphones
3. LibreOffice
4. 360TS 360 Total Security www.360totalsecurity.com
5. Firefox with uBlock Origin & FlashStopper added
6. Audacity

My minidisc deck MDS-JB940 quit ejecting discs a couple years ago. Turns out a small rubber belt got old and stretched out and was failing to turn the small ejection pulley. A new belt is hard to find and is expensive. In desperation I took a rubber band from a bag of rubber bands I bought from the dollar store and used it as a replacement belt. Yesterday my other minidisc deck (MDS JE470) failed to eject. Once again because the ejection belt was old and stretched out. A rubber band fixed it. So instead of searching for a “official” Sony belt just use a rubber band. What do you have to loose? It worked for me, twice.

I checked and I have been a member there for 4 years but rarely visit anymore. I don’t know why I quit visiting. The site seems to have good general information. I think it’s because I’m looking for site that has robust banter on individual stocks and I found myself spending too much time there without learning much about the specific stocks I’m tracking. I will start revisiting again.

@gwraigty said in Good Forums With Info On Stocks:

@redmed

I recently joined https://seekingalpha.com/

It’s not a forum exactly, but they appear to allow commenting on the articles. It’s seems like an active place. The site came up quite often when I’d do a Google search. You have to sign up to read entire articles, but it’s free.

I’ll check it out. Thanks.

@david-scubadiver said in Good Forums With Info On Stocks:

Have you looked into fool.com?

I did a long time ago and from what I remember; that site became annoying, almost boarding on stalking. Ever since then I avoid anything to do with that site. Things may have changed but I don’t want to chance going back to find out.

I have been searching for a forum that discusses individual stocks and have not found one that I’m completely satisfied with. The closest I have found was the forums on Yahoo a few years ago but they where only OK with a lot of trash talk that has increased. Any good forums?

Great Thread. 1 GREEN from me

I have been recommending opening a Roth, if only $100, to many young folks to eliminate that 5 year rule early and wondered if that early Roth would apply to helping withdrawing any funds from later Roth’s that are not 5 years old.

I have been dribbling (converting) funds from my IRA’s into Roth’s for 8 years and wondered about the specifics of withdrawing. I have no plans to withdraw anytime soon. In fact I plan to keep dribbling my IRA funds into Roth’s for many more years. Roth’s are one of the best ways to shelter your funds from taxes and I plan to take full advantage.

I understand that you need to have a Roth account for 5 years before you can withdraw interest from the account tax free. What I wonder is if you have two or more Roth accounts and only one account is 5 years old can you withdraw from the other Roth accounts that are younger than five years tax free? Does the one Roth being 5 years old qualify you to withdraw from ANY of your Roth accounts tax free?

@fivetalents Good! I feel a cold wave coming across my account.

I have a PagePlus Pay-As-You-Go account that has worked great as a backup phone for only $80 a year. The phone a original Motorola Droid is getting pretty slow and beat up. I would like to keep the same account, I have over $200 credit built up on the account, but change the phone to a newer faster phone. I have a TracFone LGL16C that I never activated with TracFone. I think the LGL16C works with the Verizon network just like PagePlus does. Can I transfer the LGL16C to the PagePlus account? Will I need to jailbreak or Root the phone?

So if I froze all the services can I just unfreeze only Transunion to get a loan then refreeze?

Good to find a new home.