May 2009

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Tool to Select Domain Name

I registered a new domain name  last week, it was very hard to pick a domain name. If I had come across this resource 12 Tools to Pick Up a Domain Name, it would have made my job much easy.

Review – GetRichSlowly.org

Review – GetRichSlowly.org

Starting new series of posts to keep adding more contents to this blog. There are so many Personal Finance Blogs out there, but there is not many sites that review all those Personal Finance blogs. So, this new idea came up and I decided to give it a try.
Get Rich Slowly – Review
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How to Configure Google Website Optimizer for Wordpress Hosted Blogs

If you want to test your landing pages on self  hosted wordpress blogs, Google Website Optimizer is the way to go. I tried to implement A/B Testing  about 1 year back, but I couldn’t find the plugin that would help configure the pages for A/B Testing
I was more reluctant to spend more time to figure [...]

Mortgage Refinance Closing This Week (Maybe)

Finally all the paperwork is done and Broker said, I can close  the loan sometime this week.  This would save my monthly payment by $60+ per month.

Current Loan – 30 Year Fixed, No Escrow, 5.25%, Refinanced on Dec 2009, lender – Countrywide
New Loan – 30 Year Fixed, No Escrow, 4.875%, No Closing Cost/Lenders Fee, Lender [...]

Tool to Find Other Websites Hosted on Your Server

If you have your websites hosted in a shared hosting plan, you should have run into memory issues. If you have Internal Server Error displayed, it’s because your site or other sites hosted on your server is consuming all the server’s memory. Use this cool tool to see other websites hosted on the same server [...]

Mortgage Refinance Without Appraisal

I’m still waiting for the home appraised value to refinance. But, I really don’t understand why one broker would require Appraisal when another lender can refinance without Appraisal.
When I refinanced during last week of December, NMA didn’t order home appraisal. But, now with different Broker, they ordered appraisal. I’m puzzled by that fact that, the [...]

Mortgage Refinance – Round 2

Back in December 2008, we refinanced existing mortgage. Back then we had 2 loans ( First Loan 5.625% and Second Loan – 7.75%) through National Mortgage Alliance, we were able to combine both the loans into single loan and got 5.25% No Cost loan without escrow account (without paying escrow waiver fee).
No cost Refinance – [...]