Visabuxx and Paytrust can teach kids about credit and help you manage your bills, respectively. Paytrust also ideal for managing your elderly parents' money.

Today’s portable street navigators or GPS tracking devices do more than just provide you directions. They’re also like the yellow pages in that they can find you a Starbucks, Lowes or for that matter any place and literally tell you how to get there.

Homes and small businesses are increasing taking advantage of the Internet, wireless technologies and falling prices of hardware and software. We review what it takes to set up your network and how to protect yourself and your information from computer hackers, malware and spyware.

Paytrust's 2004 redesigned website traded in a more intuitive and user friendly design for one that is more text oriented. We think that Paytrust really had lost touch with its users.

If you are heading off to college, you will need a good laptop computer to take class notes, do research and complete home work assignments. There are numerous choices out there with lots of features. Of course price is a consideration along with how long you will keep the laptop.

Very little has changed since our review of the Paytrust service in 2004. Paytrust eliminates paper bills and saves you time and money. Wish Intuit could integrate it better with TurboTax and Quickbooks software.

Instead of spending your refund on merchant cards using the TurboTax Tax Refund Bonus Program, consider doing an IRA, paying off credit card, debt and applying the refund to your mortgage principal.

We review Paytrust and several other ways to pay your bills online and manage your money. We also discuss how you can teach your kids about money using VisaBuxx.

According to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), almost 3.25 million Americans discovered that their personal information had been misused in identity theft fraud in 2002. The number of Americans affected by this crime has probably increased since then.