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Where Do You Sell Your Stuff Online?

11:00PM Gina Trapani | Finance blogger Cady describes how she made extra cash selling her unlistened-to CDs on Amazon Marketplace. The return isn’t stellar, but it’s still found money: Although I’m losing in double-digits percentage-wise on commission, fees and shipping, I’ve gained about $160 I didn’t have otherwise. Those discs were just sitting there, and I’d have had to put out quite a bit of effort without using Amazon to turn that stack of 28 CDs into $160. I wouldn’t have made $6 per disk at a yard sale. I’ve tried visiting local used CD shops and I get maybe a $1 a disk if I’m lucky. Amazon Marketplace, eBay, Craigslist—where’s your favourite place to sell your stuff and why? Let us know in the comments. How to Use the Amazon Marketplace for Fun and Profit [Get Rich Slowly] More »

Remote Control Your Computer with Your iPhone

2:00AM Adam Pash | It’s a phone, it’s an iPod, it surfs the web, and it finds the closest restaurant serving fried calamari. If you hack it, you can install killer third-party applications. But in addition to all of that, the iPhone is also a killer remote control. You could spend hundreds of dollars on a multimedia remote with a touchscreen interface, glorious album art, and all of the fixings, but if you’ve already got an iPhone, you really don’t need to. Today I’ll show you a number of ways you can use the iPhone to remote control everything from iTunes playback to your Windows or Mac desktops. More »