Paying with your cell phone has been around in Europe and Japan for awhile, but we still are waiting for that technology to make it to the states. Here is a little hack that allows you to enjoy that functionality now. This will require a Visa Pay Wave card or some other RF enabled card. Weather you have a Visa now or not call your company and tell them you need an extra card with the Pay Wave or whatever “catchy” phrase is given to the technology. I think Chase calls it “Blink”. Visa actually has a mini card which makes this a little easier. Once you get the mini card trim it down so just the functional part of the card exists. I actually am unsure where this chip is exactly and the pictures are just examples.. Take that piece of the card and tape it to the inside of your battery door on your cell/smart phone. Now whenever you go to an establishment that allows Pay Wave / Blink just hold your phone over the Pay Wave / Blink portion of the debit card reader and off you go. Results may vary depending on the thickness of your battery door cover.

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By - Jason Valalik
I don’t get invited to very many fancy dinners, but when I do there must be at least 3 glasses on the table 6 dishes, 12 pieces of silverware and a partridge in a pear tree. This makes it extremely difficult and sometimes embarrassing when trying to figure out which drink or bread plate is yours. A little trick I learned to help with this it to make two “ok” signs one with your right and one with your left hand under the table. As you will see the one on the left looks like a b and the one on the right a d. This translates nicely to b-bread on the left d-drink on the right. Works great until someone asks you what you are doing with your hands. Give it a try.