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Wrap Up Your iPhone

Daily Dose, Review /

Remember when the iPhone 4 came out and I was all whiney because my iPhone 3gs was really unhappy and I wasn’t eligible for a new phone until next year? Yea. I remember it too. I’m still not eligible and I still have my iPhone 3gs. I’m babying it like crazy though and so far – so good.

While I was in the depths of misery over my poor sad iPhone, I was offered a free wrapsol ultra for my iPhone and I thought – what the heck. I really need a new case and I really need to take care of this iPhone because I could not afford to buy a new phone before I was eligible.  (See even way back then I knew TW was going to quit her job and I knew we’d be even more broke.) TW has used several different types of screen protectors and I’ve never liked any of the ones she tried. The one with the mirror… oy, that thing blinded me while I was driving, every time she played with her phone in the car! The wrpasol says it’s so strong that it even helps prevent drop damage. Huh. I could have used that with my first iPhone…

So I got the wrapsol. I read the directions. I slipped it on. It went on pretty smoothly, more smoothly than the other ones TW had tried seemed to go on. It comes with a nifty little squeegee thingy to help you errr squeegee it on. I had a couple of bubbles but the instructions indicate bubbles will disappear in a day or so.

Sure enough, the bubble that was really bugging me was right above the Home button disappeared the next day. However, there was a tiny little bubble way at the top right corner. It wasn’t even really touching more than the battery icon – but it bugged me. And I could not make it go away. While I was sitting in an airport, trying to stay awake to board my flight, I thought I’d just peel it up a bit and replace the film. Hahahaha. I touched it and then there were fingerprints in that top right corner of the screen. #USERERROR!

I spent the next 24 hours cursing myself and those fingerprints and finally lifted the film off and tossed it out. That will teach me to NOT follow directions and to think I can “just fix it”. Sheesh.

One other thing I should mention – I’ve had an iPhone since 2007 and I’ve never used a screen film cover thingy. It was very hard for me to get used to how the iPhone feels with the film covering it. Right about the time I got used to it – that’s when I screwed up and got fingerprints on the film.

I’ll know better when I put another wrapsol on my iPhone. Won’t I?

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Making Hotel Reservations

1 Comment / Review, Travel Log /

Life is funny.  I just finished making hotel reservations for a trip to Charleston after Christmas and now I find an email asking me to review HotelReservations.com for ReviewMe.  I wish I’d gotten this paid review request earlier in the day.

The first thing I noticed about HotelReservations.com was the $100 Rebate button.  I clicked.  Not a bad deal.  If I had booked my brief trip to Charleston through this site, I could have had a $20 rebate on top of a rate that is $2 per night lower than booking straight through the hotel’s website.  That, my friends, is a deal.  Which makes it worth going to a website that has a typo right on the front page (Advence should obviously be Advanced). 

Another thing I noticed, when searching for a hotel in Charleston, SC for a few days after Christmas, is the ability to sort by a lot more variables than other reservation sites.  You can choose from a huge list of landmarks and ask for hotels close to those.  That would have come in handy for me on a few trips to south Florida and a trip to Atlanta where we found ourselves a little bit further afield than we’d originally hoped. 

I went surfing around the vacation packages, too.  I almost bought a package and that never happens.  Actually I was torn between two and I may still go back and grab one, if I can decide between them (and choose a date that works for us, and scrape up the money to pay for the trip).  I have no idea how the site managed it but they showed me TWO hotels that I really love in NYC in the first page of results.  That simply never happens because neither hotel is a top pick on the other reservation sites I have used.

I haven’t had any problems using the search.  The site moves quickly and hasn’t returned any odd results.  I might actually give this one a try the next time I book a weekend.  If I do, I’ll come back and blog about it again. 

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Review Me

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A brand new blogging for dollars program has launched, it’s called ReviewMe and I am getting paid to review “Review Me” with this very post. In the future, any posts I may write for Review Me will sit in the “Review Me” category and the posts themselves will indicate that they are “advertisements” or that I am being paid to review. This isn’t just my policy but it is also ReviewMe’s policy. All bloggers MUST disclose their relationship within the blog post.


When you sign up for ReviewMe as a blogger, you enter all of your data and then register a blog. ReviewMe immediately determines how much you’ll get paid for a review post and this is determined by your page rank. If you want to make more money for your reviews then you’d best get busy and increase your page rank. Good blogs get more money and that makes sense to me. I’ve got a PR5 so not bad but not great either. My payout is $30 per review.


The site itself is easy to navigate, and it was easy to find answers to my questions last night when I joined. I’ve surfed around some of the other blogs who have also joined and that’s been interesting, as well. There are some good bloggers already signed up, that seems like a good sign for the future.
So let’s see how this goes, shall we. Feel free to tell me what you think as we travel along this road.

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