Have you been around someone who’s said “The price of things today…i remember when they were only worth…”? I have, and i’ve decided to see whether they were telling porkie pies, so I did a bit of research on the topic. More…

Bidding on eBay auctions at the last minute seems like the best way to get a good bargain. However, I’ve been missing the end of auctions because they e-mail reminder arrives far too early. By the time the auction actually ends i’ve moved on to something else. Ideally then, i would get a text message a couple of minutes before the auction end, so I can nip online and snap up a bargain. eBay offer the service to send you a text message alert, but each of them costs money, so i’ve set about how I can do this for free. More…