Daily Archives: January 20, 2014

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Paying Off Credit Cards Is the Best Financial Return for Your Money

Great article on Lifehacker about prioritizing paying off your credit card debt as a personal finance mandate.

If you’re like me, who for some reason has been suckered with 20% APRs on his credit cards, then paying off your credit card debts is the best thing you can do to get back to saving $.  It’s kind of obvious as there is no benefit, other than avoiding paying one large lump sum for a purchase, for carrying a huge debt with an outrageous APR.  Consider it a short-term loan with an extremely high interest rate and you’ll quickly recognize its effect on your savings.

Five Best Desktop Video Players

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Here’s a Lifehacker article on their opinion of the Five Best Desktop Video Players.

For the most part I’ve always avoided Windows Media Player and gone straight to VLC since it’s very lightweight and quick to start up lacking all the overhead of other media players. Plus Windows Media Player only works on the bulk of my video files (I primarily have .mkv files) after I install VLC, which adds the proper codecs.

I’ve used VLC on Mac and Windows and have had nothing but good results.