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Rather than paying for songs on iTunes or buying CDs from the store, here’s a popular option for those of you who always have an internet connection – online radio stations. You can save a lot of money just by pointing your browser over to sites like Pandora and Last.fm. There’s an added bonus of the sites recommending new artists (or new songs from old artists) so you can get exposed to newer things. All of it is for free!

If you live in New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, you can participate in a special Hyundai VIP test drive that lets you keep a Hyundai Genesis 375 HP luxury sedan for a week and get a $200 gas card.

CAR AND DRIVER and ROAD & TRACK invite you to be the first to drive, the first to be envied, and the first to experience the all new Hyundai Genesis 375 HP luxury sedan. Not only will you be the first on your block to drive it, you get to keep it for a week and you get a free $200 gas card. Put your CAR AND DRIVER and ROAD & TRACK knowledge to the test and don’t miss this chance to sign up for the Hyundai Genesis VIP Test Drive and give us your opinions of Hyundai’s ground breaking new entry into the luxury sedan market.

Several of the banks have increased their CD yields but for the month, every bank stood pat on their high yield savings account interest rates. The Fed kept rates constant, which gave banks little incentive to increase their rates. However, on the other hand, liquidity pressures have been forcing some banks to increase their rates. Just recently, ING Direct increased their CD rates twice in August and ING Direct’s 12-month CD now yields a healthy 4.00% APY.

If you’re still wary of online banks or aren’t sure how to pick one, there was recently a good article on Dumb Little Man on how to choose an online bank.

Are you a fan of Quicken? Quicken 2009 is being released next week but they’ve already released some hot coupon codes that will help reduce the cost of getting one of the most well known and most versatile personal finance management programs out there. The minimum discount coupon is for 20% off the regular price, so you can save some big bucks here.

Quicken 2009 Coupons Codes

• Quicken Deluxe 2009 ($59.99 $44.99 – 25% discount)
• Quicken Premier 2009 ($89.99 $71.99 – 20% discount)
• Quicken Online (60 day free trial, then $2.99/month)
• Quicken Home & Business 2009 ($99.99 $79.99 – 20% discount)
• Quicken Home and Inventory Manager ($29.99 $23.99 – 20% discount)
• Quicken Mac ($49.99 $33.99 – 23% discount)
• Quicken Medical Expense Manager ($69.99 $44.79 – 36% discount)
• Quicken Rental Property Manager ($149.99 $119.99 – 20% discount)

Seeing as how today is Labor Day, the fine folks who bring you Daily Money Hack (just me) will be taking a break. If you are hankering for a deal, you can scour through our category archives for some hacks:

• Credit Hacks
• Banking Hacks
• Frugality Hacks

There are plenty more but those should keep you occupied until you decide to go outside.

The Freelancer’s Union is a non profit organization that represents freelancers, which make up 30% of America’s workforce. Anyone can join, you don’t have to “prove” that you’ve collected a paycheck (that’s just not feasible) but you can still sign up and take advantage of a group promotional rate for T-Mobile of 10% off.

Just go to theri website, click on Discounts and look for the T-Mobile link. Click on More information, create an account and you’ll have access to the 10% off discount. The discount applies to all “reoccurring monthly charges” so it’ll include your base subscription plus any add-ons you may have like data or text messaging.

Airborne makes this powder that you can mix with water to make a concoction that claimed to prevent colds. The FTC claimed false advertising, Airborne couldn’t prove it did, and they reached a $23.5M settlement earlier this year. Just this past week, the FTC increased that settlement figure to $30M, subject to approval by a California federal court.

If you purchased, and can prove you did, any products between May 2001 and November 2007, you can make a claim on your share of the settlement. You can get a refund for the items you bought if you have the receipts plus six unproven purchases. If you have receipts for five, you can claim eleven purchases. If have zero, you can claim six anyway. You have until Sept. 15th, 2008 to file your claim.

For more details, check out the Settlement Website.

Looks like Amazon is trying to get more people on their Amazon Prime Program with a $10 promotion just to try out the service. The offer itself is a one month free trial plus a $10 gift certificate, offer expires July 28th.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s really simple. It lets you subscribe to everything that gets posted without actually having to visit. If you are familiar with feeds, the links are below. If you’re not, may I recommend getting a feed reader like Bloglines and getting your content that way. It’s a great way to get your daily fix.

If RSS isn’t your think and you’d prefer email, there’s a subscription form below. I won’t send you anything and Feedburner will send you one email a day with daily money hack that day. I will never send you anything else – the only exception is if we do a giveaway and I select an email subscriber, then I’ll email you to tell you that you won! That’s a good email right?

To subscribe to the RSS feed, simply click on the RSS icon below and Feedburner will walk you through it.

Blog Feed By Email

If you want to get the feed sent directly to your email, Feedburner also offers an email digest service as well. Simply enter your email in the box below and click submit.

Yahoo has a Yahoo User Research program where participants can earn up to $100 or more depending on the research.

Our goal is to make Yahoo! the best and the easiest-to-use place on the Web. We understand that talking to our users helps us better understand your needs, issues and concerns. And when we understand your needs better, we can continually make Yahoo! the best it can be.

We are looking for all types of people: Web novices and experts, Yahoo! users and non-users, people who use Yahoo! at home or at work, adults and teenagers … everyone! Feel free to ask others to sign up too, especially those who are not yet on the Web!

We conduct research in many ways, such as:

* Visiting you at your location in a field study
* Inviting you to come into a Yahoo! office to participate in a usability study
* Speaking with you in a telephone interview
* Participating in an online focus group study
* Connecting with you with an online survey

You may choose which of these you prefer when you sign up.

Please provide as much information as possible (name and telephone number are required), since it helps us ask you better questions. We will contact you by email or phone with more information about our next study. (Yahoo! User Research will not use the e-mail address you provide for any other purpose.) You may not hear from us right away, but don’t worry — you’ll be on our list!

Please note: Entry into the Participant Database does not guarantee participation in our research studies. When we plan for upcoming studies, we will query our database for potential participants. If you fit our criteria, we will give you a call or send an e-mail to schedule a time for you to come in to meet with us (or, for field studies, a time to come visit you).