Three Neat Things

In the past several months I have come across three pretty neat things:

Wells Fargo can accept deposits at its ATMs without a deposit slip.  You can just stuff the checks into the ATM.  It will read the bank coding and scan the checks for the dollar amount. This is great for me because I always delayed depositing checks because of the need to get a deposit slip.

I have been a long time Netflix subscriber.  I recently purchased a ROKU device for $100 that lets me stream movies from Netflix to my television instantly.  You don’t have to wait for the mail, and if you’re already on a 3-DVD plan with Netflix, there is no additional charge.  Not all the movies are available this way, but if you want to watch something, you can check it out on the Netflix site; and if it is available, you can see it immediately.

I switched to Vonage for my phone service about a year ago.  With their “World” plan you can call almost anywhere for $25/month.  But the neat things is that there is a voice mail box that will answer and receive messages for you, and it will transcribe the message and e-mail it to you along with an audio copy of the message.  That’s pretty neat.