Duelin’ Deals Blog by Marlaine

The plea still is, Where can I find merchant account software that is free and secure. (Or can someone tell us how to code it into the site?) Ok, from some comments I’ve gotten, it isn’t that easy to find a good program for selling things on the internet. We can use PayPal and download manually – which is fine for somethings but not all. If you want to sell things via the mail, remember to get a PO Box at the Post Office in the US – you sure don’t want some of those people (the least of which are the ones who load up your comments with lists 80 items long about porno sites or viagra!) knowing exactly where you live. A Post Office Box does cost money though. Just a sec and I will get a quote…..

$20 for 6 months and those hold about 100 letters. The biggest is $52 for 6 months that could hold magazines and things. Depends on availability as well and our Post Office have none available at this time.

Open Source software is the way to go today! Someday we will be able to walk into a room and say something like – News – and our internet will open up the wall screen or desk monitor but not unless it all goes open source for the basics. With Microsoft trying another grab at exclusivity, Google is reacting with setting things up so we can’t use Google if we are running Internet Explorer as our browser! Personally I have never liked Internet Explorer anyway – we use the open source Firefox and love it! Oh a new update from Mysql… the Swedish Police are switching over to all open source computer technology – which probably means their left hand WILL know what their right hand is doing (maybe before even the right hand knows) at all times!

The best part about Open Source software if that it’s free! Yes – entirely! And…. There are millions of people who love php, xhtml, and whatever other computer languages they can learn – and those people love working on software. They review the codes and fix it whenever they see mistakes. If one guy wants to do harm, another guy will see it immediately and eradicate it! Like the Wikipedia, mistakes do not exist for long! There is almost no chance of picking up a virus when you download open source software – unlike many of the download sources on the net that are considered safe.

I don’t know how to set up a way to sell my ebooks and artwork as digital downloads in a secure way. Can someone send me some info or direct me to some good software? We don’t want to pay a monthly fee in order to sell something here! We will give whoever helps us out full credit and a link to a site if they would like one. I don’t even know what to call the software so I have no idea what to search for. Thanks in advance for any help you are willing to share. Smiling!