Have you ever seen Catch Me If You Can? Remember the scene where Frank Abagnale Jr. washes the ink off the check? He makes it looks so easy, but when I watched it I assumed it was much more complicated than that. Well, it's not. Scary, right?

Check washing is the process of erasing details from checks to allow them to be rewritten, usually for criminal purposes such as fraudulent withdrawal from the victim's bank account. The total amount of attempted check fraud against banks' deposit accounts reached an estimated $12.2 billion in 2006. Most of the attempts (92 percent) were caught by banks' prevention systems or measures before incurring any financial loss to the bank.

In this video,  Dr. Uni-Ball shows how and why it is so easy to wash the ink off of checks, IF you aren't using the correct pens. 

But have no fear, BuyOnlineNow features a wide variety of Check Safe Pens from Uni-Ball, Pilot and Pentel.

Thanks to the Shoplet Blog for this post idea!  

I’ve never really been a huge fan of extra fine point pens. I have typically liked using more of a bold point pen for taking notes, writing letters or even making random doodles. However, I recently was asked to score some speeches for a high school contest, and I brought them to work one day to edit during my lunch break. I grabbed a red pen that was sitting at my desk, and had gone through a few speeches before I realized that it was an extra fine point pen. As I had been editing, I was realizing how smoothly the pen glided along the paper as I wrote and how it didn’t leak through to the next page.

I continued on to edit a total of 18 speeches and never got sick of the pen. Sometimes, when I find a good pen, it is as if my handwriting actually improves over the time I use the pen. I know it sounds crazy, but that’s just me!

Anyway – this “magical” pen is the Pilot VBall Grip Rollerball Pen, and I might just have to go out and purchase the blue and black ones to use along with the red one!

Forgive the sloppy writing, but here is an example of the pen's work.

Finally, an easy to use labeler has come to the market.  The Dymo Plug N Play LabelManager is the exciting new product from the company that is becoming the world wide leader in providing innovative labeling solutions.  Trust me, this is the labeler you have been looking for; it’s perfect for the office, home, classroom and more. 

This simple Plug and Play labeler is PC and MAC compatible, no software installation is required.  Simply plug the USB cable into your computer and the software pops up, just type and print – it’s that easy.  There are no disposable batteries required and no AC adapter to lose; it powers itself from the attached USB cable.  Plus you can customize your labels using the fonts and graphics on your computer.

Available from BuyOnlineNow.com, this package includes the DYMO LabelManager PnP label maker, 1/2” starter D1 label cassette, USB cord, li-ion battery pack, and quick start guide.  It also includes a free download of the Dymo Label Software v8 - print logos, batch labels from database files, and much more.

Take a moment to think back to the last time your computer crashed and you lost your important documents, files, photos, and music.  Did you have a backup available?  Were you scrambling to salvage any data you could?  This all came to mind last night when my enthusiastic one year old crawled over to my laptop and proceeded to pull on the cord to bring it down to his level.  Thank goodness I caught him in time, otherwise, who knows what kind of damage would have been caused. 

A spilled cup of coffee, tripping on a power cord, a power surge, theft, and more can cause you to lose hours and years worth of work.  It’s these moments in life that you’ll be happy you invested in the line of Maxell Data Storage products.  After watching my son nearly destroying my laptop, I’ve invested in the Maxell GENpro External Hard drive.  With 1 TB of storage space and 2 GB of Cloud Storage; it’s the perfect model for me.  It recovers individual files and folders, entire PO from PC disk crashes to point-in-time, and recovers data to another PC (in case of PC loss). The cloud storage feature lets me access my important data from any internet connected device.

Be safe, back up your data, and take a look at all of our Maxell Data Storage products, including flash drives, cassettes, portable hard drives, and more at BuyOnlineNow.com.

All-in-all, I can’t go wrong with the company that once blew me away with their amazing cassette commercial.  I’d also like to say sorry to my dad for wrecking his speaker system after I saw the commercial.