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“Manage your personal and favorite Internet media”

“Access it from your TV, STB, game consoles and mobile devices”

“Watch premium Internet content on your TV (including full episodes), from sites like Hulu (US only), BBC iPlayer (UK only), Joost, Sling, and many more.”

No activation required.

Amazon is offering free MP3 downloads.

Click here to go to the special offer page, which includes the Top Free Songs as well as the Free Song of the Day.

To see a listing of all free MP3 downloads, click here.

The National Park Service is offering free admission to 391 national parks on Saturday, September 26, 2009.

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Click here to find a national park near you.

Why Should I Be Part of a TV Audience?

Being part of a TV audience can be a lot of fun. You get to be up close to your favorite stars. In addition, most studios provide free entertainment, refreshments and souvenirs to audience members. Oh, and of course, it’s completely free. You don’t have to pay a single dime to be an audience member.

How Do I Get In?

It’s easy to get free tickets online. The major studios use a number of outlets to distribute their tickets to the public. The two biggest players are tvtickets.com and tvtix.com.

These two distributors allow you to reserve and print your tickets online. If tickets aren’t available immediately, they may call you once they are available. Note that tickets to popular shows can sell out as early as a month in advance. You will need to plan your visit early.

If they don’t have tickets for the show you want, try visiting the show’s website. Some shows issue tickets themselves or have made arrangements with other distributors.

What Can I Expect on the Day of the Taping?

You should arrive at least an hour before the taping starts. Expect to wait in a long line. Many shows deliberately accept more reservations that they can possibly accommodate. They want to make sure they will still have a full audience even if some people don’t show up. If you want to get in, you should get there early. Everything is first come, first served. If you can’t get in the show you came for, they will offer to seat you for another show or they will give you VIP reservations for another time.

Once you get to the front of the line, you will be escorted along with other audience members to the studio where the taping takes place. The audience members are separated into several groups. Some shows single out well-dressed or attractive people and assign them to the front rows. If you want to have a front-row seat, dress up and look sharp.

Once you’re in the studio, there will usually be someone to entertain you during breaks and to make sure you applaud like you’re really enjoying the show. The kind of entertainment that you will experience depends on the show. Everyone hires their own entertainers.

I remember I was once at a taping of Two and Half Men. The guy who was there to entertain us was actually a professional clown. He wasn’t dressed as one, but the stuff he pulled was just amazing. At one point, he actually balanced a bicycle on his chin. It was hilarious.

Of course, not all TV tapings are that much fun. One time my girlfriend made me take her to a taping of the Tyra Banks Show. The topic of the day was The Real Brokeback Mountain. The movie Brokeback Mountain was making headlines at the time, so the show found a couple of real gay cowboys who had fallen in love with each other. Now all of this wouldn’t have been so bad if it wasn’t for one thing. Everything seemed incredibly staged. There were frequent breaks and whenever the tape stopped rolling, the people on stage suddenly became a lot less emotional and more detached.

Photo Credit: Mike Babcock

Did you know that Walmart offers free samples? You can sign up to get them delivered straight to your home.

I usually don’t like free samples advertised online. Don’t get me wrong. I love the free samples but in my experience, many of those sites advertising free samples can’t really be trusted. In most cases, they just take your personal information and you never receive your free samples. So next time you see a pop-up window advertising a free Gilette Mach 3 Turbo Razor, don’t even bother clicking on it.

On the other hand, when the free samples are advertised on the website of a major company, then I am certainly willing to take a closer look. In this case, the major company is Walmart.

Walmart has been offering free samples on their website for many years now. The program is completely legit. You will receive the free samples, though as it says on their site, they may take several weeks to arrive. I have kept a close eye on the free samples offered by Walmart and it seems they’re updating the selection every few weeks. In other words, you can do this many times over and receive free samples for all kinds of products.

To view the free samples, just go to Walmart.com and enter “free samples” in the search box. Then press ENTER. The top search result should take you to the right place.

Update: I noticed that the free trials section is actually hosted on a third-party site (triaddigital.com), but I am assuming it’s just a Walmart partner and completely legit since there is a link to it from the Walmart website.

Getting free admission to tourist attractions in places like Las Vegas, Hawaii, or Orlando seems to be remarkably easy. All it takes is for you to join a timeshare tour.

The Offer

If you have ever been on vacation to Las Vegas, Hawaii or Orlando, there’s a good chance you might have been approached by somebody offering you deep discounts or even free admission to local attractions or shows. In exchange, all you have to do is attend a tour of a resort for a couple of hours. The savings can amount to hundreds of dollars. It almost sounds too good to be true, especially when the resorts sound fancy and are owned by high-class hotel chains like Hilton or Sheraton.

In fact, the offers are usually legitimate. Not surprisingly, though, the people organizing these giveaways are also hoping to make money off of you. The “tour”, sometimes also called a “presentation”, is all about pitching a timeshare to you. Of course, they will rarely state this in such blunt terms. The profit from selling a single timeshare is usually thousands of dollars. Even if nine out of ten people walk out of the presentation not buying anything, the profit from the one person who does buy a timeshare more than justifies the “marketing expenses” of the tour. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t be doing it.

The Restrictions

The person on the street who is signing you up for the timeshare tour is getting a commission just for referring you. Of course, they can’t just sign up anybody. The timeshare sales agents that they work for don’t want to waste their marketing dollars on people who are not likely to buy anything. In many cases, they require that you be married. This way you’re more likely to have the income to support a timeshare purchase, even if you’re not entirely truthful about your income. The minimum annual household income to qualify is usually a figure between $60,000 and $70,000. Of course, there’s really no way for them to check independently that you meet these qualifications but that is not to say they won’t try. To check you really are married, you look for wedding rings and IDs that show you living at the same residence. Income is harder to check. They might ask you what you do for a living. Students and the unemployed are automatically disqualified. On the other hand, in an apparent concession to stay-at-home moms and dads, it’s usually okay for one of you to be unemployed. However, they are much less likely to give you a break if one of you is a student of any sort. Oddly enough, the sales rep on the street is usually your best friend. It’s not because they like you so much but because they want their commission badly. In some cases, they will even try to coach you to give the right answers to sales agents during the timeshare tour.

The Sign-Up

Once you have decided that you are qualified - the decision is really up to you - you will have to sign up for the tour a day or two in advance. Since the resorts are often away from the major tourist centers, a bus will pick you up and drop you off near your hotel. You will share the ride with other tourists of course. By the way, you need not worry about missing out on the nightlife. Conveniently, many of these tours are scheduled to take place in the morning or around noon because the people organizing timeshare tours have come to realize that a more convenient schedule motivates more people to sign up.

The Presentation

At the timeshare presentation, more than one agent will meet with you and make their pitch. They made an investment in you and they want it to be worthwhile. If you don’t want the timeshare, be sure to tell them you are not interested and that they are wasting their time. There’s no obligation for you to buy anything in order to receive the gift you have been promised. While they cannot force you to buy a timeshare, their tactics can get extremely annoying very fast, especially when they try to play your spouse against you. Rather than becoming angry, simply tell them they are being rude. If you’re feeling playful, you can try turning the tables. Start asking them about their own lives. What do they do for a living? Where do they live? Where did they go to college? Etc. Besides taking the attention off of you, this strategy also kills time. After all, the presentation can only last a couple of hours.

Mark your calendars. Home Depot is giving away free CFL bulbs on April 19th in celebration of Earth Day. To get your free CFL bulb, visit your local Home Depot store.

“April 19 Only - Earth Day 1 Million CFL Light Bulb Giveaway
The Home Depot will be giving away 1 million CFL bulbs in support of our environment on Earth Day 2009. Receive a free EcoSmart 14w CFL bulb from participating The Home Depot stores on April 19, 2009. Quantities may vary by store. Limit one per customer while quantities last. No purchase necessary. Offer cannot be combined with any other promotional offer or discount. No credit if offer refused.”

Link to Offer

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Download a free copy of Corel Paint Shop Pro. The download is available from the Corel website, so it’s completely legal. (The software sells for around $60 on Amazon.)

Link to Download

“Here’s where you can download your FREE copy of Corel® Paint Shop Pro® X. We know you will enjoy using Corel® Paint Shop Pro® X - it’s the easiest way to turn your pictures into professional-looking photos - fast!”

Get a free Roast Burger from Arby’s when you purchase a soft drink.

Use this printable coupon.

Link to Offer

Arby’s Restaurant Locator

Offer valid through 03/24/09.
Limit one coupon per person, per order. Drink must be purchased at regular price.

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RedBox is offering free movie rentals every Monday. They will send a promo code to your cellphone every Monday. When you check out your DVD or Blu-Ray, just enter the promo code and the rental will be free.

“Sign up for Free Movie Mondays! Join the redbox Free Movie Monday SMS program and get a promo code sent to your phone every Monday!”

Link to RedBox SMS Program - Free Movie Mondays

Plus, this month, they also have Free Movie Wednesdays. The promo code will be posted on the RedBox Blog every Wednesday.

Link to RedBox Blog - Free Movie Wednesdays

Note: Redbox machines can be found at many grocery stores, McDonald’s restaurants and at Walmart. Click here to find a Redbox location near you.

Bank of America customers get free general admission to museums nationwide.

“Take advantage of museums on the first weekend of every month. Any card from Bank of America gives you free general admission to over 70 museums nationwide. Art, science, history or nature - your card gets you into whatever you’re into.”

Link to Offer

Free weekends:
Aug 2&3
Sept 6&7
Oct 4&5
Jan 3&4
Feb 7&8
Mar 7&8
Apr 4&5

Here are just some of the museums that are participating in this promotion:
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bronx Zoo
New York Acquarium
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
San Diego - La Jolla Birch Acquarium at Scripps
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Chicago History Museum
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Dallas Museum of Art
Miami Art Museum
& many more

Amazing deal. You can get the LG Vu touchscreen cellphone for free through Wirefly.

The only catch is you have to sign up for a 2-year contract. If you’re an existing AT&T customer, you have to extend your current contract for 2 years. If you’re signing up as a new AT&T customer, you have to sign a new contract for 2 years.

Link to Offer

Let’s get back to this phone though. Quite simply, it’s an amazing deal. Not only are you getting this $450 phone for free, but check out some of the features that this phone comes with:

* View Beautiful Multimedia From Your Own Collection, or Via AT&T’s MediaFLO Service
* Gorgeous Touch-Screen Is Huge And Easy To Navigate
* Be One Of The First To Experience AT&T’s Mobile TV Service - Watch Live TV Wherever You Go!
* Full HTML Web Experience
* 2.0 Megapixel Camera/Camcorder Leads To Dazzling Photos and Videos
* Full Email and Messaging Experience With Virtual QWERTY Keyboard
* Bluetooth 2.0 Wireless Technology Supports Great Connectivity
* Incredibly Thin Form Factor - Slimmer Than The Competitors

Get Diet Dr Pepper for free.

Choose a 20 ounce bottle coupon or a 2 liter bottle coupon.

Coupon will be sent by mail.

Link to Offer

Restrictions: OPEN TO FIRST 2,000,000 TO REGISTER 1/26/09-3/31/09. MUST BE 13 OR OLDER. LIMIT ONE PER PERSON. COUPON GOOD FOR ONE 2 LITER OR 20 OZ. DIET DR PEPPER (UP TO $1.59) AND EXPIRES 6/30/09. ALLOW 4-6 WEEKS TO ARRIVE.

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Audible.com is offering a free download of Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Effective People”.

That’s right. Download this New York Times bestseller to your computer for free.

Hurry! Offer won’t last long.

Link to Offer

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Get McAfee VirusScan Pro for free with promo code VSPPROMOCF.

The software is available for download on the McAfee website.

Link to Offer

Offer is valid through December 31st, 2008.

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