Have you heard about Nielsen HomeScan? As a member of the Homescan Panel, you get a cool nifty little hand-held scanner that allows you to scan the barcode on your purchases. In exchange, you earn points that are redeemable for cool prizes, and entries into their sweepstakes!

Nielsen HomeScan only opens the doors for a limited time – so take advantage of the opportunity and sign up today!

The best deal with Restaurant.com is back! The current coupon code will allow you to save 80% off!

Use the coupon code: MEAL to get a $25 gift certificate at Restaurant.com for only $2! You will see when you add a $25 gift certificate to your cart it will default to their normal price of $10. Once you add the coupon code, the price will immediately drop to $2!

You may also purchase Restaurant.com gift certificates up to $100 – at the rate of $8, or, use it to save on their Dinner of the Month Club.

Fast Facts about Restaurant.com

• Restaurant.com Gift Certificates never expire
• Great last minute gift – print or email instantly
• Recipient redeems online and chooses from over 13,000 restaurants nationwide
• Serving up great savings, meals & memories since 1999 

You really can’t beat this deal. Hurry and grab it while it lasts! This offer expires April 26, 2010.

If you are looking for a catch-all Productivity application, you now have another choice.

Springpad is a free web application that allows you to easily save and find notes, reminders, recipes, tasks, event details, and more – the list is endless. Evernote has been my long standing favorite application for this purpose for years, but it has not really had any competition.  As a new Springpad user, I’m pretty impressed with the functionality it provides.

Springpad Features:

• Save information on the web, your phone (mobile site or iPhone), or by email
• Easily organize your notes
• Keep your data private, or allow it to be public
• View public information by other Springpad members
• Invite or Follow friends and family
• Ability to access your account while mobile

Here is a quick two minute screencast that will show you the benefits of Springpad.

If you are reading this post in email or an RSS reader, you will need to visit Free Alternative to Evernote: Springpad! to see the screencast.

Springpad is completely free, and provides a  free iPhone application to allow you to access your account on the go. Give it a try today and let me know what you think!

If you ever complete any paid surveys, you know Pinecone Research is the gold at the end of the rainbow in the land of paid survey opportunities. They have the best reputation, pay the highest amount ($3 per survey), and are not always accepting new applicants!

I found a working link! I almost got up and danced, but then I decided to apply before the link decided to vanish before my eyes. I’ve been trying to find an “in” with Pinecone for over a month. So as soon as I hit that “submit” button I began this post so hopefully you can get in with Pinecone too!

Here are some links that work as of today:

Pinecone Research – USA
Open, as of 3/4/10

Pinecone Research – UK
Open, as of 3/4/10

If you are interested in signing up with Pinecone, do so NOW. These links vanish like nothing I’ve ever seen. Good luck!

As time goes on and I find that these links no longer work, I will do my best to update this post if I can find the magical working links.

UPDATE (3/5/10): The direct links I originally posted last night no longer go to the application, instead they just redirect to the main site. It appears as though now only referral links from other people will work, as I think people get a certain number of invitations to provide.

The above links are currently from MySurvey123.com, and they do appear to work. If you sign up from these links you will be signing up as their referral.

SeoFlexMedia has published a coupon code for £50 in Free Facebook Advertising. I’ve tried many codes over the last few weeks and nothing has worked – this one did! It automatically converted to US Dollars, adding $78.72 in advertising funds to my account!

If you have never used Facebook for advertising, you will need to create an ad before you can enter this coupon. Simply go to www.facebook.com/ads, create an ad, then you will be able to add funds and enter this coupon code: 8HPY-3RYX-1T70-80YW. If you have already been using Facebook ads, you will be able to credit your account by adding the coupon in the billing section.

It is amazingly easy to use Facebook advertising and I highly recommend it if you are a small business owner, freelancer, blogger, author, or really anyone trying to get traffic to your site. You can direct traffic to a website, Facebook fan page, or Facebook group. It takes about 5-10 minutes to create an ad, during which you will select the destination landing page, title, body text, and demographics for your targeted ad. Once you create the ad it will need to be approved by Facebook, but this process can occur very quickly and your ad may be up and running by the next day (depending on what you selected).

This coupon is good until 6/1/2010. Thank you SeoFlexMedia for sharing this coupon code!

Now through the end of February you can score a free Mocha at McDonald’s! No coupon required, and no other purchase necessary. Just be sure to check the calendar and make sure it really is Wednesday so you can nab your free mocha!

* Offer valid at participating locations

Enjoy!

I think there is a free pen up for grabs from uni-ball. They are only giving away 10,000 pens each day – beginning at Noon CST. This means that I have not yet actually been able to sign up for one, because every time I think about it, I go to the site to find out I’m too late for the day and they’ve given away their supply. The offer page does not mention the 10,000 limit, but that number is quoted on several blogs when I researched the offer so I’ll go with it.

I wish you luck grabbing your free pen, they sound kinda cool (“super ink technology” that helps “prevent check fraud”). And, if you’re interested in following a PEN on Twitter, you can do that… but… do you really want to follow a pen?

UPDATE (1-19-10): I WAS able to submit  a request for a free pen today! Don’t forget to apply for yours before the offer expires!