PayPal

They offer a downloadable software utility that is called PayPal Secure Card. The utility automatically detects when a customer visits an e-commerce checkout page, generates a unique MasterCard number, and then helps fill out the payment form. This is done through a partnership with credit card issuer MasterCard Inc.

“From a merchant’s perspective this looks like any other MasterCard transaction,” said Chris George, director of financial products for PayPal. “And it’s just another PayPal purchase to the customer.”

Secure Cards work on Windows computers running either Internet Explorer or Firefox. Users of Apple’s Safari browser have only partial access to the service for now, George said.

Secure Card has been tested by 3 million PayPal customers in the past year. Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, one of them, tells about his experience:

You install and set up the software, and on your taskbar, you have a little PayPal icon. When you want to generate a random credit card number, you double click on it. A little “virtual credit card” pops up on your screen, complete with randomly generated MasterCard numbers, expiration date, and CVV. All payments made with the information are directly and immediately made from your existing PayPal account

The form fill seems to work decently in Internet Explorer, but if you’re a Firefox user, don’t expect it to fill out any forms. It has a Firefox plug-in that seems to do little more than really slow down the browsing experience (and I recommend removing the plug-in as soon as you install the application). It is, however, handy to have, especially for folks like me with a debit card so well worn that the CVV numbers are no longer visible.

The plug-in will be available to U.S. customers on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, with international customers to follow.

The toolbar was started as a convenient way to organize my efforts of building and promoting my VRE websites. I wanted a tool that would be able to guide me through the entire process:

• from picking the idea for the new website >>
• to creating a list of related keywords, >>
• to choosing a domain name and hosting, >>
• to designing the website and filling it with related content, >>
• …and finally, to driving traffic, over and over, and over again.

Many people liked the tool, and I made it semi-public, for The Reese Report subscribers only. That version was for Internet Explorer only, and I started getting requests to create a Firefox version.

After a short period of time, the FF version has been launched, and both versions became public.

Over 20,000 webmasters and online entrepreneurs have downloaded the VRE Toolbar since July 2006. Thousands of them are using it daily.

I would like to thank all contributors and users of Virtual Real Estate Toolbar for your help and suggestions to make it even better.

Andrei Mikrukov

How to delete, uninstall or remove VRE Toolbar

This one is the easiest to remove, because both IE and Firefox versions have the Uninstall menu item. This is why we never receive “how to delete VRE toolbar” questions.

But if you simply need some browser space, use the Hide option, so that you don’t have to re-install the toolbar when you need it again.

How to remove, delete or uninstall just about any IE toolbar, including Yahoo, Google or MSN

You can uninstall Internet Explorer toolbars through your Add/Remove Programs window:

1. Click the Windows “Start” button in the lower left-hand corner of your screen.
2. Select “Control Panel” from the “Settings” menu.
3. Double-click on “Add/Remove Programs”.
4. Scroll down and click on the unwanted toolbar entry. For example, “Google Toolbar for IE” or “Yahoo! Toolbar”.
5. Click on “Change/Remove.”
6. Close any open IE windows.

How to uninstall, delete or remove just about any Firefox toolbar, including Google, Yahoo, or AOL

You can use the Extension Manager in Firefox to remove a Firefox toolbar:

1. Click the “Tools” menu in the Firefox browser.
2. Click the “Extensions” menu item (“Add-ons” in Firefox 2).
3. In the Firefox Extensions Manager window, scroll down and click on the unwanted toolbar entry. For example, “Yahoo! Toolbar” or “Google Toolbar for Firefox”.
4. Click “Uninstall”.
5. Click “OK” or “Uninstall” in the confirmation window.
6. Exit Extension Manager. Restart your browser.

If this uninstall method doesn’t work for you, your Firefox user profile may be corrupt. You might need to create a new user profile for your browser.

That’s it. If you have a question about removing a toolbar from your browser, please, post a comment.

This new feature allowed us to offer our most popular service, Yahoo! (Overture) Keyword Suggestion Tool, as a search service that you can add to your search bar.

How to Add Keyword Research To Your Search Bar

Click on the link above to open the keyword suggestion tool in a new window.

In Firefox 2, look at the search icon. You should see the icon glowing slightly.

Click the icon, and you should see the “Add Keyword Research” menu item in the dropdown menu. Select that item and that’s it.

In Internet Explorer 7, you should see the little arrow next to the search icon highlighted in orange.

Click it, and navigate to the “Add Search Providers” submenu, then select “Keyword Research”, and that’s all you have to do.

Now you can easily access the Yahoo! Keyword Research tool even if you don’t have the VRE Toolbar installed.

Another change — �the toolbar �doesn’t ask for upgrade anymore if a newer version is available on the server. Several users complain, that this is annoying. �Starting from this version, you have to check for update manually or watch this blog. �

How To Update

If you installed your VRE Toolbar from our website, you can choose “Check For Update” menu item as shown �on the �right.

Otherwise (if you downloaded from �download.com, ieaddons.com �or any other site), please, uninstall the toolbar and then install the latest version from our website:

The latest version of VRE Toolbar for IE

Attention IE7 users!

We’ve just issued the VRE Toolbar for IE version 1.4. This version is fully compatible with Internet Explorer 7.

It is available for download from our homepage. Enjoy!

New features:

• Refresh ToolbarReloads the toolbar’s content. Useful when you started the browser in off-line mode, and the toolbar was unable to load its content from the server.
• Check For UpdateThis menu option will check to see if you’re using the newest version of the VRE Toolbar, and provides an easy way to download an update if you’re not. You must have an active Internet connection to use the Check For Update command.This is what you have to do now — download the latest version.

Firefox users: If you downloaded the toolbar from Firefox Add-ons website, than you have to wait until the newer version is approved by a Mozilla Update editor. This may take up to seven days or more. Want the latest version right now? Uninstall your toolbar, then download and install the latest version from this page:

Download VRE Toolbar for Firefox

Internet Explorer users: We decided to drop the built-in RSS reader in order to improve between-browser compatibility and performance. Also, while nice, it caused IE failure on some systems. Sorry, if you it was your main RSS reader. Please, save your feeds in another one.

New tools recently added per your request:

• Nameboy domain name suggestions (use the toolbar’s search box to search for keyword related domain names)
• HostMonster webhosting ($4.95/mo.)
• Install For Me free script installation service (WordPress, phpBB, Article Dashboard or any other PHP, MySQL, CGI or Perl script)
• Template Monster web templates (now they have WordPress templates too)

Know of another great tool useful for niche empire research and development? Share it! Use the Suggest a resource menu option.

Access to the coupon code is available from the toolbar only. Select Hosting > Globat to navigate to the secret page.

If you don’t have the toolbar yet, it is available for free download for Internet Explorer or for Firefox.

Hurry, this coupon is only valid through Monday, July 17th.

– Andrei

We had received a large number of requests from niche website builders looking for a version of the toolbar to run with Firefox.

The Firefox version of the Virtual Real Estate Toolbar, which is available for free download, offers the same benefits to users of the Mozilla open-source software as it does for the Internet Explorer. Those benefits include one or two-click access to the following services:

• Research ideas for new niche empires
• Get keyword suggestions and related phrases
• Search for domain name suggestions and register your new domain name
• Choose a reliable and inexpensive hosting provider
• Get content for your niche website: articles, images, affiliate products and more
• Promote your website by submitting articles to article directories, posting comments in related blogs and forums, and more

The toolbar can be used with Microsoft’s Windows, Apple Computer’s Mac OS and the Linux operating system.

Download the Firefox version and give us your feedback!

This Free Internet Explorer Toolbar includes over 100 tools to build and promote niche content websites at your fingertips!

VRE Toolbar simplifies everyday tasks of finding a profitable topic, researching keywords, setting up your website (domain name, hosting, design), finding content, driving traffic to your website and more…

Go to VRE Toolbar homepage to read more.