Birchbox.com is a new cosmetics delivery service, based on the idea that women love free samples. For $10 a month, you get a box full of cosmetics. If anything appeals to you, you can get the full-size version at the online Birchbox store, which also has beauty articles and video tutorials.

BccPlease.com reminds you to use the “BCC” field when you’re forwarding an item to a list of friends. This protects their email address from being seen by everyone else on the list. BccPlease also has tips on best email practices.

We do online banking at two different sites, we log-on to AT&T to look at our TV bill, and then check on free Airline miles, Netflix and other sites for account info. Now we’re doing all that from Manilla.com.

Manilla is a free service from the Hearst Corporation. It puts the latest info from your credit card bills, utility payments, finances, travel-rewards programs, Netflix account, Groupon and other daily deal coupons and magazine subscriptions on to one personal encrypted page.

At a glance, we saw how many miles we had accumulated in both our American Airlines accounts, that our next Netflix movie is “Green Lantern” and that we’re a day late on our electric bill.

Bob’s doesn’t like this sort of thing because he worries about security, but Joy likes the convenience. We remember when Mint.com pitched us on this kind of wrap-up years ago and our reaction was, “Can we really trust them to store our passwords safely?” But the service took off, becoming hugely popular. Manilla may do the same. It’s gotten great reviews so far.

ExRated.co is a new site billing itself as “The TripAdvisor of Dating.” If you’ve had a bad experience with a date, talk about it here and let the world know. (Law suits to follow.)

We didn’t sign up, but we used their search box to find out what had been said about failed dates so far. Not much, as it turns out. Searching on common names like “Smith” or “Jones” revealed mostly poor ratings. The site makes you rate someone before you sign up. Perhaps one day the site will offer ads. Then, like Yelp.com, you could pay to have a bad rating removed.

This is a British site, so if your ex dumps all over you, you may have to sue in a British court. Of course British courts protect the identities of plaintiffs in blackmail cases.