Just enter an amount into the field and compare how the worth of this amount changed between two year dates, from the year 1800 till 2008.

Features:

• Calculate the inflation of a dollar from 1800 up to 2008.
• Compare how the worth of a particular amount changed between two year dates.
• Based on Consumer Price Index.

Check out The Inflation Calculator @ www.westegg.com/inflation/

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You can sign up and get access to a comprehensive online dashboard which helps you centralize your finances and manage them at one place. See your budget, cash flow, income and expenses and create personal finance goals accordingly.

It helps you monitor income and expenses using tags and categories. You can create multiple accounts and set savings goals. Add bank accounts, credit cards and other financial data and get a clear view of your assets and liabilities.

A good thing about this tool is that it offers global currency support. So it’s no longer just about the US dollar.

As you can see in the screenshot above, there are various ways to visualize the data using charts, graphs and sliders. There are options like pie-charts, bar graphs etc to see your data.

The service also offers some advanced tools to manage your transactions and figure out where the money is going and where it is coming from. You could split large transactions into categories, track recurring transactions and do much more.

Other nice features offered by this service include easy import and export of your financial data, instant net worth calculation, data security, online fundraising and more. Check out the video below to know more about this tool.

Demo video:

Check out BudgetPulse @ www.budgetpulse.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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The map itself is easy to grasp and visually appealing. The larger the rectangle of the stock, the larger the market cap. If the rectangle is green the stock price is up, if it is red it is down and dark represents neutrality.

If you place your cursor over any rectangle a company name and related information will pop up. The ‘N’ next to a company means that there is recent news. To learn more about a specific company click it’s rectangle and a vertical menu will appear. This menu will lead you to further information about the company including news updates, financial data and historical graphs. The map automatically updates every 15 minutes.

Features:

• Get a visual idea of the stock market status.
• Customize map by a time period and include highlights.
• Latest news, financial data and historical graphs for any company can be also viewed.
• Search for a particular stock.
• Hide the control panel if preferred.
• The map automatically updates every 15 minutes.
• Read detailed instructions here.
• Free, and no sign up.
• Similar tools: WeSeed, SaneBull, CakeFinancial, Stocks.us and also see related article “5 Free Website Stock Tickers for Financial Geeks“.

Check out Map-Of-The-Markett @ www.smartmoney.com/map-of-the-market (by Alex Ainsberg)

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It also creates rich graphs and reports for a comprehensive analysis of your books. Other features include integration with the popular invoicing tool FreshBooks, advice on how to save tax, credit card and Paypal data import, and the ability to invite your bookkeeper to use the account.

Watch demo videos below to learn more:

Features:

• Free online bookkeeping for businesses.
• Currently for US customers only.
• Track income, expenses, profits and taxes.
• See reports and analyze performance.
• Import data from your credit card, FreshBooks and Paypal accounts.
• Similar tool: BionicBooks.

Check out Outright @ www.outright.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• BillingBoss: Free Web Based Invoicing Site

The rating takes into account more than 200 factors such as total plan cost, company generosity, investment menu quality… etc. You can also see how plans of other companies in the industry match up, who is managing the plan, the average account balance, service providers and top investment holdings.

All presented data is aggregated from variety of sources such as government agencies, plan prospectuses and donor companies. The site provides a clean interface to view all the data. You can also contribute your own findings and leave comments on any company profile.

Features:

• Understand, compare and evaluate your 401k plan.
• Search for evaluation reports by company name.
• Rating takes into account more than 200 various factors.
• The data is aggregated from reliable sources (government agencies, plan prospectuses and donor companies).
• The report is nicely presented on clean and easy to understand interface.
• Contribute your own findings and leave comments on any company profile.
• Free to use, sign up is needed for some features.

Check out BrightScope @ www.brightscope.com

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Its free to join, no obligations, so anyone can try his luck at investing in the stock market. Currently site has around 375,000 members and growing.

Most successful investors are listed in the “Fund Managers” section, sorted by their portfolio’s 6-month return. Members with the most followers appear on the homepage under “Most Followed Managers”. Managers with consistent high performance can even start making real money by selling investment advice to other members.

Unlike in the real world, everyone’s portfolio on the site is transparent and can be viewed by other members. Successful managers quickly rise to the top of the site’s investing community since everyone can track your stock performance.

kaChing has an investing app on Facebook, which is the most popular in the investing category.

Managers with the highest 6-month return are featured in the Fund Managers section

Features:

• Social investing site where anyone can build a fantasy portfolio, trade stocks and become a star investor
• Everyone’s portfolio is completely transparent to the whole community
• Members can state their own investing styles, write their own company or industry researches
• Managers with consistent high performance can attract followers, appear on the homepage and even start making real money by selling investment advice to other members
• Site is free to use, anyone can join and start trading stocks.

Check out kaChing @ www.kaching.com

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Users may search by bank name or simply select the account type and then refine results by zip-code, rates, distance, balance, health and other features. Clicking on a particular bank listing brings up more detailed info. Users may also add banks to their watch list and get email alerts whenever the bank rates change.

Additionally you can read related articles that provide useful information on finance and banking.

Features:

• Compare banks services and products.
• Search by bank name or browse by account type.
• Refine results by zip-code, rates, distance, balance, health and other features.
• Set and get alerts for rate and balance changes.
• Read related articles on finance and banking.
• Free and simple to use.
• Similar websites: MyBankTracker and Find A Better Bank.

Check out BankFox @ www.bankfox.com

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To make things easier, the stock market is divided into mini-markets like Construction Stock Market, Energy, Entertainment, Food and so on. Click on a mini-market tab to find related companies in that industry. Alternatively, search to find companies based on what you know and like (chocolate, coffee shops, cars etc).

You can also research companies, read market news, view what other members are buying, read investing tips from experts and watch the value of your portfolio.

Watch video intro below:

Features:

• Free virtual investing site to learn trading on the stock market for free.
• Get virtual cash ($10,000), buy company stocks and build portfolio.
• Find companies to invest in, based on what you know and like (chocoloate, coffe shops, cars etc) or browse related companies by industry (e.g. Food, Construction, Energy, Entertainment).
• Research companies, read market news, view what other members are buying and watch the value of your portfolio on the right hand side.
• Sign up to get virtual money and start building your portfolio.

Check out WeSeed @ www.weseed.com

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• CakeFinancial: Social Investing
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• WatchKnow: 1000s of Educational Videos

Features:

• Quickly calculate credit card repayment time.
• Provided by the US Federal Reserve.
• Also tells you the total interest charges you will incur.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Other similar calculators: WhatsTheCost and Loan Repayment Calc.

Check out RepaymentCalculator @ www.federalreserve.gov/creditcardcalculator (via Lifehacker) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Just browse through charts and compare your own financial situation on debt, spending habits  and other metrics against national averages and view other fun facts.

“How the average U.S. consumer spends their paycheck”

Features:

• Interesting and fun economic facts
• View complicated economic stats on easy-to-understand charts and graphs
• Provided by CreditLoan.com

Check out VisualEconomics @ www.visualeconomics.com

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Some of their calculators:

- Snowball calculator:  shows the most efficient order in which to pay down your debts to minimize your overall interest payments.

- “Buy It Or Not” calculator: tell you whether you should buy an item based on how much you need it, its investment worth and your current cash flow.

Features:

• Online financial calculators to better manage your finances.
• Reduce your spendings and get rid of debt faster by calculating the true long term costs of various financial products (mortgages, loans, credit cars) and costly habits (smoking, drinking).
• Similar sites: Loan Repayment Calculator, MaraCal and Mookal.

Check out WhatsTheCost @ www.whatsthecost.com

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CostOfLiving is a useful online cost of living comparison tool provided by the CNNMoney magazine, which lets you compare living costs of your current location with any other city in the US. Simply select your current location (city/state) from the list, enter your current salary and press on “Get Result”.

Living costs include groceries, housing, utilities, transportation and healthcare costs and also lets you see a comparable salary in a different city.

Below is a comparison of living costs between Conway, Arizona and Miami, Florida.

Features:

• Salary and cost of living comparison between cities.
• Living costs include groceries, housing, utilities, transportation and healthcare costs.
• View a comparable salary to your current salary in a different city.
• Data is generated from an average of the past four quarters ending March 2009.
• Free, no registration needed.

Check out Cost Of Living Calculator @ http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.html

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• SalaryScout
• PayScale

Features:

• Lets you offer money to get your job done.
• Make an offer and pay when the job done with paypal.
• Send offer via email or Facebook.
• Free and fun.

Check out DoStuffForMoney @ www.paypal-dostuffformoney.com (via webware)

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To do your calculations simply go to the site, select what you want to calculate (mortgage or refinance), enter all the figures and click on the calculate.

Screenshot of Mortgage calculator

Screenshot of Refinance calculator:

Features:

• Two in one calculator for mortgage and refinance payments.
• Clean design and easy to use interface.
• Results are easy to understand, additional graphs and tables also included.
• No sign up or email needed to use the calculator.
• Similar tool: MaraCal.

Check out MooKal @ www.mookal.com

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All the entered information if fully anonymous. No personal data is stored and is discarded after you exit the program.

It’s a very extensive calculator, so make sure you have your latest tax returns at hand. Proceed by selecting from multiple options and filling out the information according to your personal circumstances.

Once you are done, you will get a page that summarizes your input information and the results, which you can print out for later use

Features:

• Calculate your net pay after income taxes
• Online calculator provided by IRS (Internal Revenue Service). US citizens only
• No registration, all the data is anonymous and is discarded after you exit the application

Check out IRS Withholding Calculator @ www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96196,00.html

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Some spreadsheets also carry a Commercial Use license (paid) for use in business purposes. You can also find a large stock of additional spreadsheet calculators, calenders and templates under the section “What’s New at Vertex42.”

Features:

• Free free spreadsheet templates, calculators and calenders.
• Helpful in better management of time and finances and increase productivity.
• Large variety of such spreadsheets available.
• Commercial Use license(paid) available for business use.
• Similar websites: Check out websites offering free document templates.

Go to Vertex42 @ www.vertex42.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Collection of Free Business Forms and Templates
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Features :

• Simple and easy to use currency converter & calculator.
• No registration required.
• Mid-market rates applicable for more accuracy.
• Premium(paid) service lets you choose any bank (or other financial institution) in the world as the source of rates.
• Use the numeric keyboard to enter the amount.
• Similar sites: Crrncy, ForexFlower, Xurrency and XE.

Check out Curculator @ www.curculator.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Using Zefty kids can adopt smart spending and saving habits. There are also additional features like ZeftyCalc to calculate how much they need to save for a purchase and ZeftyChecks to print, sign, and hand checks to the parents for cash redemption. It even allows automated recurring transfers from parents’ account to kids’ accounts to teach them the concept of direct deposits.

Main Features:

• Online tool to teach money management to your kids.
• Track and manage your kids’ allowances.
• Additional features:
  - ZeftyCalc: Lets children calculate how much they need to save for a purchase.
  - ZeftyChecks:  Lets children  print, sign, and hand checks to the parent for cash redemption.
  - Setting automated recurring transfers and more.
• Free and simple to use.

Check out Zefty @ www.zefty.com

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First you need to sign up and create one or more payment listings, which are accessible from your own webpage at http://username.paystr.com. You then share this URL with people who owe you money in order to collect payments. They can pay for listed items with one click or enter the amount they owe using the “I Owe U Listing” field.

See demo video:

Features:

• Easily collect and pay debts and make due payments online.
• Collect payments from friends, family and clients in advance by sharing your personalized payment URL.
• Accept PayPal and credit card payments.
• Create multiple payment listings.
• Free, sign up to setup your listings.

Check out Paystr @ www.paystr.com

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The interface of the site is really simple, users may add and track as many bills as they like. The existing entries can be easily removed later or rescheduled. The application offers both free and premium account options. Free account is limited to only one email address and does not support SMS alerts.

Features:

• Track bill due dates and get notified via email or Twitter.
• Track as many bills as you like.
• Easily reschedule and remove bill entries from your list.
• Free and easy to use.
• Similar websites: Billeo.

Check out IsDueOn @ www.isdueon.com

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In addition to having a live stock market monitor that provides live quotes, real-time news and investment tools, SaneBull has ready-to-integrate widgets for everything from US market indexes to foreign exchange rates to gold futures. Just copy the html code and paste it into your website or blog. If you think that’s too much work, SaneBull has plugins for iPhone, Facebook, WordPress and Mac.

Main features:

• Provides widgets and plugins for real-time monitoring of financial markets.
• Easy to use interface with latest news and investment tools.
• Integrate widgets into your website with a few steps.
• Widgets for US and international financial markets.
• Plugins for Wordpress, iPhone, Mac OS X, Vista and Facebook.
• Live news updates from all over the world.

Check out SaneBull @ www.sanebull.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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You start by entering your current balance and then updating your future financial events. PocketSmith will put them on your forecast calendar, show you the forecast graphs and even create a simple cash flow statement for you. You can also enter your actual transactions or import them from a CSV file to compare actual vs. forecast transactions. PocketSmith also breaks down your income and expenses for the whole year so you can better analyze your finances.

Main Features:

• Forecast cash flow without dealing with any spreadsheets.
• See how much money you would have any given day.
• Compare your actual vs. budget transactions.
• See graphical comparisons of your income and expenditure.
• Set financial goals and track your progress.
• Produce easy to follow cash-flow statements.
• Integrate your PocketSmith calendar with iCal, Google Calendar or Outlook.

Check out PocketSmith @ www.pocketsmith.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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Site compares different banks and tells you which accounts and credit cars offer a better deal based on their interest rates and whether you should switch.

Your spending is automatically categorized by your spending expenses. You can see how much you spend on each item and how much you could save by cutting down on each item over in the long term.

Based on your current financial health, you are given a score from 0 to 10, which helps you plan your future purchases and set long-term financial goals. You can see where you will be in 6 months or 6 years from now based on choices you make today.

Features:

• Personal budget management and planning.
• Import and organize all your accounts (credit cards, retirement, savings, investment) in one place and get a quick overview of your financial situation at a glance.
• Get personalized advice on how much to save, where to invest and how to reduce your spending.
• Plan your future purchases and set long-term financial goals.
• Site has partnered with over 8000 banks and financial institutions, which lets you instantly import all your accounts along with balances and transaction histories.
• Free, sign up to get started.
• Similar website: BudgetTracker, Rudder, Texthog and several more.

Check out Thrive @ www.justthrive.com

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In addition to bank reviews and ratings the site also offers financial tools like APY calculator and APR loan calculator. You also get to see the top credit card deals, rewards, risk free no penalty CD rates, low interest credit card offers and much more.

As you can see, the site has an excellent design and a clean user interface. I’m no finance wizard but I can definitely say that during this period of financial turmoil, this site could be a great help to many US citizens who would want to find new deals on loans, cards, check out on banks’ performance and consolidate their finance portfolios.

Check out MyBankTracker @www.mybanktracker.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Anyone can search for money saving tips and browse them by category such as finance, eco, heath, tech, shopping, kids & family, car & transit, food, vacation, at home, at work and misk. There is also a popular tips section where top voted tips are listed.

Registering on the site enable users to add their own tips and vote tips submitted by others.

Some important features:

• Collection of user contributed money saving suggestions.
• Tips can be searched or browsed  by categories.
• Voting on tips (registered users only)
• The site keeps track of the number of votes and tips users contribute.
• Free and easy to use.

For more info watch video below:

Check out TipJar @ www.google.com/tipjar (by Ankur Jain from www.LearnQTP.com)

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CurdBee allows you to create professional invoices with your logo and company details on it, send your invoices to clients and collect payments through Google checkout or Paypal. You can maintain detailed information on your clients and store information about all your products/services.

Features:

• Online billing and invoicing tool.
• Create professional looking invoices with your company’s logo.
• See and change status of your invoices.
• Send invoices and collect payments in multiple currencies.
• Maintain list and details of all your clients.
• See all the invoices associated with a particular client.
• Store information about all your products/services as items.
• Insert items directly into your invoice.
• Accept payments using Google checkout or paypal.
• Similar websites: Invoice Journal and InvoicePlace.

Check out CurdBee @ www.curdbee.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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Here is how it works:

Lenders browse through the profiles of borrowers and select a borrower they want to lend to. You don’t have to lend the full amount the borrower is seeking, instead, you can lend just a portion of it. You can decide whom to lend to based on their requirements, their history, their origin e.t.c. Once you have decided how much you want to lend, just pay that money to Kiva through your paypal or credit card and Kiva passes it along to the borrower. The borrower then pay you back over time. Kiva works like any other loan, but it puts the power in your hand to lend to somebody who really need the money and gives you the ability to change some body’s life.

Features:

• Lend money to poor people.
• Lend the full amount or a portion of what they need.
• See complete profile and requirements of the borrower before you lend.
• Help your family & friends change lives too by giving them a Kiva gift certificate.
• Support Kiva by buying their cafepress products like mugs.
• Each borrower is first screened by a field partner of Kiva to make sure they have the ability to pay.

Visit Kiva @ www.kiva.org (Contributed By Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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It is a fairly useful application for people who often pay for each other and then collect later. I know a bunch of students in my college who would love this. It is much better than creating an Excel spreadsheet since you wouldn’t have to do any summarizing and you would be able to share the information with your group members in real-time.

Some of the main features of De-Bee are:

• Keep track of shared expenses between friends.
• See a full history of transactions for any of your groups.
• Create different De-Bee groups for different groups of friends.
• No need to sign-up, just use your gmail login.
• See your balance with a single click at any given time.
• Similar sites: BillMonk, Scred and Billshare.

Visit De-Bee @ De-Bee.com (Contributed by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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SpendingDiary also lets you generate expense reports, which can help identify the total amount spent on various categories. Reports can be generated for a day, week, month or for a custom period of time. Each report will have categorized list of expenses with related graphs and charts.

If you want a local copy of your expense reports, they can be downloaded  in CSV format.

Features:

• Track your spending online.
• Ease of adding your daily expenses.
• Expenses are categorized for better organization.
• Generate summary reports on expenses for different categories and time periods.
• Export your reports in “csv” format.
• Als see, 15 Cool Tools for easy Expense Tracking and Budgeting.

Check out SpendingDiary @ www.spendingdiary.com (Contributed by Venkatesh Varalu)

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BionicBooks also has a user community where they can share tips, ask questions and find people in the same situation.

Features

• Free free online accounting for small businesses and startups.
• Secure and ideal for startups and small businesses.
• Nice user interface with tabs.
• All aspects of online accounting software are explained non-technically.
• Lets you keep track of  VAT and  multilevel sales taxes.
• Allows you to maintain your accounts with an up to date balance sheet and profit and loss statements.

Check out BionicBooks @ www.bionicbooks.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Streetread basically aggregates the latest headlines from over 20 of the leading finance sites on the web and the various stocks based on your preference.

The interface is simple, fast and easy to understand. Registration is not mandatory, however doing that would give you more customization options.

Clicking on a news headline opens the article within its interface and there are no annoying pop ups. Also you could easily get the information about a stock and the latest news related to it doing the rounds.

Check out Streetread @ www.streetread.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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Account Overview

Once you have logged in to your account you will see 5 different sections: My Bank Accounts, My Budget , My Bills, My Calendar and Transaction Registry.

My Bank Accounts: Manage credit cards and bank accounts.

My Budget: Organize all your monthly expenses and keep track of their totals. The page is categorized by categories i.e. Auto and further divided into sub-categories like gasoline, insurance, etc.



My Bills: Manage monthly bills from one place and track which bills have been paid and which are still due. The alerts can be delivered to the email or mobile phone.



My Calendar: Save appointments, track upcoming bills, get reminder alerts before the payment due dates, and more. All recurrent bills will be automatically added to the calendar.

Transaction Registry: Keep track of monthly transactions.

Customize BudgetTracker

BudgetTracker provides plenty of options when it comes to customizing the interface. First of all, it allows you to choose the colors and layout of the site. For instance, some of the options include adding glass effects to menus, rounded corners, different schemes, and text font settings (size and family).

Users also have an option to switch between ‘advanced’ and ’simple’ menus. You can do so with a single click. While the advanced menu has a lot more features, the simple one is less overwhelming and maybe a better choice for simple budgeting.

Simple Menu:

Advanced Menu:

You can also clean-up the stuff you see on the screen. The setting page gives you plenty of choices when it comes to what should stay and what not.

Fees

The site offers both free and paid accounts. The free account has some limitations but still provides enough features for general usage. The current fee on the site is free for basic usage and $2.95/mo or $24.95/year for unlimited usage.

That’s pretty much it, make sure to check BudgetTracker out. If you have any other questions, see their FAQ section.

Go to BudgetTracker @ www.budgettracker.com

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If you feel poor simply because you can’t afford a bigger house or that fancy car you always wanted then give it a try. It’ll make you feel better. If you’re reading this blog there is a good chance you’re a lot better off than you might think. Just enter your annual income into the provided field and hit ’show me the money’ button. See the screenshot below.

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Features:

• Supports about 25 major currency units. If you currency isn’t listed then check Xurrency or XE.
• Exchange rates are updated every weekday.
• Exchange rates are pulled from Federal Reserve Economic Data database.
• Coming soon: Access and convert currency from mobile phone.

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As you can see above, you will be also presented with a pie chart comparing your original loan amount to the accumulated interest amount.

Talking about loans, you might also be interested in Maracal, an online mortgage calculator. It does an excellent job at breaking down the repayment plan for your home mortgage loan.

Check out Loan Repaymnet Calculator @ www.loanexplorer.co.uk/loan-repayment-calculator

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The currencies that you can get the exchange rates from/to are Euro, US Dollars, UK Pound, Argentine Peso, Australian Dollar, Brazillian Real, Bulgarian Lev, Canadian Dollar, Chinese Yuan, Colombian Peso, Croatian Kuna, Czech Koruna, Danish Krone, Estonian Kroon, Hong Kong Dollar, Hungarian Forint, Icelandic Krona, Indian Rupee, Japanese Yen, Korean Won, Latvia Lats, Lithuanian Litas, Malasian Ringgit, Mexican Peso, New Romanian Leu, New Turkish Lira, New Zealand Dollar, Norwegian Krone, Philippine Peso, Polish Zloty, Russian Rouble, Singapore Dollar, Slovak Koruna, South African Rand, Sri Lanka Rupee, Swedish Krona, Swiss Franc, Taiwan Dollar, Thai Baht and Venezuelan Bolivar.

I think thats covers pretty much every popular currency in the world.

Additional Features :

• Exchange rate RSS Feeds: Follow-up on currency exchange rates from within your feedreader.
• Conversion chart : Instantly view current exchange rates for USD, EUR, GBP, JPY and some more.
• API: Access and exchange information with Xurrency from your own website.

Check out Xurrency @ www.xurrency.com

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Features:

• Manage your budget and track spending habits online.
• Set budgets for different areas and find out where your money goes.
• Assign transactions to different categories (Shopping, Going out etc.)
• Get detailed spending reports including all of your monthly transactions.
• Set monthly or yearly reminders for direct debit and bill payments.
• Mobile access: Add transactions and lookup remaining budget from your mobile phone.

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Features:

• Easily track shared expenses and debts between friends.
• Create and manage as many expense pools as you like.
• Mobile client: Instantly store shared transactions on your mobile phone and synchronise them to the server any time later.
• Store transactions in different currencies.
• Integrated currency converter.

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‘Find A Better Bank’ Features

• Compare all banks located within certain distance from your zipcode.
• Option to include / exclude : Branchless/Internet banks, student accounts, accounts for people over 50.
• Compare banks by features: Interest on balances, Overdraft Protection, Online Bill Pay Service, 24-hour telephone banking, etc.
• Compare banks by fees: Monthly Service Fee, Non-Bank ATM Surcharge, Insufficient Funds Fee, Overdraft Protection Transfer Fee, Check processing fee, Foreign ATM Withdrawal Fee, Quicken or MS Money set-up fee etc.
• Estimate yearly bank fees.
• Currently tracks about 50 top US banks and a handful of smaller regional banks. More banks being added every week.
• For additional details about how FBB works see its FAQ section.

Note (from FindABetterBank) : “We make money through advertisements and fees collected from participating banks and credit unions. Our partners have no influence over the content presented about their accounts.”

Check out Find A Better Bank @ www.findabetterbank.com

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Additional Features

• Locate ATM’s in more than 170 contries.
• Mobile: Access ATM Locator from your web-enabled mobile phone.
• Get map view for each located ATM.

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