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Decide: Decide If It Is The Best Time To Buy Electronis [Web & iOS]

MOin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:01:10 +0000

Have you ever purchased a phone, camera, or other electronic gadget only to find its price has dropped the next week? When that happens, people cannot help but regret their purchase. Here to prevent such a situation from occurring, is an app called Decide which helps you learn whether or not an item’s price will drop in the near future.

Decide is a website for shoppers of electronic gadgets. The site lists electronics and monitors the drops in their prices. It analyzes price drops and even its own analysis to present the most statistically reliable data. For every item it clearly indicates whether or not right now is the best time to buy it.

But when you are on the go and spot some interesting gadget in a store, you cannot always rush to a computer to check out Decide’s website for the item’s price situation. This is why Decide also offers a free iOS application for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS version 4.3 or later. Now users can quickly check if their electronics purchases are good ones.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you check price drops of electronic gadgets.
Provides predictions of best times to buy electronics.
Offers an iOS applications.
Similar tools: GiftGenome, SimplePresent and eBay Instant Sale.
Also read related article: 3 Google Chrome Extensions to Save $$$ When Shopping Online.

Check out Decide @ www.decide.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Decide: Get Help Deciding Whether Or Not To Purchase A Product

MOin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:01:25 +0000

Have you ever bought an item and realized that if you had waited a week longer, you could have got a newer model for less money? Here to help you prevent that is a site called Decide, a tool to help you decide whether or not to purchase an item.

Decide is a web service that tracks the different product models of electronics manufacturers. You can search for products on the site by model or brand name. The search results are displayed in a neat manner with their prices stated alongside the product name.

Selecting any product reveals its details along with an analysis based on two things – its price fluctuations and the availability of a new model. Using these two properties, the site lets you know in a very direct manner whether or not now is the best time to purchase the item.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you decide whether or not to buy a product.
Checks if a new product model will be available.
Checks if the product’s price will be lowered in the near future.
Similar tools: FindtheBest, ProConLists, Thinkmeter, Hunch, and Zapproved.

Check out Decide @ www.decide.com (via Mashable) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Tricider: Group Brainstorming Made Easy

abhijeet — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:01:32 +0000

Tricider is a cool web based service that makes group brainstorming on any topic really easy. Quick too because it doesn’t ask you to register. Just enter the topic where it says “What do you want to decide?” and hit go. On the next page, you can propose a solution and add your name as well as your argument in favor of the proposed solution.

All of these appear in columns. Then friends can be invited via email or Facebook to participate in the discussion. Comments can be added too. All in a simple and easy to understand interface.

As you can see in the screenshot above, the way it shows the proposed solutions, arguments and who voted for what makes it easy to arrive at a decision. Definitely worth trying out if you looking for a quick virtual brainstorming session with a group of friends.

Features

Online group brainstorming tool.
No need to register.
Invite by email or share on Facebook.
Similar tools: ProConLists, Thinkmeter, Hunch, and Zapproved.

Check out Tricider @ www.tricider.com (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

FindtheBest.com: Compare Anything & Find The Best

abhijeet — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:01:42 +0000

FindtheBest, as the name indicates, lets you compare multiple things and then decide the one you should go for. What differentiates it from other comparison engines is that it isn’t niche-specific. That means you can compare anything and everything on this site.

The site is organized into nine major categories like business and economy, health, education etc, and each of those categories contain apps to help you make a comparison.

The engine is mostly human powered including researchers and experts in different fields. Information is also sourced from government databases. The comparison charts can be filtered based on parameters like price, company etc depending upon what are you comparing. It also allows you to suggest comparison apps if you don’t find the comparison table you are looking for.

Watch demo video:

Features

Comparison engine powered by humans
Not limited to any particular niche or category
Different categories available to choose from
Over 500 comparison apps available
Comparisons mainly U.S. related

Check out FindtheBest.com @ www.findthebest.com (via ReadWriteWeb By Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

ProConLists: Make Good Decisions By Listing Pros & Cons

Israel Nicolas — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:01:48 +0000

Making an important decision often requires us to carefully analyze the benefits and consequences of our actions. It helps to make a list of all the pros and cons to break down everything before making a decision. ProConLists is a website that allows you to make such a list, rate the rational and emotional weights of each item on the list then calculate the results.

To create a pros and cons list, just input a title and a description then choose the appropriate category. Enter all the advantages and disadvantages that you can perceive and rate their rational and emotional weights respectively. ProConLists will calculate which side outweighs the other.

After finishing your list, you can share the results to other people through Facebook or email. The site also lets you view the lists that are created by other users and save them to your account for easy access.

ProConLists is a nifty tool that makes decision-making much more organized. The fact that it allows points for emotional values makes the results more convincing.

Features:

Make good decisions by listing pros and cons.
Rate each considerations based on rational and emotional weights.
Share your list via email or social networking sites.
View feedback to your list by other users.
View lists created by other users and save them to your account.
Login using your Facebook account.
Similar Tools: Thinkmeter, Hunch, and Zapproved.

Check out ProConLists @ www.proconlists.com

Thinkmeter: Online Tool For Easy Decision Making

abhijeet — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:11:49 +0000

Thinkmeter is an easy decision making tool which helps you quickly collect opinions from friends when you are stuck at something and can’t decide. The tool has a clean user interface and makes the entire process of creating, sharing and evaluating decisions hassle-free.

Here’s how it works:-

1. Create a decision, add a description and list the options. It automatically inserts relevant product/book links from Amazon in the options if your dilemma is about a particular book or a product. So the respondents can immediately see which book or product you are talking about.
2. A link is created which can be easily shared with friends and colleagues.

3. Friends rate and comment on your decisions. They don’t need to log in to do that.
4. Check the stats and the ratings and take the decision.

Features

Make decisions easily after taking opinions from friends
Easy creation and sharing of decisions
Amazon links inserted automatically in the decision options box
Check overall ratings and decide based on that
Similar tools: Zapproved and Hunch.

Check out Thinkmeter @ www.thinkmeter.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

Hunch: Online Personal Decision Making Tool

abhijeet — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:16:24 +0000

Hunch is an online personal decision making tool that helps people take a decision by asking the relevant questions related to their problem. Enter your question (it has a cool auto-complete feature which tries to guess your question) and in ten question or less, it offers a solution to your problem. You can also skip a question if you want to. Hunch’s answers are based on the collective knowledge of the entire Hunch community.

Hunch is designed so that every time it’s used, it learns something new and gets better. First it learns about you and then helps you make deicision based on what it already knows about you.

After a series of questions related to your problem, the most appropriate answer is displayed in the following manner.

In case you’re signed up with hunch, your answers are saved for future references. You can also contribute to hunch by adding a topic, a question or a new result.

Features :

Online decision making application helps in making decisions.
Provides solution after asking a number of questions related to your problem.
Gets better every time it is used.
Contribute to Hunch by adding a topic or a question and new result.

Check out Hunch @ www.hunch.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)