The site currently holds data for 293 major cities worldwide, and presents you detailed reports reflecting prices in areas such as Market, Transportation, Utility, Rent Per Month, Buy Apartment Price, Salaries, Restaurants and Financing.

Additionally to comparing, you can view cost of living by countries, see rankings by city, check out property market and cost of living index. Moreover you can contribute to the site and add information for your city.

Features:

• Compare cost of living in different cities.
• Holds data for 293 major cities worldwide.
• Presents detailed reports reflecting pieces in areas such as Transportation, Utility, Rent, Apartment Price, Salaries,Financing… etc
• Includes cost of living calculator.
• View rankings by city and country.
• View property marked index and cost of living index.
• Contribute by adding information for your city.

Check out Numbeo @ www.numbeo.com

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• COL: Compare Cost Of Living Between US Cities
• CostOfLiving: Salary & Cost Of Living Comparison Tool
• WhatsTheCost: Free Financial Calculators
• SalaryScout
• PayScale

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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Using the application easy, simply enter your current city and the city you are planning to move to and hit “Compare” button. It then presents detailed comparison of living costs of two cities side-by-side in 100 categories including taxes, housing, food, utilities and transportation.

Features:

• Cost of living comparison between US cities.
• Comparison is done in 100 categories including housing, utilities, transportation and healthcare costs.
• Free, no sign up needed.
• Supports US cities only.
• Similar tools: CostOfLiving.

Check out COL @ www.bestplaces.net/COL

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• Numbeo: Compare cost of living between two cities (World Wide)
• CostOfLiving: Salary & Cost Of Living Comparison Tool
• WhatsTheCost: Free Financial Calculators
• SalaryScout
• PayScale

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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• WalletWatcher: Track your Budget and Spendings
• Thrive: Organize Your Budget & Plan Ahead
• The Inflation Calculator: See Value Of US Dollar Over Time

The errand runners are required to go through a background check. The site’s services are currently only available in Boston, U.S. but it will soon expand to other cities.

Features

• Outsource your everyday household chores.
• Currently available only in Boston but will expand to other cities soon.
• Services given by background-checked errand runners.
• Buy credits on the site to pay the runners.
• Communicate with the runners via email or SMS.
• Similar websites:  DoStuffForMoney.

Check out RunMyErrand @ www.runmyerrand.com [via Lifehacker] (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Features

• Site that helps people raise funds through donations on web shopping.
• The site has partnered with major online retailers like Ebay and Wal-Mart.
• Get donation each time a member of your group shops on their site.
• Simple and easy to understand user interface.
• Similar sites: Pledgie and ChipIn.

Check out iFundDrive @ www.ifunddrive.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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Works easy, simply enter corresponding numbers and push on the “Start” before the meeting starts. When the meeting is over click on the “stop” button and see how much money the meeting costed your company.

Features:

• Find out what do business meetings cost your company.
• Easy to use, no sign up needed.
• Similar tool: Meeting-Ticker.

Check out Is This Meeting Really Worth It @ www.isthismeetingreallyworthit.com

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• CostOfLiving: Salary & Cost Of Living Comparison Tool

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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• MyBankTracker: Bank Reviews & Ratings
• Find A Better Bank : Compare Nearby Banks
• WalletWatcher: Track your Budget and Spendings
• Quicken Beam: Check Bank Balance & Get Payment Alerts on Mobile
• WhatsTheCost: Free Financial Calculators

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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• kaChing: Social Investing Site
• Map-Of-The-Market: Visual Stock Market Map
• CakeFinancial: Social Investing
• WhatsTheCost: Free Financial Calculators
• WatchKnow: 1000s of Educational Videos

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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• Thrive: Organize Your Budget & Plan Ahead
• The Inflation Calculator: See Value Of US Dollar Over Time

Features:

• Online meeting cost meter.
• Lets you calculate costs of group and individual meetings.
• Simple to use, no sign up needed.

Check out Meeting-Ticker @ http://tobytripp.github.com/meeting-ticker

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• IsThisMeetingReallyWorthIt: Meeting Cost Clock
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• Numbeo: Compare cost of living between two cities (World Wide)
• IRS Withholding Calculator: Calculte Your Income Taxes
• CostOfLiving: Salary & Cost Of Living Comparison Tool

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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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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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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• De-Bee: Track Shared Bills & Know Who Owes What to Whom
• Wishpot: Create Wish Lists by Adding Items From Any Website

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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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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Click on a flag to make it a default currency, enter the amount and click Enter to convert.

Instead of entering the amount into the field, you can also access it at http://crrncy.com/amount (ex: http://crrncy.com/239)

Currency rates are taken from the European Central Bank (ECB).

Features:

• Convert currency between US Dollars (USD), Euros (EUR), British pounds (GBP) and Swedish kronas (SEK)
• Click on a country flag to make it a default currency
• Currency rates are taken from the European Central Bank (ECB).
• Similar sites: ForexFlower, Xurrency and XE.

Check out Crrncy @ www.crrncy.com

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• XE – Converter
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• Zamzar

Pledgie is a web service that allows you to pledge money for a cause, or accept pledges for your own cause. Setting up campaigns is really easy, simply fill in provided fields with cause details, start and end dates, PayPal info and then click on “Launch a campaign” button. Once a campaign is ready you can post about it on Twitter, Facebook and also embed it on your blog or online profile.

Additionally to setting up campaigns you can browse popular causes or causes that interest you and pledge money through PayPal. After your payment has been cleared your name appears in the donors list.

Features:

• Pledge or raise money for a cause.
• Donate money right away with PayPal.
• Search causes by keywords or browse through categories.
• Start raising money for your own cause.
• A progress bar shows how much of the needed amount has been raised.
• See how many people have already pledged for a particular campaign.
• Embed the badge for your campaign on any website.
• Share your campaign on twitter, facebook.
• Similar websites: ChipIn.

Go to Pledgie @ www.pledgie.com (by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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You can search and find ATM machines by address, current location or even get ATM machine locations in the airports. Furthermore, results can be filtered by working hours, surcharges, wheelchair access, and drive throughs.

Features:

• Find ATM machine almost anywhere.
• Search ATMs by current location, address or airport.
• Filter results by ATM working hours, availability of the wheelchair access, surcharge amounts and more.
• Get some tips on how to be smarter with your money at ATM locations.
• Free. No registration needed.
• Alternative ATM locator web app: ATMLocator.

Check out ATMHunter @ www.itunes.apple.com/atmhunter (via Techcrunch)

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The application lets you setup budgets with reminders, tag & organize similar transactions (food, coffee, restaurant etc), view spending reports to know where your money goes and adjust accordingly.

All your data can be exported to Excel, Quickbook or Quicken in CSV format.

Features:

• Tracking your budget and expenses in real time.
• Add transactions manually, via email, SMS or Twitter.
• Classify your expenses by tagging similar transactions (food, clothing, coffee etc).
• Setup daily, weekly, monthly budgets for different expenses.
• View spending trends by last week, month or year.
• Export data to Excel, Quickbooks or Quicken in CSV format.
• Search transactions and set up reminders.
• Also see 15 Cool Tools for easy Expense Tracking and Budgeting.

Check out Texthog @ www.texthog.com

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• SpendingDiary: Track Daily Expenses Online
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• UEatCheap: Find Cheap Buffet Restaurants in Your Area
• Shortcuts: Link Discount Coupons To Your Store Card
• SaveEveryDay: Free Daily Money Saving Tips & Reminders

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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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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• Billshare
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There is no need to go to 10-12 different websites each day to check your account balances, monthly statements and bills. Just consolidate all your information on Rudder once and then keep track of all from a single place for free.

Rudder is similar to online services like Mint but it is a much simpler interface and functionality and moreover, it also shows you how much money you have in total or in each account. Rudder uses the same data services as 4 out of 5 top US banks so security is top notch.

Here are some of the main features of Rudder:

• Easy personal finance tracking and management.
• Keep track of all your credit cards and bank accounts at one platform.
• Get reminders for your bills in your inbox.
• Always know how much you have left to spend.
• Avoid late fees and overdraft fees.
• See a forecast of your future cash flow.
• One of the most secure data services, they never store your passwords.
• For more similar tools go to MakeUseOf finance section.

Check out Rudder @ Rudder.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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Once you have signed up for an account, find and select your bank and add your account details by following instructions. Now you can begin adding reminders alerts, payment due alerts and so on.

Features:

• Check your bank account balance from mobile phone.
• Keep track of your daily spendings and transactions.
• Setup and receive text message reminders and payment due alerts.
• Manage your Quicken Beam account from your PC or mobile phone.
• Available only to US users.
• iPhone optimized.
• See all features and how to instructions here.

Quicken Beam is a 100% free service, however please keep in mind that your mobile provider may charge you for standard text messaging fees (unless your service plan includes unlimited text messaging).

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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.”

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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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• Organize and pay bills right from the browser toolbar (Firefox, Internet Explorer).
• Schedule reminders for upcoming bills.
• View reports and visualize your spending habits (graphs).
• Compare your utility (or other) bills with others in your area.
• Store a copy of all receipts and payment confirmations.
• Billeo Password Assistant: Secure password manager and form auto-filler.
• Billeo Shopping Assistant: Auto-fill billing, name, and address details. Store and Manage online payment receipts.
• Want to learn more? Check out Billeo FAQ page OR go to demo tour section.

Note from CNET Billeo Review: Though the information is stored on your computer with AES 128-bit encryption, some personal information is transferred to the publisher of this application. Novices to advanced users looking for an autofilling tool with all-in-one bill-pay reminders may find this freeware useful.

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Some Extras

• Check out Top 10 bills (based on the number of times bill was registered)
• For each registered bill check out a list of all the cities/states where that bill has been
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• Track Money: securely access all your bank accounts from one place.
• In-built support (integration) with around 6000 banks and other financial institutions.
• Mobile access: Request your bank account balances (or remaining credit) using SMS (text messaging) right from your mobile phone. For that all you have to do is send a text message to 41411 with the word “geezeo” in body. Learn more on mobile access here
• Join Groups: Discuss specific financial topics with others.
• Browse through a diverse section of community goals (i.e. pay down my credit card, spend less on food, etc.)
• More questions? Check put Geezeo FAQ section here

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