December 12, 2011
In this holiday season, and in these economically challenging times, it pays (pardon the pun) to keep track of our spending so that you don’t allow gift buying and other money related activities to end up setting you back for months and months. Here are a couple of cool websites I recommend, Mint.com and OneReceipt, that can help keep track of where your money goes.
October 3, 2011
Anyone who hates the sight of a balance sheet will tell you that handling and managing household finance is often and arduous task. Heck, it’s even a marital bone of contention. That’s where The Birdy steps in with its dead simple one-email-a-day approach. The Birdy takes your simple financial entries and uses simple graphs to explain where you are spending your salary on.
July 29, 2011
No matter what end of the range you fall into, it’s never to late to sort out your finances and try to find out why you keep falling short (or nearly so) every single month. Here’s a free, open-source financial management app called Money Manager Ex that’s going to make it very easy to organize your finances, create a budget and monitor where all your money is flying off to.
July 25, 2011
Last Friday, the personal finance and budgeting service, Mint.com, released an upgraded version of their iPhone app. Basically, the only required typing for the app is adding numbers. Mint’s app was selected as one of TIME Magazine’s 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2011.
June 29, 2011
Any personal finance adviser will tell you that developing and maintaining a financial budget is the best way to meet monthly expenses, save for financial emergencies and plan for the future. A budget calculator allows you to itemize your expenses so you can see where all your spending is going, that may be keeping you from paying off your credit debts or building a sufficient savings account.
April 28, 2011
We know that there are numerous open source programs that find their home in both Windows and Linux. Many of these turn out to be among the apps that we use daily. However, did you know that you can get certain plugins only for Linux? Plus if a plugin exists for Windows, Linux lets you easily install them. Let’s find out what they are.
January 19, 2011
Although credit cards make it easy for us to purchase the things we want, we all know they can make our purchases harder to pay off. So why not consider developing a savings plan rather than an interest debt for your next major purchase or long-term goal? Whether you’re saving for college, retirement, a new [...]
December 11, 2010
Do you find that when you try to use a budgeting system, the more complicated it is, the more overwhelmed you become; and eventually you stop using it? If that’s the case, Sprouty brings a simplified budgeting system that makes it easy to create a monthly budget, and more importantly, stick to it. Sometimes keeping [...]
August 13, 2010
It happens to all of us. You sign up for a service – like cable or a cell phone – and you use it for months and months, only to find later on that you could have got a better deal. One of the easiest ways to save extra money is to cut down on [...]
June 2, 2010
When I recently discovered that my local bank had finally been added to Mint, I immediately signed back up. MakeUseOf did an overview of Mint back in 2007 when it was in its beta release. Since then, it has grown and added more features so it’s time for an update post. Mint is a free, [...]
