February 22, 2010
Here in the U.S., the deadline for filing our tax returns is a little less than two months away (April 15th, for those of you don’t know.) And the folks at H&R Block have set up a website and produced a free iPhone app to answer IRS tax questions. It’s similar to our own MakeUseOf [...]
February 17, 2010
Times are certainly tough and there is the possibility of declaring bankruptcy and continuing on. Bankruptcy is defined as: 1.the state of being or becoming bankrupt. 2.utter ruin, failure, depletion, or the like. In layman’s terms this means you cannot pay off your debt and you are saying everything I have can go to pay [...]
February 3, 2010
Just a few days ago, our friends over at PoweryBase launched their new app, Bills ~ On your table. I’ve had the good fortune to participate in the beta testing of this application and played around with it a little. First impressions? There’s nothing else like it. Bills ~ On your table is an iPhone [...]
January 29, 2010
Have you ever wondered how you can buy a brand new PS3, XBox 360, Wii, or other gadgets and electronics online for half the price of the recommended retail price? You might think it is impossible, but in actual fact you can. People have saved over hundreds of dollars, all thanks to online bidding sites. [...]
January 18, 2010
I remember a few years ago, I watched a video on some website where they aimed to track a twenty dollar bill. They wrote a tiny message asking whoever had the note to send them an email with its location, the time and date they had the bill. It was marginally successful. I think they [...]
January 18, 2010
What exactly is the Amazon Mechanical Turk? The best explanation comes from the original Mechanical Turk. In 1779, Wolfgang von Kempelen created The Turk, an intricate and amazing chess machine – an “automaton” – complete with moving gears and cogs and a life-sized model of a man with a beard, dressed in Turkish robes and [...]
January 14, 2010
The day that I received my new Motorola Droid, I did two things. First, I slam-dunked my old Windows Mobile 5 phone into the kitchen drawer (I have some plans for that baby – and a future article). Second, I immediately started scanning the Android Market for Android finance apps that would help manage my [...]
January 12, 2010
The other week on MakeUseOf, we showed you how to ungoogle your life – if you so desire. I’ve decided to do the opposite. Since I’m a self-avowed Google fan, and am in this deep, I may as well give my entire life over to them, including managing my budget and expenses. I’ve tried out a [...]
December 23, 2009
I’m sure everyone will agree with me when I say that students are literally, amazingly and unbelievably close to living like paupers. Any students in the house? How many of you barely get by, working the late shift in the library or crunching odd hours as the uni’s technical assistant? I hear you. We bottom-feeders [...]
December 20, 2009
One of the last posts I wrote was about Netvibes Wasabi and how it makes an awesome feed reader. In this article, I would like to share a few blogs I think you should add to the collection of feeds that you keep up with. The reason they are so important is because they are [...]
