Watch Your Spending & Control Your Budget With These 8 Free Budget Calculators
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.
Two Free Ways To Sign & Send Digital Documents
With so many online and software solutions for creating managing, and reading documents, there’s little reason these days— especially in computer-centered environments—to use paper and ink. The website, SignNow and the ad-supported version of Sign-N-Send are two examples of how important documents can be signed and emailed without the need for ink and paper.
The 8 Useful Car Apps for Your iPhone
With the rise of gas these days, it pays to use whatever resources are available to get better gas mileage, through good car maintenance and low as possible gasoline rates. The iTunes App Store has a wide selection of free and affordable iPhone gas and vehicle maintenance apps that are practical and easy to use. It's easy to download and collect these apps so they’re available whenever you need them.
Some Advanced Tips For Those Starting Out Building A Tumblr Blog
Tumblr is taking the lead as the fastest growing microblogging site. If you're hopping onto the Tumblr bandwagon—I recommend you do—here are some additional—perhaps advanced—tips you might be interested in after having set up your blog and built a following.
5 Money Saving Sites Which Uses The Bartering System
There are several sites on the Internet that could possibly save you money through the process of exchanging goods and services in lieu of monetary compensation. Bartering websites are similar to eBay in which ads are posted for items and services of exchange. As you will see, there are bartering sites set up that can assist in making your exchange with others across the country or even around the world.
How To Create An iPhone Or Android App Without Any Coding Skills
If you're really eager to make a mobile app, a website called Buzztouch may well be the web-based solution for you. Buzztouch is essentially Content Management Software for iOS and Android. It provides a template-based process in which you import your app's information into the online software, and in turn it will create the code that you need to compile the data for your application
Share, Annotate & Archive Screenshots With PixAM [Mac]
Screenshot applications are in no short supply for Mac users, starting with Apple's own built-in rudimentary program and ending with Jing, a favorite among MakeUseOf writers. I typically keep three or four screenshot apps accessible on my Macs, and it looks I may be adding one more, called PixAM, a new addition to the Mac App Store. It works similarly to Jing but it has a few extra goodies.
Create Your Own Mac Fixit Toolkit
If you depend upon your Mac hardware for job related purposes, you should know how important it is to be prepared for unexpected problems when they occur. The purpose of this article is to share some ideas for putting together a Mac Fixit/Troubleshooting Toolkit.
The Best Sites To Learn All About The Art Of iPhoneography
Photos taken with the camera app on the iPhone have become sort of an art form, typically referred to as iPhoneography. It’s not that the iPhone camera is superior to other mobile camera apps; rather, it's the assortment of artistic processing apps that make iPhone images unique, and sort of a genre of their own. Not all images taken with the iPhone can put into the iPhoneography category, so what does an iPhoneographic image look like?
Problem Solved: Send URLs Between Mac Computers & iOS Devices
A simple and highly useful Safari extension, appropriately called SendTab, allows you to send a selected webpage to one or more computers on your network. When it arrives on the remote computer, it automatically downloads in your networked web browser. It happens within seconds. This extension works best if you’re a Safari or Chrome user.
Learn & Practice Camera Exposure Settings With CameraSim
Understanding camera exposure can often take the joy out of taking pictures. Cameras like the Canon 50D or the Nikon D80 are fairly affordable, but you may not get your money’s worth if you only shoot in automatic mode. Learning exposure settings on DSLR is not easy, but a website called CameraSim enables you to experiment with exposure settings and get a better idea of how camera exposure works.
Viddy - Micro Video Blogging for iPhone Users
Many of you may remember the Twitter-style micro-video blogging site 12seconds.tv in which members posted 12-second videos of about whatever was going on in their life. For some reason however, the site closed last October. Well, if you’re an iPhone user, a new and similar mobile version of 12seconds has started up, and it’s called Viddy, that allows you to create 15-second videos.
Move, Copy, Open, & Remove Files With File Sorter [Mac]
Much of our purpose with computers is to get work done faster and more efficiently. there’s a free option that might make a useful introduction to bulk file and folder automation; it’s called FileSorter—a free download in the Mac App Store.
How to Use Your F-Keys for Launching Apps & Finder Items [Mac]
The F-keys on your Mac keyboard can be a powerful set of application and Finder item launchers, saving you the trouble of burrowing through the Finder and bookmarks to launch say iCal, Address Book, your favorite websites, and other items.
5 More Powerfully Useful Safari Extensions You Should Try
Almost two years ago, Apple finally set up a way for developers to create extensions for its fast and easy-to-use web browser, Safari. You can access available extensions by clicking on the Safari Extensions Gallery in the menu bar. That will take you to a gallery page with over three dozen extensions to choose from. Here's 5 good ones to check out.
3 Cool Ways To Customize & Personalize Your Twitter Page
The default settings of Twitter provide some lightweight customization tools in which you can change the background image and the colors of your homepage. We’ve covered how to spice up a Twitter homepage. But for those who don’t know, I will cover the default settings for making changes and then describe a few third-party sites and advanced settings.
The Top 5 YouTube Video Game Reviewers
If you are developing an addiction to video gaming, there are several popular YouTube game reviewers who will help feed your hunger for hours and hours. I interviewed my 10 year-old son, the resident expert about PS3 and online gaming, who helped me locate YouTube reviewers that provide game previews and reviews, game playing strategies, and sheer video watching enjoyment.
Use PayPal Mobile To Pay On The Go With Your Paypal Account
Since we wrote about 9 tools PayPal users should know about way back in 2008, the online money service now has an app for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users. PayPal's mobile app may well be useful in many different situations, not only for making purchases, but for sending other PayPal users money without using a check, money order, or credit card.