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Spending Diary is a free and simple online way to track your expenses. [Spending Diary]
tools
By 7.25.07
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Wesabe, the personal-finance social networking site, introduced a Firefox extension to ease member’s upload and access to banking data. [Wheaties For Your Wallet]
By 7.24.07
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List of Debtor’s Anonymous meetings by state. [Debtor’s Anonymous]
5 Other Ways To Easily Insert Timestamps When Documenting Complaints
By 7.19.07
Besides the F5 and .LOG trick for Notepad, commenters shared some of their personal favorite ways to input date and time in a system you’re using to keep a log of your customer service issue.
By 7.19.07
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Roughly locate a phone number on a GoogleMap using the area code and 3-digit prefix. Good for helping track down telemarketers. [RMLABS via Lifehacker]
Sample Letter For Disputing A Debt Collection Notice
July 18, 2007
If you’ve received a notice from a debt collector, but have reason to believe you don’t actually owe that debt (or owe a lot less than they say you owe), federal law gives you a brief opportunity to force the collector to demonstrate that you do indeed owe this debt, and to stop trying to collect on it until they have verified you are the one responsible, and that the money is still owed. [More]
Easily Insert Timestamps In Notepad When Documenting Complaints
By 7.16.07
PC users can use Notepad to track their customer service issues, and 2 easy shortcuts makes it even easier.
By 7.12.07
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13 question free online calculator to help determine how much house you can really afford. [Bankrate]
How To Get A Checking Account: Solutions For The "Underbanked"
By 7.2.07
There are three types of unbanked or underbanked people:
Consumerist's 10 Commandments of Credit
By 6.30.07
Keeping a balance on a credit card is a sin in the eyes of the Consumerist. If you have a balance, make it your priority to pay it off as quickly as possible.
Would You Like To See The Coffee List, Sir?
By 5.19.07
Coca-Cola and Sara Lee are developing tools to pair beverages with food in the hopes that soda, beer, and coffee may be the new wine.
The tool helps sales people figure out for restaurateurs that cheesecake, with its high fat content, calls for a dark roast, heavy bodied coffee with a high acidity level, she said. A fudge brownie, however, calls for a lower acidity level. And pound cake goes down better with a light roast coffee with high acidity.
Sara Lee’s pairing tool was unveiled two weeks ago, and Coca-Cola expects to implement a similar program next year. Ron DeSantis of the Culinary Institute of America thinks such tools will become prevalent as “U.S. palates become more sophisticated.” We never realized ordering water at a restaurant was the mark of an unsophisticated boor. Pairing tools will undoubtedly present restauranteurs with an opportunity to upsell certain beverages. Would you trust their recommendations? Tell us in the comments. — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER
Farecast Can Save You $50
By 5.16.07
Our favorite airfare-watching site Farecast is finally out of beta and its predictions/recommendations have been certified by an independent firm as being around 74.5% accurate, which is much better than our previous method of just guessing.
Free Online Mortgage Calculator
By 5.15.07
All Financial Matters has a nifty online tool for comparing different mortgages.
What Are Your Financial Tools?
By 5.10.07
Over at Zen Habits there is some excellent discussion going on about which financial tools the readers use. What do you guys use for your budgeting needs?
Big Box Watch Tracks New Retail Stores On Google Mashup
By 4.19.07
Big Box Watch is a Google Maps mashup showing where new retail stores are being built.
You People Can't Be Trusted With Nailguns
By 4.13.07
“During the 5-year period 2001-2005, an average of approximately 37,000 patients with injuries related to nail-gun use were treated annually in emergency departments, with 40 percent of injuries occurring among consumers,” the report read.
Google Housing Lets You Search Real Estate And Rental Listings
By 4.10.07
Google now offers housing listings.
