Thinking about painting a room in your house, but aren’t sure what it will look like? Curbly points the way to Benjamin Moore’s website, where there is a truly nifty tool for previewing paint colors. You can choose sample rooms that are similar to yours, or for 10 bucks, upload pictures of your actual room.
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Get Refunds with Price Protectr
By 1.17.07
Lifehacker points the way to Price Protectr, a website that “monitors popular online stores for price drops on items you’ve purchased, then notifies you if the price drops at any time during that store’s price protection period.”
Gifts.com Profiles Personalities
By 12.13.06
We’ve been seeing commercials for the gift shopping site, “Gifts.com”, and wanted to check it out. We pretended that we were someone else shopping for us and took the quiz to find out what we would like. If that sentence made no sense, we apologize. Anyway, the results were acceptable, if not perfect. Gifts.com thinks we are “a thinker” and suggested things like boardgames and sudoku puzzles. Since we play sudoku on our DS all the time, we can’t argue with the results. We do not, however, want most of the crap they suggested, so maybe Gifts.com only works if you’re buying shit for really stereotypical people…in which case you probably already have a good idea what they want. Still, it’s cute and likely will generate ideas for gifts that you might not have thought of on your own.—MEGHANN MARCO
Kill-A-Watt: Learn Which Appliances Are Costing You
By 12.6.06
J.D. at Get Rich Slowly has a review of a nifty little device that tells you how much electricity appliances draw. You can use it to calculate how much money you’d save by turning things off/unplugging them. Cool!
Hotlist: Deal Tracker
By 11.30.06
Reader Ben liked the Wii inventory tracker, so he sends us this “deal of the day” tracker site. it lists both Tanga, Woot, Overstock, Amazon… as well as many other sites that we can not speak to the awesomeness of, having never tried them. The site lists activity, product, site, the age of the deal, the amount available and the estimated time remaining. Pretty cool. —MEGHANN MARCO
ShoppingPath: Eyeball Saving Comparison Shopping
By 11.27.06
Aiming for “total market transparency,” ShoppingPath plans to revolutionize online shopping visualization with a new model of product comparison tool that graphically groups products according to their price and features.
Ugenie Beta Shopping Site
By 11.3.06
Still in Beta, the “true price” shopping search engine Ugenie has raised $5 million bucks in venture capital to take it to the next level. Type in a shopping list and Ugenie calculates the cheapest combination of sellers.
Fight Debts With Snow
By 9.29.06
Stop debt collectors before they start. Pay your bills on time, sucka. To help you do that, the Debt Snowball Calculator helps you figure out which ones to pay first. Generally, these are the ones with higher interest rates. The calculator does the math for you, freeing your brain for higher level tasks like applying for more credit cards with your new and improved credit rating.
Morning Deals Round Up
By 2.3.06
• Having just received a very nice set of DeWalt tools for our birthday, we have no need of Amazon’s Two-Day Tool Sale. We remain intrigued, however, by a coupon code that works just for ladders: $50 off $250 code LADDER50 and $25 off $125 code LADDER23.
