RetailMeNot will save you some money for the holidays
Submitted on October 30th, 2006 by admin
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Any of you use BugMeNot, the user-contributed site to share login information for commercial sites? Well, from the same guys we now have , a free service which helps you find coupon codes for online retailers. Enter a web address, and RetailMeNot will spit out a list of coupons. Remember though all codes are user-submitted so get contributing!
Keep track of expenses w/ Cha-Ching
Submitted on September 28th, 2006 by admin
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Cha-Ching is a wonderful money-management application for the Mac (don’t worry, it’s a universal binary so it’ll work on any Mac). The interface is done beautifully and definitely fits in with the look of OS X. ChaChing provides all the features you would expect from a money-management application including bill and account management, and thanks to the fact that the application supports the iCal standard, you can add your upcoming bills to your calendar so you’ll never get a late fee again. All events are (of course) categorized with tags you can add yourself, and if you want, you could even add images to each item.
Cha-Ching will run about $25, and is unfortunately available only for the Mac.
GiftHat - an easy-to-use wishlist site
Submitted on August 3rd, 2006 by admin
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How many times have you wished there was an easy way to share your wishlist online with everyone - even Grandma (who can barely find the ON button on her “interweb machine”)? Well, wish no more because now we have GiftHat.com.
GiftHat allows you to easily make a wishlist of anything you want others to buy for you and it lets you do it with all kinds of AJAX and Web 2.0 goodness (for those that don’t know, that just means the interface is slick). As we have come to expect from a Web 2.0 website, it encourages liberal use of tags on all of your gifts and you can browse through others’ gifts by tag and/or username. You even get a convenient URL for your wishlist like http://gifthat.com/brian (that’s mine). This makes it easy to give to friends and family (and to remember). If you have your own website/blog, you can also add a snippet of JavaScript from GiftHat and display your wishlist on your site.
Officially, it’s in beta right now, but it’s fully usable as-is and works great. GiftHat was/is created by a small development team and they are VERY receptive to feedback, comments, and ideas. Best part about it - it’s free and has no ads at all on the site. Check it out.
Read books as they’re written w/ Roughcuts
Submitted on January 24th, 2006 by admin
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Roughcuts is an interesting new book service from O’Reilly, the same folks who publish some of the most popular tech books in the industry. So what is it exactly? By paying for a Roughcuts subscription, you are allowed access to drafts of books as they’re being written and have the ability to send comments, and feedback to the writers and ediors in order to improve the book. Once the finished product is published, you also receive a copy of the book. You’ll be paying a bit more for the online access, but it’s still quite an interesting experiment, and for those of us who have libraries of O’Reilly books, it’s definitely a nice little extra.
[Via Boing Boing]
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Google Maps package mapper
Submitted on December 20th, 2005 by admin
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With the holiday season pretty much in full swing, I’m sure many of you are sending gifts to loved ones around the country (and the world). If you haven’t sent out your gifts yet, chances are they won’t arrive on time (I sent a package Priority Mail recently and it took almost two weeks to arrive at its destination). If you’re looking to keep an eye on where your packages might be, then check out PackageMapper, a free service which will let you enter a tracking number for UPS, FedEx, or the United States Postal Service and map the shipping route on a map powered by Google Maps (of course, right?). This is definitely one of my favorite Google Maps hacks on the web, and I really hope that these shipping companies start integrating it into their own websites. Customers love convenience, right?
[Via Google Maps Mania]
Vow not to buy a Sony BMG CD for 2 years
Submitted on December 14th, 2005 by admin
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With all the press surrounding Sony BMG lately, particularly the rootkit DRM fiasco, people are getting angry at the music giant. Now, its a basic rule of business that if you lose customers, you lose money. So, David Webster has started a pledge, saying that if you sign it, you pledge “I will vow not to buy a Sony BMG audio album/single for 2 years, but only if 100 other people do, too.” You can find the pledge right here, and, as of this writing, over 109 people have signed it. You can only sign it until New Years’ Eve (December 31), so if you’re going to sign it, sign it now!
Find gas prices near you w/ Map Gas Prices
Submitted on December 1st, 2005 by admin
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Map Gas Prices is a new service which combines gas price data with a Google Maps interface so that you can easily find out how much gas is going for near your area, and maybe help you find the cheapest gas stations. Gas prices have gone down quite a bit recently, but this is definitely very useful. You can also sign up for e-mail updates on gas prices if you want as well.
[Thanks, Richard!]
Two holiday gift guides for the geek in you
Submitted on December 1st, 2005 by admin
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December means one thing - the holiday craze is coming. If you’re a geek, or have a geek in your family, you may be wondering what the hottest gadgets are and what to get them. Both Make and Wired have put together some pretty good holiday gift guides which are worth checking out. I’ve found a few things in there I should would like (hint, hint people! JK).
Filter out eBay fraudulent auctions w/ Gumshoo
Submitted on November 30th, 2005 by admin
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I tend to do quite a bit of shopping on eBay, and while I’ve never had the misfortune of being scammed, I’ve heard quite a few horror stories. eBay doesn’t offer a way to filter out fraudulent auctions, but you can spot them with a service called Gumshoo. With Gumshoo, you can avoid yourself a lot of hassle, and even find some good deals since the service also searches for misspelled auctions which generally lead to lower priced items. The service is completely free, and probably a good research tool for eBay fans.
[Via Solution Watch]
The Ultimate Guide to Yahoo! Services
Submitted on November 30th, 2005 by admin
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About a week and a half or two ago, our newest contributor, Jay Koby, wrote a guide to Google services which proved to be more popular around the web than we ever thought possible. As a result, we decided to put together a similar guide for Yahoo! services, which proved to be a little tougher, because, believe it or not, Yahoo! has many more services than Google! Some of these are well known, particularly Flickr and the various search features, but some you may never have heard of, or even known that they were part of the Yahoo! family. Read on for the full guide.
