3 Useful Personal Finance Apps

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If you do not know what an app is, then you have been living under a rock. An app is a smartphone application that can be used on your cell phone. There are thousands upon thousands of apps out there, for every need you have probably ever had. Apps range from games to driving direction providers to streaming videos and everything in between. There is literally an app for everything, and the same goes for personal finance. If you have trouble keeping or organizing a budget, there is an app for that. If you forget when you should pay your bills and how much you should pay, there is an app for that. If you have trouble calculating or keeping track of your taxes and tax records, well…there is an app for that! I think you get the idea, so here are 3 of the most useful personal finance apps on the market.

1. Keeping your money in “Mint” condition

Mint, an internet finance company, has created, by far, the most popular personal finance apps on the market. Currently, Mint has more than 7 million customers, thanks to their apps. The best thing is that the app is completely free to use. The app offers an all-inclusive examination of a person’s finances. You can track your spending categories in certain categories, and allows the user to design their own budget and see how well they are doing at following it. The app tracks all of your transactions via your checking and savings account, as well as any investments you may have.

2. Biting into PearBudget

PearBudget is another popular app on the market, although nowhere near as popular as the Mint app. PearBudget starts out as a free app, but then requires a $4.95 a month charge after a trial period. Essentially, PearBudget is identical to the Mint app, but with a few tweaks. For one thing, PearBudget tracks your transaction trends and expenses like Mint, but also exports that information to your personal computer so you have a hard copy that can be translated via Microsoft Excel. PearBudget also has an external website that can be accessed via a personal computer, and thus can expedite the sometimes lengthy- especially on a cell phone- sign-up process.

3. Keeping it simple with BudgetSimple

The BudgetSimple app is another completely free cell phone app. The stated goal of the company is to provide a simple spreadsheet budget application, which aims to help someone spend less than they bring in every month. Like the name of the app suggests, they are keeping it simple. The key to BudgetSimple is the plethora of graphs they give the user, which track all expenses in almost everyway you can think of. The app is like an automatically updated Excel spreadsheet. All you have to do is spend money and enter your desired budget and provide your bank information. The app does the rest of it for you.

About Author: Rob is working on masters in accounting online and does a lot with non-profits and his family on his weekends. 

Top 10 Healthcare I-Phone Apps

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Get 3GB of free extra space on Dropbox

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Its raining free online storage for Android users. Few days back Box.com announced 50 GB of free space just for using its Android app. Now Dropbox has followed the suite and announced upto 3 GB of extra space just for using its Camera Upload feature in its to put the photos and videos taken on your phone instantly to Dropbox. [Read more…]

How to unblock a friend on Facebook

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Blocking a friend on Facebook is not a big deal but unblocking an earlier blocked friend can be real pain (in some part of body). In this small tutorial we will see how to unblock a friend.

Step 1: First, log in to your Facebook account and go to privacy settings (from top right corner of your profile)

Step 2: On the privacy settings page, scroll down to the end to find “Blocked people and apps”. Click on “manage blocking”.

Step 3: It will take you to a page where you can see blocked users and apps. It also give you an option of blocking people by typing their name and/or email. Adjacent to blocked user’s name there is an option “unblock” to unblock the concerned user.

Step 4: Click on “unblock” option to unblock the concerned user. By the way, you have to send a fresh friend request to the unblocked user as he/she was removed from your list.

Hope it helps you. Questions, suggestions and comments are always welcomed.  Cheers :)

This Christmas enjoy the snowfall and Santa on your Ubuntu desktop

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Christmas is here and everyone is in holiday mood. To celebrate Christmas on your computer, Google provided us with “let it snow”. Moreover, I have come across a tiny little cute app which lets it snowfall on your desktop and Santa and reindeer running all over the screen. [Read more…]

Intel AppUp(SM) Center: An App Store for Windows from Intel

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App-Store:

Seems like App stores are the next big market. These app-stores are a good place for a user to look for exciting new application, games and accessories for his/her device. An app-store actually constitute significantly to the success of device/os, with Apple being the best example. Users can select from a wide range of variety of application which also includes free and demo versions apart from the paid ones. App-stores provides new and budding start-ups and individuals opportunity to make money by selling their applications.

First it was Apple who came up with its app store followed by Android. Nokia entered late into the market with Ovi Store. Ubuntu also has its own app-store: Ubuntu Software Center.

Intel AppUP:

Intel has launched a Windows based app-store named: Intel AppUp(SM) Center. You need to install the application on your PC and need an internet connection to use the app-store. Here you can find lots of applications for Windows based Operating System. There are several categories of application like Games, Educational, Finance, Health, Business etc. The interface looks quite elegant:

Features:

  • Applications purchased through your account can be used on up to five (5) PC devices. Simply install the Intel AppUp(SM) center client on your favorite device, sign in, and go to My Apps and download apps onto your PC device.
  • Applications are screened and filtered, showing you only those apps that will work on your device or the operating system installed on that device.
  • All paid applications are free to try for 24 hours. If you do not like an app, you can cancel the purchase within the first 24 hours. All application purchases can be cancelled only one (1) time.
  • All apps you purchase or download are easily accessible from the My Apps section.
  • If you provided your credit card information during the registration process, you can purchase new apps with as little as one click.
  • To edit your user preferences–including languages–click on your name located near the top of the client home page.

User Experience:

As I said before the interface is very elegant with no visible borders. This is why it does not blend into Windows environment. The interface and the looks resembles Mac applications. The biggest flaw (as of now) is that you have to use the minimize button to minimize the app window, it does not minimize the window itself when you click again when you click on it in the task-bar.

How to use it:

  • Go here to Download the Intel AppUp application: http://www.appup.com/applications/index
  • Install it
  • Register on the website
  • Use it

Free Britannica Kids Back To School Bundle Offer:

If you register now for the Intel AppUp, you can download Britannica Kids Encyclopedia Dinosaur and Solar System worth $4.99 free.

Hope you enjoyed this post. I would like to know the feedback on this post, quality, content, usefulness etc. Please do provide me with a feedback. Enjoy :)

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Nokia Ovi Store is growing day by day and now a days it has a decent collection of Application and Games. I have Nokia 5800 for past one year and I like to experiment with the application and games available on the Ovi Store. In this post, I’ll list 5 of my favourite absolutely free, full version applications. No need of data connection to use these applications. (If you cannot connect to internet on your phone here is a little hack which can help you in downloading the application directly on computer from Ovi store: Download from Ovi Store to PC)

1. FingerPrint V3.0:

Use your fingerprint to unlock the phone, this is NOT just for fun! V2.8 enables you to block all key press when FingerPrint screen is on top! When the FingerPrint screen pops up, you need to touch your finger to the screen to be ” scanned ” for your identity, there will be vibration and beep sounds during the scan. The phone will be unlocked not depend on whose finger it is, but on how many beeps or vibrations since your finger touch the screen 😉

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/47358?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

2. Guitar Chords+:

Chords+. Never be forced to pull out your computer or a bulky chord book just to look up a guitar chord again. Featuring handpicked fingerings of more than 160 chords, Chords+ also explains how to play ” slash ” chords such as D/F# and the mechanics of sliding common bar chord shapes up and down the fretboard to form dozens more.

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/63289?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

 

3. F-Secure Anti-Theft for Mobile:

With F-Secure Anti-Theft for Mobile you can be sure that your personal and confidential information won ’t be misused by anyone. If you suspect your phone is missing you can remotely lock it or wipe the data so that your private text messages or pictures don’t end up in the wrong hands. You can also locate your phone or the person holding it remotely.

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/22205?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

4. Best Screen Snap:

Freeware application that allows you to capture screenshots on your smartphone and save them to a file or send them to friends or to your desktop computer.

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/1540?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

 

5. Nokia Photo Browser:

Nokia Photo Browser is an experimental photo browser that makes viewing your photos quick and fun. NOTE: this is an experimental prototype that may break, change or disappear at any time. You can contribute at http://betalabs.nokia.com

Here is the download link: http://store.ovi.com/content/3612?clickSource=browse&contentArea=applications

 

Hope you liked the post. Would you mind sharing your thoughts on the post and your favourite applications?

How to install Windows application (.exe) on Linux / Ubuntu with Wine

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As a new Linux user I always miss Windows for some of the applications that are not available on Linux. Booting the computer to go back to Windows just to use some specific software is a real pain. And that made me think how to install Windows programs i.e. .exe files in Linux? This task can be accomplished by the use of Wine application on Linux OS. To use this application you don’t have to be a member of a real wine club 😛

Jokes apart, Wine offers a compatibility layer that allows Linux users to run Windows application on Linux based OS.This tutorial describes the necessary steps to install a Windows application on Linux. The tutorial is based on Ubuntu but similar steps can be followed for other Linux OS as well.

  1. Install Wine application on Ubuntu. You can use Synaptic Package Manager or use this command: sudo apt-get install wine
  2. In this tutorial I am trying to install Rynga, a VoIP application. Download the .exe file of the application. Right click on it and choose properties. In the properties dialogue box go to the Permissions tab. In here check the  Allow executing the file as program box.
  3. Now go to the open with tab and select Wine Windows program loader. Close it.
  4. Now double click the .exe file and follow the usual Next-Next step as in Windows.

I wish this tutorial helped you to install Windows programs in Linux. Questions and suggestions are welcome.

P.S. Compatibility issues may be there with some applications.