CRACKING THE CREDIT CARD CODE

Mint.com has done a great job of cracking the credit card code. It turns out the first digit identifies the type of card issuer– airline, bank,… Read more

MY BANK TRACKER

MyBankTracker.com shows interest rates for CDs, savings, checking, mortgage, credit cards and home equity lines of credit at over 1,000 U.S…. Read more

FREE BOOKKEEPING

Outright.com is a free bookkeeping service. What’s new: You can call in your expenses to keep track of them. Outright tells you  what  you… Read more

TIME TO QUICKBOOK YOUR TAXES

Tis the season for accounting programs, and some QuickBook users may be wondering if it’s worth updating to Quickbooks 2009. We had a chat with… Read more

FIRSTONMARS.COM AND BILL4TIME.COM

– FirstOnMars.com. First on Mars has links to 12,500 episodes from 600 popular TV shows on 63 major network sites. You can select shows by genre and… Read more

IPHONE APPS

For 99 cents at the iPhone application store, you can get the “Personal Formulator,” which contains 30 formulas. Say you’re… Read more

EASY INVOICES

FreshBooks.com is a service for creating and sending out invoices while you’re online. You can send invoices by email, postal mail or both. For… Read more

SPREAD THOSE SPREADSHEETS AROUND

A Windows utility called “eXpresso” allows a number of people to collaborate on the same spreadsheet, online at the same time. Now that businesses… Read more

THE DATABASE

After having a word processor, the most important program you can have is a database. There’s one called Blist that is a blast. It is free online… Read more

POINT OF SALE

We remember the first time we saw a clerk at a fast food restaurant press a finger on a picture of a sandwich to ring up a sale. Now, just about any… Read more