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Shopping: paying bills, general finance, general shopping, comparing prices. Web 2.0 resources and utilities to help.

• Shopping
  • Bill paying
    • BillMonk. Track money, track stuff. Pay bills, figure out costs, that sort of thing.
    • BudgetTracker, Inc.. track your Budget, Bills, Transactions and tie all these together in an easy to read Calendar that can send you reminders when Bills are due.
    • Buxfer: Track Your Money. Keep a track on your money, who owes you what etc. Good for shared households, bills etc.
    • iOWEYOU is an innovative expenses sharing system, originally designed for use in a shared student house. UK based as well.
    • Gastus - Easily control your expenses!. Every month you spend lots of money ... with Gastus you can keep track of your daily expenses.
    • PearBudget | Easy budgeting for everyone.. Download free budgeting software to see how much you spend on what.
    • simplybill - manage invoices simply online. Not quite shopping, but this allows you to create your own invoices online in moments.
  • General finance
  • Shopping
    • Comparing prices
      • Our Property gives free house prices from Land Registry data - OurProperty.co.uk. Type in a postcode and find out.
      • Fatwallet coupons, bargain shopping, price comparisons (US)
      • Isbn.nu lets you enter author/title/subject/ISBN and it will check 9 online bookstores to provide you with the prices, so you can get it from the cheapest.
      • Orbitz Cheap airfares
      • Pricewatch compare prices (US) Emphasis is on computer products
      • Property search map - OnOneMap. This is a great mash-up between Google Maps and estate agents. Find the bit of the country you're interested in, choose price, number of bedrooms, house/flat, near things, map layers, and it can be included in Netvibes, Pageflakes etc.
      • PropertyMaps "is a powerful searching tool that combines complete Multiple Listing Service (MLS) access with the easy-to-use interface of Google Maps."
      • Ringfo compare prices of books and CDs via your mobile. US only.
    • General Shopping
      • Bricklink Buy, sell, trade lego bricks
      • Coupons & Deals. Coupons clipped by robots. I know no more than that.
      • Secondspin Used CDs and DVDs
      • Surprise.com Stuck for a present for someone? This lists different types of people (foodies, travellers, cat owners) and suggests presents for them.
      • URateStuff is a site where you rate stuff that you've got. Rather like Which.
      • Wists, social shopping scrapbook, wishlist. Social wishlists - everything you want for Xmas!

Please note:

• I haven't tried out all of these myself, and people who I don't know have kindly made many recommendations as well.
• Consequently you should exercise sensible caution when trying these things out for yourself, and while I haven't included any programs/utilities/resources that have any spyware or malware included in them that I am aware of, I cannot take any responsibility for the utilities themselves.
• Your choice, your responsibility.
• I can't answer questions on any of the products themselves, as I am not associated with them in any way; if you have queries you should direct them to the owner of that particular product.
• I'm not including anything that isn't safe for work, so don't ask for adult material to be included.

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This page last updated November 2008