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SXSW 2009: Rudder is not Mint, here's why

by Jay Hathaway Mar 16th 2009



Grant talks to the team from Rudder, a new financial-tracking service that sounds a lot like Mint.com. The Rudder guys tell him how they distinguish themselves from Mint by focusing on planning for the future instead of tracking the past. Learn about the cool features that let Rudder turn finances into a game that you play with yourself. Can financial management seriously be fun? Find out in this video.

Tags: finances, financial, interview, mint, rudder, sxsw

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Filed under: Business, Finance, Productivity

Shoeboxed now automatically categorizes your receipts

by Jay Hathaway Oct 9th 2008

Shoeboxed
Trying to figure out where to tighten your belt during the financial crisis? You might want to take a look at Shoeboxed. It's an online service that helps you keep financial records by recording receipts that you mail, email or upload. The latest big feature addition is automatic receipt sorting, which comes in handy when you need to know where your money is going.

Anything you send to Shoeboxed is now labeled with the common tax category it belongs to: food, clothes or electronics, for example. You can even add your own custom categories, but you'll have to apply those yourself. When you need to tinker with your Shoeboxed data even more, it can be exported to Excel or Quicken. If tax season always sneaks up on you, Shoeboxed could be the help you need to make sure your records are all in order.

[via CNET News]

Tags: finances, receipts, Shoeboxed, tax

Filed under: Finance, Office, Productivity

Show your work with Project Calculator

by Jay Hathaway Jun 10th 2008


Are you a freelancer, a student, or someone who just really likes to bill people by the hour? You might get some use out of Project Calculator, an OS X app that helps you keep track of how much time you put into each of your projects. It lets you run a timer or enter your hours manually, and then does all the calculation you need to send someone a bill. You can output your Project Calculator in a number of formats, including PDF, HTML and plain text, so your clients will never give you the old "I couldn't open the file" excuse.

We almost balked at the $20 pricetag for Project Calculator, but after trying it out, we realized that this app can save you a lot of time for the money. Keeping a spreadsheet from scratch is ok, but having everything set up for you and organized by customer and by client is a lot easier and less fiddly. Appropriately, Project Calculator frees up some time for you to actually work on projects.

Tags: billing, business, finance, finances, freelance, Project Calculator, ProjectCalculator

Filed under: Finance, Internet, Yahoo!

A First Look at the New Yahoo! Finance Charts Beta

by Joe Beaulaurier Jul 19th 2006

Yahoo! Finance Charts Beta

Earlier this week Yahoo! announced changes that would roll out soon to upgrade aspects of the Yahoo! Finance property. One of these changes, and probably the most significant for daily users, is the completely overhauled Stock Charts.

When Google rolled out Google Finance property, most of the hubbub around their offering was the dynamic charts. These hadn't been seen before anywhere and had a lot of "kewl" factor in them. Even without the kewl charts, Yahoo! continued to be the most comprehensive and most visited financial resource on the web. And now, Y! is rolling out their version of dynamic stock charts with lots of "kewl" factor. Read on for an overview of the new features and my thoughts.

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Tags: chart, charts, finance, finances, financial, google finance, GoogleFinance, graph, graphs, invest, investing, investment, investments, mutual funds, MutualFunds, portfolio, portfolios, stock, stocks, yahoo, yahoo finance, YahooFinance

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