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BillShrink helps you find cheap gas on your way to work

BillShrink gas
BillShrink is a web service that helps you find ways to save money in various areas of your life. And the company keeps adding new features. At launch, BillShrink allowed you to find the best cellphone plan for your needs. Then came credit cards. Now you can use BillShrink to find cheap gas from stations near your daily commute.

When you click the Gas Prices button BillShrink will ask you to enter your home and work addresses and the make and model of your vehicle. Armed with information about your commute and your car's gas mileage, the service will search for the prices of gas at area gas stations and determine whether it's worth driving out of your way to fill up your tank.

You can also filter results by gas station brand, or amenities like ATMs, 24 hour gas stations, or stations that accept credit cards.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Web services, Mobile Minute, AOL, Search

MapQuest Mobile gets overhaul

MapQuest Mobile gas
Earlier this month MapQuest got a much needed facelift. Now it's MapQuest Mobile's turn. AOL (which owns both apQuest and the blog you're reading right now) has added several useful new features to the mobile interface for MapQuest as part of an overhaul of AOL's mobile services.

There are three major updates:
  1. Gas prices: You can now use MapQuest to find the cheapest gas stations near a given location from your cellphone.
  2. Multi-point directions: You can add up to six locations to your directions and get step by step directions for moving from one point to the next.
  3. Walking directions: If you're on foot, you can now get walking directions from your phone.
You can get to the mobile version of MapQuest by visiting www.mapquest.com on most mobile web browsers.

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