Bizman's Tools

notifinder - craigslist postings directly to your email

2010-08-26T20:54:00.002-05:00

Notifinder is a FREE service that sends you email alerts when listings that match your specified keywords appear on Craiglist.

notifinder - craigslist postings directly to your email

Using the service is very easy. Simply plug in your keyword search and specify which subcategory—For Sale, Jobs, Housing, etc.— you want to search, and then specify how often you want to be notified. Notifications can occur immediately after the post is detected, daily, or weekly

How Secure Is My Password?

2010-07-01T11:20:00.001-05:00

How Secure Is My Password? is a new, FREE web service that let's you quickly check your password's strength.

It is fast, easy to use and contains links on how to Choose a Secure Password.

Definitely worth a visit.

FollowUpThen: Free, Fast and Simple Email Reminder

2010-02-08T08:37:00.002-06:00

FollowUpThen is a FREE and EASY email reminder.

FollowUpThen: Free, Fast and Simple Email Reminder via kwout

On your next email just include time-interval@followupthen.com and we will follow up after the time interval you specify.

Free! No Account Required.

ChipIn - a FREE and easy way to collect money

2009-12-23T08:22:00.002-06:00

ChipIn is a web-based service that simplifies the process of collecting money from groups of people.

ChipIn’s mission is to make it easy to collect money.

ChipIn via kwout

ChipIn enables users to organize group payments and fundraisers (”ChipIns”) in a quick, easy, and secure way. It also makes it simple for organizers to publicize their ChipIns, by providing powerful fundraising widgets that can be embedded in social media.

ChipIn allows anyone to collect money for a personal cause, group purchase, or fundraiser using their own custom ChipIn page.
ChipIn enables bloggers to create an interactive widget that allows them to raise money directly through blogs and other social media.
ChipIn empowers non-profit organizations to engage a distributed network of supporters in “blograising” campaigns for major fundraising efforts.

Stop the Arguments in a Shared Household with Bills Are In

2009-12-15T14:43:00.002-06:00

Bills Are In is a FREE web service that helps you manage, keep track of bills, IOUs and keep it hassle free.

Bills Are In | Welcome via kwout

When a bill comes in, eg. the internet bill, simply add it to the system and an email is sent to all the people in the house with how much is due and when.

Nice and simple. If problems come up with who paid what when. Simply look at the history and statistics to get a clear answer and solve the problem.

BillsAreIn.com Walk Through from coops on Vimeo.

Movieclips.com - Browse, Watch, Search and Share...Movie Clips

2009-12-03T10:30:00.006-06:00

movieclips.com is a NEW, FREE service for movie fans made by movie fans.

The site that has a HUGE collection of...that's right - movie clips.

The clips are completely searchable by actor, title, genre, occasion, action, mood, character, theme, setting, prop, and even dialogue.

This makes it simple to find a scene fast.

Online Event Registration for Everyone!

2009-11-30T16:37:00.002-06:00

Everbrite is a provider of online event management and ticketing services.

Online Event Registration for Everyone! Eventbrite is the World's Marketplace for Events via kwout

Eventbrite makes it easy for anyone to hold a successful event of any type and size.

Eventbrite is free if your event is free.

If you sell tickets to your event, Eventbrite collects a small fee per ticket.

The Eventbrite service includes many features and tools intended to let you perform three basic tasks really well:

Publish: Everything you need to create and easily personalize a custom web page for your event. Read more.
Promote: The tools you need to spread the word about your event and maximize attendance. Read more.
Sell: The immediate power to sell tickets and collect moneyonline. Read more.

Eventbrite is a San Francisco-based company, and is backed by the European Founders fund.

Luggage Limits - Airline Baggage Allowance Policies

2009-11-30T13:48:00.001-06:00

Luggage Limits is a FREE Search Tool for Flight-Specific Baggage Information.

Luggage Limits - Airline Baggage Allowance Policies via kwout

Detailed baggage allowance information is available on all routes and ticket classes for over 100 airlines! All of the information you need to avoid expensive airline luggage fees is provided along with helpful airport specific links.

Using Luggage Limits is simple:

Select an Airline
Select departure and arrival airports
Hit Search

Search results by ticket class include:

Weights and dimensions permitted for checked and carry-on baggage
The number of free bags permitted
Fees for oversized, overweight & excess baggage
Maximum weights and sizes permitted
Route embargo information
Possible online discounts
Special baggage policies
General airline information

You're invited to join Dropbox! - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

2009-11-24T08:34:00.001-06:00

Dropbox - You're invited to join Dropbox! - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.

Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn. Dropbox works seamlessly with your operating system and automatically makes sure your files are up-to-date. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

How To Get a Free Disposable Phone Number

2009-09-09T17:32:00.001-05:00

If you ever need to hand out your phone number in a public forum or, say, give your number to a stranger on Craigslist, you rarely want to give away your real number.

inumbr is an auto-expiring, FREE anonymous phone number that forwards incoming call to your home or mobile phone. Callers do not see your home or mobile numbers.

Free Disposable Temporary Phone Number to Keep your Phone Number Private

To get your disposable number, simply go to the site, pick your city, set your expiration time (one hour, one day, one week), then tell it where to forward your calls.

2009-05-03T08:57:00.004-05:00

TrueCar is a NEW and FREE web service, that promises to be a handy tool in the car buying process. At least for the buyer.

TRUECAR - The Authority on New Car Pricing

It helps bring transparency to the sales process by aggregating data from many different sources to show car buyers and dealers how much people actually paid for a particular car in their geographic area.

Lifehacker - TrueCar Shows You What Cars are Really Selling For - Saving Money

Consumers no longer walk into the dealership only partially informed and fully suspicious. Instead, they show up with the Price Report in hand and know how to strike a fair deal.

How To Find A Good Place to Meet

2008-10-11T15:17:00.004-05:00

Let's say you need to meet a friend or client for lunch on the other side of town...How do you pick the best place that would be "fair" to both of you?

Meetways.com, A new, FREE web service, aims to solve just that.

MeetWays - Find a point of interest between two given addresses - Lets Meet!

Meetways.com was created to allow users to find a point of interest between two addresses.

Simply enter both addresses and the type of restaurant you are looking for ==> MeetWays will give you the exact halfway point and a list of restaurants in that area.

Save hours trying to figure out the halfway point on a map and instead find it in one simple click!

How To Create Free Marketing Materials For Your Business

2008-05-30T10:02:00.003-05:00

BrandDoozie is a new and FREE web application that creates marketing materials in minutes.

You can easily create your logo, business cards, brochures, direct mail, flyers and more!

BrandDoozie: Marketing Materials in Minutes.

BrandDoozie offers easy-to-use online marketing tool that provides start-ups and small businesses with professionally designed brand systems. With quick access to brochures, business cards, direct mail, flyers and more, you’ll be marketing in no time.

Created for small businesses and start-up companies, it’s an effective and professional way to jump-start your marketing efforts.

Create your own marketing materials without having to buy software or learn any graphic skills; and manage every component of your company’s marketing from one central location.

Build your logo, create and edit marketing documents and use our photo gallery all for FREE! Try it now, or if you still want to learn more before getting started — check out the demo.

How To "See" Where Crime Is In Your Neighborhood

2008-05-22T19:31:00.002-05:00

SpotCrime is a new, FREE service that lets you "see" where crime is taking place.

A very comprehensive online source of crime information, the site offers local maps, crime reports classifications -- all on real-time, interactive maps.

Houston, TX Crime Map (beta)

Best YouTube Mashup ever!!

2008-05-09T17:03:00.001-05:00

A very cool way indeed to put some order into a wonderful, yet chaotic universe.

read more | digg story

How To Escape Boring Meetings And Sucky Dates

2008-05-08T08:53:00.004-05:00

PhoneMyPhone offers a FREE, simple yet quite useful service --> it calls your phone for you.

PhoneMyPhone.com: find your cell phone, escape boring meetings, or end sucky dates early!

When would you use it?

to find your cell phone
to escape boring meetings
to end sucky dates early

How To Find Out Nutrition Facts Before Going To The Store

2008-05-06T08:02:00.005-05:00

We've all heard the saying "you are what you eat." But how many of us really know what we're putting in our bodies?

Zeer is a grocery product community that helps people "believe in what they buy." It connects people to product information, communities full of like-minded people, and buying advice.

Zeer | Consumer reviews for healthy eating, organic food and green products.

Know Before You Go

Overwhelmed in the grocery store?

With Zeer you can research products in advance, read reviews get nutritional info tailored to you and use our advanced product search tool to find exactly what you're looking for.

Join Communities

Going green or organic? Looking for a healthier diet? Or are you passionate about wine, beer or your pet?

With Zeer you can join communities that match your needs and interests and get advice that's relevant to you.

Share Advice

What's your specialty? On Zeer, you can boost your karma by writing product reviews, starting conversations and being an active part of your your communities.

With Zeer as a guide you can be confident in your decisions.

How To Make Your Photos Look Like They're From An Old Newspaper

2008-05-05T08:47:00.006-05:00

I just came across Wanokoto, a Japanese website that offers a COOL and FREE service -- upload (or use a URL of) your photo, and Wanokoto will make it look like it's from a 150 year old newspaper.

How To Create a Logo For Free

2008-05-01T09:16:00.005-05:00

Previously, I have posted about getting a professional e-mail and business cards, as two of the basic, must-haves for people starting a new business.

Today we'll discuss how to create a professional looking logo for your new business, using a new tool -- LogoEase.

A logo should be a unique representation of your business or product. People should look at your logo design and see what your company stands for.

LogoEase offers a totally FREE, professional grade logo maker.

An intuitive and simple design interface allows you to create your own free business logo designs in just minutes.

You then receive various electronic files for both web and print use including the VECTOR source files.

File formats include eps, png, jpg and tiff. You can save and download as many as 10 free logo designs at any one time.

You can view logo samples here, or simply start to create a logo for FREE.

How To Get A Free iChat Alternative For Windows

2008-04-29T07:15:00.005-05:00

Have you been envious of your apple-totting friend's iChat?

Well, now you can get ManyCam -- a FREE iChat alternative for your windows machine that let's you use your webcam with multiple applications at the same time and add cool graphics to your webcam video window.

ManyCam - Home - webcam graphics plus use your webcam with multiple programs simultaneously!

With ManyCam you can:

Use your webcam with multiple programs simultaneously.
Add text to your webcam video window with any application.
Add cool animations to your video window.
Show your local day and date in your video window.
Add live CGI graphics like fire and water effects. You can even make it appear as if it is snowing inside your house!

You can download the FREE program, or get started by learning how to start using your webcam with multiple webcam applications.

How To Get Nutrition Data On Your Mobile

2008-04-27T10:21:00.003-05:00

There are many resources for finding the nutritional contents of foods.

But what do you do when you're at your favorite restaurant trying to decide what to order?

Enter Diet.com's Nutrition on the Go service:

Using the new Diet.com Nutrition on the Go service really is as easy as 1,2,3:

You put your phone in text message mode, type in the menu item you need help with, then send that info to DIET1 (34381).
In a flash you receive a text with the information you requested
Make an informed decision! Feast on tasty, guilt-free, diet-friendly food!

The site offers access to over 36,000 foods from 1700 restaurants in North America!

*Note: Try to be as accurate and specific as possible - the less words you include from the menu item, the less likely you are to recieve information for the item you want to look up.

How To Learn About Health Insurance Alternatives

2008-04-23T10:21:00.002-05:00

Have questions about Individual, Small Business, Group, Student, or Family Health Insurance?

Health Plan One is a FREE service that allows consumers to compare and select health insurance plans from a wide range of providers.

Health Insurance Alternatives By Health Plan One

Users enter their specific details and receive free health insurance quotes and can compare features among multiple options rather than researching individual plans from different sources.

The site also provides a lot of useful information and is a good place to learn about HSAs or COBRA alternatives.

Get Online Help With Your Next Test Preparation

2008-04-21T09:27:00.006-05:00

Socrato is a new and FREE site that can help make your learning effort easier and more productive.

Socrato: Test Preparation Getting Smarter - Track progress, focused test preparation

Most other learning tools replicate pencil and paper learning processes. Socrato brings the power of computing and data analysis to your studies.

"We constantly analyze your learning patterns, quantify your strengths and weaknesses and allow you to customize your practice session based on your goals"

What practice tests does Socrato currently have available?

Socrato has imported 5 years of prior MCAS tests (i.e., questions and answers) for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. The tests are organized by grade year (6, 7, and 8), and include Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science and Technology/Engineering, and History and Social Science.

In all there are over 1000 MCAS questions available from 27 previous tests.

So try out Socrato and get better prepared for your next test -- signup for a FREE account.

How To Get A Free Personal Travel Assistant

2008-04-17T14:27:00.007-05:00

With today's myriad of travel sites, even the most experienced traveler has their hands full managing all the details of a typical trip.

Booking airline tickets, hotels, rental cars and restaurants leaves you with lots of separate pieces of paper. Throw in maps, directions, things to do, and weather and the chaos multiplies.

Enter TripIt -- a FREE, personal travel assistant that automatically organizes all your travel plans.

TripIt | Organize your travel

TripIt turns chaos into order by making it easy for anyone to:

Organize trip details into one master online itinerary -- even if arrangements are booked at multiple travel sites
Automatically include maps, directions and weather in their master itinerary
Have the option to book restaurants, theatre tickets, activities and more right from within the online itinerary
Safely access travel plans online, share them, check-in for flights, or print an itinerary

How it Works:

The easiest way to get started with TripIt is to simply forward all your travel confirmation emails to: plans@tripit.com

Once they receive your bookings, TripIt will email you a link to view your itinerary and your new TripIt account. Using TripIt is free and your travel plans are kept secure and confidential.

What happens to my travel booking?

This is when the cool stuff starts -- the TripIt "Itinerator" takes over and automatically combines your related travel bookings into a single master itinerary. Then the Itinerator searches the Web to add related information, including daily weather, local maps, driving directions, city guides and more.

You'll get an email from TripIt once your new itinerary is ready.

What can I do with my TripIt itinerary?

You can simply print your itinerary and head out the door with all your travel plans and confirmation numbers in one place. Or you can customize your itinerary with additional maps and directions, meetings and activities, or even other Web pages that you'll need on your trip.

You can also access all your travel plans while on the road from your mobile device or automatically sync your detailed itineraries to your personal calendar.

It's easy to create a network of TripIt Connections so you can view each other's travel calendars and get alerted when your travel plans overlap with each other. It's also easy to share complete itineraries with friends or family who need to know your travel plans, or collaborate with fellow travelers on a trip.

Here's some other information about TripIt that you may find helpful:

TripIt Sample Itinerary

TripIt Blog

TripIt Media Coverage

How To Avoid Police Speed Trap

2008-04-14T12:32:00.005-05:00

If you ever had, or considered having, radar or laser detectors to help you avoid getting speeding tickets -- then you're going to love Trapster.

Trapster™ - Speed Trap Sharing System

While there are several sites that allow users to input locations of usual speed trap locations, red light cameras, speed cameras - a map of speed traps on a Web site will NOT help you avoid a ticket.

Police are not stupid. They change the locations where they set up speed traps many times per day. Only real time data is useful.

Trapster™ data is real time data -- with Trapster your mobile phone alerts you as you approach police speed traps.

How trapster works:

When you see a trap, report it by pressing a button on your phone, or calling a toll free number.
Other user's phones will alert them as they approach the trap.

Trapster™ learns the credibility of traps based on how many users agree. It also learns the credibility of each user, over time.

Here's how to get started using Trapster™ on your mobile phone:

Create a Trapster account from your Web browser (not mobile) using the "Sign-up" button on the home page.

To get Trapster on your Mobile Phone you can either install the Trapster™ application or simply use the voice and SMS features (no install required).

Click Here to watch a demo video of Trapster or simply signup for a FREE account.