prezi - create eye-popping presentations

Tired of being put to sleep by boring powerpoint presentation? Then tell the world about Prezi. Prezi is no ordinary presentation maker, it allows to create amazingly creative and interactive presentations with an easy to use presentation builder tool. And best of all it is free. The only way to truly understand is to check out a presentation created with Prezi, so see below. Now, stop showing boring presentations and amaze your friends and colleagues!

Power of storytelling on Prezi

Calcmoolator - calculate anything financial

Wondering how the numbers would work out if you stay on unemployment versus get that part time job? Or want to calculate if it's worth buying that more expensive, yet much more efficient car? Well, you can calculate those as well as tons of other things with the Calcmoolator! So, as they put it, "Math is Hard, Calcmoolator is Easy!" So, if your parents or spouse won't let you get a dog because they think it's too expensive, now you can calculate it out and show them exactly what it will cost! Start calculating!

Squirrel Paperclips - yes, really...

Want to put a smile on your coworker's face? Then hand them your next report with one of these paperclips attached to it. Yep, I donno, people come up with and sell some of the craziest products. Who would have thought we needed a paperclip shaped like a squirrel. Apparently we do! If you are so inclined to buy, you can do so here!

Rentometer - rentals made easy

Are you a landlord or a tenant? If you answered "yes," then you should check out Rentometer. From the tenant side, you can compare your rent with other local properties to make sure you're not paying too much. You may even be able to send maintenance requests to your landlord through them; reducing the hassle of tracking down your landlord. For landlords, there's a plethora of services designed to help you manage your rentals, from Craigslist posting and tenant screening to a dashboard to manage all your rentals in one place. So, if you're a landlord or a tenant, check them out and see if they're right for you.

NoNotes - stop taking notes

Are you a college student who finds it hard to listen to your professor and take notes at the same time? Or maybe you're heading to a conference this weekend, but your colleagues aren't, and you want to fill them in on all the talks? Well, then NoNotes may have the answer for you.  In NoNotes own words, they are "a high quality low cost transcription and translation provider. We take your audio files and turn them in to text and we can translate any document to more than 80 languages." Transcription services are nothing new, but they've simply made it easy to do. You simply send them the audio, and they'll send you back a complete word-for-word copy. So, next time you "don't want to miss a thing" (as Aerosmith would say), check them out.

Finance Friday - Life Insurance

Do you have life insurance? Do you even need life insurance? If you're single and have no dependents or family to speak of probably not, but if you have a family that depends on you, you definitely need it. From all the research I've done, here's what I would recommend - a term life insurance policy worth about 10 times your annual salary. This is typically enough to help cover the costs of your burial, paying off the house, covering the kids' colleges, and a few other things to help take the pressure off. And if you're a spouse that does not work? Well, yes, you probably need life insurance too. It's a little harder to calculate how much you would need, but think through what the other spouse would have to pay for if you were gone - childcare costs, etc. Term life insurance is really not that expensive, and it is totally worth it! If you need help calculating it, let me know. I have a spreadsheet that I got from one of my personal finance classes that really helps you put it all together.

Indeed - find your next job here

Okay, so obviously with the world we live in today, many people are looking for jobs. So, here's a great place to go to search for one - Indeed.com. This site is basically a search engine dedicated to jobs; when you search it aggregates the jobs from all the other job search sites and lists them out for you. So, whether a company listed their job opening on Careerbuilder, Monster, or some other site, it will probably turn up in this search. I've used this site many times in the past, and when I'm looking for a job down the road some day, I'll probably use it again. If you're looking for a job right now, check out this site, and good luck in your search!

Finance Friday - Last Will and Testament

Okay, so this one is probably more to motivate myself than for anyone reading this, but, well you all may need some motivation as well. So here's my plan, my wife and I do not have an official Last Will and Testament; yes, I now that's pretty ridiculous considering we have kids. But, anyway, I plan to rectify that this weekend. I heard the other day on the radio from Dave Ramsey about his special deal through US Legal Forms - just go to www.uslegalforms.com/dave. It looks like you can get your Last Will, Living Will, and Power of Attorney for yourself and your spouse for about $44. That sounds pretty reasonable to me. So, the challenge to myself and to those who are in my same boat is to make it happen this weekend! Whether you use US Legal Forms, an attorney, or some other method, just go make it happen!

Finance Friday - Mint.com

If you're looking for a great way to manage your money, you need to check out Mint.com. Not only is it a great online tool to plan, budget, save, and do just about everything in terms of tracking your dollars, it's totally free! So, whether you're new at this whole budgeting and saving thing, or you're a pro who wants to take it to the next level, Mint.com has the tools you need to get it done - easily. And that's the key isn't it? If it's hard to do, you're not going to do it! Set-up on the site can take as little as five minutes, and then you're off and running. In this economy, every dollar counts, so don't let one get away without knowing where it went.

LinkedIn - facebook for business

If you haven't gotten a LinkedIn account yet, you are missing out. LinkedIn is basically the Facebook for business networking. You set up your profile, listing out your previous job experience (basically your resume), and then you connect with all your current and previous business colleagues. This is THE BEST way to network when looking for a job because not only can you see all your business colleagues, but you can see all of THEIR business colleagues. So, if you want to work for "ABC Company", you may have a colleague or a colleague of a colleague that works there who can push you through the clutter. I actually got my current job this way. I currently have 125 connections on LinkedIn, but my extended network is almost 2,000! That's the power of LinkedIn!