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Mortgage Assistant
Mortgage Assistant is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
A great, free app from the UK’s leading fee-free mortgage broker. The Mortgage Assistant app is a fast and simple way for you to keep on top of your mortgage and the latest mortgage deals on the market (UK only).
See up to the minute best buy mortgage deals from all the major mortgage lenders, try our wide range of handy mortgage calculators and get the latest mortgage news and views from our blog.
You can also use our 1 Minute Mortgage Check to see instantly if you could get a better deal on your mortgage – based on the latest rates.
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Become A Field Agent And Earn Money With Your iPhone
Become A Field Agent And Earn Money With Your iPhone is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
By now you’ve probably spent a decent amount of money on iPhone apps, so wouldn’t it be nice if you could make some of that money back?
Well the Field Agent app might be able to help you do just that, claiming to be the first app that actually pays you, the user. By signing up to become an “Agent” you fit into a very simple ecosystem: A “Client” creates a job, the “Agent” (you) completes the job, the client and agent are happy.
What does this mean in the real word? Well, a client is a company or service that has signed up at FieldAgent.net and needs information on competitors, consumers or wants to check whether its products are being correctly sold. The agent is someone who has download the Field Agent app and receives notification that a client needs a job done, carries it out and is paid a small fee for their troubles.
While it sounds very James Bond meets Foursquare, the app and its assignments are for real as far as we can tell and actually do pay. While no explicit information is given as to the purpose or beneficiaries of these “assignments”, it’s a safe bet that most of them are market research for the Fortune 50 clients who back the app.
Fortunately, the agent jobs required by the clients don’t involve horses heads in beds or extortion either. Most of the assignments involve checking prices at stores or filling out surveys and pay between $3 and $12 if completed properly and within a set time limit. Jobs often require a verifiable GPS location and a photograph in order to keep the clients happy so an iPhone 3G or 3GS is recommend.
Once an agent has made their money it can be transferred to a PayPal account within 48 hours.
Agents also develop a Rep Score that shows how good a job you’re doing for your clients. Starting with 85 points, agents gain points up to a maximum of 100 for successful, accurate jobs with higher rep leading to more frequent jobs. Of course, if you fail at your task or submit inaccurate results you lose points and aren’t at the top of the pile when the next assignment comes in.
It seems that agent jobs are somewhat scarce at the moment with a number of iTunes reviewers giving some pretty harsh feedback that has prompted a response from the company. Apparently the number of agents has increased by 500% in a week and they are waiting for the client growth to catch up. This does sound like a cleverly worded way of saying “companies aren’t quite as interested in the service as consumers who stand to make money” but apparently more jobs are coming soon.
We’re keeping a close eye on this intriguing service that has the potential to be groundbreaking but could also end up wasting a lot of people’s time.
[ Become A Field Agent And Earn Money With Your iPhone is a post from 148Apps ]
Want to Take Your Money through a Time Machine? DimeTravel Is the App for That..
Want to Take Your Money through a Time Machine? DimeTravel Is the App for That.. is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Oh, infaltion, thou art a wretched beast. A dollar fifty years ago is not the same as a dollar today—just look at the concept of a dime store to tell you that much. DimeTravel is the app to tell you exactly how your money has changed over time. Here’s the developer’s take on a typical usage scenario:
You’re watching an old episode of Columbo on a lazy Sunday afternoon. An episode from 1976. He gets a haircut and it costs him $25. He is shocked with the cost. You open up DimeTravel and ask it how much $25 from 1976 would be today. (answer = almost $100 – NOW i can feel poor old Columbo’s pain).
Pretty staggering, no? Of course, the app can calculate things the other way around, too. Here are a few samples for your amusement, with the numbers taken from this site:
- Coffee cost $1.11/lb in 1954…which is $14.47 today!
- A car (a Henry J, to be precise) for sale in New Jersey in 1950 was listed at $1,299…which is a whopping $27,771 today.
- $1 bought you two large bottles of Clorox Bleach in 1970…that would be $9.55 today.
- Someone needed an accountant and was willing to pay a $9,000 annual salary in 1970…or $85,942 in today’s money!
Conversely, if you take modern numbers and change them:
- A $60 video game would sell for a paltry $4.92 half a century ago,
- and that $200 you spent on your iPhone 3GS would have been just $153 back in 2000.
Playing with numbers is always fun. Sadly, DimeTravel only goes back to 1948 for us Americans. I don’t know why—Wolfram Alpha can handle prior centuries just fine—but even with the current data, it’s still nifty to look at these numbers! And you can look at them, too, because DimeTravel displays the path of inflation as a nice graph. If you’re a sucker for realizing how transient your money is, go ahead and give DimeTravel a look. And more importantly, invest your remaining money wisely, because if you leave it under your mattress, it’s likely to vanish into grasp of good ol’ inflation.
DimeTravel
Category: Finance
Released: 2010-04-16
Price: $1.99
[ Want to Take Your Money through a Time Machine? DimeTravel Is the App for That.. is a post from 148Apps ]
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Booze Control
Booze Control is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Ever wonder which liquor store purchase gets you the most bang for your buck?
Find out now with this simple alcohol concentration calculator.
Compare any hard liquor to any beer to any wine!
Enter the number of drinks being purchased,
The volume of these drinks (in ml),
The percentage alcohol of these drinks,
And the total cost of the drinks,
Hit “value” and you will be given a figure that represents the amount of money you are paying for each ml of concentrated alcohol.
*Please Drink Responsibly*
ShowerTime
ShowerTime is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Do you love long showers but want to save money and help the planet? Shower Time is the answer. It lets you know when it’s time to stop the water, calculates the amount of water used and the cost of each shower for you. Reduce your bills and do your bit to preserve the earth’s most precious resource – water. Click “…More” to learn why you should download this App today!
You love long showers. They relax you as you let the steamy hot water run over your tired, sore muscles. It feels so good that you don’t want to get out, so you end up looking like a prune. Too bad it didn’t have the same effect on your water bill.
Showering just one or two minutes less each day can save you some serious cash over the course of a year. Why? Because you are using less water and less energy to heat it. That means you’re depleting fewer resources, including your hard earned money.
Naturally, your shower is not going to be relaxing anymore if you have to watch a clock in order to shave a minute or two off your showering time. That’s where ShowerTime comes in.
ShowerTime is the wonderful little app for your iPhone or iPod Touch that takes care of all the pesky details of tracking your shower costs and usage. Check out what it does for you:
* Listens for the sound of the shower starting and stopping
* Gives you a clear, loud signal when it is time to rinse
* Lets you know when it is time to turn off the water
* Works automatically, giving you audio and visual signals
Did you get that last point? You don’t have to think about a thing in the shower, it’s automatic so just enjoy as you always do. ShowerTime does the work and you get the benefits.
The application totals the amount of water you’ve used, along with the calculated cost. With a few simple taps, you can custom set the water usage, shower time and sounds yourself. The app will even show you how much you can save a year by showering two minutes less.
You can use ShowerTime anywhere. Take it with you on your travels. Even if you aren’t paying for the water and energy where you are, you’ll be doing your part to preserve some of our precious natural resources.
Of course, you are smart enough to know that you should never expose your iDevice to moisture, including water, condensation or steam. Take the precaution of putting your device into a container or moisture proof case, just to be on the safe side. ShowerTime developers aren’t responsible for damages, so be sure to use your head when utilizing the software.
Downloading ShowerTime gives you more to sing about in the shower. You save time, money and natural resources in only a couple of minutes. Don’t turn on the water again until you have this app on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
It’s Payback Time With Mr. Moneybags
It’s Payback Time With Mr. Moneybags is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $0.99 Score: 7/10 By Jose Ralat Maldonado
For whom does that bag of change toll? For thee, deadbeat! And it’s held by Mr. Moneybags, an app that adds levity and motivation to what is otherwise a potential social quagmire—the monetary lending of and borrowing from kin and kith. The burden can strain even the oldest and dearest of relationships.
Imagine being in the hole to your life-long best friend for a measly $50 without the means—however unlikely—to fulfill your debt. Then you should beware of Mr. Moneybags by Bacon Bear Productions. You better think twice about donning your brand spanking new gold lamé Converse All-Stars for a night painting the town red—when you’re in the red. You might run into the buddy to whom you owe dough. And then comes the Shame!
The Shame is a valuable feature of Mr. Moneybags. If your “friend” hasn’t repaid the cost of the tickets for the classic rock band’s only reunion show in a reasonable amount of time, you can click the Shame button in the debt profile, which posts to the bum’s Facebook page. What’s more, you’re probably not the only one the freeloader is indebted to. That makes clicking the Shame button even more chilling (and hilariously sadistic). It’s a debtors prison of ones and zeros for all to see.
If you aren’t prepared to go as far as using the Shame option, an email reminder can be sent in either simple text or with the inclusion of a colorful CSV (comma-separated values) table, further exhibiting your thoughtful nature to the moocher. Nothing says “I’m thinking of you” like a technicolor IOU.
Mr. Moneybags is especially useful for vacations, when a rolling tally of who owes what to whom is complicated by currency exchanges and the hundreds of expenses incurred daily. A spring-break trip to Tijuana may be cheap thanks to the favorable dollar-to-peso exchange rate (approximately 1:12), but the endless stream of shots, cervezas, tacos as well as the hygienically dubious matching tattoos you and your traveling companions got in some back-alley parlor, not to mention the consequential trip to the hospital, add up. You can even consolidate the debts into Contexts, which outlines who owes you what in specific categories like “Tijuana.” As you might have guessed, the user is able to set preferred currencies for debts. Among those included are the aforementioned Mexican peso, the Thai baht, the Israeli sheqel and Kazakh tenge. Group trips is where Mr. Moneybags shines like a newly minted $100 bill, something rarely seen in circulation, something remarkable.
The porcine Monolopy Man on the app’s start-up screen leads the user to believe the app he/she has downloaded a facile means of acquiring a repayment. This is where Mr. Moneybags fails to deliver. Unfortunately, much like getting up the gumption to embarrass those who owe you moolah, the apps’ interface is deceptively difficult to use. On several occasions, I couldn’t save new debts, even though I had followed the directions to a T. When I attempted to Shame a friend on Facebook, I received a prompt stating said friend didn’t exist. That friend was my brother! (“That’s cold!” you might say. Indeed, I might be Mr. Moneybags‘ target audience.)
Aside from its initially shaky nature, Mr. Moneybags is a shrewd way to track and call in IOUs, balanced by the user’s ability to keep tabs on what he/she owes others. (You didn’t think this app was that greedy, did you?) It’s a useful tool in this recessionary climate. And for less than a dollar, a worthy investment.
Mr. Moneybags is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch and requires iPhone OS 3.1 or later.
Currencies Quiz
Currencies Quiz is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Money … Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. But there are endless currencies around the world – how much do you know about them?
Try out the currency quiz.
What do you use as payment in different countries?