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Confused with hundreds of cell phone plans! BillShrink lets you find the perfect plan that fit your usage needs. Upon giving some info on the data is analyzed, at a list of comparable inexpensive plans are given. Currently BillShrink is focused on cell plans only, in future it should work with cable and internet bills too. One thing you need to keep in mind, it doesn’t takes contracted phones into account. Unfortunately, many of these features are still buggy and need lots of improvements. But Billshrink is definitely turning out to be a great web app.

BillShrink [via Lifehacker]

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Nothing’s worse for a photographer then seeing the dreaded “Card Corrupt” or a similar message on your camera’s LCD. A lot of us have gone through that, most of the time you can’t do anything besides crushing the card manufacturer.

Recovering photos from corrupted cards usually impossible. Yet still with some photo recovery programs there’s still a possibility.

Before you use these photo recovery tools I would suggest 3 steps before going through the inevitable.

a. Don’t Panic

Don’t start panicking and start doing things that could further damage the photos. Take a deep breath and slow down. Take the card out of the camera and try it in another camera. Sometimes reinserting the card does the trick in most cases.

b. Don’t format your card

Wanna send SMS’s via Outlook. SMSOfficer lets you send text messages from your Outlook 2007. Only thing you need to do is signup for free and verify at SMSOfficer’s site. After installing the addon you’ll get a new menu item in Outlook. Now select New->Text Message, now type over the phone number you wanna text and hit Send. The lenght of the message is limited to 160 characters if you write more it get’s split into multiple texts.

With the free signup you get 10 SMS credits for free at the time of joining SMS Officer. Once you finished it, you need to buy additional credits in order to send messages, say $20 will get you 250 texts. SMS Officer operates with almost all cellular operators in US and other international countries including India.

SMSOfficer [via Digital Inspiration]

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Getting everything clean and organized is a fairly tough job. But simple proper planning can easily cleanup the mess and let you concentrate on working. Many magazines, blogs,etc all have covered this topic but they don’t tell why we can’t declutter even after trying many times.

Simply because they don’t tell that you should start small… instead of making a huge GTD list which usually ends up in a dustbin. You can’t declutter yourself in one day, it takes time, practice and persistence. No matter how small the step, it’s a start, which is important!

Starting from the first week, dedicate five minutes daily to cleaning your home. Add another five next week, this way keep adding five minutes at a time for cleaning. Gradually your mind, body will get accustomed and will be able to intake more. Here’s how you can start decluttering your home, five minutes at a time.

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People love traveling, most of us try to go for a local or international trip annually. Bad thing is that we often miss out due to work, school, financial problems. Even if we go good trips are ruined because of lack of information, bad deals etc.

From my personal experience today’s internet provide us with great websites that helps us find the correct flights, tickets, reservations, information of the place, maps and hundreds of things that makes traveling easy. I would like to share few of them that has helped me almost in all trips that I have done recently.

Airfares and Hotels Comparison

Kayak is an aggregator that fetches fares from the travel booking sites. It also tracks hotel fares and other travel methods.

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Everyone complains about the high cost of this and that. But nobody knows that themselves are to be blamed. Why can’t we save? The answer is simple, its because we end up spending then our paychecks can afford.

Most of us, frustrated with this daily struggle blame it on anything, high living expenses (food, rent, gas, education, etc) , govt, family, other countries etc but let me remind you if we can sacrifice on few things now, we can be better equipped to handle those rainy days. Previously i did mentioned how to save money with some 10 great ways. But there are hundreds of places where money can be saved. So why not broaden the thing.

Here are 47 ways(I thought it was 50!) on how to start saving money.

Save in the Home

1. Strive for a simpler lifestyle. Buy less clutter and junk. This means buying fewer nonessential things.