Buxfer is an online application that allows you to maintain and manage your financial stability, along with monitoring any debts that you owe or are owed. The layout is appealing and Buxfer’s competition could soon be struggling. Following a recent alliance with the Apple iPhone, you can take advantage of what Buxfer has to offer, straight from your iPhone. This will allow you to access all of your transactions, tags, charts and even report transactions while you are on the go. Yes, you can access your bank account from your iPhone as well, but Buxfer offers more and has a simple, iPhone compatible layout enabling a more readable text size.

Venturebeat recently released a favorable article, claiming that Buxfer is giving Mint a run for its money. That is a strong statement considering that Mint was part of the Techcrunch 40 startup companies. However, I agree that Buxfer is an excellent new money management tools and seems to offer everything that its competitors offer, plus more. In addition, its super-fresh interface has much to do usability. Signing up is a breeze and importing bank information is as simple (and safe) as logging in.

TechCrunch calls Buxfer the “half brother of Billmonk” because of the product similarities. However, Buxfer does offer much more than Billmonk. TechCrunch explains that, “Buxfer is deeper than Billmonk, letting you track and tag out your expenses with friends and groups over time. Buxfer goes further, letting you analyze you expenses over time through a Google finance-style pie chart with adjustable time frame.” In my opinion, Buxfer does offer quite a lot of flexibility and even offers a peer to peer payment service. Backed by Amazon, you can collaborate with Buxfer to get the money back that your friends owe you in easy, flexible payments. While other private services are beginning to offer this, Buxfer is a well-rounded site that focuses on managing your money, income and debts as a whole.

Buxfer users are enabled to setup automatic bill reminders and repeating transactions. This is helpful for those who bookmark several bill paying sites in order to manually check bill due dates each month. Buxfer will keep track for the individual every bill that is entered into the private Buxfer account; reoccurring bills such as mortgage payments, electric bills and automobile payments.

NetBanker points out a weakness of Buxfer, claiming it has “no support for transactions”. When I signed up for the service, I did notice that I had to do a lot of manual data entering. NetBanker explains, “Other than being able to import transaction files that have been previously downloaded from banks and card issuers, it’s all manual data entry. Helper tools such as “copy”, “repeat entry” and “auto-tagging” help a bit, but to be an effective tool the service needs to integrate more closely with the actual bill and the payment.” I know that if the service is too cumbersome, then it will slowly decrease individual usage.

Overall, Buxfer made an excellent choice by making itself compatible with the iPhone. With the world’s current economic status, it is about time to take responsibility for our finances.

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 Do you have a hard time managing tasks between a group of people? Sometimes it can be rather tough assigning tasks to people without a little help, especially if you have a large group. I have just the solution – that is if you don’t have one already that you aren’t willing to leave.

Taskbin.com is an excellent way to give your team easy, precise, and oragnaized tasks. On Taskbin.com all group members have their own to-do list, priorities, completed tasks, timetables, and access to the task bins of others in the group. The idea is that everyone in the group begins and stays on the same page. The site is easy to use and as simple as typing in the test box, clicking on a time and priority and pressing enter. Take a look here to get a better idea.

Information such as, time, date, who created the task, when it should be finished, and the progress helps everyone stay abreast of what is going on within the group and with specific projects. Members can be a part of more than one group and can personalize their task bin. Every group member’s TaskBin is shared with everyone else in the group and is organized by timeframe: “today,” “tomorrow,” “this week,” “sometime soon,” etc.

They say:

“TaskBin was born out of a very strong need at MangoSpring. MangoSpring believes in what we call “Naked organizations”. Everyone needs to be on the same page. Everyone should have access to everyone else’s task list. We do not believe in status reports and weekly status meetings. Everything should be transparent and flat. TaskBin is our “company” management tool.”

I love the idea of Taskbin.com. It is simple so everyone can use it whether you are organizing your son/daughter’s chores to organizing your company’s  financial team. As mentioned, it is easy to work with. The UI is nice and you may find it to be a little fun, at least for a few days

There are others like Twitter and Facebook has a little task program, but none of these are as good as Taskbin.com. If you are looking for a task management program integrated in email, I would recommend Remember The Milk for Gmail. Taskpro.com gets close with some neat features, but after playing with Taskbin.com for a while, I feel Taskbin is just a pleasure to use. Play with the demo here to see for yourself. Here are a list of feature that Taskbin.com has to offer for you:

• Create, track and manage personal and group tasks (ToDo’s).
• Assign tasks to groups/teams or individual members.
• View colleagues’ tasks right below your task dashboard.
• Set different task priorities and due dates.
• View and Sort tasks by due dates (Today, Tomorrow, etc).
• Detailed Task history for each tasks.
• Keep important notes in conveniently positioned Notepad-like note board.
• Select different theme and look for your task dashboard.
• Access Taskbin directly from your mobile.
• Follow up on updates via RSS feeds or get ‘daily summary’ emails.

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