Stock Tweet App has taken these conventions and used them to build a custom interface for viewing Twitter with a scrolling live stream of all stock-related tweets. Alternatively, you can use the Custom Stock List option to type in the symbol for a few stocks you’re interested in tracking, and only tweets concerning those stocks will be shown.

We’ve previously covered StockTwits in this space, and while they cover the same ground functionally, the styles of the two sites are very different. Of the two, I prefer Stock Tweet App, but there’s a sneak peek of a new beta version of StockTwits available which is worth checking out.

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For the quarter ending December 2009, Microsoft saw a net, record-breaking profit of 6.66 billion dollars on revenue of 19 billion dollars – in just three months! Driven by the release of Windows 7 this was actually the most successful quarter money-wise in Microsoft’s history. This might come as a little bit of a shock to the PC naysayers, what with the apparent loss of ground to Apple, but it’s just proof that the PC market in specific, and tech sector in general, is still very strong indeed.

If the inferno-like profit wasn’t enough to send you reeling — have a think about the profit margin. I still can’t get my head around the 30% difference between revenue and profit. Ah, software! Ah, a greater-than-90-percent market share! Ah… I’m in the wrong business…

In other news, Windows 7 flew off the shelves 234% faster than Windows Vista. Big surprise — Vista was obviously Microsoft’s attempt to strike a deal with Gabe and Him which obviously didn’t last very long.
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In order to find the best savings accounts and CDs, you enter the amount of cash you have saved, an estimate of how much you expect to set aside each month, and where you live. You can also choose additional details like the services you need from a bank including online bill payment check writing, nearby ATM access and direct deposit.

Once you enter all that info, BillShrink will spit out a list of options for your area that should help you save money. For instance, BillShrink may recommend opening a new bank account or a bank account at one institution plus a CD at another.

[via TechCrunch]

You can create multiple portfolios like, say, one for your retirement account and another for your investment account. You can use the application to lookup stock and fund ticker symbols. And you can view detailed information in several handy graphs that show you the change in value of individual stocks or your entire portfolio over time. There’s also a pie chart that shows how your funds are allocated.

Portfolio Viewer can import your investments from Quicken, Microsoft Money, or Excel files. And since the application is based on Adobe AIR, it can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

[via RefreshingApps]

Those coupons start at $20 off the price of Quicken Deluxe, bringing the price down to $39.99. You can also get $30 off the price of Quicken Premier or Home& Business, or $50 off the price of Rental Property Manager. Or if your finances aren’t that complicated, you could just try Quicken Online for free.

The coupons are good through July 31st. Microsoft will stop selling Money at the end of June, although support will be available through January, 2011.

Microsoft will stop selling the application in June, although it will still be supported for another 18 months or so. After that point, you’ll still be able to use the software to manage your finances, but it won’t be able to get automated feeds from banks, credit cards, and other financial institutions. You’ll have to download or enter that information manually.

Normally, users get 2 years of service, but if you purchase Microsoft Money this month, the product will still only be supported until January, 2011. It might be time to look at Quicken or another personal finance package. What do you use to manage your finances? Pen and paper? Mint? Let us know in the comments.

[via CNET]

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The nice thing about Rudder is you can add multiple accounts like your credit cards, checking/savings accounts from other banks and roll them into your Rudder account so everything is all in one place. Each morning, you get an account update of all your finances in your email.

Rudder also reminds you when your bills are due and tells you to pay them. If you heed the reminders, you might be able to stave off those $39 late fees on your credit card bills.

Each daily activity report provides you with reminders of which bills are due, an activity feed of account transactions, account balances, and then tells you what’s left. The What’s Left feature looks into the future and does the math based on your upcoming bills, future paydays and calculates the statement balance for your credit cards. You then get a nice picture of your what you can spend or save after your bills are factored in.

Rudder isn’t Quicken or Mint.com. It doesn’t have cool categorization features or fancy pie charts and it doesn’t compare your spending with others in different cities. It does, however, provide a nice way to keep tabs on your personal finances all in a nice email delivered daily to your inbox.

Anything you send to Shoeboxed is now labeled with the common tax category it belongs to: food, clothes or electronics, for example. You can even add your own custom categories, but you’ll have to apply those yourself. When you need to tinker with your Shoeboxed data even more, it can be exported to Excel or Quicken. If tax season always sneaks up on you, Shoeboxed could be the help you need to make sure your records are all in order.

[via CNET News]

If you’re having trouble quitting, why not download CostOfSmoking for a massive dose of reality. It’s an ugly, quickly assembled program (it looks like a packaged MS Access database) that will leave you absolutely gobsmacked. If you don’t smoke and never have, this program will make you damn glad.

A quick run based on a ten-year, one-and-a-half pack a day habit at the current $12 a pack (oh, Canada!) pricing yielded the ungodly sum of $114,594. If that’s not enough to convince someone that their habit is putting a serious dent in their potential savings, we don’t know what is.

Try it yourself and see! We decided to run numbers on our average coffee habit – just to make sure we’re in good shape – and was relieved to find out that our java vice came in at a much more reasonable $1,146.

[ Via FreewareNetwork ]