13. Helpful Tools & Links

MONEY

General

• Berkshire Hathaway
• Compound Interest Calculator (Money Chimp)

Canada

• TD E-Series Funds (Canada)
• All Canadian Wealth Test
• TaxTips.ca Tax Calculator

U.S.

• Compare yourself to others by Income and Age (CNN)
• Cost of Living Calculator (Bankrate)
• Take-Home Pay Calculator
• PayCycle Paycheque Calculator

DOWNLOADS & GAMES

• Download.com (Free/Share software)
• Handango (Free/Share Software Mobile Devices)
• Portable Freeware
• Tucows (Free/Shareware for your PC)
• Free Tetris
• Bink Players for Mac & PC

REAL ESTATE & RENTING

• How does your real estate agent stack up? (Selling Homes)
• Property Shark
• Real Estate Optimizer (North America)
• Rent-o-Meter (Are you paying too much rent?)

WORDPRESS

• Create your own Wordpress theme
• How to add Edit buttons to your Wordpress theme

BLOGGER

• 25 Premium-Like Blogger Templates
• Andreas Viklund Blogger Templates (His 1024px is classic!)
• Brian Gardner’s White Space Blogger Template
• Mashable’s 30 Great Resources for Blogger Templates
• Massive list of Mashable Blogger Templates

PHOTOS/IMAGES

• Image to Text Converter (HTML, ASCII)
• Background Gallery
• Twitter Backgrounds
• Twitter Background
• Twitter Background Designer
• ColourLovers – Schemes
• PatternCooler — Backgrounds
• Shape Collage Online — Easy to make collages with anything!
• Adobe Air – LiveBrush (Vector Brushes & Design Tool)
• Stock Exchange: High quality photos
• Digitally Age a Photo by 100-150 years with a Generator
• Degraeve’s Colour Palette Generator from an image
• Colour Scheme Designer
• 40 High-Quality Icon Sets
• 50 Sets of Awesome icons for blogging
• Pictaculous (Get a customized colour palette for your blog with a picture)
• Obama.Icon me
• Stock Expert (Free Images)
• Repper: Use an image to become a pattern
• Faking 3D in Photoshop

BLOGGING & FONTS

• Font Parade
• Gorgeous Icon sets for social networking & everything website-related
• 27 Best Websites to download Free Seamless Backgrounds
• CSS Coding Tutorials
• 45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts
• Create your own font from your handwriting
• Apple MAC Keyboard Shortcuts
• Good-looking Free Fonts (Font Squirrel)
• Check your blog’s Browser Compatibility
• SurveyMonkey

TRAVELING

• SeatGuru.com (Picking the best seat on the plane)

READING & SURFING

• We Heart It!
• BookSeer.com
• NY Mag Sex Diaries
• The Gutenberg Project
• 64 things every geek should know

SHOPPING & ORGANIZING

• Amazon Filler Item Finder (need to find a $2.00 item to qualify for free shipping? use this tool)
• 15 places to make your own stuff online – Mashable
• Smead Organization
• The Re-UseIt Network (Green Swap Recycling of items)
• Go Frugal’s “Best Time To Buy….” Guide
• Lulus.com
• Pixie Market
• Designer Rick Owens (my favourite!)
• Sacsies (shoe bags)
• Tokyo Made
• Sunday Brunch Dress
• Guy OT Designs (Eco-friendly)
• SnazzyGirl
• SugarDaddyShop (Sick name, but the jewelery is cool)
• Mulholland Luxury Leather Goods
• Fred Flare
• Kempt Fine Handbags
• Brown’s Fashion
• Mohop sandals
• Piperlime – Gap

DISCOUNTS

• Fat Wallet
• SmartCanucks.ca