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The New York Times Well blog asked nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden to round up the healthiest easy-to-find foods that rarely make their way into our shopping carts. The resulting 11 foods,...

Wired magazine interviews Oren Etzioni, creator of Farecast, a service which uses aggregated airfare data to predict when the best time to buy your plane ticket. He offers a few expert tips the...

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Free review-aggregating extension Pluribo adds a subtle tweak to Amazon product pages that can often have hundreds, even thousands of reviewers weighing in on a product....

Good money management is a mental exercise in self-regulation and focusing on the long-term goal, even when you're sure you just can't go on another day without buying that Kindle or MacBook. Even...

Tomorrow's your dad's big day, you don't have a gift, and the token tie just not going to cut it this year? We've got six killer Father's Day gifts perfect for both the geeky and not-so-geeky dad, so...

Buying locally-grown produce saves money on gas and gets fresher vegetables onto your plate, and now several web services connect local farmers with consumers. The NY Times' Michelle Slatalla points...

Windows only: Online payment service PayPal rolled out a service a few months back that lets you generate and use single-use credit cards in order to make PayPal payments at sites you might not want...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a powerful search engine that finds farmer's markets, or greenmarkets, that are close enough to consider for a weekend trip. It tends to have a wider number of...

The New York Times Rent or Buy Calculator compares the cost of renting versus buying your home to determine which is a better money move in the long run. Give it your monthly rent, the projected...

Guest poster Cathy of the Chief Family Officer blog writes on Get Rich Slowly about how she saves serious cash on household essentials by playing "The Drugstore Game." The Game is actually a wise...

Microsoft's Live Search Cashback program is a product search engine that provides—you guessed it—cash back for searching for products through their site. As Salon's Machinist points out,...

Napster debuts its brand new DRM-free MP3 store today. Like Amazon MP3, the songs will play on any device and any number of computers, and cost $.99 per single, and $9.95 per album. [via]

Gas isn't the only thing getting more expensive, so— in the face of rising food costs—health web site WebMD sets out to highlight 10 healthy foods you can buy for under a dollar. Granted,...

A Microsoft student promotion that slashes 91% off a copy of Office Ultimate applies to anyone with a .edu email address—and most universities offer .edu addresses to their alumni for free. ...

Web site Shop It To Me scours the internet for sales on brands you love and sends an email digest of the latest deals. When you sign up, you tell the site exactly what to watch for. You can watch for...