Anti-crisis applications in Windows 8 (and III)

"After the publication of the second article on Anti-crisis applications in Windows 8, we return with the third and last edition of this special in which we have tried to introduce you to some applications that may be useful to you in your day to day when trying to save money."

So, we close this series of three posts talking about Finance for Mortals, which aims to make economic and financial concepts more understandable to the citizens; Personal Finances, an easy way to keep track of your personal income and expenses; eBay, the world's largest buying/selling web application; and Amazon, so you can access your online store from anywhere.

Finance for mortals, spreading economic and financial culture

In recent years, the education and dissemination of financial literacy has become an objective that has been promoted by many different and relevant institutions and has led to the development of a wide and interesting set of projects and initiatives .

Finances for Mortals is now joining them with the aim of contributing to this collective task, especially relevant in these times of crisis, of education and the dissemination of economic and financial culture.

What Finance for Mortals pursues is to make economic and financial concepts more understandable to citizens, to help financial decision-making responsible and informed, promote transparency and trust in business and finance, publicize and disseminate new trends and processes that are emerging in the world of the economy and promote values, ethics and social responsibility in the economy and finances.

To do this, it makes available to the user a section of very useful articles, tips and tricks related to the world of finance. But there is also a section of quite interesting tools, such as mortgage loan calculators, tools to control the monthly budget, price variations, rent updates...

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Personal Finances, keep track of all your economic movements

Personal Finances is a simple way to keep control over your personal income and expenses, allowing you to visualize them intuitively, and including percentages and working hours represented by each of them.

The use of this application is very simple, since we simply have to add expenses or income, with the possibility of doing it periodically (every month or every two months). With data entered, the application will visually show us the current state of our finances, the hours of work represented by each of your expenses and income, etc.

For greater security, there is the possibility of establishing a PIN to access the application to keep all your data safe from other people who can use your device.

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eBay, the world's largest online marketplace

The eBay app for Windows 8 lets you tap into the world's largest marketplace wherever you are. It's a free app designed for the eBay community that will help you get more out of your buying and selling.With a simple and intuitive design, you can navigate the app and do whatever you want on eBay.

You won't miss any more bids, as the eBay app for Windows 8 alerts you right away when you're outbid or when auctions are about to end. You can customize the notices to have full control over your purchases. If you pin the dynamic tiles to the Start menu you will have updated information about your activity.

The eBay app lets you search, bid higher, and track items on the world's largest marketplace. This app integrates eBay Search, My eBay, Daily Deals and many more tools to manage your purchases.

The interface of the application is very intuitive, and when viewing information about the products, not a single piece of information is missing, as you can see in the image above. We even have the option of following the product, or purchasing it from the application itself, as long as we have logged in with a valid eBay account.

When we carry out searches, the first thing we will do is write the term we are interested in, and then we will have the possibility of filtering results according to their status, price or format (auction or buy it now), location; in addition to ordering them according to price, time, price + shipping, or country.

And as if all this were not enough, on the left we are shown the list of categories, with the category of our search expanded, so that we can further refine the selection of results.

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Amazon, making purchases quickly

The Amazon app allows you to shop, search, compare prices, read reviews from other customers, and share products with your friends using a simple yet elegant interface .

You can access any of Amazon's sites from a single application by selecting the store in the desired country or your shipping address. You have full access to your existing basket, payment options and 1-Click options.

Search for products using the Amazon app and easily add them to your basket to shop. All purchases are made through secure servers just as it is done on the web.

The list of search results is presented in the form of tiles, where we can see the image of the product, title, valuation and price among others.

A drop-down menu will give us the option to restrict results according to the department to which they belong (electronics, books, etc).

The product file shows us all the technical information about it, related products, customer opinions, and all the options how to share the product, add it to the cart or wish list.

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