50 Awesome Open Source Financial Tools

One of the great things about open source is that you know the software you’re using is made by real people, who understand real needs. Here is a list of some very useful open source software targeted for the financial needs of everyday user.

Finance Managers

 

1. My Money: Use this financial software that works with online bank statements to stay on top of your accounts.
2. PyCheckbook: This simple finance manager offers easy to use checkbook registering.
3. jGnash: JGnash offers a lot of the same features as commercial finance management software, such as reports, account reconciliation, and transaction entry, but in a free, open source format.
4. NetWorth: This program offers functions similar to MS Money, with a checkbook register, bill scheduling, forecasting, and more.
5. Chump Change: Manage your personal finances with this budget-oriented tool.
6. KMyMoney: This manager is very reminiscent of Quicken, with a similar user interface and exporting.
7. GPF: Get reports, data, and more from this personal finance manager.
8. Money Manager Ex: With this personal finance manager, you can track your income, net worth, and more.
9. GnuCash: This popular financial accounting software is great for personal and small business finance management.
10. RQ Money: Use this household finance manager for reports, data, and more.
11. Grisbi: With this personal accounting software, you can manage accounts, currencies, and even juggle multiple users.
12. Mjrz Personal Finance Manager: This simple tool is great, even for those that aren’t familiar with accounting principles.
13. Monex: Organize your accounts and transactions using this money management tool.
14. eMani: With this software, you can record and analyze your finances.
15. Wampum Personal Finance: This personal accounting program integrates with tools like GNUCash and OpenOffice.org.
16. Common Cents: Track account balances, statements, and more with this household accounting program.
17. Penny Pincher: This tool will make it easy to create weekly, monthly, and more budget types.
18. Where my money go?: Find out where your money goes and adjust your spending habits with this application.

Business

These finance tools were made with businesses in mind.

19. Dolibarr: Manage your finances, customers, and invoices in this program.
20. PyRM: If you’re a freelancer, you’ll love this open source bill manager.
21. Gnuaccounting: Write invoices, do double entry bookkeeping, and more, all with the option to embed in OpenOffice.org.
22. jbilling: With this billing solution, you’ll be able to handle just a few customers or millions.
23. LedgerSMB: Stay on top of business accounting using this double entry system.
24. phpBMS: With this business management system, you can quote, order, and invoice.
25. Lokad: Forecast your cash flow with this tool’s sales forecasting, inventory optimization, and staff planning.
26. LA/OpenBP: Use this billing platform for easy integration.
27. Lodo Ruby: Use this financial tool for multi-tenant accounting.
28. Simple Invoices: Use this simple, open source invoicing system for easy invoicing.
29. Turquaz Financial Accounting: This double entry finance solution was made for small and medium size businesses.
30. Mifos: With this suite, you can administer loans to customers.
31. eZ Authorize: Use this payment gateway to process payments through Authorize.net.

Investing

Use these tools to make investing and growing your money easier and more profitable.

32. StockManiac: With StockManiac, you can stay on top of all of your investment accounts.
33. Auge: This application will make it easy to manage your portfolio of stocks and mutual funds.
34. QuantLib: Consider modeling, pricing, trading and risk management with this tool.
35. OSCurrency: Manage alternative currencies such as time with this online system.
36. Finance::Quote: With this tool, you can fetch online stock quotes from NYSE, ASX, and more.
37. iTrade: Using this trading and charting system, you can manage quotes, data, analysis, and a lot more.
38. GD Stock Portfolio Calculator: Use this Google Desktop gadget to track the worth of your investments.
39. Stock Returns: Perform advanced calculations for stock and security returns and more.
40. Advanced Stock Tracker: Use this tracker to stay on top of the historic prices of stocks and more.

Calculators

These calculators make it easy to compute everything from mortgages to currencies.

41. ObjectLab Kit: Use this business and financial day calculator to stay on top of holidays, weekends, and more.
42. Interest(ing) Calculator: Calculate the financial parameters of loans and deposits based on four variables with this calculator.
43. CompoundCalc: This simple calculator will figure out your return based on principal, rate, term, and compounding percent.
44. mort: Calculate your mortgage, with amortization, using mort.
45. College Cost Calculator: Calculate the cost of college, and enjoy features like saving and loading of data with this cool tool.
46. Loan Payment Matrix Calculator: Determine the best loan for you with this calculator.
47. MarketCalc: Calculate investment purchases using this calculator.
48. Finanx: Get an online emulation of the HP-12C financial calculator with this program.
49. xfcalc: This calculator makes it easy to perform financial calculations in two currencies at once.
50. GeItCalc: This simple finance calculator allows for time value of money and more.

YouTube India is here.

Google today launched an Indian edition of YouTube at in.youtube.com. YouTube has also partnered with content creators in India for them to distribute their content on YouTube India website.

Create custom bookmarks in Firefox.

The CyberNet tech blog digs into Smart Bookmarks, one of the neatest new features in the upcoming Firefox 3, and pulls out a how-to guide to compiling your own iTunes-like query-based links. Using a wide set of parameters, you can add bookmarks that monitor sites, your own browsing habits and more. A few examples of what you can place in the "Location" field after the jump.

Create a new bookmark the way you normally would in Firefox, then modify the "Location" field using Mozilla's parameters list, or take a cue from these CyberNet examples:

• 15 Most Visited Bookmarks:
  place:queryType=1&sort=8&maxResults=15
• 10 Most Visited Sites with "CyberNet" in them:
  place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=10&terms=cybernet
• 5 Most Visited Sites at the cybernetnews.com Domain:
  place:queryType=0&sort=8&maxResults=5&domain=cybernetnews.com

CyberNotes: Create Your Own Smart Bookmarks in Firefox 3 [CyberNet]

geek-o-pedia is revamped !

I was tired of the brownish look of geek-o-pedia. I hope you guys like this revamped look with lots of hacks like the tabbed menu bar (under construction) and the Table of Contents.

49 Professional and Innovative Websites

If you're looking for a little design inspiration, this collection of 49 inspiring websites from inspiredology.com might be just what you need. Some nice sites I hadn't seen before. Worth browsing.

49 Professional and Innovative Websites (inspiredology.com)

Top 50 Proprietary Programs and their Open Source Alternatives

It's always nice to find good, open source alternatives to popular programs and website WHDb has rounded-up a really nice list. For each Proprietary program, an open source alternative is suggested. Nice list, worth browsing. The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives

AVG Free Anti-Virus 2008 Released, Much Improved

Popular freeware anti-virus application AVG Free recently updated to AVG Free 2008. Aside from a general interface overhaul and faster performance, the updated anti-virus scanner has added several new features with a focus on web security.

Secure Your Home Wi-Fi Network

Tech site Ars Technica runs down the basics of securing your home wireless network with the most secure and up-to-date methods. The main takeaway is that when you enable encryption on your wireless router, use WPA encryption instead of WEP, because it's better and stronger.

Unlike WEP, WPA uses a 48-bit initialization vector and a 128-bit encryption key. More importantly, however, WPA uses what's called the Temporary Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). Whereas WEP recycles the same key for encrypting all the packets flowing across the network, WPA's TKIP changes the encryption key every single time a packet is transmitted. This, combined with the use of longer keys, prevents a hacker from compromising a router simply by passively observing a large enough set of packet transmissions.

Ars lists common home network hardware—from an Xbox 360 to a Wii to an iPhone—and the various protocols they support. Luckily, most do speak WPA.

The ABCs of securing your wireless network [Ars Technica]

The 101 Most Useful Websites

The 101 most useful websites - Telegraph - a fun list of useful websites in the areas of technology, entertainment, advice and information, house and home, social, shopping and travel. Worth browsing as there is bound to be something new there for everyone!

Make a Local Backup of your Gmail Account

From Wired's How-to Wiki, a nice article detailing how to make a local backup of your Gmail Account. The article currently lists 3 different ways to do this, so you can pick the one that appeals to you. The Thunderbird option is especially nice for anyone already running Gmail and Thunderbird. Make a Local Backup Of Your Gmail Account - Wired How-To Wiki