Tag: GAS

Planning a road trip in the near future? Cost To Drive is a web application that can help you figure out how much cash to take out of the ATM before you hit the road. Sure, you could certainly get a rough estimate by dividing the number of miles you have to drive by your car's average mileage and then multiplying that figure by the average price of gas. But where's the fun in that? Cost To Drive ...

Sometimes the best web services are the simplest ones. Drivepricing lets you calculate the cost of gas for your road trip. With gas prices so high its nice to be able to know how much to put in the piggy bank to save up for the trips you have coming up this summer. So when you're going to visit grandma in Albany from Philly, you can drop your gas mileage in there and get an estimated cost of what ...

Fuelfrog is a web service for tracking your gas mileage and cost-per-gallon trends which can provide insight into your empty wallet. By adding simple information each time you fill up your car, Fuelfrog will chart that data to provide a gas history. Fuelfrog accepts updates via its website, but it also can accept data via Twitter direct message. Simply add your Twitter account to your Fuelfrog ...

With the long weekend coming upon U.S. readers, many of whom will be driving somewhere to enjoy some rest and relaxation, let Yahoo Widgets save you some coin on gas. The Gas Alert Savings widget built for Yahoo Widgets is a great tool to check on the latest gas prices right from your desktop. Plug in your zip code, mile radius, gas grade preference and sort by either price or location, and the ...

Now that all the first day iPhone-ers have them up and running, (hopefully, given the backlog that occurred), The next question they might be asking is "Where can I get some applications to fill this sucker up?." If you've spent last night and this morning tooling around on your new iPhone, have everything set up, and want to check out how some additional applications work on it, DownloadSquad is ...

Can't wait until June 29th to try out some new iPhone applications? You don't have to. Since the iPhone's third party programs are essentially web pages that can be accessed through Safari, you can already check out some of the first applications designed for the iPhone. For example, there's already a Digg interface, a cheap gas finder, and a nifty front end for several online newspapers. ...

Gas prices got you down? This widget simply called "Gas" gives you the low down on where the cheapest gas is in your town. You can view local gas stations by zip code and gas prices by grade, making it a pretty good customizable widget. One of the neatest things about Gas to me is that it links directly to Google Maps, so once you find out what station in your area has the cheapest gas, you can ...