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Cellfire mobile coupons save a buck

Cellfire is smart. The free mobile coupons company knows three things it needs to entice users to use its digital chits instead of stuffing paper cutouts into wallets, purses, and pockets.

1. Provide multiple ways to get the product. Cellfire is a downloadable PC-to-mobile app for BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile, but it also offloads into the phone via WAP (point browsers to www.cellfire.com/) and through some carrier agreements.

2. Offer compelling brands. In addition to dozens of national chains, like TGIF and 1.800.Flowers, Cellfire's service gets local, offering discounts for hundreds of neighborhood merchants … Read more

GreenDealsDaily tracks cheap, eco-friendly shopping

People often complain about the high cost of organic foods, hybrid cars and pesticide-free bamboo T-shirts. GreenDealsDaily, which launched this month, attempts to bust the myth that living a more eco-friendly lifestyle is only for the well-heeled.

The site lists the latest price drops, coupons and freebies for green products, as well as lifestyle tips from IdealBite, Treehugger and other blogs. Hurry and call ConEd now, for example, if you want free compact fluorescent bulbs for your Manhattan apartment. Or get thee to Gaiam for its 75 percent discount while the organic cotton bedding lasts.

You can register with GreenDealsDaily … Read more

iCoupie (iPhone App)

Remember the days when you would stand in front of an item at an electronics store and wonder whether you could buy it for less somewhere else? This little app for iPhone provides you with an automatically updating coupon book so you can quickly figure out if you're getting a good price on whatever you're shopping for. If you're looking for deals in general, try the Latest Coupons Feed, but if you want something specific, you'll need to drill down through iCoupie's numerous categories.

iPhone link: http://www.icoupie.com/

Online Coupon Check (iPhone App)

Have you ever been out shopping and wondered if the item you were buying might have a coupon? We certainly have--and with Online Coupon Check for iPhone, you can find out right away if you need to wait on that big purchase. You enter in the item in question, and then Online Coupon Check, made by KeepCash, will go to work looking for potential savings. The interface is set up to search for things alphabetically, so browsing sale items is easy.

iPhone Link: http://www.keepcash.com/iphone

Web site link: http://www.keepcash.com/tools

Find a designer suit via GPS

It happens to us all the time too: Jet over to Paris or Milan for a shopping weekend, and you have no idea where to start. Well fear not, for help is on the way.

Mio, maker of pocket PC and GPS devices, has a new personal travel assistant that comes preinstalled with "vital shopping data" such as size conversions and foreign measurements, as well as an MP3 player, games and the necessary satellite guidance to satisfy all your designer needs. The Mio H610, which has a 2.7-inch touch screen, also has three interchangeable covers and sells … Read more