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We're all looking for ways to

make online banking safer

to avoid having our life savings siphoned off by some distant ne'er do well. Cheryl find Zamana AntiLogger software that ensures your personal information, most especially logins and passwords, are safe. AntiLogger shuts down any key logger software that tries to take up residence on your PC.

If you're looking for a way to

manage finances on your Android

then there is a

free application

called

Mint

that will help you do just that. Mint is an application with features similar to the Mint website that allow you to

store banking information

,

create budgets

and more on your

Android phone

. You can also

control security settings

for added peace of mind.

A number of companies are creating applications so you can access them from mobile devices. One of those is Bank of America. They have applications for BlackBerry, iPhone and Android. Today, we'll look at the latter. Using this application, you can do

online banking on your mobile phone

, find a branch and more.

The cherry on top of the excellent

Quicken Online Mobile (iTunes link) free web app

is the similarly

excellent free iPhone app

. With

Quicken Online Mobile

, you can see all your transactions and get a look at your overall

financial health

anywhere you get a cell signal.

Quicken Online can send you updates to let you know how you're doing financially. Get an alert if you're nearing your spending limit on a certain category, get daily updates to let you know if you're on track, get bill payment reminders, warning calls as credit cards near their limits and much more. It's all here under

Quicken Online settings

.

The most important step in

creating a budget online

is setting spending goals. If you're spending too much on entertainment, set a lower goal and monitor your progress with Quicken Online on the Goals tab.

Quicken Online

offers some powerful tools to see and monitor your

personal spending trends

. The default trends keep track of how much you spend and whether you're at risk of going into overdraft or running a personal financial deficit for the month. Get pie charts (who doesn't like pie charts?), graphs and raw data to easily see where you stand.

On the Transactions tab in Quicken Online, you can access detailed information about money coming in and money going out. See transactions for the year to date, for the month or the week. In Transactions in

Quicken Online

you can see where you're money comes from and where it's going.

The Accounts tab in Quicken Online allows you to see all of your money coming in, all of the money going out, see if a check was cashed or, heaven forbid, bounced. You can even categorize your transactions to allow Quicken Online's smarts to learn from you and automatically categorize transactions in the future.

The Home tab is where you'll want to look every time you

log in to Quicken Online

. Here, you can see upcoming payment due dates, check whether you got your last pay check, see how much you have to spend for the month and much, much more.

Quicken Online offers a one-stop shop to see all of your financial transactions. Link up with your online bank accounts and Quicken Online does the rest. Smarts in the

free web app

predict what transactions are what and gives you a snapshot of your financial health. Here's

how to add a bank account to Quicken Online

.

Quicken Online is a free web service that lets you keep track of all your expenses, income, debits and credits. The first step to

creating a budget with Quicken Online

is to sign up for a free account. Link Quicken Online up with your online bank accounts, your mortgage provider, credit cards etc. and all your financial details are available in one place.

Budgets aren't fun and they aren't sexy. They are, however, completely necessary. Cheryl Porier, AKA Miss Download, takes a look at BankTree Personal Finance and loves how easy, intuitive and relatively painless it can be to track money coming in and money going out.