Shoppers preparing for Black Friday, Cyber Monday or any other holiday shopping time can arm themselves with online applications. These tools help ease the search, save money, and they're free!
Nomee.com launched in 2008 and has since spread deals and steals through social media networks and digital news feeds. In light of the holiday shopping season, they recently launched a new feature called the Holiday Deal Watcher.
Nomee works by tracking all of the Web sites that are posting the best deals and showcases them all in one place. The information can be controlled on the personalized dashboard. Just download the application from the site and let it do all the work.
Another tool delivering the best deals straight to a desktop is the Wootalyzer. It tracks deals on popular big-name web sites like Amazon, NewEgg and Yugster. The tracker shows one item per Web site and tracks how much time a consumers has to take advantage of the deal. Most deals last for 24-hours or until the vendor is sold out of the item. When a new deal comes up from a retailer, an alert appears in the toolbar.
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On the hunt
Let desktop applications do the deal hunting for you.
 
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Woot.com began as a deal-a-day Web site for electronics. They have since expanded to include kids.woot, shirt.woot and even wine.woot. The Wootalyzer takes all the information and makes it available in one convenient place on your desktop.
Another great site to search for deals is Twitter, and you don't have to have an account to take advantage.
Most people use Twitter to share useful links. By tweaking the search options to only show tweets containing links, a list of Black Friday deals come up. Click here to see the latest links being shared in time for Black Friday.
