I’ve recently decided to start taking a hard look at my budget and where my money is going each month. That’s why I was glad to find, through the all-knowing beings over at Lifehacker, some great blogs about personal finance.

Get Rich Slowly is the result of one blogger’s study of multiple personal finance books. After reading all these books, he attempted to get his thoughts down in writing with a post called “Get Rich Slowly!” and his blog was born. I found some really helpful articles here including How to Give Yourself a Raise and Make Some Noise to Save Some Money. J.D.’s posts are insightful and concise and his advice is very easy to implement into your own life.

I Will Teach You to be Rich is the brainchild of Ramit Sethi, a recent Stanford graduate and entrepreneur. Ramit mixes some humor into his extremely thorough articles, making for some nice light reading that packs in a lot of great ideas and advice about personal finance. Check out How I Got My Credit Scores and Credit Report for Free and his excellent What’s Easier Now Than Later? series. Ramit has also sends out a newsletter and has various other occupations.

For the geek in all of us…ok, the geek in me, there is Getting Finances Done. This is a mixture of a personal finance blog and David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology which basically makes it the geek equivalent of a speedball. Getting Finances Done has been immensely helpful in the development of my personal budget. I highly recommend 3 Reasons Why Most Budgets Don’t Work (and How to Fix Them) and the excellent follow-up piece, How to Create a Zero-Based Budget.

Whether you are an old pro at managing your finances or just getting started, these blogs are full of great advice and useful information!

Here’s a tip that might be interesting to those crashnauts who frequent Apple’s OSX operating system:

Many OSX users have noticed that the system wide spotlight indexing system isn’t quite as revolutionary a feature as it was originally touted to be. Yes, kernel-level integration means that OSX enjoys an unprecedented amount of accuracy of information in regards to its files, but if the results of a spotlight search are difficult to use, that really limits how useful of a feature spotlight ends up being.

The keystroke opt-cmd-space provides a bit of an improvement over the normal cmd-space keystroke in that it brings up a full spotlight window, which allows you to sort the search results and find paths, modify dates, and reveal those items in the finder.

Spotlight still has some growing pains to work through, but for me this nifty trick will improve my spotlight sessions for the time being, as we wait for some boolean goodness in OS 10.5 Leopard.

Check out this cool bandwidth tester. It’s available at speedtest.net and unlike other more simple sites, it provides a graphical representation during the testing. You are presented with a map and can ping different servers around the world to determine your current download, upload, latency and even geographic distance. Check out my hot 20Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up!

Following their wildly successful choreographed dancing homemade video, pop band OK Go has released a new homespun video featuring the band dancing with the aid of eight treadmills.

Let’s see them do it at twice that speed!