BBVA Compass Bank is offering a free 8gb iPod Touch when you open a checking account with $100 and set up direct deposit for 6 months. Unfortunately, there are a lot of restrictions. For one, you must reside in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, or Texas. Secondly, the iPod is offered through a third-party fulfillment company (think mail-in rebates…) to which you actually have to pay the shipping and handling. Thanks to reader Susan for the tip. Selected fine print:

Around 100,000 homeowners a month are seeing their mortgage repayments drop as they come to the end of fixed-rate deals, research papers has showed. The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimates that around 100,000 people each month are reverting to their lenders' standard variable rate.

Do you want healthy produce without spending a lot of money? Read these tips.
Good produce should be part of a healthy eating plan. But the problem with produce is that it can be expensive if you aren't careful. Prices on produce has been going up steadily in the past few years.

Have you considered converting funds from your Traditional IRA into a Roth IRA? If you’re a regular reader, you’re like aware that the income limits for Roth IRA conversions went away this year. What I haven’t talked about as much are the tax consequences of such conversions.

If you would like to manage or resolve your credit card debt, there are many relief options available that you can look at in order to achieve this.

The truth is, the banks don’t want you to know about the fees on their products or how the interest is calculated on your credit card because they don’t want you to know how to avoid them. Therefore, you need to take control of your financial education and find out the top five things your bank will avoid telling you.

By Linsey Knerl Welcome to Wise Bread's Best of Personal Finance roundup. Today, we tell you the secrets to making your own Girl Scout Cookies, how to color your hair at home, and who has the most expensive haircuts!

Last month I had the pleasure of talking to Rich Preece, Director of Product Management for TurboTax, about the improvements they’ve made to this year’s version of the tax preparation software. One area that they’ve improved is in their Audit Risk Results section, which identifies parts of your return that might trigger an audit. They reviewed the audited returns and collected the top twenty five to thirty reasons they believed triggered an audit. Then they look at your return, see if there are similarities, and bring them to your attention.

FileLater is an online service for people and businesses looking to file for a tax extension. This tax season, it is pioneering the social media universe by using Facebook Connect to both simplify the process and attract new customers.

By Linsey Knerl