your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

I just signed up with mint and added my student loans and holy shit I'm depressed now

mint not available for britishers : /

afaict this sort of software never really got going in UK/europe because we don't use cheques any more, so reckoning/balancing consists of looking at yr bank statement

i wrote a cheque once. never forget.

lol checks

are credit cards a big thing in the UK?

more debit cards. also for bills direct debits (don't know what the US equivalent is -- basically you agree that eg the electricity company can ask for as much as they want from your account on a certain day each month)

finding mint pretty useful since it categorizes all the transactions I make with my credit card; nice breakdown. otoh won't let me add a category for 'coke habit.'

def dealt with checks in France alas

debit cards are bigger in canada than the us, even! they all have those neat chips in them and a lot of restaurants have little remote swipe pads they bring to your table.

I have reservations about Simple too since they're effectively an inserted middleman between you and your bank

I feel more like Simple is a good business model because they're effectively a company that is completely focused on making your transactions as easy as possible and they're unconcerned with the backend money storage. A lot of the pain of traditional banks is their constant efforts to figure out how to deal with cash flow while making money off of stored cash. This way, you have one entity concentrated on the money, and one on the transactions.

debit cards are bigger in canada than the us, even! they all have those neat chips in them and a lot of restaurants have little remote swipe pads they bring to your table.

I am always amazed of how antiquated North America is on a few certain things compared to Europe

Think a lot of that is the inability to create/implement a revised protocol for cards in the US

yeah there's something called 'paywave' now but it doesn't even work half the time

I have several accounts for all my millions, I'd like to just see them all in one place & have some light budgeting

spreadsheet probably best option but it is not teh shiny

this is definitely teh shiny - wish leather stitching would die tho

heh, I'm spoiled now and can't bother with anything unless it has real-time account data that I don't have to export

oh you mean it doesn't hook up your real bank account yet? dang yeah that's a dealbreaker

Most apps never will. There isn't a real standard in the banking industry, just software packages configured differently and one-offs, as far as bank web sites go. The only companies with the resources to hook up to a myriad of accounts have been Mint, and uh, companies bought by Mint.

Wesabe was an awesome service with better category detection and data viewing, but mint buried them.

Fresh books is pulling from my bank, but its more so you can grab expenses for invoicing.

Following the soon-to-be-demise of Google Reader, should I go with Feedly or Taptu? Or something else?

(want a web version or Mac app to be available, not mobile-only).

do you care about syncing with iDevices? y/n?

just signed up to feedly. Looks nice but really slow and weird. Also signed up with Jolicloud, which aggregates dropbox, facebook, tumblr, instagram, soundcloud, instapaper but not RSS. I sent in a feature request though. It's really slick looking and if it could interface with an RSS feed app, or be one, I'd be happy.

Reeder is a great feed reader for mac, but not free

i love reeder

I have reeder but it's totally sync'd to Google. I couldn't remember if it worked without it. Will have to figure out if it's easy to transfer the feeds, or will just have to do it manually. Google let me download all my feeds, but I don't see how to upload that to Reeder.

reeder requires a server-side source. Currently, it supports Google Reader, Fever (a self-hosted one that is decent, but not so great that I ever switched), and Readability, which isn't really an aggregator. Presumably their statement means they're looking at putting in support for other Google Reader replacement sites ASAP

Vienna is a great reader if you don't need to bother with syncing (though it's built in, if you wish to use it) http://www.vienna-rss.org

Version 2.0 of Alfred is out.

Easily one of the greatest tools on OSX ever. And the new version is awesome.

I have Reeder now and had thought it was totally Google-dependent; if isn't, I'll hold on for a while and see what sites they start to support. Will check out your mentions, though, thanks. Caek - I'm not bothered about iDevices sync.

it's totally google-dependent, but it will work without changes until july 1, and the developer is apparently working on replacing the google reeder backend (according to a single tweet)

Replacing the backend not trivial if you intend to duplicate everything google did, don't envy them

iphone reeder already allows readability and fever sync fwiw

Reeder app is the only indispensable thing on my iPhone

what about 911

I'm not in the US, sorry

i'm still using my pre-adware version of NetNewsWire

braggin

does the registered version still exist? I bought that years ago, idk

yeah i think i have a license for it

i may be ready to take my first step towards a password manager. any recs?

i would like to a testimonial from someone who uses password management software. what is your life like now? tia

did your retirement account increase in value? did your cholesterol go down?

I just use "hacktheplanet" for all my passwords, easy to remember

ive been using lastpass, the jury is still kind of out

its i guess slightly less work than it was when i had several different 'memorable' alphanumeric passwords that could never really remember so i guess its better

I use 1password. It can be a little buggy at times, but is mostly rock solid. I use it for everything. Saving credit card info as well as passwords. The iPhone app is great, the application is great, sometimes it's autofill doesn't quite work right, if the webpage is weird, but tha happens with all autofill. Even then you can just login and copy and paste the password.

i use 1p

cosine