Quicken® Online: 100% Free Online Banking & Personal Finance Software

Quicken® Online: 100% Free Online Banking & Personal Finance Software. Dude, this is an awesome utility that Kristen and I have been using for about 2 months now.

Highlights:

• Free, Free, Free
• Reads account info from credit union and credit card
• Really smart auto-categorization. What used to take hours with other software, this allowed me to quickly see spending trends 5 minutes after signing up.
• Smart Summary Homepage. It shows you what your *Real* balance is until your next paycheck. i.e. Current Balance minus upcoming bills.

We find the software really intuitive and give the Quicken engineers mad-props for creating such an easy-to-use Web 2.0 personal finance web application.

Blockbuster working on Live Mesh app | Beyond Binary – CNET News

Blockbuster working on Live Mesh app | Beyond Binary – CNET News. I have been reading a lot about Live Mesh and Microsofts recently announced cloud computing platform, Azure. There is tons of potential in their approach. The technology is currently in beta-beta-beta but what I have worked with so far is very slick. I even had my mom install the Mac LiveMesh client to synchronize a shared folder I created in my private Mesh. The only problems we had were related more so to her internet connection speed and not with the LiveMesh software. Oh yeah, did I mention that we are both Mac users and the software from Mico$oft work just fine. Impressive.

30 Day Calorie Diet

Yeah, that really sucked. Trying to pull this off over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday period was insane. Although I did not reach my target weight loss for the time period, I didn’t really gain any. Bonus.

Happy New Year

Boy I am glad that 2008 is finally over. That was a very rough year on many levels and I am eager to start fresh with a new year.