Tag: Tech

  • Mint

    A few days ago I lamented (here and here) the difficulty of doing certain at-a-glance budgeting in Quicken.  I think I have found many of the features I was missing through the excellent free service Mint.com. The main thing I have been missing is at-a-glance budgeting.  That is, I’d really like to be able to…

  • Heavy Memory

    This is just odd. You know, there are times, ya just gotta rip that RAM right out of the computer, drop it in your pocket, and GO. You just, you know, gotta move. And you might need 4 gigs of RAM when you get… wherever you’re going. Somebody might need RAM! Think of the children!!!

  • Quicken Premier 2009

    We upgraded last night to Quicken Premier 2009, which partially resolves the Quicken 2007 issues surrounding budgets, which I mentioned in my last post, through the Savings Plan feature. Unfortunately, this feature has its own limitations – you have to define a plan each month, cannot define plans for past months, can only define a…

  • Quicken Budgets & Loan Accounts

    Does anyone know how to get Quicken to budget properly for a loan account? That is, if you actually set up an amortized loan, how do you get Quicken to budget for the interest and principal as a single payment? I’m using Quicken Premier 2007, and it seems like there is no way to track…

  • Quarkbase

    I am an avid user of lots of tools for learning more about websites (various whois sites, DNS lookup services, Google PageRank, Alexa, just about anything that simplifies my use of the web.) One of my new favorites, though, has to be Quarkbase. For the amount of information it provides on a single screen, it’s…