September 18th, 2009 at 2:45 pm » Comments (0)

Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, reports that sales of electronic copies of Dan Brown's latest best seller "The Lost Symbol" are exceeding print copies. This announcement is obviously a ...more »

September 17th, 2009 at 3:35 pm » Comments (11)

In an earlier article I demonstrated how to get started with Money Manager Ex, a versatile budgeting and checkbook managing software from Codelathe. I showed how to handle transactions involving ...more »

September 14th, 2009 at 6:39 pm » Comments (3)

While I have some knowledge of double entry accounting, GnuCash is simply too complex for managing a checkbook and performing simple budgeting. In June, I published a post on HomeBank ...more »

September 12th, 2009 at 3:23 pm » Comments (1)

Although Firefox is my preferred browser, it is wise to have another available. Sometimes items stop displaying correctly and switching to a different browser clarifies whether a problem is due ...more »

September 8th, 2009 at 3:20 pm » Comments (0)

No-IP provides a dynamic DNS service. When you connect to the Internet your ISP assigns an IP address to your computer (or router if use one). The technical term for ...more »

September 7th, 2009 at 2:41 pm » Comments (0)

In October we will see the official releases of both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) within days of each other. Microsoft's Vista was a disaster. Analysts and critics ...more »

September 4th, 2009 at 6:13 pm » Comments (0)

I have several criteria in choosing the software I work with. Really good software should work "out of the box" and not require an instruction manual. It should be customizable ...more »