A fresh way to manage money.
This week we focus on: Mint.
To put it simply, Mint is a personal finance tracker that allows you to input your Bank Account information (Checking Account, Savings, PayPal, etc) and organizes it, including setting budgets for various categories. The categories are user set or preset (i.e. entertainment, dining, business, school). It also allows you to track all transactions made for each individual account. Mint is quite a useful tool that allows one to check all finance-related subjects on one website, rather than going to a various amount of bank sites (I personally use it for both my bank and PayPal). Overall a great, free service. Just came out of public beta and is open to all, check it out at Mint.com.
I just bought an old Blackberry....Wish I had a G1
Gadget Guide
T-Mobile G1
October 22 was the release of the much anticipated Android platform, which functions on T-Mobile’s G1 (an HTC product, very high quality). This phone is set to compete with the iPhone as well as many other smartphones. Though only in its infancy, the G1 boasts many features that will appeal to the Open Source audience. Based on Java, all of the applications, until next year will be free of charge. Also, Google and the Open Handset Alliance have made a deal with Amazon to have their mp3 store as an application. However, one does run into a problem; the G1 does not have a headphone jack! This indeed poses a slight problem, but I can’t believe the whole administrative team at T-Mobile didn’t catch this. No doubt an “oops” moment for the development team. The G1 is impressive, including: touch-screen interface, up to 8GB storage, slide out QWERTY keyboard, and multiple application runtime support (simply put, it can run applications in the background, unlike the iPhone or any other smartphone. Spare the unfortunate headphone problem, overall the G1 is a good start to the first Android OS platform.
