I’ve terminated my sponsoredreviews.com account. It was a fun experiment, and I did indeed receive some cash on the side, but it’s just not worth the time I guess. I don’t think any readers of this site are actually are interested in the reviews anyway. I tried to write them in [...]

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Switching hosting providers this weekend. I’m hoping to have a little bit more uptime than my old server was providing.
Let me know if you see any 404 errors or stuff that I haven’t transferred over from the old server.
Thanks

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So a while back we purchased a JVC Everio HD camcorder. I’ll skip the commentary on whether or not that is a good idea. For me, the relevant issue is: how am I supposed to copy the MTS (AVCHD H.264) encoded files to my mac and get them in a format that I [...]

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Here is a followup to a few questions that have come up since my GnuCash Budget post.

How much did I spend for this month?
I find the Cash Flow report useful for this question. (Reports->Income & Expense->Cash Flow). You need to customize the report a bit before you get the information you need though. [...]

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Last year I posted a rant on the declining value of Turbotax and Quicken. I just finished filing my taxes for the 2008 tax year and thought I’d write a quick follow up after sticking to my guns for the 2008 year.
Summary:

I dropped Quicken altogether. I switched to an Open Source Free program [...]

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As a fan of tracking my finances electronically, I’ve paid attention to GnuCash for quite a while. In the past, it wasn’t ready for my needs since it didn’t automatically import finances from my bank. That has changed though. I was happy to recently successfully download bank transactions with the latest GnuCash [...]

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