Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Best budget and expense tracking apps for iPhone: Spendee, Mint ...

Best income and expense tracking apps for iPhone: Spendee, Mint, BUDGT, and more!

The best income and expense tracking apps to help you manage your expenses, improve your financial position, and keep more cash in your wallet!

Budgeting and expense tracking might not sound sexy, but it's what lets us afford all the truly sexy things we love, including iPhones, iPads, and Macs. From bill payments to expense claims, budgeting for vacations and holidays, financial planning is all about making the most of what we make, and that's where apps can help!

The App Store is full of apps to help you manage your personal finances straight from your iPhone. Some apps just help track expenses, others can completely monitor your accounts and help get you back on track. Here's a broad selection of of my current favorites, the best personal money management apps the iPhone has to offer!

BUDGT

BUDGT for iPhone doesn't require you to give it any personal account information or login information, so it's simple to start and even simpler to keep using. Enter how much income you have or enter the amount of money you'd like to budget, it doesn't have to be all of it. Then start adding daily and monthly expenses.

If you don't like giving finance apps access to your sensitive banking information and just want to be able to better figure out where you stand, BUDGT is a great option. Of course, that also means BUDGT will work best for people who have a pretty good handle on their financial situation already.

Mint

If you want fine-tuned control over all your personal finance accounts in one app, Mint is a great option. You can link bank accounts and credit cards, and from there Mint will simply pull everything into one place to give you an overview of what 's coming in compared to what's going out. Mint lets you set up budgets in-app for different categories, and since Mint monitors your bank and credit accounts, it can notify you when you're nearing a limit.

As long as you're okay with giving a service access to your personal accounts, Mint the best choice for people that really need help staying on track with budgeting, with very little upkeep needed.

Check (formerly Pageonce)

Check, formerly known as Pageonce, is very similar to Mint in terms of functionality and feature set, but caters to a different kind of person. While Check imports a lot of the same information as Mint, it presents it in a different way and has more detailed options such as adding investments and checking and monitoring credit scores. Most of these additional features require a monthly subscriptions, but may well be worth it if you have a lot to manage.

If you are only concerned with budgeting your money and doing simple financial tasks, Mint or another app would be a better choice. If you're more concerned with monitoring credit or investments, Check is the best option available.

Spendee

Spendee is a brand new income and expense tracking app and, not only does it have a great interface, but it's ridiculously easy to use. Adding income and expenses can be done in very few steps, which makes entering things on a regular basis painless. Activities show up in a main feed so you can easily and quickly scroll through everything you've added. Likewise, the overview section gives you graphs you can scrub through to see where your money is coming from and where it's going. Underneath that you'll also see a breakdown on what you spend the most money on.

Because Spendee requires no personal information be given to set up and start using it, and it has an excellent and easy to use interface, it's the best choice for anyone new to personal finance apps, and anyone who wants to get started, and keep at it, with as little effort as possible.

Dollarbird

Dollarbird has a great interface, several really useful features, with lightning-quick system for expense and income entry. There's no personal information required in order to start using Dollarbird, no accounts to create or banking information required. The thing that makes Dollarbird unique is that it uses a calendar view as a grid system for tracking your balances. That means, at a glance, you can easily see on what days you spent the most money, and where your balance sits at any given time. Underneath the calendaryoul have a quick view of expenses for a particular day. Pulling down will launch the income and expense entry section. There are tons of categories to choose from and you can add your own whenever you want.

Dollarbird is a great option for people want quick and easy data entry and detailed financial information, and don't want or have the need to link personal accounts. If the calendar grid makes sense to you, Dollarbird will make sense to you.

Next

Next is the simplest version of an expense tracking app you're going to find. It doesn't track income at all, only expenses. Next works by giving you a block of pre-selected icons. Tap on one and create an expense for it. You can change the date in the calendar at the top by scrolling sideways. You can move the individual expense blocks around or change them into something else. Any category that currently has expenses associated with it will appear blue. Darker blue categories are the ones you spend more money on each month, while lighter colored blocks indicate less money spent. Swiping from side to side gives you breakdowns of what you're spending and where.

If you don't need to track your income and only want to see where your money is actually going, give Next a try.

Your picks?

We are aware that personal finances are just that, personal. Everyone has different needs and wants when it comes to managing their money. Let us know in the comments what apps you're using to budget, save, and track your income and expenses. How does it work for you and have you seen good results?

Source: http://allappnews.com/tipb/best-budget-and-expense-tracking-apps-for-iphone-spendee-mint-budgt-and-more/

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

HP Proliant DL380p Gen8 Server


HP's Proliant line of servers is in its eighth generation. These servers have become fixtures in SMB datacenters. The latest entry, the DL380p ($2,659?$14,000) is a beast of a machine. Not only can you completely trick it out spec-wise for maximum performance, but it also offers a ton of management and control options. It's the fastest server we've tested, and that's thanks to the expensive configuration HP sent us for testing?an over $14,000 piece of iron. However, even a lower-spec configuration will deliver the performance and reliability that SMBs still need from a server.

Specs
As mentioned, this server shipped to us fully loaded. It has dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 (2.9GHz) processors?with a total of 16 cores. RAM is 128GB DDR3-1600 and storage is comprised of eight 300GB 6G SAS 10K rpm SFF 2.5-inch disks. It's a 2U rack mount server that ships with a small-form-factor ball bearing rail kit. It's a bigger machine than the comparable Dell PowerEdge R420. Disks are configured in two logical drives with RAID 5.

The unit has four GB Ethernet ports, six expansion ports, six USB ports, and shipped with dual power supplies.

There are a few new physical features that HP reps say were customer-inspired. One is clear baffles over the processors and other components, which give you a view of these components. You can easily remove the baffles and access the parts for replacing or upgrading.

PCI risers lift off the system board without any hassle for simple PCI card expansion. There are two other new features I find extremely useful: flat cabling?which keep the inside of the server neat and easy to move around in, and a smart socket guide. This guide reduces the amount of handling you have to do of an actual processor during installation and also makes it easy to correctly seat the processor into the socket. This is ideal, because the processor's pins are delicate and can bend if the component is handled too roughly.

The new FlexibleLOM (LAN on motherboard) feature means you can have your server initially configured with standard Gigabit Ethernet ports only and then easily upgrade to 10 GBe, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, converged networking, or other network connectivity options.

The new SmartDrive feature makes use of tray carriers that only fit SmartDrive-supported hard drives?these drive carriers don't fit into legacy Proliant servers. This is because they are engineered to work with the new SmartDrive capability. The new carrier design also allows double the storage of previous Proliant models.

With SmartDrive, each drive carrier has an LED that will tell you what is going on with the drive? imminent failure or a RAID array rebuild, for examples. There is an additional LED that will light up in the event a RAID array has to be created. This LED tells a server administrator which drive not to hot-swap to rebuild the array. Removing the drive during a rebuild or restore operation can mean a server recovery failure.

The only down side to the SmartDrive LED indicators is that there can be an awful lot of light blinking that looks like major disk activity?even when the server is pretty idle. The drive LEDs spin whenever a drive has an outstanding command. It's a niggle, but it kept raising my blood pressure: to me, that amount of flashing lights means a problem.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ziffdavis/pcmag/~3/_zKVfzAwtoU/0,2817,2421554,00.asp

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BlackBerry CEO reportedly bringing hammer down on management team

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Three key BlackBerry executives have left the company over the past couple of months and many more could soon be shuffling toward the exit as well. An unnamed source has told Bloomberg that more BlackBerry executives are expected to leave the company in the coming weeks as their retention bonuses expire and as CEO Thorsten Heins starts implementing ambitious sales goals intended to put members of his management team on the hot seat. Heins? goals reportedly cover ?phone sales, subscriber growth and product development,? as well as the addition of new apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform, Bloomberg?s source said. The tougher sales goals are a clear sign that Heins is not pleased with the progress that BlackBerry has made so far in its attempt make BlackBerry once again competitive with iOS and Android.

[More from BGR: Noted critic on Twitter: ?It?s toast. Over. Done. History.?]

This article was originally published on BGR.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-ceo-reportedly-bringing-hammer-down-management-team-193036624.html

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Friday, July 12, 2013

Google has a dedicated hub for folks celebrating the holy month of Ramadan

Google has launched a dedicated hub on their website for web users who are celebrating the ongoing holy month of Ramadan.

The company is highlighting their services that can come handy to make the most of it. They are also showcasing live events connected to the festivities including YouTube live streams, celebrity Hangouts On Air and other real-time broadcasts from all over the globe.

Check it out here.

This entry was posted in News and tagged Google, Ramadan on by Sushubh Mittal.

Source: http://techwhack.co/google-dedicated-hub-folks-celebrating-holy-month-ramadan-45431/

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Ilya Kovalchuk retires: Analyzing the fallout in both New Jersey ...

Ilya Kovalchuk is no longer an NHL player. He's heading back to Russia after a shocking retirement decision that'll make waves on both sides of the Atlantic.

Ilya Kovalchuk has retired from the NHL. This is not a drill. This is not a joke. He's really retired. There are a lot of questions to answer, but one looms largest:

WHAT WHY IS HE DOING THIS HE'S 30 YEARS OLD HE'S IN HIS PRIME WHAT WHY HUH

Publicly, Kovalchuk explained his decision in a team press release. It's about his family and his desire to go back to Russia.

"This decision was something I have thought about for a long time going back to the lockout and spending the year in Russia. Though I decided to return this past season, Lou was aware of my desire to go back home and have my family there with me. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me."

Remember what happened during the 2013 lockout. Kovalchuk threatened to stay in Russia and expressed that desire freely while playing for SKA St. Petersburg. It was only after much hand-wringing that he actually came back to North America and rejoined the Devils after the work stoppage ended. Still, he made his intentions pretty clear:

We can paint Kovalchuk as a villain and some (hi Jeremy Roenick!) surely will. He signed a contract with the Devils and should live up to it, right? That's the easy way to frame this.

But put yourself in his shoes. It's not always easy for foreign-born players to make their living in North America, even when they're being paid handsomely to do so -- Kovalchuk had $77 million and 12 years left on the 15-year deal he signed in 2010 -- and are playing against the best hockey competition in the world.

Kovalchuk clearly wanted to be home and closer to his family

Kovalchuk clearly wanted to be home and closer to his family. It's hard to judge a guy in that position when you haven't been in that position yourself. I live three hours from where I grew up and even I get homesick sometimes. I don't think I blame Kovalchuk for, regardless of the money or any other obligations, wanting to go home more than anything else.

Does this mean his hockey career is over, though? Will he play in the KHL next season? Surely, Kovalchuk can't be done with the game at just 30 years old. He's an elite talent and over the last few years since his acquisition by the Devils had blossomed into not just an incredible offensive threat but a responsible defensive player as well.

The NHL and the KHL had a player transfer agreement that expired on June 30 of this year, under which both sides honored each others' contracts and agreed to "do everything in their power" to resolve any disputes. There have never been any contract disputes between the two leagues, however. No agreement is in place yet to replace the expired deal, but that's sort of irrelevant in Kovalchuk's case.

By putting pen to paper and making his retirement official, Kovalchuk's NHL contract comes off the books. He's no longer under contract with the Devils and therefore completely free to sign with a KHL club.

That will likely happen in time for the 2013-14 KHL season, and while he might not get the same $77 million he was due from the Devils, there will still be a bidding war for his services in Russia. SKA St. Petersburg should probably be considered the front-runners thanks to their deep pockets and Kovalchuk's familiarity with the franchise. He'll get paid a lot of money to play there, and he'll be home. It's a safe bet to say he'll lace up the skates in the KHL next year.

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Where does this leave the Devils?

Both on and off the ice, the Devils will feel the ramifications of this for quite some time. It's good news in the finance department, but not so good news in the hockey department.

First, the money: They'll be penalized under the "cap benefit recapture formula," part of the NHL's new CBA, to the small tune of $250,000 against the salary cap until the 2024-25 season. That's just money they can't spend against the cap, though, and not real-world dollars they have to spend.

The team has struggled financially in recent years and are reportedly carrying $300 million in debt. That likely explains why they let Kovalchuk walk to Russia without so much as raising their voice. They're also letting a $77 million obligation go.

On the ice, the team will surely struggle to score goals in 2013-14 and perhaps beyond. Just the other day, Devils blog In Lou We Trust wrote about the Devils scoring outlook for the coming season, saying that "the one issue is that the only top-end scorer on the team is Kovalchuk." Welp, there goes that.

Would Lou Lamoriello have let captain Zach Parise walk in free agency a year ago if they had known Kovalchuk was going to pull this move so quickly? Would he have let David Clarkson walk this summer had they known Kovalchuk would pull this move so soon?

The Devils will likely be better off down the road with Kovalchuk gone. He's an elite player and potentially the best offensive player to ever pull on a New Jersey sweater, but that's a lot of money to commit to just one hockey player, and this frees Lamoriello up to work his magic and build another Stanley Cup contender. It could take several years, but there's no longer the risk of being tied down by one big contract.

In the meantime, though, there will be on-ice pain. They'll have a ton of trouble scoring goals next season and they'll be playing in a realigned division with both New York squads, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, Columbus and Carolina -- all playoff contenders if not Stanley Cup contenders.

And if that's not bad enough, they won't even have a first-round draft pick in 2014 ... thanks to the penalty levied on them when they signed Kovalchuk to an illegal contract in the first place. That's a shame, because they'll probably need one.

More in the NHL:

? Full Free Agency coverage

? Full 2013 Draft coverage

? Photos: Chicago?s Stanley Cup parade

? The best of our hockey network

Source: http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2013/7/11/4515288/ilya-kovalchuk-retirement-khl-devils-future

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Thursday, July 11, 2013

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Meredith Vieira to host daily talk show in 2014

NEW YORK (AP) ? Meredith Vieira is returning to daytime TV with a syndicated talk show.

Producer NBCUniversal says "The Meredith Vieira Show" will launch in fall 2014 as a weekday program that will "make viewers laugh, learn and feel inspired."

NBC said Tuesday the New York-based show will be taped on a set that resembles Vieira's home, including her actual furniture and family photos.

The 59-year-old Vieira was a morning favorite as co-host of NBC's "Today" show from 2006 to 2011. She currently serves as a special correspondent for NBC News programming including "Today" and "NBC Nightly News." From 1997 to 2006, she was moderator of ABC's "The View."

Vieira also hosted the syndicated game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" from 2002 until this season. She's the winner of 14 Emmys.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/meredith-vieira-host-daily-talk-show-2014-170424309.html

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