[Mac OS X] CheckBook - the ultimate finance management software!

When it comes to finance management, many people prefer it the old method of writing the finance entries in diaries or specific books as they find it pretty handy and safe to do so. However in this digital age, where computer games are one of the first games kids play with, can we expect them to maintain their financial records on the same old books? I guess not! In fact, I want to keep my own financial records on the computer because I believe that it’s more safe and easy to maintain too.
There are many software available on windows when it comes to personal finance management and Microsoft Money is one of the most respected software in that field. However, when it comes to OS X I guess the software that I’m reviewing right now has to be one of the easiest and best software ever for personal finance management.
CheckBook allows you to add multiple accounts and gives a very simple to use interface that anyone who isn’t good with accounting can use the software without any problem. Although, I’ve studied some accounting but still I know that I know nothing about it. I was able to create the entries and it showed me various reports and thus helped me know that where and how my money is flowing. It even let you mark the entries (deposits) as taxable or not.
FeedLayout Plugin : Add the ads or copyright information in the wordpress feeds!
There are various plugins which allow you customize the feed items of any WordPress blog and one of them is FeedLayout plugin. It’s an excellent plugin and it allows you to put almost anything in the feed.
The good features about this particular feed plugin is that it processes PHP codes too, so if you want to display something which is generated by any other plugin for e.g. if you’ll put <? php echo bookmark_me(); ? > (provided you use the bookmark me plugin from the same author), then it will display the bookmarking icons in the feed.
Like this you can include images and whatever you can imagine in the feeds, just don’t try to put javascript stuff in it (read : google adsense).
How to create podcasts - A handy guide!
Well, a couple of posts back I’d posted that it’s good to start a podcast, however there is always a thing called Good podcast and a bad podcast. Just like a good blog and a bad blog. So, how can one be a champion podcaster. Well, I’ve not started one yet, so can’t say that how one can be a great podcaster.
However, Jim has created 10 videos and talks about various aspects of podcasting, how to create podcasts and even tells you that while doing a podcast, how important is lightning, sound and your clothes can be. He even tells you that what camera you should opt for, if at all you decide to start a podcast.
Note this is a contest entry plus a resource entry for every to know that yes, it makes sense to start a podcast and may be this is my first step to jump into podcasting, may be I’m just being camera shy. Anyone for the podcasts ?







