Archive for the 'Apps' Category

Mint Money Management: A Review

Friday, September 21st, 2007

I don’t know where I’ve been for the past few months, but apparently a fancy new money management tool called Mint has been tearing up the internets in private beta. It’s gone public as of September 18, and I’ve been playing with it since yesterday. In a nutshell, although it’s a little light on features, […]

When Backups Aren’t

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

I’ve never had much luck with these sorts of things, but I decided to give Installer.app for iPhone a try. People generally seem to be installing this thing without a hitch, and besides, iTunes meticulously backs up everything on your iPhone anyway.

What could go wrong?

Well, something did. The installer (“AppTapp”) printed something like “Waiting […]

Uh, Yeah, I’m Sure

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Safari 3.0, when trying to change your home page from the default to something useful:

Apple, maybe this sort of thing will fly for your new Windows users, but on a Mac, it’s unacceptable. You enjoy industry-leading profit margins on our dime because we’re willing to pay more to have computers that don’t piss us off. […]