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A Great New Tool to Track

Jb — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:30:00 +0000

In an effort to keep track of my expenses, I was using expensr.com. I liked it because it was simple, and showed me these nice pie graphs. Plus I could add as many custom categories as I wanted. But they were puchased a few months ago by moneyStrands, so my account was transferred over to them.

Except that I don’t like moneyStrands. I found the interface confusing to use, and the whole thing was unwieldy. After using it for three days, I closed my account.

Now I was stuck. I didn’t want to have to create my own spreadsheet because I’m lazy, and I haven’t found any pre-made ones out there that I liked.

TextHog to the rescue!

The big selling point of TextHog is that you can email or tweet your expenses to the site and it records everything for you. This is great because if I’m out and about and bought an ice cream from an ice cream truck, I can record the purchase. And it makes those pie charts I like too. The one thing I’d like is customizable categories, but they hit all the major ones, and let you tag each transactions as you like, so it’s definitely workable.

Have any of you used TextHog yet? I’ve been at it for a week, and absolutely love it. TextHog’s still in beta, so I’m hoping that they’ll continue to roll out the features each week and/or month.

So let’s hear it readers, have you tried TextHog yet? What do you think?

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Do YOU Want to Be in my Blogroll?

Jb — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:31:28 +0000

This past weekend I spent some time going through my RSS Reader, and took a cruise through other people’s blog rolls. I added a few more blogs to my list of ones to read, so I thought I’d throw open the invitation to my own blog roll. I didn’t immediately add all the ones I’m reading to my blogroll, but I’ll slowly be adding to it. If you’d like to be added, just drop me a comment and I’ll take a look!

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Come Join the Carnival

Jb — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:08:49 +0000

My post about finishing off payments to one of my credit cards was accepted at the Carnival of Personal Finance #184. Go check the list and read up on what the rest of the bloggers are talking about!

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Life has kept me busy

Jb — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:37:31 +0000

So I haven’t been posting as often as I would have liked lately. Hopefully you haven’t been worried.

Between work and life, there just hasn’t been much time to keep y’all up to date. I’ll try to post a little more frequently in the next while, as I do realize that I’ve been neglecting you.

Upcoming are the April Numbers, as well as some general financial shenanigans that have been going on around here chez AinD.com. Stay tuned!

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Adventures in Wordpress Upgrades

Jb — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:26:29 +0000

Yes, I finally upgraded my Wordpress installation on AinD.com tonight. It was a little more complicated than normal because I had to back everything up, then remove the installation through Fantastico in my website hosting panel, then reinstall the FTP way. Everything went well though, as you can see. After the usual “I forgot to assign the database user to the appropriate database”-type of problems, I just imported my back up DB and all is well. We’re back humming along with the latest Wordpress installation and now I can go back to watching the hockey game (my “free” entertainment for the week.)

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