Live Music Friday: Handsome Furs

“Baby we can get you anything you want, any time you want. But you won’t know what it’s for.”

Handsome Furs – Legal Tender

Handsome Furs – Handsome Furs Hate This City

Handsome Furs – Evangeline

Mint.com: Online Budgeting is Useless Without the Online Part

Shouldn't this guy be on the phone with Citizens Bank right now?

While I wait an astonishing 2+ months...

Wait a minute let's read that again. 2 months. Mint's service for one of the largest banks in the Northeast has been unavailable for 2 months. Holy shit how has this not made the tech news yet? Better yet, how have there not been firings (plural)?

While I wait a mind-blowing 2 months for connectivity issues to be resolved between Mint and Citizens Bank, I've been hanging out with Quicken. People seem to hate Quicken, but their customer support is incredibly responsive and their account connectivity has been rock solid. That's about to change as come this spring, there will be nowhere to hide from Mint's horrifically unstable data provider-

Although many are concerned about the fate of Mint, it sounds as though most of the changes will be happening to Quicken’s 1.4 million online users. They will be moved to Mint in the spring, said Mr. Patzer, who will oversee the transition.

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On paper this lines up perfectly. Mint- great features, crappy data provider + support. Quicken- crappy features, great data provider + support. Come this spring a Voltron of online banking awesomeness should assemble before our very eyes. As long as Mr. Patzer doesn't blow it…or allow Intuit to screw it up. 

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Fall Fair – Groton Mass.

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Welcome to Your New Default Web Browser

Well that's that. The two extensions which are absolutely critical to my web browsing experience (XMarks + LastPass) are now available for dev builds of Google Chrome. Actually, Chrome's bookmark sync works very well. XMarks is really only required if you absolutely need to keep non-Chrome browser bookmarks in sync. But now I can finally declare Chrome lord and master of my desktop.

Strange thing is, I always thought AdBlock Plus would be the killer extension. (Site note- holy crap. I just launched Firefox so I could look up the proper name for "AdBlock Plus". It took ~20 seconds to launch.) But honestly, I don't mind ads so much. I'm nearly completely desensitized to them now. Things pop up in my sidebar and I don't even see them. After staring at my screen for 10 mins, I still couldn't tell you what the ads said. Speed really does make for a much more pleasant browsing experience.

I've been using the Chrome dev channel builds for about a month, and aside from a crash here and there, the builds are remarkably stable. Firefox is still installed for only 1 reason- Fireshot is a great screenshotting app. But I'm sure it's only a matter of time before that's replaced as well.

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