By mike
…or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Overview.
I’ll freely admit that I suck with money: I spend it if I’ve got it, I can’t keep track of it very well, and budgeting is… well… one of those things I’ve never learned. For the last 10 years or so I’ve been an avid Quicken user, using it much like a high-powered check register: I’d enter every single transaction, and as those cleared the bank I would reconcile them in Quicken. With the advent and proliferation of debit cards and my preference to use cash less and less, the amount of transactions I was entering and reconciling was in the thousands per year. That’s a lot of work, and for very little gain it turns out. Read more »
By mike
I used to be a Verizon customer – a very satisfied one as my calls would never drop. I ditched them for a device I love just like many have done. Some people claim that AT&T’s network has suffered because of users like me are taking up all the bandwidth or something. Whatever: you get exclusive access to the hottest piece of hardware out there, make sure your network can handle it or you’re going to lose customers, as I will be looking to do in 2011 when my current 2 years are up and when Droid matures even more. But in the meantime, AT&T? The truth hurts:
AT&T did not file this lawsuit because Verizon’s “There’s A Map For That” advertisements are untrue; AT&T sued because Verizon’s ads are true and the truth hurts.
Smart move, AT&T: all of your customers know your coverage sucks. Your iPhone customers are dissatisfied with your service and would jump ship in a heartbeat. Maybe you have the “Nation’s Fastest 3G Network” but it’s only in the relatively rare cases where my phone can find it. Good move on a lawsuit as a response to something we all know is the truth.
I honestly thought I had gotten past having to actually check the number of bars my phone was getting when I was with Verizon. Not so now that I’ve switched to an inferior network. AT&T? You suck.
By mike
It’s good to see Lifehacker focusing on backup tools. After literally years of struggling with backing up various computers and laptops I’ve owned over the years, and having learned my disaster-recovery lesson the hard way when I lost the hard drive on my desktop in 1996 or something, I’ve recently settled into a very cozy relationship with Mozy. I signed up for the yearly Home Unlimited plan ($50/yr per machine) and have been nothing short of pleased with it’s performance.
Check out other options over at Lifehacker, but whatever you do? Make sure you’re backing up your data…
