Welcome and thanks for reading! My name is Steve and I work in the IT industry. What that means for those that might not know, is that 60% of the time I am actively fixing computer issues from the mundane to the absurd with on-hand knowledge. The other 40% of the time I am on a Google search trying to find out what in the hell an ID 10 T Error is. (Get it? Thaaaats right. I got jokes.) During my traipsing of the Googleverse/Blogosphere/dark inky depths of the internet, I tend to come across helpful programs that make either my work-life or my real-life-life easier. With this blog I intend to share what I find with you. So here it is, the first set of awesome programs:
1)
Mint.com
Mint is a financial program that you can sync with your accounts to view purchases and income either graphically or by list, and helps you set a budget by letting you actually see how much the midnight runs for munchies can suck a bank account dry. With bank-level encryption and support for many major and mid-level banks (sorry Central Bank of Wallabangbang, no Mint for you) Mint.com could be just what you need to get your finances in some semblance of order.
The Dirty:
-Web based
-Android/IPhone mobile app
-FREE (the magic word everyone loves)
-Can send alerts through email or text
-Personalized recommendations for CDs, credit cards, etc.
2)
FullScreenWeather.com
This is another web based application that I really like. It is just what it says: it uses the whole browser window to show a map of your location with the weather. Its simple with not a lot of frills, but it gets the job done. You can view local radar maps of areas for precipitation, cloud coverage, or temperature. It also allows for storm tracking and will give you info from the National Weather Service and Weather Underground (they also power the site).
The Dirty:
-Web based
-FREE
-Simple and easy to use
3)
Grooveshark.com
Grooveshark is an awesome web-based music player. Users can upload their music (that was legally obtained, right?) to their servers and anyone can listen to the songs. You can also create playlists of your favorite songs and save them or share them, so instead of making a mix tape to give to the girl that wont give you the time of day/month/year, you can now make a playlist that you can send to her and still be ignored! Isn't the 21st century AMAZING!? It boasts an impressively large library of music and offers three tiers of service: The free, standard version; Grooveshark Plus, which doesn't have ads on the web app and allows a desktop application; and Grooveshark Anywhere, which has all of the perks of Plus, with a mobile application for quite a few different phones. The mobile application used to be a little strange and hard to deal with, but a fairly recent update to it has made it far easier to use.
The Dirty:
-Web based
-Desktop application (with subscription)
-Mobile app for Android/IPhone/Blackberry/Palm/Nokia phones(with Anywhere subscription
-Flash 9 or better to run
Also, best "server down" message. ever.
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