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Review: Mint, online money management

Mint is a all encompassing website to help you track your financial data. The site has been fairly well received by most people. On the surface this site is a pretty good idea. Unlike programs like Quicken which need to be told to pull data (at least on Mac, I can’t speak for the Windows [...]

How the Credit Disaster is going to affect IT in 2009

In case you’ve been living under a rock, the US is hitting a huge credit disaster. The only question about the scope of the disaster is how big it’s going to be. The question is, how is this going to affect the IT world? In the short term we’ll see layoffs. This is going to [...]

Apple Engineer gets fired, keeps working

Just in case you think Apple fanaticism is something new… it’s not. Even within the ranks of Apple’s own employees. Read here for the story of Ron Avitzur. An Apple Engineer who’s project it canceled, and is fired. But he keeps going to work to finish his project and get it released. More amazingly is [...]

IT Jobs falling in 2009: NOT

According to a survey by Goldman Sachs & Co, IT jobs are scheduled to be decreased across all sectors. On the other hand, CIO’s are always saying this and find out (usually at the last moment,) that their needs are far higher then they originally planned for. New technologies come out that the company just [...]

How To: Install Macports

Every once in a while you’ll here or read about an absolutely awesome command line utility or X11 program that you must have. After consulting the great Oracle, Google you find that the program you want is in Macports which for those who are not comfortable at the command line may cause some issues. Fear [...]

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