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Anyone here with any recommendations? I'm kinda sick of the support from EasyMoney, and I want something better and more worthy of the money I spent on EasyMoney. I just want it to be easy to use and have a way to backup my records.
Financisto. Appbrain page
It's free (there's a donation app that doesn't add features but does support the devs, consider it if you like the app), open source and feature loaded.
Lots of account options, budgeting, places management, scheduled transactions, custom entries (awesome feature). It's really really flexible, to me it's awesome. The only thing wrong with it is the interface which I think could need an overhaul but top notch otherwise.
Edit: Btw, you can export to CSV, backup to your SD or backup to your Google Docs. Take your pick!
+1 for financisto
Been using it a long time, recommend it.
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There is a problem with financisto, which is its reporting, it doesn't let different account reports to be viewed separately, that is, it clubs the different account reports. Other than it is better than easy money.
Give Loot a try maybe that fits your requirements.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/loot/net.gumbercules.loot
there is a premium version of it, which is free because the developer is really nice and have made it free for sometime due to christmas and all.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/loot-premium/net.gumbercules.loot.premium
Cheers
I tried some expense tracking apps and finally I stayed with Tap Money Tracker.
If you try and feel that you already seen better alternatives, just let me now so I can try them also
Thanks guys. Anyone tried out anMoney yet? I've been trying it out with Financisto, but still undecided which I like better. I do like Financisto, but it does not have a bill reminder function, or a page where I can dump bills that I should pay and the due date.
I am really in need of an analog to pocket quicken. I use quicken for my finances and need something that syncs and keeps a balance on the mobile...Has anyone seen something like this or a good workaround. Mint.com is not really an accounting program as it only deals with things that have cleared and will not sync to quicken.
Go defend America then get USAA. Hands down the best.
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I am really in need of an analog to pocket quicken. I use quicken for my finances and need something that syncs and keeps a balance on the mobile...Has anyone seen something like this or a good workaround. Mint.com is not really an accounting program as it only deals with things that have cleared and will not sync to quicken.
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I would like something as powerful too.
Mint.com is what i use to track all of my finances. Its super powerful and there is a mint.com app that if very feature packed.
mint.com looks alright but yeah only US and canada right now so useless for other countries.
I use financisto, seems the best free one I could find
To the OP: You asked about AnMoney and I have been using it for a few months. I find it VERY useful for daily transactions as well as getting a handle on my personal finances. It gives me a snapshot of where my $$ is at any point in time, and it does include budget and reporting capabilities. While it would be great if those 2 features packed more options, I'm still very satisfied with the product. I forget how much it costs... but it was very reasonable IIRC. It allows transfers to/from savings/checking, loan payments, recurring entries (such as payroll or automatic debit). Very user-friendly and customizable. I also tried Mint and thought it was pretty good except for the fact that none of the credit unions I utilize permit Mint to access the accounts. Sort of defeats the purpose if you can't get your savings and checking accounts to show up lol. Hope this helps you.
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To the OP: You asked about AnMoney and I have been using it for a few months. I find it VERY useful for daily transactions as well as getting a handle on my personal finances. It gives me a snapshot of where my $$ is at any point in time, and it does include budget and reporting capabilities. While it would be great if those 2 features packed more options, I'm still very satisfied with the product. I forget how much it costs... but it was very reasonable IIRC. It allows transfers to/from savings/checking, loan payments, recurring entries (such as payroll or automatic debit). Very user-friendly and customizable. I also tried Mint and thought it was pretty good except for the fact that none of the credit unions I utilize permit Mint to access the accounts. Sort of defeats the purpose if you can't get your savings and checking accounts to show up lol. Hope this helps you.
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Thanks for the reply! Is there also a bill reminder option in the full version of anMoney? I don't see it in the full one, so I'm gonna ask you since you have it!
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Thanks guys. Anyone tried out anMoney yet? I've been trying it out with Financisto, but still undecided which I like better. I do like Financisto, but it does not have a bill reminder function, or a page where I can dump bills that I should pay and the due date.
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I use ansMoney religiously
very good app
bit pricey but does come with a hell of alot of options
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Thanks for the reply! Is there also a bill reminder option in the full version of anMoney? I don't see it in the full one, so I'm gonna ask you since you have it!
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the original link.....http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/confessions-of-a-google-junkie-or-privacy-what-privacy/3553
Summary: A lot has been made of Google’s new privacy policy and terms of use. I say bring it on.
There are very few aspects of my life that don’t somehow involve Google. My phone runs on Android, my favorite tablet just got an OTA update to Ice Cream Sandwich (!!!), I use Chrome across all of my computers, I develop AdWords campaigns, I use Analytics to develop metrics for the day job and dive into SEO, I handle many of the CBS Interactive Google webcasts, I use Google Docs almost exclusively for productivity, and my wife doesn’t know where I am half the time until she checks my Google Calendar (which, in fact, aggregate two other Google Calendars).
I’m increasingly turning to Google+ as my source of relevant information and opinions, a function previously reserved for Twitter, and I’ve even dispensed with bookmarks, instead using Google Sites to organize important pages and resources.
I live, eat, breathe, work, and play Google and there aren’t many people more aware of Google’s business model and the amount of data it collects than I. So is it just sheer stupidity and naiveté that has me utterly embracing the Google ecosystem and relatively unconcerned about newly announced privacy policies that have caused so much consternation this week? Before you jump down to the talkbacks to tell me how stupid I really am, read on for another couple paragraphs.
As Larry Dignan pointed out in his post about the new policies last night,
Google noted that it already has all that data, but it’s now integrating that information across products. It’s a change in how Google will use the data not what it collects. In other words, Google already knows more about you than your wife.
From my perspective, though, I can live with Google knowing a lot about me. It knows, for example, that I’ve recently developed an obsession with the electric guitar and have been researching inexpensive models that I might just be able to justify as a birthday present to myself. It doesn’t judge, it just shows me the best deals in display ads on the three models of guitar and 2 models of amps I’ve been reading about the most. My wife isn’t aware of this obsession and her take on it would be judgmental (God love her!): “When will you have time to play guitar? And we’re supposed to be saving money! And what’s wrong with your acoustic guitar?”
Taking this a step further, as Google’s new privacy policies and terms of use do, I should expect to start seeing guitar-related apps in my suggestions in the Google Market and the Chrome Marketplace. Guitarists on Google+ should start appearing in suggested people to add to my circles and Google Reader should offer to download Guitar Player Magazine feeds for me. And, more likely than not, I’ll start seeing more guitar-related ads as well.
Google’s goal, of course, is to sell advertising. That’s about 97% of their revenue. By pulling people like me into their increasingly unified ecosystem, they can demonstrate very high click-through rates to potential advertisers and charge a premium to reach highly targeted and yet incredibly vast audiences.
They need to give me something in return
For me to buy into this, they need to give me something in return. Something to make all things Google really sticky. Like a wide array of free tools from Google Docs to Google Music to Google Voice. And cheap tools that I buy for my business like Google Apps and AdWords. Their new policies are designed to be more transparent, but also to pave the way for these tools to talk to each other better, making them even stickier through a unified experience and more relevant services.
Back to the wife comparison that Larry brought up. My wife knows that every Friday night is pizza night in our house. So does Google, since every Friday around 4:30 I pull out my Android and use Google Voice Search to find the number of whatever pizza joint we decide to patronize that week. Fine. Google, however, can actually do something more useful with that information than my wife can (”Where should I order pizza, sweetheart?” “Wherever, just not that place down the road. Or that other place. And make sure they’re having a deal!”).
Come Friday morning, the ads I see on Gmail or Google search should start being pretty pizza-heavy: Dominos, Papa Johns, and a place or two that has an active Google Offer. As I’m driving home that evening, the GPS on my phone should set off an alert when I drive past a well-reviewed pizza place (assuming I’ve set location-based preferences to alert me to destinations with at least four-star average reviews). And the minute I type a P in my mobile browser, Google Instant should leap into action and display nearby pizza places and a news story about a new place to get pizza in the next town.
We’re not quite there yet, but this is the sort of integration and experience that Google is covering in its new policies and terms of use. I know that my privacy red flags should probably be going off. Google has gigabytes of information about me and is using that information to help its advertisers sell products. That’s bad, right?
Guess what, folks? This is the semantic web
And yet, I don’t think it is. Many of the same techies who cry foul over these new policies have also been pushing for the development of the semantic web to make it easier to find what we actually need in the trillions of web pages floating around the Internet. Guess what, folks? This is the semantic web. When our search engines know what we actually mean, when data on the web automagically becomes information we can use easily and quickly, we’ve arrived.
And the semantic web can’t exist without “the web” (whatever that is) knowing a lot about us. It takes data for a computer to understand our needs and process natural language efficiently. Some of those data will necessarily be fairly personal.
Now, if I start getting spam from pizza places or calls on my Google Voice number from Dominos because Google has sold my contact information and preferences to advertisers, we have a problem and I’ll be waving my privacy flag as high as anyone else. However, when I opt in by opening a Google account and staying logged in as I surf the web, I’m not only consenting to the collection and aggregation of data about me, I’m asking that it be done so that the web and related tools can be more useful to me. This sort of data mining lets me work faster, play easier, and find the best pizza in a 20-mile radius.
For its part, Google needs to remain the trusted broker of these data. No, I don’t like the idea that our government could brand me a terrorist and seize these gigabytes of data under the Patriot Act. The alternative, though, is an ever-growing morass of web sites and tools that I get to dig through manually.
And, by the way, even if I’m not logged in to my Google account as I’m doing it, my ISP knows the sites I’ve visited, too, and could just as easily (if not more so) be compelled to turn over this information to the real Big Brother in all of this.
Far more trust in Google than the Feds
Honestly, I have far more trust in Google than I do in the Feds. Google is motivated by money: they need my trust to keep collecting those data to keep making it easier for me to buy things from Google’s paying advertisers. If that trust is broken by inappropriate sharing of data, then my eyeballs go elsewhere and so do the advertisers who target me via AdWords and AdSense. Our government has no such financial motivation. Money talks.
The fact that the speech recognition on my phone kicks ass because I use Google Voice all the time and it’s learned how I talk might be a little creepy, but it’s far more important that I can do a Google search or send a text while I’m driving without taking my eyes off the road.
Welcome to 2012, folks. The semantic web has arrived. Use it well and let’s keep Google’s new policies in perspective. And Google? Don’t be evil. I have a lot of colleagues who will be pointing, laughing, and saying I told you so if you ever are.
Nice article.
I think the key for Google's continued success is to keep the advertising passive, suggestions when you're searching etc. aren't in your face but they work.
You see a lot of people complaining that they've been searching for something online and then all of the adverts on the websites they visit contain something pertaining to that, and they grumble that it's annoying. Personally, I'd much rather see an advert to something that's relevant to me rather than a cluttered webpage of irrelevant information.
By targeting adverts and increasing their relevance to the individual, they are far more likely to be successful. This means that the revenue per advert is going to improve and websites aren't going to need to cover their website in adverts (at the cost of the user experience) to make it profitable.
Plus given the huge amount of free stuff that google gives you, it's a bit rich for somebody to complain that they're trying to get something back off you.
I too would much rather see things directly targeted towards me then just random ads. And everyone is up in arms about google recording what you do. Well i think of it this way, i'm fine with them getting to know me and my behavior and what i do, as long as they keep providing FREE products for me.
Ahh the good old "If they are going to screw me without consent, I would much rather they knew my name, stroked my hair and whispered sweet nothings into my ear while they did it."
I prefer to treat my online habbits like the strange neighbour a few doors down. Say "hi" in passing, and realise that while they probrobly know more than I would want them to from when I've invited them over for coffee and from peeking in my windows as they walk past, know that I don't actually have to put up with their $#!+ if they become too creepy.
Thats why its important there are alternitives and competition, and that we as consumers don't put our eggs all in one basket and be prepared to protest or move on if they stretch the friendship too far.
I know privacy is impossible in this day and age but that doent mean you have to lie back and take it. "because you know it means well and it does give you nice gifts once in a while"
My suggestion is cut your reliance on any one brand and spread out the load.
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My suggestion is cut your reliance on any one brand and spread out the load.
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I like the author am reliant on Google these days. I'd be happy to look at alternatives. Granted they work on the platforms I needs them to, Android 2.X and 3.2, Linux+chrome, windows XP + chrome, and windows 7 + firefox or chrome. The linux requirement cuts out a lot of things, iTunes/iCloud for example.
Have any suggestions who/where i could go for:
Music
Docs
G+
Gmail
Needs a slick webUI, and the searching ability of gmail
Calendar
I need delegation and the ability for my wife to add me to events and share calendars.
Reader
works on all my devices, and syncs between them
I would very much like my phone to know when I leave work. Now i could do this with some sort of timer, but I end up working somewhat flexible hours, and have a leaving time of anywhere within an hour and a half. I would like it to know that since I now have "buy bread, milk, and eggs" on my to-do list (thanks hun!), that it needs to remind me of that on the way home. Even better if it can just direct me to a store with a deal on one or all of those things.
I like that the first hit in Google I get for cookies is the wikipedia page for http cookies and the second is to pythons cookielib module. Where as I bet my grandmother gets, chocolate chip cookies. The ability for Google search to know that I have a particular artist in my collection, and show me the bind's page near the top of the results without me having to add "band" to my search terms.
Anyways, if and when Google starts selling my data to 3rd parties, I'll export my data and move. Google makes it fairly painless to do that.
16 GB for free (or dirt cheap)
If you don't care enough to spread the word about your account, then fear not, there is another, faster way to get your storage space maxed out on referrals. It won't cost you much or anything at all, and can be done in one to three days.
First up, I'm going to assume a few things about you. First is that you have a Dropbox account. If not, go to Dropbox.com and sign up. I'm not providing my referral link since I'm already maxed. Secondly, you need to install the desktop app. Finally, log into the site, and find your referral link. For your convience, I'll link to it. Just make sure you are signed in to DropBox before clicking this link.
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals
Setting up AdWords with free credit
Alright, now we need to move on to step two. Get an AdWords account with Google. Once your account is active, you can click the following link to request a free $75 AdWords credit voucher. Please note that you need a website for this voucher to work. You might be able to use a Facebook fan page, but I don't really know. If you don't have any website to fill in, don't worry, because it costs next to nothing to get this done normally.
Note that some domain registrars have a free service active for their account holders for you to get a $100 AdWords credit voucher. Just contact them to find out. I have a few sites with Dreamhost. They give out $100 vouchers, as do GoDaddy.
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/adwordscoupon/
You may need to call the 800 number to get them to activate your credit voucher. Some people wait for a couple of days to receive the e-mail. If you are impatient or do not want to call them for some reason, I've got you covered. It will cost you, but it's not much at all. Keep reading.
The first thing you need to do after signing in to AdWords is add your billing preferences. You must add a credit card, but they will not charge you unless you go over your voucher balance, which should not happen. Once you are done, go back to Billing Summary, and select More Actions. Paste in the promo code that Google sent you, and your credit will be applied to your account.
Your first ad
Alright, we've got everything ready now, so we need to set up your first ad. Go to Campaigns, then New Campaign. Name the campaign Dropbox or whatever you like. Tell it which language and locations you want. I used All Countries and Territories and English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese for my first ad since I speak those languages. Under Networks and devices, leave All Available Sites and All Available Devices selected.
The next part depends on whether or not you have a credit voucher. If you do have a credit, then keep reading. If not, then skip down to the next section, since you'll be spending a small amount of your own money.
For those with a credit balance:
Under Bidding and Budget, tick the radio button that says AdWords will set my bids, then set a budget of $20 per day for yourself. We don't want to burn through the credit too fast just in case. You should just leave all the rest of the blanks as they are for now. Click on Save and Continue.
For those without any credit balance:
Under Bidding and Budget, tick the radio button that says Manually set my bids, but don't enter anything in the default bid box. We'll set it in the next step. Then set a budget of $10 per day for yourself. We don't want to burn through your money too fast, now do we? You should just leave all the rest of the blanks as they are for now. Click on Save and Continue.
Creating the Ad
Now it's time to create our Ad. We're going to create the text of the ad now. Add in the headline of the Ad. This is the bold faced type on the first line. Put something eye catching like "Free DropBox Account" or "Free Online Storage." Obviously, free is the key word here. DO NOT USE ALL CAPS!!! Your ad will be removed. Just don't act like a spam bot and you won't be treated like one. Next, make two more lines of text under this. These lines are up to you as well. Make it something eye catching. Mention the 2GB of storage or "Sign up here" or something. Be creative.
The Display URL is just the text that will be displayed as the web address. www.dropbox.com is fine for this. The referral link for your personal DropBox account is what you will put in the Destination URL box. Direct link to this is at the top of this post.
Next up is the keywords. These will determine when your ad pops up. If someone searches for one of these keywords, your ad has a chance to show up to them. I suggest using "dropbox, storage, free online storage, online backup free, online backup, online backup data, and dropbox space" for now. Google may send you an e-mail later or offer suggestions as you type for other keywords. It doesn't cost anything to add keywords, so just add them all.
Setting CPC
A higher CPC gives Google a bigger incentive to show your ad over someone else's.
For those without any credit balance:
I suggest setting the CPC low, around $0.05, so each click doesn't cost you much money. You might even want to go lower at $0.03 to save some money. More money per click usually equals more times your ad will be shown. More exposure get this done more quickly.
For those with a credit balance:
I recommend setting the CPC to auto, so your ads are more competitive. My CPC was automatically set to $0.86. I also allowed all the suggested keywords from Google's suggestions to increase the odds of my ad being seen and standing out.
How many ads?
Personally, I did two ads both with tons of keywords. Google suggested lots of keywords based on the few that I manually entered. I ran one ad in English and one in French. I did the French one since I had heard that French people like to see ads in their native language. I guess I can understand that point. Don't run more than three linking to the same thing or you run the risk of being shut down due to "spammy" advertising. Once your ads are all set, turn them all on and wait.
My ads took all of about an hour to finish up my referral pool when I did this four months ago. Now that this is more well known, it may take you a few days depending on how much money you've invested in each click. Remember that higher CPCs get you more views. You are basically bidding on ad spots. When your CPC bid is accepted, your ad will run for that spot until someone clicks on it, then it starts over again. Due to this, you will notice that your referrals seem to come in groups, rather than in a constant stream. You may get five referrals at once, then nothing for several hours.
If you followed these steps, you should still have some credit left. If you paid for this yourself, you might have spent about $10-$20 total on this.
Finishing up
Keep a tab open for Adwords and for Dropbox referrals. Refresh them every so often to keep track of how you are doing. You only get credit for 16 referrals, so make sure to stop your ads when you get to your limit. Do worry about changing the ads around during this process. It works, trust me. You just have to give it some time.
I can't stress to you enough how important it is to TURN OFF YOUR ADS WHEN YOU REACH YOUR CAP!!!!!!! Google doesn't know you have a cap. The ads will continue running and wasting your money if your referrals are full if you don't turn them off. Just log in to Adwords and pause all of your ads. Pausing them stops them from running and stops you from being charged. Don't delete them just in case you decide to upgrade to Pro, get a .edu e-mail, or they extend the referral cap.
Any questions or comments please let me know.
Does dropbox automatically sync the android folder for you? I don't think so.
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Does dropbox automatically sync the android folder for you? I don't think so.
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No, it will only import content that you select manually. Not everyone has enough storage to sync everything in that folder. The app will auto-upload pictures for you, though, if you set it that way.
Have you known anyone to use a facebook fan page for web site? I don't have a web page, and I'm pretty much broke so I'd much rather not spend 10-20 bucks on doing this.
Let me know if it works for you.
Hi all,
Have been looking for a crm, stock & invoicing type app to run on my samsung tablet for a little while and am not really finding anything that covers all of the bases. Most just seem to be front ends for large corporate systems and the others very limited in what they can do, so I thought I'd seek guidance.
What I'm looking for, well I'm self employed and travel to a customers premises where I primarily sell a product but also carry out ongoing servicing. Regular service's also include additional products. Some of my products are stock items but many are ordered from a small number of suppliers specifically on behalf of the customer.
The app will need to; maintain a customer database, be able to schedule appointments with them, maintain an account balance, generate an invoice that is emailable direct from the app, maintain a stock list, raise orders to replace stock or to fulfill customer demand, generate various reports for total receipts, total spend, customer spend etc. Ideally this should all be able to sync back to google docs for record keeping, analysis etc.
So what do you think people any ideas?
I have so far spent 3 days trawling through the app market with no luck, nothing I've found does all of it and juggling 2 or 3 apps is defeating the purpose of using an android tablet I may as well just buy a notepad & pencil.
Not sure if this is the correct forum for this so, please move if you feel somewhere else is more appropriate.
Many thanks
Jon
Edit sorry realised it's in the wrong place, have reposted but can't see how to delete this post, admin can you delete please.
So, I'm in an interface design class and one of the more appealing options for an assignment was to make an application for mobile (we've been given 7 weeks to complete it but need to do at least 500 words of development discussion a week even if I somehow finish before then). I'm both glad this was one of the options as I've wanted to make something for a while now (though I seem to have misplaced my idea list) and a little nervous.
Right now I'm thinking something simple, does anyone have any ideas? This week will primarily be research for the professors journal requirements I think.
I will be happy to answer you
However there is no limit of app ideas, but in a simplest way if you are at the learning stage then I would like to recommend you to create an app with simple functionality with simple UI. Some of the examples I want to suggest here is chat application, book reviews, music app, photo sharing etc
Have you ever done one of these murder mystery dinners? They are pretty great, but usually limited to the one box / set of cards you buy. Maybe there is some benefit in bringing this game to the phone / tablet where you have GPS, camera, etc.?
What would I need in order to make a music or video player, or a chat application?
Sharing data sounds tricky.
Murder Mystery sounds interesting, however as it's a game sounds like I'd have to make a ton more assets to make it worthwhile.
One of the other ideas I had was to make a heartrate monitor with in-built journal. I know several of the monitors on the app store charge for the journaling feature. Alas I know not much about how they function other than they use the camera to measure the pulse in your finger.
PHONE-A-TAXI is an exclusive app that may be used in the event of being stranded. With GPS technology, it would detect the nearest taxi rank for whoever has subscribed to the service. To operate this app, one must telephone the taxi company in order to charter a taxi from the person’s exact location, and send it straight to the passenger.
How you would make money?
The app would be free for consumers but, in order to absorb the marketing costs, the developer could charge taxi firms a monthly subscription fee. They could also utilize the existence of social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. to promote the app to potential consumers. The bigger the client base, the more you can charge the taxi firm annually, which would also be beneficial to the taxi company.