CoinKeeper is a new personal expenses and budgeting app that’s already in the top five finance apps in the U.S., and is the top finance app in Russia and Singapore. It’s $3 in the iTunes app store. We loved it — the best of its type we’ve ever seen. You get a report of spending in each category. Go to CoinKeeper.me for a video on how it works.
According to the Linux Foundation, 81 percent of recruiters say that hiring workers who know the Linux operating system is a priority. Seems unlikely to us, but we’ll swallow it for the moment. We’re not sure which recruiters they’re talking to, but it wouldn’t hurt to get up to speed. “The Linux Command Line” by William Shotts Jr., $50 from nostarch.com, is the right book for that.
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Thirty-nine percent of hospitals and doctors’ offices still use paper records and have no plans to switch to computers, according to IVANS Inc.a national health information exchange. The survey found they resist using new technology even if offered cash incentives to convert to digital records. Some said it was too expensive to switch, others simply shrugged and said that technology keeps changing.
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We’re pretty sure we were the target of an attempted identity theft recently. Joy was asked to “verify” information on the phone regarding a recent credit card application. Bob was very suspicious, so Joy said, skip it, she didn’t want the card anyway. Even after she said that, she was asked to verify her birth date and other personal information in order to cancel. Whoop, whoop, whoop: Enemy attack! Battle stations! She hung up.
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Here’s how we get hung-up: You have an important email message to send. So you go to your email program and are just about to send it, when … you see all these enticing messages waiting for your attention. Twenty minutes later, you think to yourself: “Just what was that message I had to send?”
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A good article at LifeHacker.com tells you how to make a few dollars through “Fulfillment by Amazon.” This is their program to get you to sell the stuff that you never use or look at. Put all your old gadgets, CDs, books and whatever in a box and send them off. Let Amazon do the rest.
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“The Complete Guide to Google +,” by Michael Miller, $20 from IdiotsGuides.com.
Google + is the Google equivalent of Facebook. It has far fewer users but is growing fast. It wasn’t fast enough to keep us hooked, however; we stopped using it regularly a few months after realizing that nearly all of our friends stayed on Facebook
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