Quicken plays dirty pool
Quicken announced a few days ago that they would turn off the web service connections that millions of Quicken 2002 users use to to automatically download banking records. Not sunsetting phone support or discontinuing new bug fixes: they literally are going to turn the service off, as of April 15th. Your only option as a customer is to buy Quicken 2005.
the mac mini as a personal server
A large number of people on the internets are craving the new Mac Mini - the $500 “headless mac”, unveiled at Macworld two days ago - trying to figure out what the business implications are and the role the Mini might play as a home (or car!) based entertainment platform.
The general consensus is that the Mac Mini is the camel’s nose under the tent, a way for apple to rapidly gain entry into the mass market computing space.
One application for a small computer like the Mini is to use it as a personal server (PS). The need for such a device is driven by the increasing size and importance of the digital data that consumers are archiving and sharing, and the trend towards laptop-only, wireless households (which lack the option of using the family desktop PC as a de-facto file server).