Quicken announced in a press release yesterday that come this fall they were going to be starting an online version of their financial management software. It has currently been undergoing tests by a closed set of people, but starting September 10 they will be opening the doors to thousands of others who eagerly await Beta testing. That’s just one day after the Quicken

As the title of this article asks, what’s your time online spent doing? Do you spend more time viewing news and other content than you do emailing and shopping? Do you play games? What is it that you do?

A recent study conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings found that people are now spending a good chunk of their time online reading and viewing content like news (thanks to the increase in blogs and

Opera 9.23 has been released and is ready for consumption by the general public. A majority of the things fixed in this release are credited to Mozilla’s jsfunfuzz tool that was released at Black Hat about two-weeks ago. The tool found four bugs in Opera that caused crashes, and one "highly severe" security vulnerability:

• Fixed four crash bugs
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Microsoft has gotten their share of bad publicity lately due to all of the problems with Xbox 360 consoles failing, and the costs associated with those repairs. A recent New York Times article quoted one Xbox owner saying, “You expect somebody’s expensive product to be more durable than that,” when talking about the recent failure of his console. So while the Xbox may have some durability issues, Playstation 3 certainly doesn’t!

The official Playstation

Remember the days of Napster when 70 million users traded music, and life was good? Then the RIAA stepped in and sued Napster for copyright infringement and the happy days of sharing music for free were over. Napster then introduced Napster 2.0 which required users to pay a fee for the once free music which didn’t prove to be successful. Others have also taken the same route of offering

Earlier today Six Apart launched the 4th edition of their popular blogging software called Movable Type. Many of the bloggers I know are using WordPress, but there are several big ones such as Boing Boing, Read/Write Web, and Treehugger that all use Movable Type.

It currently isn’t open source like WordPress is, but an

Web Browser Wednesday

More than a month ago I looked at 6 different browsers that were all based on the Firefox rendering engine (a.k.a. Gecko). The Gecko rendering engine is an important factor for some people when choosing a browser because most sites are tested and work well in Firefox, so it should be just the same in those other browsers.

I discovered the Windows-only K-Meleon