Some Planned Downtime Tomorrow (Friday, April 15th)
Hi, all! Charlie here. I just wanted to let you know that PearBudget will be down for about an hour or two tomorrow (Friday, April 15th), from about 8am to about 10am (Eastern). We’re going to be working on the servers a bit. We’re hoping that the downtime will actually only be about 15 minutes, [...]
Get a Free Lifetime Membership to Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University
We don’t post many links to contests and giveaways, as we know that your time and attention are precious. But we’re big fans of being debt free, of Simple Mom, and of Dave Ramsey, so we wanted to be sure to link to this one … over at Simple Mom, you can win one of [...]
PearBudget and checkbooks
Question: I think that an awesome feature to add would be a way to use your budget entries to also balance your checkbook. I know that I can do it the way it is, but it would be great if that was an obvious, user-friendly feature on the site. I haven’t found any other tool [...]
Credit card statements versus receipts
Question: I have actual receipts for March, then I have the credit card statement that I paid in March (but actual receipts are for February+March). So…the money leaves my bank account when I pay the credit card statement. Question: for March, do I enter the expenditures according to the credit card statement (mostly February transactions), [...]
A better, safer, faster way to be online (Firefox)
Hi, friends! Charlie here. Just wanted to make a quick announcement. I know a number of you use a program called Internet Explorer to get onto the Internet. It has a logo that looks something like this: Because we care about you, we wanted to let you know about another program that you can use [...]
Win 6 months of free budgeting with PearBudget!
If you’d like to enter to win 6 months of free budgeting with PearBudget, go check out this great post at Living Peacefully Less Stressed. Courtney has a contest with 3 ways to win, going on until 3/28. Good luck!
Coffee and Donuts, On Us
In a little over a week and a half, I (Charlie) will be down in Austin, Texas, to lead a session at the SXSW Interactive conference (my session is on “how do you run a web business and still be a good dad? Alternately, how do you be a good dad and still run a [...]
Downtime
Question: seems to be a problem accessing Pear Budget today…is it just me or is anyone else having problems? Answer: Sorry for the downtime. We’re working on getting everything resolved ASAP. Our hosting company has been having an issue (http://status.mediatemple.net/weblog/category/system-incidents/1867-gs-grid-service-cluster04-instability/). We’re trying to move to a new host as soon as possible, but that’s a [...]
The Dance of Marriage
If you liked Charlie’s post at Simple Mom a few days ago, you’ll probably like a new column in the Wall Street Journal, “The Dance of Marriage” (or maybe that’s the first article’s name? Anyway …). In this first article in the column, the author, Katherine Rosman, introduces a few familiar topics: “When we argue, [...]
PearBudget Giveaway
If you’re interested in winning a free year’s worth of PearBudget, head over to The Thrifty Wife. Ashley’s got a contest going on through Feb. 28th. Of course, we hope you win!