How to connect iotty smart wall switches to Home Assistant so you can control lighting and build automations alongside your other devices.
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My review of iBank 5 for Mac in 2013. Bill Pay, Direct Access downloads, and better budgeting keep it ahead of Quicken Essentials.
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Why I dumped Quicken Essentials 2010 for iBank 4 after Intuit locked in my data, and the parsing work it took to free my transactions.
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Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac has no usable export. Its CSV is a report dump, not data. How Intuit traps your transaction history.
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Rackspace Cloud vs. Amazon EC2 in 2010, compared on instance sizes, hourly pricing, and features, with a winner picked in each category.
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How to create a full backup AMI of an Amazon EC2 instance, plus a 2016 update on the AWS console's one-click Create Image option.
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My review of Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac from a Quicken 2007 user's view. It covers the basics but delivers the bare minimum.
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My review of iBank as a Quicken 2007 for Mac replacement, covering the demo, install, and import from a longtime Quicken user's view.
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After my Quicken Essentials 2010 critique, Intuit's PR reached out and offered a call with Aaron Patzer. Here is the full exchange.
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I have used Quicken on the Mac for 15 years. Why Quicken Essentials 2010 left me upset with Intuit and asking why they bothered.
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