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I have not been able to find a PERSONAL finances program that is true multi-currency.  Would love a web-based one, but nothing so far. I can’t believe this does not exist. I have researched this literally for months.

if anybody knows of a true-multi-currency PERSONAL FINANCES program, preferably web-based, but can also be desktop-based, linux or windows I am all ears.

Can’t be that I am the only person in the world with these needs.

By true-multi currency I mean, historical exchange-rate PER TRANSACTION and fully balanced at all times.

To make it more interesting, I am offering the following bounties:

• $100 dollars to the person that finds a desktop one (windows or linux)
• $200 for a web-based one that is =<$25/month
• $300 for a web based and FREE.
• $350 web-based with multi-user and multi-language for =< $30/month

GNU-Cash, jGnash and moneydance are excluded.
Web-based ones must run in ALL mayor browsers. It can not be MS IExplorer (ie, active-x) only crap.

Feel free to forward this offer. Offer is valid to any person** in the world. 😀

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Costa Rica, Uncategorized, Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: multi-currency, multi-language, multi-user, personal finances.

Mozilla Messaging announced on Tuesday the official release of Thunderbird 3, a major update of the popular open source mail client. The new version brings great improvements, including an impressive new search system and support for tabs in the user interface.

The Mozilla Foundation began forming the Mozilla Messaging subsidiary in 2007 with the aim of giving Thunderbird a chance to soar. The company brought in former ActiveState CTO David Ascher to direct the organization and set its technical agenda. After he took the reigns in early 2008, he began documenting his team’s vision for Thunderbird 3, an ambitious update that would modernize the mail client in much the same way that the Firefox 3 release renewed Mozilla’s browser. The roadmap included plans to adopt Gecko 1.9 so that Thunderbird could leverage important improvements that had been made to the underlying architecture of the Mozilla platform.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Linux, Web-Ecosystem.

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Nice catchphrase too.

Give your domain search a happy ending.
There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are ste.ph, streetstyl.es and iamthewalr.us.

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Posted by acuervo. Filed under Business, Web-Ecosystem.

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Using the terminal:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

Search for: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=

and make sure the whole line reads

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

instead of:

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop;
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=kde4-dolphin.desktop

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Posted by acuervo. Filed under Firefox, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

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Google is providing the web development community with an intriguing glimpse under the hood at some of the fundamental building blocks of the company’s most popular web applications. The search giant has opened the source code of its comprehensive JavaScript library collection and is making it available to third-party developers for widespread adoption. Google also opened the source code of its own JavaScript compression tools.

The library, called Closure, includes an extraordinarily diverse assortment of capabilities with functionality ranging from JSON serialization to standard user interface widgets. All of the features are cross-browser compatible and can be readily adopted without marginalizing any users. The library consists primarily of helper functions and user interface widgets, many of which are recognizable from popular Google applications.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Google, Linux, Web-Ecosystem.

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via news.bbc.co.uk

This is one of the greatest achievements of open source.
And yes, they are extremely profitable.

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Posted by acuervo. Filed under Firefox, Web-Ecosystem.

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Some applications like TweetDeck don’t respect gnome preferred applications settings and continue to use the older Firefox 3.1 instead of the new one 3.5 when opening links.

This is because

/usr/bin/firefox is currently pointing (like a shortcut) to

/usr/bin/firefox-3.0

To change this to 3.5 enter the following on the command line

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

If you want to change it back:

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 /usr/bin/firefox

This will work for Firefox 3.5 as well as Shiretoko 3.5
This will also fix same issues with other Adobe Air applications

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Posted by acuervo. Filed under Firefox, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

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So this is where half of my digital life resides. Cool stuff.

Posted by acuervo. Filed under Web-Ecosystem.

Tags: Google.