Link for Mom

Jill's Blockbuster

For those of you who like to borrow DVDs from me -- here the new link to my collection:
Jill Pole's DVDs

P.S. - If you've got a DVD of mine collecting dust on your TV...bring it back!! They get lonely if they are gone from the shelf too long!

Loving my Mac (need to organize my money)

The past few months have been a fun adventure for me of discovering the world of the MacBook. I have been a devoted PC girl since the mid-80's. (Mom - when did we get our first computer??) Although I never learned to program or do much with hardware - I was competent with PC software. I was comfortable and able to do pretty much everything I needed to with my not-so-reliable PC.

Then an interesting thing happened. My roommate bought a MacBook last year. A whole new world was opened up to me. I had no idea that computers could be so intuitive and simple. She could do all kinds of fun things on her MacBook that I couldn't even begin to do on my PC. The most obvious of these was build a pretty and functional website. After several months of thinking (and quite a bit of laptop jealousy) I took the plunge.

I've been enjoying my MacBook for a three months, and I can't imagine ever going back. I've turned into one of those snobby Apple people who gush over things like "widgets" and "Tiger vs. Leopard."

All of this to say - I'm on a hunt for a good personal finance program for the Mac. Right now I'm looking at Cha-Ching and iBank. They both have free trials, so I'll probably play around with them and see which I like better. Does anyone have any other suggestions? I need the program to handle budgets, credit cards, multiple bank accounts, and split transactions. (That's the downside of Cha-Ching. No split transactions.)

I'll get back to you with my reviews when I make my final decision.