Category archives for: Software

Intuit’s Mint adds home-loan feature to personal finance site

Mint — the personal finance website owned by Mountain View software maker Intuit — is now helping its members find mortgages. According to a news release today, the new feature will emphasize how homebuyers can reduce their borrowing costs over time — or whether it makes sense for current homeowners to refinance. “By showing where [...]

Review Quicken 2011

Quicken Deluxe 2011

Intuit has released Quicken 2011, a new personal finance management tool that represents the first collaborative Quicken release between the Quicken Desktop and Mint.com teams. The result is a desktop personal finance tool that looks and feels in some areas like a website with a new and improved dashboard to guide your finances, yet it [...]

QuickBooks 2011 review

After undergoing a fairly major facelift in 2010, QuickBooks 2011 remains substantially unchanged from last year’s version. This, unfortunately, means that much of what lies beneath that initial facelift is pretty old school. QuickBooks 2011 can still provide you with valuable information on the health and welfare of your business, but all the tools and forms [...]

QuickBooks reporting is simple with QQube

Getting useful reports from QuickBooks, in the format that you want, can be a real chore. Your options are to use the built-in QuickBooks reports, struggle with a complicated data access tool, or use a complicated add-on product that has limitations. This is all about to change with the release of a product that I’m really [...]

Intuit PaymentNetwork updated in QuickBooks 2011

Intuit introduced the Intuit PaymentNetwork in 2009, a low cost method of sending and receiving payments. A year has passed, and there have been a number of improvements Let’s look at this in relation to QuickBooks 2011, although most of the new features also apply to older versions. If you aren’t familiar with the Intuit PaymentNetwork I [...]