From: My Open Wallet
How time flies when you suddenly get a bee in your bonnet about
something! When I wrote the last post about 3 weeks ago, I was
stuck in the position of tracking my finances with a Treo and
Pocket Quicken and Quicken 2006 for Mac on my desktop. I was
somewhat attracted to the iPhone but was daunted by the fact that
there was no comparable program available to sync with Quicken, and
I didn't want to pay the higher monthly charges for the required
data plan. But I decided to start digging a little deeper into the
possibilities of changing my set-up.As I started my research, I
read a comment somewhere in which someone mentioned using a program
called Pocket Money on the iPhone, which he sync'ed with Quicken
via importing and exporting QIF files. A little bell went DING DING
DING in my head, an...
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