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Improved budgets

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

We have revamped the budgeting system, to let you create budgets in accordance with your income. You can distribute your income across different tags, and set spending limits for the upcoming week/month. The budgets page displays the remaining balance available for spending for each tag.

Budgets

This is based on the envelope system of budgeting. If you were using the older style of budgeting, you will have an option to move over to the new system, or continue using the old one.

Let us know if you like (or don’t like) it!

Easier and safer login with your Google account

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Today, Google announced its move towards single sign-on by supporting OpenID based authentication for all its users.

But we already supported logging in with Google accounts, so what’s new? Well, we asked you to share your Google account password with us, and we would then send it over to Google to verify your credentials. That required you to trust us that we would not do anything bad with your Google password. The new authentication system solves this trust issue. Once you choose to login with your Google account, you are redirected to Google’s website, and your authentication is entirely handled by Google. We never get to see it!

Customize your currency format

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

On popular demand, we have made it possible to customize the format in which your currency is displayed.

You can choose between different decimal symbols, whether the currency symbol comes before or after the amount and more. Just click on ‘Account settings » Currency’

Discussion forums

Monday, October 13th, 2008

If you want to report a problem, ask a question, or make a suggestion, you can now use our discussion forums. If its a common complaint, you will most likely find it already answered on the forum.

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