 | | Is Quicken at the end of the road? | | Conventional wisdom is that Intuit's acquisition of the personal finance Web service Mint will mean the end of the line for the company's standalone software app, Quicken. Upstart Mint, which is being acquired by Intuit for $170 million, has a personal finance product more in line with the times, with a younger demographic, a working business model, and a passionate CEO, Aaron Patzer, who's slated to take over the Quicken product line at Intuit once the acquisition closes. It doesn't look good for the old desktop app, Quicken. It's a shame that we think of Quicken that way, but it's Intuit's own fault that we've gotten here.
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Webware.com |  | | New on Webware.com | | | Amazon offers same-day delivery to select cities
Posted by Don Reisinger
Amazon customers placing deliveries within certain cities will now be able to receive shipments on the same day they place an order.
The new option, called Local Express Delivery, will have varied pricing that depends on the type of product purchased. Amazon Prime members--customers who pay $79 per year to receive unlimited two-day shipping from the online retailer--will need to pay $5.99 per item for the service. Read more |  | A new space race: Bing vs. Google
Posted by Stephen Shankland
The Bing logo appeared on the side of a Boeing Delta II 7920 rocket that launched DigitalGlobe's new WorldView-2 satellite last week from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. But where Google got sole online rights to the GeoEye-1 imagery, Microsoft will be sharing access to WorldView-2 images with Google. Read more | | Online Web-design tools for the beginner
Posted by Don Reisinger
If you're not an advanced Web designer, and you don't want to pay a company to create a Web site for you, there are services across the Web that can help you create the site you want. Here are some of our favorites. Read more | | Next Firefox can detect computer orientation
Posted by Stephen Shankland
The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you're listing to starboard--and pass that information along to applications running in the browser. That's because the browser will be able to detect the orientation of laptops and mobile devices equipped with accelerometers that can tell which way is down. Read more | | The 'Tweance': Talk to dead stars on Twitter
Posted by Chris Matyszczyk
A remarkably forward-thinking psychic has decided to hold a seance on Twitter. A "Tweance," if you will. According to the Sun newspaper, Jayne Wallace, who claims to have been a psychic since she was (at least) 7 years old, will be available to every member of the world's tweeting population later this month. Read more | | |  | Tweaks for your favorite Webware | | | How Chrome users can scrub Yahoo logo off Flickr
Posted by Stephen Shankland
Those of you who hate the recent arrival of Yahoo's logo on Flickr now have an easy way to erase it--and get a number of useful features--as long as you're using an edgy version of Chrome. The Fittr Flickr extension from Gmail programmer Dan Pupius whips Yahoo's photo-sharing site into shape. Read more | | Get Gmail to double-check your e-mails for name dupes
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Google on Tuesday introduced "got the wrong Bob?", a very simple tweak that, based on first names, will give you a subtle nudge if it thinks you're sending an e-mail to someone outside of the group you usually correspond with. The alert shows up just above the subject line and asks "Did you mean: ____ instead of ____?" Read more |
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