Anthony's Random Thoughts

I just found what I think is such a wonderful tool.  This new tool that I found is located at Mint.com.  This is probably one of the best budgeting tools that I have ever seen.  I first caught mention of this website when I was helping a friend finish his taxes.  Later, I rediscovered it when I was helping another friend to find an alternative to Microsoft Money, because Microsoft is no longer supporting this software.

Once I got online, I discovered that I with this tool, I can synchronize bank accounts, credit cards, loans, investments, and even add assets that I own.  This tool is completely free to use, and will synchronize nightly.  You can also go through after you have organized expenses, and create a budget.  This is a pretty neat tool, because I can tell how I am doing for the month for anything from groceries, to entertainment.  I have faith that this can help keep me on a better financial journey.

I have mentioned in a previous post that I am trying to get into the whole social networking, and social media.  Well, my quest continues with a new discovery.  I have recently become interested in being able to send out coupons to customers via text message.  I have not yet, been able to find a way to do this.  I know that services for this type of thing exist, but I also need to find something that is very cheap and affordable, and so far I have not been able to find this. 

My goal is to get something where I could get on, and send out a message to anyone that has “subscribed”.  I could send out coupons, special rates, or even a text message informing our guests of what is going on in the Bar.

Lately, I have been playing around with the Beta Version of Microsoft Office 2010.  I downloaded the Professional Plus version, because I wanted to be able to play around with several of the programs.  There are several things that I have liked so far about the new version. One of those, is that with PowerPoint, I can create a PowerPoint presentation, and then have it saved as a Windows Media File.  This has been great for me, because I work for the Rodeway Inn, and we have a couple of PowerPoints that we are trying to save to a video file.  We were able to do it using software that was created for just that purpose. However, unless I wanted to pay $80+ for the software, then there was always a “watermark” somewhere in the video. 

One other feature that I love, is available with all the new Office Products, and that is Sharepoint.  This allows a single file to be worked on simultaneously by multiple users.  All one has to do, is to upload to the Sharepoint “Cloud”, and then give the others the link, and you can all work on the file at the same time.  This is possible with Excel Spreadsheets, Word Documents, Access Databases, PowerPoint Presentations, etc.

For More Info, go to Microsoft’s Office Website.