Hi
Haunted Mansion - this is the first I've heard of anything like this! can you provide a link as to where you've read this? - I'm having great difficulty fathoming Apple would 'secretly' incorporate software to 'spy' on its iphone users conversations and material viewed! - that would be highly illegal and immoral !
I think a rational explanation would be they can 'data mine' your account to see what you've downloaded from them so they can 'tailor' special offers and content to your habits every time you log onto their servers to download the content from them - that is legal and in common practice in many industries already.
ApStyle! - what the hell were you doing in Baghdad?! you couldn't pay me enough to set foot there! as to the Apple - I'm keeping an open mind about what it can do for me at home so I'll see how it goes. As I used to work at Intuit, I know there is a US version of Quicken made for the MAC platform. I'm a little vague as to if it has the same 'limited' multi currency functionality of the last UK Quicken version - but if it does, there are 'ways' to make it work here - even if it's a litle limited !
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There are other personal finance packages that are MAC platform capable and UK orientated - I can have a little dig around and let you know of them and you can trial to see which suits you. From memory, they aren't as 'slick' looking as Money/Quicken but 'get the job done' as such.
seeing as I run my business on Windows software, then many more 'addons' will work with my environment - my mobile/PDA will sync over the airwaves with my outlook inbox if I so choose. If I need some software for a particular requirement - there's lots of choice available. If I just a home user, internet surfing, some spreadsheets and word documents and movies and music user, I'd probably have changed to a MAC to see if i liked it a few years ago - I'm trying to keep an open mind so i'll start off with a 2nd hand mac to see what its like.
I'm a techno 'geek' as well! my latest 'want' is the 'Flipstart micro laptop' which you can see here
http://www.dynamism.com/index.shtml - just have a look around the UMPC and laptops and PDA sections!
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Cheers! DtM! West London & Slough UK!