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danep started following the problem "Summary widgets in the same row" in Buxfer.

A comment on the update "US Bank automatic synchronization disabled" in Buxfer:

Thanks! Has the original issue been fixed, i.e. will Buxfer store security question answers or take other measures to avoid repeated login failures that lock users of automatic nightly syncs out of their accounts? – danep, on September 30, 2009 19:10

danep replied on September 07, 2009 15:34 to the update "US Bank automatic synchronization disabled" in Buxfer:

Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater here- if a solution to this isn't on the horizon, can you please reinstate manual syncs and just leave autosync disabled? I can't imagine that that would cause any problems.

danep started following the update "US Bank automatic synchronization disabled" in Buxfer.

danep replied on September 02, 2009 19:34 to the problem ""Synchronize" button became "Import statement"" in Buxfer:

This is a consequence of this other issue:
http://getsatisfaction.com/buxfer/top...

In a nutshell, because Buxfer couldn't store security question answers some of us were getting locked out of our bank accounts. As inconvenient as it is not to be able to sync, it's better than getting locked out of your account every few days! :)

Maybe a compromise would be to allow manually syncs and just disable nightly syncs? I doubt this would be as likely to cause lockouts.

A comment on the problem "Buxfer cannot sync with US Bank and locks me out of my US Bank account" in Buxfer:

Thanks for the swift reply, I look forward to hearing more about this (I don't think this is the only thread on the issue) – danep, on September 01, 2009 04:11

danep reported a problem in Buxfer on September 01, 2009 02:23:

Buxfer cannot sync with US Bank and locks me out of my US Bank account

Buxfer fails to sync with my US Bank credit card account every night because US Bank recently instituted mandatory security questions, and Buxfer apparently cannot store the answers or work around this. As a result, after three consecutive nights of failed log-in attempts, US Bank locks my online banking account! In the short-term, I am working around this by choosing to not sync the account nightly, but this is a critical problem that needs to be addressed (even just disabling nightly syncs for US Bank customers would be a good short-term solution), as it leads to so much trouble even outside of Buxfer.

A comment on the problem "Media key global hotkeys should use different event api (WinXP)" in Songbird:

This is my worry - I switched to Songbird because it seemed to have so much potential, and I want it to become popular, but I don't know how long I can stick with it when it lacks such basic features :( – danep, on August 17, 2009 20:45

danep replied on August 17, 2009 20:06 to the problem "Media key global hotkeys should use different event api (WinXP)" in Songbird:

Has there really been no update on this in 8 months? I didn't even find an official feature request for this on Windows. Multimedia keys on keyboards are ubiquitous these days, and I think it's imperative that Songbird work to support them.

danep started following the problem "Media key global hotkeys should use different event api (WinXP)" in Songbird.

danep started following the idea "Double click playlist to start playback" in Songbird.

danep started following the idea "Store Ratings using Extended Attributes instead" in Songbird.

danep replied on July 21, 2009 19:54 to the update "Syncing problems fixed for Chase, WaMu, US Bank" in Buxfer:

US Bank (credit card) is only partially working for me. Every time I sync it asks me a different security question. It syncs alright as long as I answer the question correctly; however, this means that automatically nightly syncs fail every time because they cannot respond to the question.

danep shared an idea in Buxfer on July 10, 2009 00:08:

Easy way to see month-to-date spending surplus

It would be great to be able to see how much money is available to spend in a budget category, pro-rated to the day of the month. Example: if I have a budget of $30, it's the 15th of the month, and I've spent $10 so far, it would be nice to know that I can spend $5 before I go "over budget".

danep replied on June 25, 2009 18:34 to the question "Tagging schemes" in Buxfer:

I've given it a little more thought, and basically I think that you should be able to organize and categorize transactions under 6 different taxonomies: who, what, when, where, why, and how.

Who (who payed / among whom should the bill be split), when (what date did the transaction post), and how (what account did the money come from) are already covered. The problem is that what, where, and why can only be accommodated by (and hence are all lumped together) under tags. For instance, imagine that I buy a textbook from Amazon. Looking at reports at the end of the month, it might be useful to see:

• All purchases from Amazon, regardless of whether they are books (where)


• All book purchases, regardless of whether they are for school or for pleasure (what)


• All school-related purchases, books and otherwise (why)

There's simply no way to see all three of these reports using the current system.

danep replied on June 10, 2009 01:07 to the update "Syncing problems fixed for Chase, WaMu, US Bank" in Buxfer:

Alright, it seems to be working again!

danep replied on June 09, 2009 14:26 to the update "Syncing problems fixed for Chase, WaMu, US Bank" in Buxfer:

I am now getting the same error as Emily with a US Bank Credit Card account.

danep replied on May 23, 2009 14:34 to the idea "Option to set accounts 'Inactive'" in Buxfer:

Could this be used when closing an account? So that none of the transactions are lost, but the account balance is hidden from view? If so, I like this idea.

danep shared an idea in Buxfer on May 23, 2009 14:32:

Close accounts without deleting them

It would be great if you could close an account without necessarily deleting it. I just closed a checking account, and I don't want it to appear in my "accounts" overview, but I also don't want to lose all of my transactions!

A comment on the question "Evernote on BlackBerry?" in Evernote:

Thanks for posting this! – danep, on May 12, 2009 23:12