I’ve been wanting an app to help me manage a budget for a while now. It would be even better if I could categorise my spending so I know how much I need to budget, and where. It would also be good to find out how much money i’m wasting on things I don’t need.

Let me introduce you to: YNAB, personal budget software.

You Need A Budget

It’s a very nice looking Adobe Air app. I’ve only had a couple of experiences (bad) with Air apps, but this handles functionality and performance very well. Best of all, it does everything I need. Some features that come to mind are:

• Create dynamic categorised budgets
• Track spending
• Import transactions from online banking export
• Reporting (and graphs, I love graphs).

It’s quite pricey at $59.95 USD, but it has a 7 day full trial. Hopefully the amount of money it should save me will make it very worth while!

Bonus, it also has an iPhone app that you can use to sync as you spend.

Transmission Torrent Client

If you want to start or queue a torrent on your computer but your not home, then no worries, there’s quite an easy way to do it. It involves a little setting up, but nothing too major.

1. Create a folder in your dropbox account (of course you already have a dropbox account, don’t you).
2. Then register for sendtodropbox.
3. Set your sendtodropbox account to upload files to your newly created torrent drop folder.
4. Setup your torrent client to auto queue torrents found in your torrent drop folder.
5. Add an alias/shortcut to your torrent drop folder in your downloads folder. (optional, for ease of use when downloading torrents whilest at your computer).

Now all you have to do is email the torrent file to your new sendtodropbox email address, and she’ll be queued up in your torrent client. Too easy.

Ps: I don’t condone downloading of copyright material, this guide is intended for free use torrents (yes, they actually exist).