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Squirrel 2: Elegant Financial Management App. Reviewed.

I have a problem with financial apps for iPhone, and it’s not just that I can’t stick with one. It’s that none of them has managed over time to support my needs and change its core structure according to them. See, it’s easy to keep track of expenses: I can either create a text file or a spreadsheet and start putting data in. But when it comes to an application, I want more. Ok, there are developers who clearly state they’ve built a lightweight tool to keep track of your finances. But when you advertise your new app with the “manage your finances on the go” catchy line, I expect more than a simple list packed inside a nice UI.

Sadly, that’s what seems to happen every time. The iPhone 4 came out and I thought, hey - maybe this is the right time for developers to focus on creating a full-featured and flexible financial app for iPhone. New iPhone, new creativity - right? Not so fast. Remember the word flexible, because more on this later.

Two weeks ago I bought Squirrel 2, a new and beautiful app for iPhone which aims at becoming your weapon of choice for “managing your finances”. I gave it a try. It also comes with a Mac companion to sync with, but when I say I want to manage my finances on the go (out of the computer I use to write stuff), I don’t want sync or backups or companions or whatever. So, these are just my impressions of Squirrel 2 for iPhone.

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The New Simplenote, Now Available

Great news, iPad and iPhone users: the all-new Simplenote is now available, together with a complete new webapp, full support for iOS 4 and tags. I’ve been beta testing the new version, and it’s awesome. Really, a great update now live in the App Store. For free.

The new version (labelled 3.0.3) introduces brand new features that make Simplenote a fresh new experience. A new icon (lovely), a new UI, tags for posts (a much requested feature), fullscreen mode and easy note sharing. It’s very easy, and a killer feature for users like me, who need to share notes and documents with a team.

Simplenote is available here for free. A premium subscription is available as in-app purchase at $11.99. Check out the first screenshots and changelog below, and stay tuned for our full review coming tomorrow.

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It’s More Than a Time Log

There’s a few of us who enjoy a bit of personal data analytics. As I revamp my personal life style to fit in with a bustling third year workload in college, I’m always interested in where I can cut corners, or if I can find a way to improve my note-taking habits (which are quite slow) by getting some insight into how much time I actually spend/waste on doing things. More Than Time Log is something I’ve had on my iPod touch for a while: initially launched for iOS 4, the developer has made it compatible with older devices running 3.1.3 and beyond while ensuring a usable experience on the speed front. But as for how easy it is to track information, let’s dive in.

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Moleskine iPhone 4 Case

I can’t say I didn’t see this coming: a moleskine-like case for the iPhone 4? Could you even have doubts about it?

So here it is, a case that looks just like an old moleskine complete with its traditional elastic bland. It’s the classiest way to hide an iPhone. Or the worst way to access the volume buttons.

Your call.

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Latest Shaw Wu Report on CDMA iPhone: 2012?

For American users, the long-rumored Verizon CDMA iPhone is starting to look like the famous unicorn. Or the white iPhone. Or anything else that Apple never shipped. And indeed, reports from well-known Wall Street “analysts” don’t help, either.

Shaw Wu, a guy who has a history for being wrong about Apple (see here and here), is now claiming that Apple is indeed working on a CDMA iPhone with Verizon (oh really?) but that the whole project might slide to 2012 if Apple decided to team up with Sprint and T-Mobile instead. Oh, but they could also wait for LTE to become a more used technology and skip the whole CDMA thing. Oh, but they’re also in talks with Verizon about a SVDO iPhone (voice and data at the same time). This note has been issued to investors. To me, he sounds pretty confused.

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