Category: Tech
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Mortgage Help

Thinking about buying a house? A lot of folks out there are in the same boat and I call them the Rent vs. Buy crowd. In fact, I’ve become one of those unrealistic and annoying people I see on HGTV who want spacious city living on a budget (blank stare). Mortgage Hippo can help! The site walks you…
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Best Weather App

The best app goes to Yahoo! Weather. Available for Apple and Android devices, the weather app is ad-free and gives you all the details you need to prepare for the day, including hourly, 10-day and 24-hour temperature forecasts, severe weather alerts, animated sunrise & sunset times and wind & pressure modules, daily weather notifications and…
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Run Your Personal Finances Like a Business

An article from The College Investor, How To Run Your Personal Finances Like a Business, was referenced in one of the blogs I read daily. I absolutely LOVE the concept because one of the things I learned early while in the MBA program at Case Western Reserve University is that what you learn is not just for…
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Hack the Hood

Planes. Bailouts. Budgets. Violence. When it comes to local news, I’ll pass. Add in cable and it’s even more of a fiasco – from one extreme (FOX News) to another (MSNBC). I resort to reading my daily blogs and resources like The Economist and National Public Radio (NPR). It’s the latter that caught my attention…
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Techno-Libertarian

Republican Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky, Techo-Libeterian. “What is that” you might ask? Well, If you can imagine a politician who’s for “Minimum Government, Maximum Freedom” somewhere in Silicon Valley, then you’ve got the gist of it. According to The Verge, Paul recently spoke at 2014: Reboot, a conference that tries to draw techies to…