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I put off upgrading to Snow Leopard because I didn't want to risk my web apps.  Last week, I decided it was about time.  

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I picked up some really good albums in May.

Has anyone found an online financial software package that allows you to add your own accounts and transactions?

I've tried three of them; mint, wesabe, and quicken online. These all depend on handing your security credentials to them and they will pull the data for you. I want a piece of software that doesn't violate the basic rules of security and lets me add accounts that I want... importing my old information would also be a plus.

All of this brought on by the fact that Intuit hasn't put out a new version of Quicken for Mac in almost three years.

I picked these up in April:

I also got this Evening Magazine EP and Mighty Righteous by The Fantastics ! but they don't have art on Amazon.

Oh, and:

Swoon

Silversun Pickups

Homg. ♥ ♥

Oops: I left out a few things I got in the past week to round out my Emusic downloads:

Also a few tracks from Cloud Cult's Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes).

Here's some music I liked last month:

There was also a bunch I found by almost catching up on Shifted Sound, so it's not on Amazon (apparently):

Bromst

I sank the biggest chunk of playing time into the new Dan Deacon album, Bromst... though I haven't been playing the hell out of it like I did with Merriweather Post Pavilion. Maybe I won't burn out on it, then.

Rearrange Beds

It's also time for the post-SXSW shows, and after listening to Sound Opinions' wrap-up yesterday I've already bought my first album, An Horse's Rearrange Beds. It's also the first music I've bought on the iTunes Store in forever, but you can hear the whole thing on Last.fm (mileage may vary). They remind me of Pretty Girls Make Graves for some reason, though they're much softer; I would like more songs as fast as “Horizons,” but it's still a pretty good album. Not quite as revelatory as Sons and Daughters' This Gift (which I heard on Sound Opinions' SXSW 2008 show and was a favorite of the year), but good.

So it's March.

Nick wondered why I'd only just gotten the Tally Hall album. I found out about it when my last roommate played “Banana Man” at me every chance he got, but never got the whole thing despite the cool video for “Good Day.” However I was reminded of it by Molly's cover of the hidden-in-plain-sight last track and finally got the whole album.

In February there were a few more game soundtracks: In addition to the Psychonauts Original Soundtrack, I also got the Psychonauts Cinematic Score when they both landed on download services such as Emusic. This month Offworld also linked to free soundtracks for Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure, World of Goo, and The Legend of Princess.

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