Recently I was invited into the private beta for Mint. An online financial management software. At first I was amazed how easy it was to use and get my information into the program. The displays are absolutely beautiful and the UI is just stellar! The only problem was I couldn’t blog about it since it was a private beta. Well, that is officially over! Today, they have launched their public offering and I have to say that I’m very proud to be part of the announcing crew. Mint is completely free and truly is the next generation for online banking and financial advice. It’s worth at least a stop by and tour just to see what it can do. I can’t wait to play with it some more. Thanks guys for a great app!

Did you check it out? What did you think?

UPDATE: Mint won the $50,000 prize at TechCrunch40 today. Congrats Mint! You deserve it!

Growl, one of my favorite system utilities for Mac gets an update today. Growl adds a system-wide notification control panel to your system preferences. Today’s update adds a type of “Screen GPS” to Growl’s notifications so they won’t overlap as well as a new on mouse over close button. The update, of course has several bug fixes as well and as always is a free download.

Skype, the voice over IP choice of millions, recently released version 2.6 of their award winning software to the public. In addition to better quality, stability and more features, They have done something completely unique with this release. The most exciting new feature rolled out is the ability to transfer a call to another Skype user. As you can expect, this new addition comes in really handy (especially for business uses), but the most original aspect of this feature is the fact that it is ONLY available on the Skype for Mac. Windows users will have to wait a while for this feature to become available to them. [Continued]

I heard this from several sources today and confirmed it myself. For some reason DivX Pro is free for Mac today. One of the most popular video codecs out there and free! Had to spread the word, so get on over there and get your plugin!

Guest Author: Matt McInerney

Hello, my name is Matt McInerney and I have a confession to make: I have more music than I know what to do with in my iTunes Library. My glass is not half full. It is completely full and spilling over the rim. Yes, I’m approaching 10,000 songs… Here’s the thing though: I’d have it no other way! I don’t think I could deal if one of my albums were missing. Even if one song were misplaced, I have to admit I’d be upset. So where am I going with this? I’ll tell you: with a song count in the thousands, how am I ever suppose to decided what to listen to? One’s first instinct may be to create playlists. Sure that will work for the a little bit, but that also is going to have some major flaws. First, in selecting certain songs, there are far too many being overlooked. Second, who has the time to make enough playlists to support every mood and time of day? With this in mind, I’d like to cover the all the bases of iTunes organization and potential. Let’s figure this one out. [Continued]