// Default usage:
accounting.formatMoney(12345678); // $12,345,678.00
 
// European formatting (custom symbol and separators), could also use options object as second param:
accounting.formatMoney(4999.99, "€", 2, ".", ","); // €4.999,99

It even includes a much-needed way to align decimal places.

// Format list of numbers for display:
accounting.formatColumn([123.5, 3456.49, 777888.99, 12345678, -5432], "$ ");

Google Music on the other hand, has some handy features.  It installs a manager on your computer that runs in the background that immediately starts to upload all your songs to the Google cloud.  My initial upload of over 5500 songs took about 12 hours but it was totally running unobstrusively in the background.  All new songs I drop in iTunes will instantly and quietly go to the cloud. Not some of my music, but ALL. Even if Google doesn’t know who the hell the artist or song is.  Once you log into the web interface you will see all of your tracks where you can stream them from the web.  It even brings over your playlists just how you have them in iTunes. And the Android app is simple, nicely designed and does exactly what you wants  All of your music can be streamed from your phone.  You even have the option to mark tracks your wish to download directly to your phone for offline playing.

What can we expect from iCloud? Where simply put iCloud will allow your Mac or PC, iPhone, iPod and iPad to be in sync without manully connecting usb cords and syncing the music. iCloud will also match your songs and give your a higher quality if it found it.  With so many of us having many Apple devices, using iCloud seems like a no-brainer.

So which service do you use?? Forget Spotify, its  a waste. Personally, I will be using a combination of Google Music and iCloud. Since iTunes on my Mac is my primary library, all new music will go in there first. iCloud will conveniently push it to my iPod, iPad and I’m sure my Apple TV will be able to access it also.  If I still had an iPhone it will get pushed there also. But since I converted to and Android(EVO 3D), Google Music will have sight of all the iTunes music and push it to the Android.  I’m left with all my music on every possible device I have.  How sweet is that?

Earlier this week Google launched Swiffy in its Google Labs. What’s Swiffy you say?? Swiffy lets developers take their existing Flash swf files and upload them to be instantly converted to HTML5.  The conversion handles SWF5-SWF8 and Actionscript 2.0.  Once the conversion is done, the web developer now has a compatible version that will work in all Webkit browsers including Chome and Mobile Safari(iphone, ipad etc).  The developer can now build logic in the web page to detect the user’s browser and correctly redirect them to either a Flash or HTML5 version of the animation. Sweet right??

There are a few limitations to Swiffy. More advanced games may not render correctly. Keep in mind this is Google’s first stab at this and its sure to improve.  Also, the converted HTML5 version is not as crisp as the original Flash version.  Some colors are not as vivid and gradients come out slightly dull.  But trust me, this is a small price to pay to ensure ALL visitors to your site can view your content.  You can check out examples of converted Flash in the Swiffy Gallery.

Flash maybe safe for a few more years. Flash still has some downfalls such as inability to copy/paste from it, inability to link to direct content and being a resource hog.  But for now, hats of Google and the Swiffy project.

As we all know, most email providers have a max on file attachments.  If you have your own website you can put the file on your hosting for someone to download..but who wants to go through that trouble. If you have an FTP server, they can send to you that way…but most of the time, the person on the other end says FT huh???

DROPitTOme adds that missing piece to DropBox.  Its a FREE website that you quickly register using your DropBox credentials.  Then you create a unique url such as www.dropittome/whatever and create an upload password.  Then you just share the url with whomever, along with the password and the user can upload any file up to 75MB.  You will get an email confirmation that the file has arrived and it will be sitting inside a folder called Dropittome in your DropBox.  How easy is that???

Immediately after picking up you will love the feel. It totally feels much smaller and fits the palm of your hand a lot better than the EVO 4G. It’s definitely thinner and even though its a tad taller it feels less like a big brick in your hand like the EVO 4G did.  The material of the case is better for handling as well, doesn’t feel like it’s going to slip out of your hand.  I was skeptical from earlier pictures of the dedicated camera button, but it’s not nearly as obtrusive as I thought. You won’t accidentally push it at all.  My only negative item to the outside is the moving of the usb/mini hdmi port to the side instead of the bottom.  The port on the side could make for some interesting times when using the phone plugged up.

Once we fired it up, the first thing we did was looked at the sample 3D pics on the phone. One word….WOW!  I was extremely skeptical of a phone being able to display 3d images without glasses.  I was completely wrong. The 3D images look absolutely amazing! Caution, staring at them for a long time sort of hurt your eyes but thats to be expected.  We then snapped some 3d images and was amazed how those looked as well.  The new camera button takes some getting use to since you have to press once to focus then hold again to actually snap the picture.  Our recorded 3d video was impressive as well.

As for the apps and interface….First of all, you will definitely notice the 1.2GHZ Dual processor.  This thing is fast as hell with no lag time at all. The eVO 4G often got sluggish especially when doing a lot of things but the 3D seems to handle multi-tasking brillantly.  The latest HTC Sense is loads of fun too including the sliding ring to unlock the phone.  The spinning home screen is a great addition and aids in quick access to all your widgets.  You will also notice the system font is slightly smaller. This helps for more items to display on the screen but definitely not too small, we think you will like this subtle change.  The new mail app adds colors for different accounts and an easy dropdown to switch between accounts(thanks Google & HTC).  There are a bunch of other small but well appreciated changes that you will notice as you start playing with the phone.

As for Sprint….AT&T and Verizon could learn alot from Sprint. Not just because their $69 unlimited plans is great for everyone in this bad economy but their customer service is superb.  The cost of the HTC EVO 3D is just $199. Customers with an existing EVO 4G can turn theirs in and get $150, leaving the cost of the 3D just at $50!!!  And as long as your account is not past due, you can just bill that to your account.  Sprint even offered the phone to Premier customers 3 days early with free overnight shipping…who does that???

All in all…the EVO 3D is definitely what all the hype was about and has to be the best android phone on the market right now(Thunderbolt a close second with its LTE)

In V5R3, a new tool was added to the System i Navigator known as Index Evaluator. This new function makes it easy to analyze which indexes (and keyed logical files) are helping your SQL and query performance and which indexes are not pulling their weight. You can’t rely on the object timestamp “last used date” because that value is not always updated by the query optimizer.
For each index defined over the table, the evaluator returns data about the last time an index was used in the implementation of a query and/or used to provide statistics about the table data to the query optimizer. In addition, it returns a count for the number of times the query optimizer used an index object.

You can access this feature by right-clicking on a table object in the System i navigator and selecting the Show Indexes task — the task name is Indexes on V5R3).

6Wunderkinder has done it right with their amazing Wunderlist app. My journey into finding the right to do list manager started with Teux Deux.

TeuxDeux has a very simple web interface but it’s IOS version was a bit overpriced and lacked an android app at all.

Remember The Milk was next and had me excited at first. The web interface was a bit too complicated but their IPad and Android versions made up for it. Until I realized I had to pay to get the iPad version to sync more than once day. Things got worst when my android trial expired and they wanted a outrageous $25 to upgrade to pro. Are you kidding me??

So here comes along Wunderlist. And I must say I’m totally thrilled. The web interface is simple, quick and easy to use. The Mac, IPad and android version are just as great. You get the exact same features across all the platforms. There’s no drop off in features whatsoever as you switch from web to Mac to android to iPad. And best of all…..all are totally free! Yes free!

Get Wunderlist today, you won’t be disappointed!

Path Finder by Cocoatech is definitely the upgrade I was looking for.  The latest version, 5, has tons of features and I won’t bore you guys with all of them, but I will highlight my favorites.

1. Tabs-You can customize the browser by placing tabs at the top for some of your favorite folders for easy access
2. Dual Pane Browser-View contents of two folders simultaneously.

and my favorite…..

3. Drop Stack-Drop stack is basically an area where you can temporarily drag files or folders to. Once you have everything there, you can then drag the entire contents of that stack to another folder.  This greatly speeds up copying files from many locations to a single destination.  This feature alone makes Path Finder a must for Mac power users!!!