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Taking Money’s award-winning features to a whole new level.
Microsoft Money Plus still provides all the tools you need to handle your finances in one place. But it also gives you a quick glance-without launching Money-at the financial information you need to keep you on top of your finances like never before.

Money’s key features are still here:

• Manage your money your way, from the big picture down to the details.

• Forecast cash flow and stay on top of monthly spending.

• Tackle tax time with ease, from finding deductions to estimating taxes.

• Improve your investment strategy with help from the experts at MSN Money.

• Help protect and improve your credit, and reduce your debt.

Plus, there’s so much that’s new-Insights!
With Insights, get a desktop glance at the information you need most, without launching money.

Spending Insights-Alerts you when you’ve reached or are nearing your spending limits.

Cash Flow Insights-See what’s flowing in and out of your accounts.

Bills Insights-Alerts you if bills are overdue or due soon.

Plus, enjoy even more new and improved features:

Link to statements, checks, or images from a transaction. Quickly add links to images and other files to keep important records and information handy, organized, and up-to-date.

Background banking helps ensure your account information is up-to-date.

Which version is right for you?

All of your application based on web? There is no more hindrance to run that application in your computer while it is offline. Google Gears ready to help you.

Google Gears is open source software, that is a browser extension which enable to developer to create web application that can run while offline.

Google Gears equip three key features:

1. Local server that has function as a craw for application resource like text, image, and script without have to contact server.

2. Database to save and access data from browser

3. Worker thread pool to make web application more responded.

Google Gears enable for both of Firefox (1.5 and more) and IE (6 and more), also can use in Windows, MacOS, and Linux. According to Google, this software still in development and beta status, and more purposed to developer. Nonetheless, you do not must become programmer to use Google Gears. Several web application (some applications are google services) supported this extension.

Install and Try Google Gears

First step is open http://gears.google.com, use supported browser.

Install this application with clicking the right link. If you run IE, you will requested to download executable bundle, named GoogleGearsSetup.exe, while at Mozilla Firefox, Google Gears treated as other extension. After finish, restart your browser.

To test this extension, try to open web application which supported, like Google Reader (google.com/reader).

While open supported web application, you will be asked to give permission to that site(s) to use Google Gears. Give permission to that site. Then that application will run as like usual, but if you sharp, you should find small icon or link to change web application to offline mode.

If you close browser, and open it again in offline mode, you can run web application without connected to internet. At IE, make sure that option File ? Work Offline already checked, same as Firefox. Not all of web application features in online mode can use in offline mode, like add new RSS channel.