I have an idea: a personal spending habit report tool.
Now that Wesabe is gone, I'm looking for an app where you can tag, catagorize and report on your spending and income using exported bank statements from online banking sites. So you import a series of bank statements, catagorize them and report so you see via graphs where your money goes and how spending habits have changed. It would be an app that would have a big market.

what was great about wesabe for me was that it recognised similar lines in bank statements so the second time you shop at shop x it would already catagorize that line for you.

I can see how this would be useful for cross-platform environment, and specifically if it could be run continuously in commandline mode on a linux server.  But for me right now a windows-only version would be fine.

time wget -p http://somedomain.com

Here's a new NANY idea/request:

URL Speed Tracker:

Idea: A utility meant to continuously track the speeds of opening certain web pages/downloading files.

Motivation: It can be important, especially when setting up a new server, to be able to watch the speed and watch for any failures of pages to load.  This program will continuously grab pages and track speeds over time to let you know the health of a server.

• The main interface should be a grid where you can add new urls (of pages or files).
• Then a set of columns for running speed averages, averaged over longer windows (i can elaborate later).
• A button to toggle on/off fetching.

Options:

• 1. how often it should recheck urls
• 2. it should save/load the last set of urls.

With regard to tracking over longer averages:

• A really deluxe version would be able to plot the speeds over time of a given url.
• But short of that, what one wants is some indication of avg speed over different time windows.  So for example it would be nice to know last speed (avg over 1 try), and then over maybe the last 10 tries, then over last 100, over last 1000, etc (the last value would give you a true baseline).
• Rather than keeping track of every download speed (needed if you want to graph), a simple heuristic solution to these would be to keep track of, for each url, a decaying average with a different decay rate.  ie DisplayValue = DisplayValue*Decay + NewValue  where Decay is from 0 to 1, and the lower the value the shorter the time window for averaging.

I could really use such a thing.. any takers?  if not i may code it.

Bonus:
I can see how this would be useful for cross-platform environment, and specifically if it could be run continuously in commandline mode on a linux server.  But for me right now a windows-only version would be fine.

I've been kludging something together for this, and since I've spent a little time on it I figured I'd pledge.

NANY...great site...thanks for the information!
Now a question, for those who use software like NANY, or ?:
Years ago, probably on Windows 98, I used a utility which showed the number of files inside a directory.
When you used Windows Explorer, and your 'left column' showed the main entries, you clicked on one to open, and the right pane shows those file members, right? No problem.
But on the bottom line of display, again on the left pane above what is now the 'START' button, it showed the NUMBER of file entries in the displayed right pane.
It was handy when viewing large files, such as MP3 libraries and PICTURES, etc.
Sorry...it's hard for me to explain, but there used to be a utility that did this?
Anyone remember this one, or know of one?
I suspect it's one that would be in a 'file management' classification, but I've yet to find it...?
Help?