[Ti] internet banking from my Powerbook

[Jim Freeman]

Since you guys brought up the subject I might as well mention one of my 
biggest computer dissapointments. I used to use Quicken to download and 
keep track of financial information. But my bank in California at the 
time stopped supporting Quicken for Mac, and now I'm in Canada and my 
bank here only allows me to download transactions in some strange 
windows format that Quicken won't import. Things worked so well when I 
could just push the update button in Quicken and all my transactions 
were automatically added to the register, even though Quicken was a 
lame program. Now my banking information is all pretty dispersed and I 
have no easy computer way to keep track of it. It's all web-based now 
-- credit cards, bank accounts, brokerage. I can't manipulate 
information the way I like and most of the banks only allow acces to 
the past couple of months.

When will someone come up with a uniform standard for financial 
institutions and a good mac program that will download all the data?

Jim

On 31-Mar-05, at 10:13 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:

> At 09:35 -0500 24/3/05, Peter Krug wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 2005, at 9:10 AM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley wrote:
>>>
>>> Whereas my Swiss bank UBS provides full internet banking for Mac 
>>> users, I am really struggling with the Saudi British Bank [SABB] 
>>> here in Saudi Arabia.
>>>
>>> I am using Safari 124 with OS X 10.3.8.
>>
>> Are you blocking popups?  I pay my insurance bill online - the 
>> company insists on using popup windows to move screen to screen, so I 
>> have to remember to turn off popup blocking before I go there.
>
> Peter - actually, this turned out to be the only problem.  I had 
> pop-ups blocked, and this prevented me from even seeing the front page 
> of the internet banking.  I have turned that off for internet banking, 
> and now it is working fine.  THANKS for this simple insight, that 
> solved my apparently intractable problem.