Oh, I see...you mean you can't install the extension at work. Didn't think about that. If it's any consolation Feedly does seem to be moving pretty rapidly with its feature adds, and going extension-free was something that seemed to be a high priority for them. So hopefully it won't be long.

Feedly says it is working on standalone browser functionality, so (presumably) at some point we'll be able to uninstall the extension. For as important a tool as an RSS reader is for me I don't mind an extension, if it syncs across browsers and devices.

It's easy to learn more about where your retirement funds are going.

When you say, "I plan to retire at 20xx" plan, do you mean that's the fund they told you to invest in? Many 401(k) plans these days have these types of target-date funds where you just pick the year closest to the year you hope to retire, and they make the investment choices for you. Is that what you're talking about?

This is a very, VERY general guideline, and I caution that I'm not a financial planner - though I am a huge personal finance geek and have read a lot on the subject. But the consensus these days seems to be that if you can put the equivalent of 15% or more of your salary away, you should be in pretty good shape. That…

We've had some pretty good success with always telling our kids well in advance what's about to happen. If we're going shopping and then to a restaurant, we plant the seed early so there are no surprises when play time gets cut off early in the afternoon.

I think the answer to this is no and in fact I was just having this discussion yesterday. The same holds true for tablets, though to a lesser extent.

Unless I'm missing something, it appears like Google ditched the little pop-out preview window for each of its search results. That's too bad, I found that really handy at times.

If you already have the free version of Glary, it appears you don't need to download anything new. Just go to the status tab and enter this info, and my version now shows as Pro.

Just because this particular advice came from a life insurance company doesn't mean it's an ad. Financial advisers, even ones who don't sell life insurance, would give you very similar advice. I'm a reasonably financially savvy person and I calculated our own life insurance needs much the same way - a combination of…

Upon taking a closer look, I misspoke a little bit. Included in the 40% I mentioned being able to cut in case of an emergency is our savings - so that would stop temporarily while we had an emergency. So our "wants" and "savings" would immediately cease. Again, this is talking about a major emergency like job loss. We…

We do have an emergency fund but we approach it a bit differently. The traditional emergency fund will have about 3 months of expenses in it once it's built up to where we'd like it. But we also save pretty aggressively for other things, like home maintenance, auto maintenance, and clothes - things that we know we…

Have to agree, Costco is very frustrating in the turnover of some of its products. Even basic staple items change. Peanut butter for example...for YEARS we bought their "organic" (sugar-free) peanut butter. Then poof, it was gone. I can't think of other examples but it's happened numerous times.

These are good tips, many of which I utilize myself. But at some point a few years ago I realized and accepted that I just couldn't keep up anymore. (Not coincidentally, this came after I had kids.) I pared my feeds down from 150-175 to around 80. And surprisingly I found that I didn't notice or miss those that I had…

Still rocking my Droid X from July 2010 with Gingerbread. I desperately need a new phone but went in to check out the iPhone 5 and just wasn't that impressed. Rumor is that the Galaxy S4 is coming out in March or April so I'll hold out until then.

Well if she has no money, she has nothing to take so that irrational fear can be put to rest. Besides, they sell liability insurance specifically for nurses for $100 or less per year. My wife is a nurse and we buy it. Maybe that can help put her mind at ease.

I use Carbonite for online backup but I use Windows Live Mesh - which will be going away next month - to sync files across computers. I've been thinking it would be nice to have those two functions in one product, and this might achieve that. I'm also looking at Cubby as another alternative.

I haven't banked with a physical bank in over 10 years. The only time I wished I had a physical bank location was when we closed on our home and I needed a large sum of money for the closing but wouldn't know exactly how much until a day or two before. Even then the online bank was able to accommodate the request and…

Couldn't disagree more. If this had been the past experience of employers in their hiring process, they wouldn't seek out new employees around the holidays. But they do, so they must be happy with the candidates they're getting.

We had no problems letting our kids (soon to be 6 and 4) play with our gadgets - smart phones, iPads, and occasionally something on a desktop or laptop PC. But we noticed that on days our older child played the iPad (sometimes Angry Birds, an occasional learning app from school, and a lot of Angry Birds or Super Mario…