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It took a little while, but an update for Mint.com for iPhone brings the financial monitoring app in line with iPhone’s 3.0 features, including push notification for the events you designate online. This feature expands upon Mint.com’s ability to text or e-mail you alert messages when a bill approached or your cash began running dry. The push notification now transmits this message to your iPhone home screen–assuming you have the online alerts set up.

Mint.com for iPhone 1.02 can now send alerts for significant financial activities. While a perk, other enhancements will prove more significant to frequent users, like editing transaction details instead of just viewing them. This includes assigning a spending category from the iPhone, tagging a transaction, and adding notes.

The update also opens up Mint’s recently-added online budgeting tools to read-only access from the iPhone. You’ll be able to drill down a few layers to view activities in your budget categories, and individual transactions. The description view is where you’re able to add those tags and notes.

The last major feature addresses security by instituting an optional four-digit passcode you’ll need to enter each time you open or refresh Mint.com on iPhone. Mint will also now log you off when you receive a call or text. If you’re frequently interrupted, reentering the passcode grows old fast, but it’s worth it to keep your budget, bank balances, and investments for your eyes only.

The editing features give Mint greater value, though your management options from the iPhone are still limited in this release. You can’t add a budget or an account, for instance.

Related story: Mint.com brings personal finance to the iPhone

Originally posted at iPhone Atlas

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Perpetually is a new Web archiving tool demoed at the TechCrunch50 conference. It saves entire instances of Web pages, then lets users dial back to older versions. You just point it to a site or entire domain name then tell it what you want it to archive and for how long. It then does the hard work of saving pages to its servers.

Included is a visual browser that shows you visual history of pages in thumbnail form. You can simply flip through these before viewing the full-sized version. There’s also a way to pick specific parts of a Web page and dial back such as a breaking stories box. And for those who want to find a specific archived page, or piece of archived content, there’s a search engine that lets you go back without having to browse.

The service is not free; in fact, it’s not even aimed at consumers. The lowest plan costs $99 a month, all the way up to $499 month, each with a higher level of monthly archiving storage. Considering each page takes up some storage space, it can fill up quickly, which is why the pro plans offer more.

The company said it’s aiming Perpetually at media networks, historians, and PR companies. It also butts heads with Iterasi and its Positive Press product whose core technology was first demoed in January 2008.

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Originally posted at Web Crawler

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Perpetually archives the Web for you

With all the aplomb of a wet Monday in November, SDL (news, site) (which refers to itself in a recent press release as the ominous sounding “The Group”) announced quite casually this week that it has made lots of money in the first half of this year. Net interim cash of

Dries Buytaert is somewhat of a CMS superhero. Between founding the mega popular open source platform Drupal, co-founding the commercialized Drupal cure-all Acquia, and probably saving babies from burning buildings, Buytaert also found the time to launch a spam-killing service called Mollom.

Recently the service got some attention from a company called Zion Security. After tinkering in Mollom’s open API, Zion announced a Microsoft IIS module utilizing the spam killer. The release has opportunity for other CMS and web application platforms written all over it.

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Mollom Spam Control Add-On for IIS Environments

How efficient is your content re-use?

Today’s buzz word in the content management arena is “re-use.”