http://blog.xpenser.com Expense Tracking via Email, SMS, IM, Voice, and Web Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:15:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the most frequent and long standing requests has been to add a command to Xpenser for retrieving the balance of your reports. Well, Brandon Krauska's email was the one that put it over the edge - instead of adding another vote to the prioritization queue, we jumped in ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/07/22/how-to-get-your-report-balances-the-balance-keyword/ Quick note: we've launched an improvement to the PDF output of expense reports - the sizing should now be more reasonable and consistent (no more giant headers), the header contains a little more information, and overall it's slightly cleaner. Take a look and let us know what you think, and thanks ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/07/09/improved-pdf-output-of-expense-reports/ AndBot is a great new Android application directory with lots of news and reviews and a very good search feature. This morning they have a wonderful review of the Xpenser Android application with lots of screenshots and a good overview of how a "satisfied, long time user of Xpenser" has ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/05/25/new-review-of-xpenser-android-app-from-andbot/ Here's a brief video of how to use the Fresh Xpense iPhone application to record expenses and receipts into Xpenser. Fresh Xpense is free, very simple to use, and supports offline data entry - you can record your expenses even if you don't have internet access, and they will be sync'd ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/05/18/using-the-fresh-xpense-iphone-application-with-xpenser/ By user request, here's a quick video of how to use your camera phone to record expenses and receipts. The video shows an iPhone, but the same technique can be used with any camera phone with email capabilities: First, take a picture of your receipt Then, email that picture to r@xpenser.com Use ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/05/18/using-your-camera-phone-to-record-expenses-and-receipts-a-tutorial/ It's easy to specify the expense date when submitting to Xpenser - just use the "date" keyword, followed by the date of the expense in any reasonable format. Any of these will work: taxi $18 yesterday - you don't need the "date" keyword if it's just yesterday :-) taxi 18 date last ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/04/21/how-to-specify-expense-dates-for-xpenser/ A little while ago we released the Xpenser API and Platform, opening the door for third parties to build new and interesting applications on top of Xpenser, provide new applications and interfaces, and integrate Xpenser into their own products. The Xpenser Android application is one of the applications been built ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/04/13/android-app-for-xpenser-now-available/ We love our users, for they inventive and resourceful. Here's a nice invention from Ryan Straight of Teach Video Games that allows you record your expenses by pressing just a few keys on windows (and possibly under linux as well). It was inspired by the LifeHacker post on adding items ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/03/31/xpenser-windows-hotkey-via-launchy/ Thanks to the wonderful folks at Zia Consulting, we have our first Xpenser iPhone application, called Fresh Xpense. Fresh Xpense has been built using our brand spanking new Xpenser Platform APIs, also available now. More apps for more platforms are coming soon, and feel free to jump in and build you ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/03/22/xpenser-iphone-application-fresh-xpense-now-available/ Some of you may be familiar with YubNub, which bills itself as a "social command line for the web". The idea is to provide a simple command line like interface to allow you to performs all kinds of interesting actions by simply typing them in. We, being geeks, are quite ... http://blog.xpenser.com/index.php/2010/03/08/a-yubnub-social-command-line-xpenser-plugin/