Ion Web Services announces shutdown - 10/22/11 12:05 PM
I received an e-mail from Ion Web Services that announced a shutdown of services in 30 days.  In this day and age, you never know whether or not an e-mail is a legitimate message or whether somebody was hacked.  So I did send them a message and they did confirm that it is legitimate.
Since so many e-mails end up in spam folders or lost in the sea of so many messages, I was concerned that some people might be missing this important message.  They did assure me that the message would be sent out again at a reasonable interval to … (2 comments)

Check imaging - If your bank doesn't have it, change banks - 10/15/11 12:27 PM
You don't have to be too ancient to remember the days when your checks would be returned with your statement. Then at some point banks switched over to check imaging.  To some traditionalists, that didn't sit too well. The banks said that if you need a copy, come in and they would take care of it.  Most banks offer photocopies of the checks and deposit slips included right with the statement.
In this day and age you can go online and take a look at those images.  But here is the dangerous part: they might only make those images available for a very limited … (5 comments)