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User Name Rinzwind42
Member Since 2004-08-05
Total number of Feedback Posts: 5
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TranslateIt! Deluxe 8.6 build 8698 (Mac OS X)
I've only used this application for a few minutes but already noticed some glaring problems:
- The preferences sheet uses a cube animation when you switch between the different section panes, which looks really out of place, odd and totally confusing.
- Results for at least one dictionary (Spanish-English/TI!) showed up in raw HTML and were thus not readable at all.
- The dashboard widget looks just horrible, and its transparancy makes it hard to read. It also doesn't seem to actually work.
Again, I have only used the application a few minutes. At first glance, the basic application seems very useful, especially given the lack of similar applications on the Mac, but the above problems at the moment don't give me a lot of confidence to be willing to pay for it. The dashboard widget could use a complete redevelopment.
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Tuesday, November 13 2007 @ 03:06 PM PST
Liquid Ledger 1.5.6 (Mac OS X)
Seems promising, but currently unpolished and expensive 
Liquid Ledger doesn't have many features, but it does what I need it to do: import my bank statements and let me tag them with income/expense accounts, so I know where my money goes. I've been using the trial for a few days now, my review:
Pros:
- Easy to use interface for importing CSV files, much nicer than what I've found in iBank version 2.3.1
- Defines several fields for keeping information about each transaction (name, memo, explanation, ...) that I've found helpful. I'm only missing a "personal notes" field (all the other fields I import from my bank statements, and prefer not to change)
- Double accounting model is very flexible
Cons:
- Gives some odd internal error when I try to import OFX files from my bank
- Looks&feels very unpolished, just some problems I've already encountered in a few days of use:
- There are four types of accounts (assets, liabilities, income and expense accounts) and the accounts list has four categories for these. You can actually delete these categories, but then they are lost because you cannot create your own categories, nor does creating say a new "liabilities" account re-create the liabilities category if you deleted it.
- In the accounts list you have to click the "balance" field to open the transactions list for that account, accidentally clicking the "currency" or "name" field allows you to change those fields. Now how many times do you want to do the latter? It would be better if clicking any part of an account would open the transactions list, and editing name and currency is done through an inspector.
- I've had a few occassions where I had the transaction list for an account open, and in the mean time created some more accounts, where the autocomplete would then not allow me to type the name of an account to transfer to (for example, I had an expense account "Books" and one "Bank Charges", trying to type "Bank Charges" always came out as "Books"!!).
- In the transaction list window, one can open an account drawer to quickly switch to the transaction list of another account. In the list, when an expense account is selected, there are columns "Deposit" and "Withdraw" which change to "Expense" and "Income" when an expense account is selected. Switching back to the asset account does not always change back the names of these columns, which means "deposits" suddenly look like "expenses"!
- Exporting the transactions of one account to CSV does not export the "transfer track" field if a transaction has been tracked to multiple accounts.
- Considering how much it does and how well it is designed, it is ridiculously expensive
All in all, this application shows promise, but I'd rather wait for the next major version release or a serious lowering in price before purchasing it. [alert admin]
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Sunday, July 29 2007 @ 02:51 PM PDT
ReceiptWallet 1.1.2 (Mac OS X)
Doesn't Support Multiple Currencies
One slight gripe I should add to my previous post is that ReceiptWallet doesn't seem to have support for receipts in different currencies than the one you've set in the "International" system preferences pane. When adding a receipt, the amount field doesn't allow amounts in other currencies to be set. This seems like something that can be easily fixed in a future version though. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 23 2007 @ 11:23 AM PDT
ReceiptWallet 1.1.2 (Mac OS X)
Even though this application doesn't really do that much, it seems very useful. After some testing I'm definitely considering scanning my collection of receipts I still kept for warranty (so I can throw the paper originals in the bin)! I just have one small gripe. On each use session, it tends to crash the first time I try scanning a receipt (it crashes immediately after having started my scanning software, I'm using a HP PSC 1315). After reopening it, it works fine though. And my experiences with HP software on the Mac are not that good to be sure this is the app's fault and not the HP software's! [alert admin]
Monday, May 21 2007 @ 03:00 PM PDT
NFOViewer 0.1 (Mac OS X)
To further comment on jnsimon's question: while yes you can open .nfo files in TextEdit by drag&dropping them to the TextEdit icon (not by double clicking them as you can with NFOViewer), TextEdit will not automatically detect the coding these files are in and will thus not properly show the .nfo file's ASCII art. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 02 2005 @ 03:38 PM PST
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Not really: try .nfo files containing ASCII art.
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Wednesday, November 02 2005 @ 03:26 PM PST
Thanks for notifying me of the potential name conflict. I guess "Export iTunes Artwork" is simply the most natural name for what these actions do :). This shouldn't be a problem though: Automator internally identifies actions based on a unique identifier, so even if you have both actions installed it can always distinguish between the two. Though it might be a bit confusing for you as a user to have different actions with the same…
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Thursday, June 16 2005 @ 09:03 AM PDT
It's very strange that the "Expand" menu item is grayed out on your system. Can you give me some more information about this problem so that I can debug it? What version of OSX are you using?
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Saturday, May 21 2005 @ 08:54 AM PDT
