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Accounts 1.9.1 (Mac OS X)

Elegant power and simplicity  

I've been trying to migrate from the venerable old MacMoney (OS9 + classic) for years, but have found nothing with the same combination of ease of use, power, and elegance... until now. And I've tried many others.... Money, Moneydance, Liquid Ledger, iBank, Finance To Go - even that nasty Quicken thing Apple keeps sticking on the drive of my new Macs! Accounts is 'real' accounting software without the fat and bloat. Yes, it has limited import/export, limited visual customisation, and without online banking it's probably more useful for small business than personal finance. But the thing is - for what it does, it works: elegantly, easily, and much more intuitively (despite some 'hard core' accounting features) than any of the others I've tried. I hope the developer is in for the 'long haul', because I think I have finally found something to replace MacMoney! [alert admin]

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Friday, April 20 2007 @ 10:30 PM PDT

Mouse Locator 1.1 (Mac OS X)

Thank you, thank you  

Fills a real need for multi-screen users especially. Clean user interface, excellent options. THANK YOU! [alert admin]

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Wednesday, December 06 2006 @ 07:25 PM PST

Spring Cleaning 8.0 (Mac OS X)

2 months later, a different perspective.....  

When I upgraded to SC 8 2 months ago, I was impressed with its versatility and, despite some reservations about how easy it would be to get into trouble with it, I thought it was going to be useful - hence my 'cautiously optimistic' post below. Two frustrated months later, I have to withdraw my optimism. Yes, lots of amazing looking features crammed in there, but the two I've tried to use most: Uninstaller, and Orphan Prefs Remover have not proven to be useful at all! Uninstaller misses obvious related files (even files with the app name in them), and flags others that couldn't possibly be related. And Orphan Prefs is no better - by the time you teach it which prefs it has incorrectly flagged, you could easily have done it all manually. Too bad - there are tons of potentially useful features, but if they function as poorly as those two, they'd have to work a LOT better before this app is really worth using. [alert admin]

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Thursday, April 13 2006 @ 06:38 PM PDT

Spring Cleaning 8.0 (Mac OS X)

good features, some limitations  

I hadn't updated/used SC since OS 9 so was very curious to see what had changed for X. I've tried only three features so far - empty folders, internet-related files, and orphaned prefs. -Empty folders: it finds them, but you need to set exceptions to avoid messing up the folder hierarchies created by many apps. - Internet-related files: most of those found could be easily cleared by a reset or purge from within the app itself. It also located a collection of archived web pages in my user data - you need to set items like this as exceptions, to avoid an overly exhuberant delete of important data. - Orphan prefs: this was one of the most useful features for me of the old OS 9 version, but seems less useful now. There is the problem noted by other users, of the the inconsistent way some developers identify their prefs/plist files under OS X. But worse, SC also flagged a number of active prefs files from current versions of applications. Again, setting these as exceptions will work around it, but the user definitely needs to be careful when going through the list of results. Conclusion: many features and merits , but does require careful setting up (and reading lists of found items) to avoid doing more harm than good. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, February 15 2006 @ 03:58 PM PST

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