User Profile for TimPresswood

iBank 3.4.2 (Mac OS X)

I've had it with iBank  

After two years of frustration with the user interface, I've given up and switched to MoneyDance. The changes to the way iBank reconciles bank statements make it unusable, as well as messing up all my old - already reconciled statements, which then had to be re-reconciled. It is virtually impossible to create a split transaction reliably. iBank insists on adding balancing splits which are not only not needed, but which go in the wrong direction, causing the app to add yet another balancing transaction. The reporting and graphing functions are buggy and arcane - and I've never been able to produce a usable budget. And why on earth is it so difficult to produce a report which shows income and expenditure by category - you have to do it using the graphing tool! They seem more concerned with adding "cool" features like the ridiculous Cover Flow view than they are with creating an application which actually works. After a couple of weeks, MoneyDance seems to have fewer "features" but the ones it has actually work. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, June 24 2009 @ 09:02 AM PDT

gDisk 0.5 (Mac OS X)

The Clue is in the Version Number  

This is an unfinished product - more like an alpha than a beta judging from the reviews elsewhere. It's a great idea - but on my system - G4 Powerbook 10.4.7 - it runs OK, but when I upload a file it doesn't show up in the file list, so I haven't been able to try out the download feature. To download a file, I have to go to my drafts folder using Gmail itself. Try it - some people seem to get it to work, but for me it's a non-starter. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, September 12 2006 @ 09:16 AM PDT

Apple QuickTime 7.1 (Mac OS X)

Multiple Crashes  

My system was stable before installing this upgrade. Since then, I have had a series of crashes - mostly in Apple's own apps! They seem particularly to affect commands in the File menu - printing is especially dodgy. If I attempt to print to a shared printer whose host machine is asleep, the app will certainly crash. Often it crashes even if the machine is awake! Saving often causes a crash as well. Both Final Vinyl and CD Spin Doctor have become unusable since the upgrade, although Audacity seems to work fine (even the apparantly unstable v1.3.0b!). I can't prove that QT 7.1 has caused all of this - but it didn't happen before the upgrade and the problem seems to be system-wide! [alert admin]

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Sunday, May 28 2006 @ 12:42 AM PDT

Family 1.0 (Mac OS X)

More a beta than a v1.0 release  

Would I pay $40 for a beta release? Definitely not! Family is far too restrictive in the kinds of data you can enter about people, and far too proscriptive in the ways people can relate to one another. Dragging one person onto another creates a nauseating <heart> icon to indicate a 'relationship' - and there are no preferences so, for example, UK users are forced to enter dates using US formats, even though system-wide preferences are set to use UK formats. Males are automatically coloured blue and females pink and there is no way of changing these stereotypical settings. Clicking zoom family brings up another window which completely hides the main window. Adding a new person is done in the background window, unseen - and the zoomed family window does not update. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, March 21 2006 @ 06:03 AM PST

iCalPublish 2.2 (Mac OS X)

Can't Praise BuddySoft Enough  

iCal 2 can combine multiple calendars, but everytime you update an event it adds another copy of the event to your published combined calendar. After weeks of arguing with their tech support, BuddySoft updated iCalPublish within a couple of days of my contacting them. This programme simply works! BuddySoft simply care about Mac users! Download this now - and pay the shareware fee. This is what shareware is all about! [alert admin]

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Monday, November 21 2005 @ 11:27 AM PST

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