The Quicken nightmare saga is finally over! Intuit in March released Quicken Essentials for Mac, a brand spanking new Mac-native Quicken just for us Mac users. Some of us, freelancers, mingle with QuickBooks to invoice their clients and maintain their accounting, but in general, sole proprietors do not need overachieving accounting software and, for most users, Quicken has been the best solution to tally their expenses. And you can use the excellent Billings, from MarketCircle, to invoice your clients. Continue reading »
 Mac OS X in the early days. We’ve already lived 10 years past the end of the world and gosh, how quaint 2000 sounds already! Remember Y2K? What I also remember from 2000 is the Windows flavor of the same name. It was the marriage of professional NT robustness with the friendlier interface of Windows 98… Ten years later, that line ended with XP and is finally tweaked to the point of usability with 7. In Jost Zetzsche’s February Tool Kit for Tranlorial you can read about how so many Mac-like features finally made it to the PC with Windows 7 but still on a patched, tired architecture. Continue reading »
 The gorgeous new iMac There’s never been a better time to get a new Mac. Since last June, the whole line-up of consumer machines has been completely revamped. Choices include the cost-efficient MacBook or a super-duper quad-core iMac. I am particularly impressed with the pixel real estate made available on the new 27-inch iMac. With a finer resolution than previous pricey monitors, this new all-in-one desktop counts as many pixels in width as the 30-inch Cinema Display and only 160 less pixels in height than that flagship monitor that is still listed at $1,800 by itself. Continue reading » |
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