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Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Fleurfavs

Fleurfavs — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:56:17 +0000

Great post!! Very informative. I will surely bookmark this page and hoping to have more relevant ideas from this site.

Comment on West addicts facing jump in drug prices by end of month by t1mmyb

t1mmyb — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:36:14 +0000

Thanks Andy. I just did a few judicious search and replace operations (motorist=junkie; petrol=crack; unleaded=ecstacy etc.). Any quality of writing can be traced back to the original article, itself a churned pressed release from RMI Petrol, which was all over the press like a rash. A proper journalist would look at wider issues of car dependency (63% car modal share in the UK according to the National Travel Survey!) and question whether that's a good thing, or join up the dots with regard to wider issues of public health, local and global environment, obesity etc. but that would be asking too much of journalists these days (as detailed in Flat Earth News).

Comment on West addicts facing jump in drug prices by end of month by Andy in Germany

Andy in Germany — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:18:00 +0000

Good idea, and well written. And quite accurate.

I love the end sentence in the original: I tend to think that anything that annoys motorists is probably a good idea.

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Ash

Ash — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:33:24 +0000

I have been using Moneydance but for the second time, over 2 years, it has lost my data and the result? I could only open from a much earlier backup copy as it said the other backups were corrupt! It cannot download statements from UK banks. It's fine otherwise for my needs but I need to manually key in my transactions from my statements. A total waste of time and I can't be bothered anymore. Two years ago I searched for the best application from reading reviews. It seems that nothing has improved much! need a financial program so that I can do all of this easily and keep a track of my finances. I wish I was a programmer, a good money earner I reckon. Why can't there be a Mac version of Money? It's by far the best program.

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:49:10 +0000

I have used Fortora for past year, but on upgrading to Snow Leopard the date order has gone haywire and can't be corrected. Fortora's tech support is useless – they have failed to reply to 3 emails now. Any ideas. or should I be looking at iBank instead?

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Aiyana

Aiyana — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:25:05 +0000

This is what I am looking for……. thanks for the article because of which I got my personal finance software.

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Jerry Halls

Jerry Halls — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:41:22 +0000

Mac is not very intuitive, the terminology is different i.e. debtor’s invoice, creditor invoice rather than bill, invoice, payable and receivable. http://www.directfinancialassistance.com

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by FooteSki

FooteSki — Thu, 20 May 2010 05:15:33 +0000

Very interesting thread. I have used spreadsheets, Money and Quicken over the years to manage my personal finances, but never really been happy with any of them. I have always thought of writing what I need (I have a bit of software development experience) and am currently learning to develop on the Mac as a lead-in to developing iPhone apps for my son to play with. So, I was thinking of combining the two desires and stumbled on all this. My approach to managing money is pretty simple. I have done the matching of statements and reconciliation thing which is time consuming and not really necessary. Instead I focus on what needs to be paid and how much money I have/need to pay it, with a bit of tracking/budgeting thrown in for the bigger stuff in life. This approach may appeal to some I have seen post on here, others maybe not. Anyway, if anyone is interested I would sure love input so let me know and I'll look at setting up a thread or blog somewhere.

Comment on “But I’ve got my hazard lights on!” by t1mmyb

t1mmyb — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:43:31 +0000

Hi Cheerful,

Let's put it down to the zealotry of a then-new cycle commuter who couldn't quite believe what goes on.

I've changed jobs now – I commute by car and see things from more sides. Which is another way of saying "I agree with you".

What I would say, though, is that cyclists tend to get caught between the pedestrian and vehicular worlds, and not really catered to in a meaningful way.

Thanks for stopping by

Tim

Comment on “But I’ve got my hazard lights on!” by cheerful 4 a change

cheerful 4 a change — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:51:52 +0000

as a cyclist (20 mile commute each way) then a multidrop lorry driver, why don't you just stop moaning the lorry driver is on a broken lined cycle lane, as it is broken he is perfectly legal, for his info he could even load on a double yellow as long as it isn't accompanied by blips on the curb. just try & understand a cyclist is sometimes a pedestrian, sometimes a driver and the world isnt perfect and if everyone did everything by the book nothing would ever get done, if he didnt stop to load there some woman on another forum would be moaning about ceva being useless and not delivering her smalls that day, if that van driver didnt get a bit close to you someones masonry would have been late and if neither of those things happened you wouldnt have anything to moan about and I wouldnt be wasting my time replying. Live and let live and if anyone does anyhting that bad you can always kick off a wing mirror or two