Free games for the Mac.
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/07/10_small_and_simple_ye.html
Monday, July 13, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Intuit's Quicken for Mac coming in February 2010
Scott Gulbransen, Sr. Manager of Public Relations/Communications with Intuit's Consumer Division, today announced the following via The Official Quicken Blog, verbatim:
Recent media and blogger coverage has led to some speculation that Quicken may not release a new Quicken desktop product for the Mac.
We'd like to clear the air: Intuit will release a new version of Quicken for the Mac platform in February 2010.
We know you've heard this before. In early 2008, we told you we'd release Quicken Financial Life for Mac later that year. 2008 came and went and we did not. At Macworld 2009, we told you it would be later this year.
But after speaking to customers at Macworld 2009, and opening our public beta of Quicken Financial Life for Mac to thousands of you, we learned the product was not doing what we – nor customers – wanted it to do.
We listened, and we learned.
Feedback from Mac customers led us to rethink our approach to developing Quicken for Mac. We went back to the drawing board and are making changes to everything from what the program does to how it looks. We spent extra time building a reconcile mode for the new register, a robust Windows-to-Mac transfer function for new Mac users (and existing customers running Quicken on a Windows virtual machine), and redesigned the experience to make it look and feel like a native Mac application should.
We understand our loyal Mac customers are disappointed that the product won't be in stores until after the first of the year. For that, we apologize. We think taking our time to get it right will be well worth it and will make Mac customers even more excited when they use the new Quicken for Mac early next year.
You can go to Quicken.com beginning October 12, 2009 to pre-order Quicken for Mac. We'll also continue to provide updates on our blog at www.quicken.com/blog.
Thanks for your patience and for being loyal Quicken for Mac customers.
Source: Intuit, The Official Quicken Blog
Recent media and blogger coverage has led to some speculation that Quicken may not release a new Quicken desktop product for the Mac.
We'd like to clear the air: Intuit will release a new version of Quicken for the Mac platform in February 2010.
We know you've heard this before. In early 2008, we told you we'd release Quicken Financial Life for Mac later that year. 2008 came and went and we did not. At Macworld 2009, we told you it would be later this year.
But after speaking to customers at Macworld 2009, and opening our public beta of Quicken Financial Life for Mac to thousands of you, we learned the product was not doing what we – nor customers – wanted it to do.
We listened, and we learned.
Feedback from Mac customers led us to rethink our approach to developing Quicken for Mac. We went back to the drawing board and are making changes to everything from what the program does to how it looks. We spent extra time building a reconcile mode for the new register, a robust Windows-to-Mac transfer function for new Mac users (and existing customers running Quicken on a Windows virtual machine), and redesigned the experience to make it look and feel like a native Mac application should.
We understand our loyal Mac customers are disappointed that the product won't be in stores until after the first of the year. For that, we apologize. We think taking our time to get it right will be well worth it and will make Mac customers even more excited when they use the new Quicken for Mac early next year.
You can go to Quicken.com beginning October 12, 2009 to pre-order Quicken for Mac. We'll also continue to provide updates on our blog at www.quicken.com/blog.
Thanks for your patience and for being loyal Quicken for Mac customers.
Source: Intuit, The Official Quicken Blog
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Invoicing on the Mac OS X
Invoicing on the Mac OS X Involer, the home and small business invoicing application has been updated and now offers many new features including a new 'Reports' feature, that allows users to create custom reports of their invoicing history, perfect for keeping track of company sales, and earnings. Praised for being one of the easiest to use invoicing applications, Involer is gradually transforming into one of the top players in the Mac invoicing field.
The Dream Apps has released an update to their easy to use home and small business invoicing application Involer. The new update enables many new features including the long awaited 'Reports' feature, that allows users to create custom reports of their invoicing history, perfect for keeping track of company sales, and earnings.
Invoicing on the Mac OS X
new features including a new 'Reports'
The Involer application, which has already been heavily praised for being one of the easiest to use invoicing applications on the Mac platform is gradually transforming into one of the top players in the Mac invoicing field, this latest update makes the decision for small businesses to switch to Involer even easier.
Also new in this release is 'Delivery Labels', one click will print a delivery label already addressed to your customer, with the return address and order number already on the label. The 'Delivery Labels' feature has provided Involer's existing users an invaluable time-saving tool when sending goods through the post.
What's new in Involer 1.3:
* Ability to create reports
* One-click delivery label printing
* New easy-to-use date pickers throughout application
* Bugs fixed whilst printing invoices
* Invoice 'notes' feature now allows for more text
* Fixed bug with 'Item Amounts' not formatting correctly
Pricing and Availability: Involer 1.3 is a recommended update for all users of Involer. It's available as a free update to all existing users and can be downloaded either through the applications automatic update or from The Dream Apps website. Involer is priced at $29.99 (USD) and is available to purchase from The Dream Apps website.
Involer 1.3
* Download Involer: macupdate.com
Located in Corby, United Kingdom, The Dream is a small software development company founded in 2003 by Christian Owens. Over the years the company has grown from not only designing websites, to creating websites and award winning Macintosh applications. The work done by The Dream is often featured on design inspiration websites and our apps have been featured in magazines such as WebDesigner Magazine, MacFormat and Mac Life. Copyright 2003-2008 The Dream Apps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iSight and Shake are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. - Corby, United Kingdom - Published on 06/15/09
Photoshop tutorial: Crop and keep aspect ratio
Part two of our cropping tutorials -- when you need to crop a photo,
but keep the aspect ratio the same. You may even want to scale the photo,
right? Well, without looking, here's how to
Keep Aspect Ratio while Croppping
* http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/tutorials/crop_and_scale.html
Photoshop tutorial: Crop to Size
A very frequent querry from Photoshop Madness and Photoshop 911 readers
concerns resizing photos, and getting them to fit a standard frame
size like 5x7", 8x10" or 11x14". It's up to you to do the brain work,
but here's the tip for Cropping Photos To Specific Frame Sizes.
* http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/tutorials/crop_to_size.htm
concerns resizing photos, and getting them to fit a standard frame
size like 5x7", 8x10" or 11x14". It's up to you to do the brain work,
but here's the tip for Cropping Photos To Specific Frame Sizes.
* http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/tutorials/crop_to_size.htm
Monday, July 06, 2009
iFinance Personal finance
Synium Software releases the final version
A few months after demonstrating iFinance 3 as public beta, Synium Software releases the final version. Users will love iFinance's new, interactive 3D charts with a vast number of configuration capabilities. Beyond that, iFinance allows users to choose from different views. The displayed information can be fine-tuned to one's liking.
iFinance 3 manages stocks, retrieves stock prices, monitors the performance of a portfolio and generates detailed information about profits and losses. If needed, iFinance can also display this data with informative charts.
The new "Budget" feature allows users to plan resources comfortably. Before going on a world cruise or refurbishing the kitchen, iFinance helps planning ahead what to spend on craftsmen, material, furniture and other expenses. And with iFinance 3's new and intuitive user interface, this is really easy.
Since starting the public beta cycle, iFinance 3 has been improved even more. iFinance 3 now supports new file formats as for example MT940 or files created with Quicken. Securing your files using password protection and encryption makes sure nobody else can access your data. iFinance 3 also sports new printing options. Whether you need your financial data exclusively on your Mac or on paper as well, iFinance just fits your needs.
What's new in iFinance 3?
* iFinance 3 has been rewritten from the ground up and is even faster and more reliable than iFinance 2
* The much improved User Interface comes with a new layout giving users quicker access to their relevant data. All important information is visible at a glance
* Let iFinance 3 display current stock prices and historical charts. iFinance will also calculate profits or losses of your purchased stocks
* Interactive and freely adjustable Charts illustrate your financal figures
* Manage your expenses with our new "Budgets" tool. Never spend more than you acutally planned for
* Password-protect your data
Other fixes and improvements:
* Group accounts, stocks, budgets and charts in folders
* iFinance 3 has been built on top of Apple's modern and powerful database technology "CoreData"
* Support for split transactions
* Let iFinance 3 assign categories to your data automatically
* Edit multiple transactions simultaneously
* Work with multiple currencies in one document
* Tag entries
* iFinance 3 retrieves exchange rates automatically
* Export CSV-Files
* Improved CSV-Import
* MT940 import
* .qif (Quicken) import
* Archive your database and create backups of your data
System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5 ('Leopard')
* iFinance 3 is a 'Universal Binary' and runs on both, PowerPC and Intel Macs.
* An Internet connection is needed for retrieving stock prices or exchange rates
Pricing and Availability: iFinance 3 is priced at $29 (USD). Updates from iFinance 1.x or 2.x or iFinance 3 Public Beta are free of charge.
iFinance 3
Download iFinance: iFinance.dmg
Synium Software GmbH is a software development and consulting company, based in Mainz (Mayence), Germany. Apart from being a successful publisher within the Mac software market, we offer a popular web-based news service at mactechnews.de for the German-speaking audience. All Material and Software (C) 2005-2009 Synium Software GmbH / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries. - Mainz, Germany - Published on 07/06/09
Cataloging Mail by date
Reader Kent Pletcher is a generally heppy ket with his move from Microsoft Entourage to Apple's Mail. He has one concern, however, that goes like this:
With all the e-mail I get in a day I need my messages divided by date. In Entourage, you have a 'Today' header, 'Yesterday' header, 'Last Week' header, 'Last Month' header, 'This Year' header, etc. All of these allow me to look quickly for a message I may have received in the last couple of days. Is there a way to do this in Mail or a plug-in that will enable me to do this?
Like you, I find these Entourage entries (termed "Saved Searches" in Microsoft parlance) useful. Fortunately, you can create something similar in Apple's Mail by putting Smart Mailboxes to good use. Try this:
http://www.macworld.com/article/141490/2009/07/catalog_mail_date.html?lsrc=nl_mwweek_h_cbintro
Reader Kent Pletcher is a generally heppy ket with his move from Microsoft Entourage to Apple's Mail. He has one concern, however, that goes like this:
With all the e-mail I get in a day I need my messages divided by date. In Entourage, you have a 'Today' header, 'Yesterday' header, 'Last Week' header, 'Last Month' header, 'This Year' header, etc. All of these allow me to look quickly for a message I may have received in the last couple of days. Is there a way to do this in Mail or a plug-in that will enable me to do this?
Like you, I find these Entourage entries (termed "Saved Searches" in Microsoft parlance) useful. Fortunately, you can create something similar in Apple's Mail by putting Smart Mailboxes to good use. Try this:
http://www.macworld.com/article/141490/2009/07/catalog_mail_date.html?lsrc=nl_mwweek_h_cbintro
Format Word tables to highlight your data
Here's how to create and customize tables in your documents
Most of us know that formatting a table's data, cells, and borders can potentially help readers grasp what a table is trying to say. But that doesn't mean we know the best way to make it happen. When you need to create tables that contain essentially text, or when you want to customize a table's formatting in many ways, Microsoft Word(; $400 as part of Office 2008) is often easier to use than a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel. Here are some tricks for using Word's table options.
Read the whole story at http://www.macworld.com/article/141359/2009/06/wordtables.html?lsrc=nl_mwweek_h_cbstories
Friday, July 03, 2009
Watch what you do with your old hard drives BEFORE you sell or disposed of them
Northrop Hard Drive Turns Up in Ghana
Canadian journalism students bought a computer hard drive for $40 in the West African nation of Ghana and discovered that it contained sensitive information about U.S. defense contracts.
The drive apparently once belonged to Northrop Grumman or a Northrop Grumman employee, and it contained information about contracts the company had with the Defense Department and the Department of Homeland Security.
The students were in Ghana to work on a television report on the dumping of old electronic equipment there.
According to the University of British Columbia, the students bought the hard drove in an open-air market in February. It contained information about a number of contracts, some that had been recently finished, others that were still ongoing. It also contained information about Northrop's effort to win a $1.2 billion contract to perform personnel management work for the Transportation Security Administration. Ultimately, the agency hired Lockheed Martin to perform the work.
In a written statement, Northrop said, "we believe this hard drive may have been stolen after one or our asset-disposal vendors took possession of the unit."
The company says it has "a detailed asset-disposal procedure in place," but "no company can inoculate itself completely against crime."
The university said the discovery of the data-laden hard drive was reported to the FBI.
Monday, June 29, 2009
iPhone Strength Test
You can get a more accurate numerical indicator of the iPhone's current signal strength by manually dialing *3001#12345#* followed by a tap of the Call button. This brings up Field Test mode. The signal strength bars in the upper left are replaced by a negative number. The less negative the number, the better your signal strength. For a reasonably reliable signal, the number should be less negative than -100. Ideal strength would be somewhere around -50.
6 Ways to Correctly Delete Applications
This article lists 6 ways to delete applications.
We have talked about some of these applications in the past.
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/06/6_ways_to_correctly_de.html
We have talked about some of these applications in the past.
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/06/6_ways_to_correctly_de.html
Twin 1.1 and Sequence 2.1
app4mac releases final versions -- Twin 1.1 is a back up
program and Sequence 2.1 is an application that provides a
simple way to capture and save screen shots and screencasts
of your Mac's screen.
(We can always use a better way to do backups.)
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/06/app4mac_releases_final.html
program and Sequence 2.1 is an application that provides a
simple way to capture and save screen shots and screencasts
of your Mac's screen.
(We can always use a better way to do backups.)
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/06/app4mac_releases_final.html
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