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iBiz

Rezstudios reviewed on 21 May 2012

Just updating my review to reflect the ongoing improvements to iBiz and to counter-balance the odd negative ratings iBiz has received here lately. I still find iBiz to be the best program in this category since it easily allows me to synchronize work log data between iCal and iBiz... so I can record time and work events in iCal (individual calendars for each client) and synch these directly with iBiz (specifying whatever date range I prefer) for billing. Other programs I have tried are more limiting in how they allow data synchronization with iCal, especially in selecting specific client work log events and date ranges.

[Version 4.1.4]

SEE Finance

Rezstudios reviewed on 06 Mar 2012

The minor update is working fine. The more I use this program the more I like it... which is somewhat rare nowadays with most programs revealing their shortcomings and bugginess the more you use them... not SEE Finance. It has been very stable and reliable. I am so glad I dumped Quicken and upgraded to SEE Finance.

I did have a question about creating viewable Tax Schedule Reports similar to what I previously created in Quicken. I emailed the makers of SEE Finance late Sunday evening and received the following solution first thing Monday morning:

In the Category report's list of selectable categories are options for "All Tax Related Categories", "All Tax Related Income", and "All Tax Related Expenses". Using these options should produce a report of the information similar to what would be included in a TXF export. There could be differences in that a Category report that uses "All Tax Related Categories" just requires the categories are checked as tax related whereas the TXF export requires that categories that are both checked as tax related and have a tax code set for them. You could go through the main list of categories in the program to double check that only categories with tax codes are checked as tax related.

[Version 0.9.13.5]

Flaex

Rezstudios commented on 18 Jan 2012

Crashes when trying to open any SWF I've tried. I'm guessing it is incompatible with Lion.

[Version 0.4.3]

Path Finder

Rezstudios commented on 09 Jan 2012

To the creators of this program: Please add a "smart-copy" feature similar to Connectix Speed Doubler's CopyAgent or Fifth Generation's Copy Doubler. For those who aren't familiar with these old Mac OS utilities, they would intercept a Finder copy when a file of the same name was already detected in the destination folder and ask if you would like to Update Only Changed Files (smart-copy) or Re-Copy All Files (standard copy). This is a great time saver when you have a folder with hundreds of files in it but only a few that have changed that you need to copy to another folder, such as a folder on a network drive.

[Version 5.8.1]

AirPort Base Station and Time Capsule Firmware Update

Rezstudios reviewed on 11 Nov 2011

Updated two Airport "N" Base Stations without a hitch. All is working fine.

[Version 7.6]

DesktopUtility

Rezstudios reviewed on 11 Nov 2011

Great little utility to show (and re-hide) files and folders that are hidden, especially with Lion now hiding the user Library by default.

[Version 1.2.2]

iBiz

Rezstudios reviewed on 09 Nov 2011

While I can understand that some people prefer the old interface of earlier versions (I was of the same opinion originally) I have readily adapted to the interface on the new version and better understand the reasons for the changes. Users of the old versions just need to give the new version a try for bit. This program still works best out of all similar programs I have found and tried via MacUpdate. It works perfectly within my work flow and allows me to track time either at my workstation or away at a job site (via events transcribed into iCal on my other devices.) The ability to synchronize calendars within specific time periods and the flexibility of creating very customized invoices makes this superior to other such time tracking/invoicing programs.

[Version 4.1.3]

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OfficeTime Time & Expense Tracking

Rezstudios reviewed on 27 Oct 2011

I just tried this... people claim it is much better than iBiz. I track most of my session in iCal and then import into iBiz since I am frequently onsite somewhere when I am working and it is much easier for me to enter work notes and times in iCal since I have it on all my iOS and OS X devices. I also like having everything in iCal since I can also easily schedule appointments and other jobs or hide/show specific client calendars. I tried this same iCal integration strategy with OfficeTime and it failed miserably. First, OfficeTime doesn't allow me to specify the time period for the importation of sessions/events into the project-- it will only import the ENTIRE calendar of events or it will filter based on specific words. Second, when I set-up this new project and chose the pop-up menu to select the calendar for importing all my events/sessions, all my calendars were listed twice. To make matters worse, the session I just recorded in iCal doesn't show up upon import. Maybe this doesn't work with the new version of iCal/iCloud? iBiz still imports this info with out a hitch. Any help here? Looks like I will be sticking with iBiz.

[Version 1.6.1]

1 Reply

Rezstudios replied on 09 Nov 2011

"...If you integrate with an "invisible" calendar, your events won't show...."

Thanks for the friendly reply, but this doesn't address the problem I mentioned regarding OfficeTime. The calendars are there, but OfficeTime does not currently have the ability to import/synch events from a specific time period, ie. last month. OfficeTime only allows import/synch for the entire calendar or for keywords within that entire calendar, which would dictate that one must be very careful about using specific naming conventions for each calendar event, which can get cumbersome and introduce errors. I am currently using iBiz which allows me to invoice and import data from a specific calendar for a specified period, which is far simpler in my work flow. What if I work on multiple projects for a single client (one client per calendar) over a period of several months and I would like to bill in monthly increments?

SEE Finance

Rezstudios commented on 15 Sep 2011

I am testing this app as I, like others, need to transition out of Quicken. Everything looks great so far, but I can't find a way to view column totals for Investment Positions (stocks) within the Investment Account Overview. I would like to find things like the Total Cost Basis for all securities held within an account and compare that number to current Market Value. Does anyone know how to do this besides manually adding all values in a column?

[Version 0.9.13.4]

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Rezstudios replied on 19 Sep 2011

This is the informative reply from SEE Finance regarding my question (thanks for answering):

"There's not currently an option to view the combined total cost basis for all held securities, but we've noted the request for this.

It's not very quick, but there is the option to export the list of positions to a CSV file which can then be used in a spreadsheet program to simply total the "Total Paid" column. If you Control click any positions table in the program it will bring up a contextual menu with the option for "Export Positions to CSV".

Note that transactions in the program are grouped together to create investment positions and when there is more than one transaction involved in an investment position this will be indicated by the position having a little triangle to the left of the position's "Open Date" value. When printing or exporting investment positions if any investment position is expanded to display it's underlying changes (the transactions) then all this information will be printed/export. If they are all collapsed then only the overall information from the positions is printed/exported. You can click the triangle or press "Command right/left arrow" to expand/collapse the selected position's details or press "Command Shift right/left arrow" to expand/collapse every position's details at once.

The printed/exported information is also WYSIWYG based on the table's selected columns. You can Control click the table or its column headers to show the menu of all the optional table columns that can be selected (this feature is also available in many other tables throughout the program).

Thank you for the feedback!

SEE Finance Support"

iTunesRemote

Rezstudios reviewed on 28 Jun 2011

Resubmitting my rating. This thing is buggy. The server app eats up more and more CPU time until your processor croaks. Deleted.

[Version 0.2]

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