I wanted to like this app, but it has really given me more grief than save me time.
When I use it, Webbla spends a lot of time spinning. I has not, however, crashed. When I first started using it, I imported a LOT of URLs. Webbla spun and spun and spun. It hogged the CPU, and the fans on my MBP were doing their best to keep the machine cool. I let it run for at least 30 minutes, and it did finish. I might have force quit another app, but this one was not officially "unresponsive" in Activity Monitor. It was unresponsive for my use till it finished doing whatever it was doing.
This app is not Bookdog, or Bookmacster. Those two apps have their own issues (UI is horrible), but they do sync up bookmarks from all your browsers. Webbla is a stand alone URL keeper thingy. The description on Macupdate, and on the developer website might make that clearer. It's accurate, but incomplete (in my opinion).
Webbla will import URLs from browsers (tho not directly from Chrome). You can use it to arrange your URLs and tag them. You cannot then pop the nicely arranged and tagged bookmarks back into your browser.
The tagging is quite handy.
The collections you can create are useful. The smart collections are also useful in a different way.
The documentation needs editing. I find bad English and misspelled words. There are no excuses for this. This is relatively costly software, and my expectations are for professional documentation.
I hope the developer takes the money I gave him for purchase and continues to improve the product. It has a lot going for it, but has a long way to go.
I have not tried 2.0x yet. Can anyone tell me if does Undo properly? Every version (thru 1.5.1) of TextMate I've used does Undo one character at a time. What nonsense for a supposedly professional editor! Type a line of code, and then choose Undo 80 times?
This is the best Python IDE I've used. I have been using it since shortly after its 1.0 release. Its django integration is excellent, as is its code completion, source control tools (subversion, git, mercurial and more). It's been well worth the money for me, having saved me lots of time.
The downside is that it is Java based, running in a Java VM. It is plenty fast, and quite configurable. The editor is very good, but has at least one missing feature: drag and drop. Yes, you can select text, and move it someplace else with drag and drop. You cannot select text and COPY it someplace else by holding down the option key. That's standard Macintosh procedure, and not Java.I have also seen some quirks with clipboard utilities (PTH Pasteboard, CopyPastePro). You basically can't use them.
The support team at Jetbrains are excellent. Pycharm is quite stable. I'm still finding features that surprise and delight.
Worth the money, but is not perfect.
I've tried a few other finance apps, and each had good features and stupid features and important omissions. So does Quicken Essentials.
One other reviewer pointed out that if you are using Lion, you can't import previous data files. True, as the stupid conversion app (separate) won't run under Lion. Quicken Essentials will import something directly, but I sure don't know what. It won't import OFX, QFX, or QIF. So, what the heck does it import? This is so completely, utterly insulting, I can't tell you. Intuit does spell out the defficiencies some place on their web site, I think. I'm just stunned that they would actually release software that mostly doesn't work for previous users.
I can see how the app is fine, if you're not using Lion, or if you're starting an account from scratch.
I've not found a finance app that can handle basic finance like previous versions of Quicken.
I like this product, and recommended it to some of my coworkers. One of the features I was excited to see was comparison of local directories and remote directories. That's a cool thing, as we have a server that has a config directory with lots of files and folders in it, with only a few changes needed for any particular release. Replacing the entire config directory is not practical.
DeltaWalker will not connect to the remote server using SFTP, a Solaris box. I can connect to that server with standard ssh connections, and any of several FTP/SFTP tools I have.
I did raise this issue with Deltopia, and they were quick to respond and eager to help. They wanted to test with our server. I could not give them access to our internal server, for various reasons. The problem was never resolved because I did not, and still do not, have time to chase it down.
So, it's a nice product, but one of the key reasons for my use does not work.
The user interface is quite good. The usability is also quite good. The limitations are not necessarily evident until you start using it.
While this app will quickly and elegantly find all the applications (or whatever file type) files in any particular folder, it won't find items with any sort of mildly complex query. You can't find all the files of a specific type in two different folders. You can't find everything of this type, but not ending in .pyc. HoudaSpot, or Spotlight, or Easy Find are better at this sort of thing. To get around this issue, you can go to the Finder and assemble a complex query, and save it as a Saved Search. Leap works nicely with saved searches created in the Finder.
The documentation is decent, but needs some work. There are some mistakes, but they are pretty minor. The screencasts are nice, but unpolished. There's background noise, and I think I heard a phone ringing in the background of one. Yes, the screencast got the job done, but let's be professionals and record it again. It can't take that long...
$59 is way too much for this utility. The Mac App store's price of $25 is perfectly reasonable. I'm rating the "value" low because of the price charged by the company on their website. Maybe that will change.
This new version (1.6.4) is far less buggy than the previous version, from my testing. The developer worked with me to track down the bugs/problems. I cannot reproduce the problems. This is good because a) it's fixed, and b) the developer was VERY responsive.
If you visit the discussions on the developer's web site you will find he and his crew are very helpful with questions from the users. This is very impressive.
I have spent a heck of a lot of time with this app. I've been using Quicken for at least 15 years, maybe more.
Because of my experience with Quicken, I had certain expectations. Because of this, I was initially very frustrated with MoneyWell. I've since come around to the MoneyWell way of thinking. Mostly.
I'm still learning.
Split transactions continue to frustrate. In Quicken, I'd enter my paycheck, with all its tax items categorized. This is possible in MoneyWell, but I'll be danged if I can figure out how. I put in the total pay (a positive number), and then enter the tax items (negative numbers). Ha! MoneyWell will NOT let me enter the tax items as negative numbers, and it won't let me set the total going to checking correctly. I'm not alone, as there's plenty of chat about this very thing on their discussion groups.
The basics of the bucket system is still confusing to me, BUT I am getting that. I believe I will benefit from that once I figure it out. I like the philosophy behind this method of budgeting.
Standard documentation is non-existent. The help file is pretty good, but it's not full documentation. I think this new version has an updated help file too. The videos are quite good, but not helpful if you just want to search to find out how to do something specific. Who wants to wade thru an 8 minute video when searching a document would only take seconds?
All in all, a nice application. The learning curve for this long time Quicken user is a steep curve indeed. It should be worth it, but I won't know for a month or so.
Wow, this thing is buggy!
I started using it yesterday, and spent a number of hours with it both days. During that time it has stalled for 5 minutes or more (not crashed, tho), created buckets with duplicate names, asked if I wanted to create ANOTHER duplicate bucket, failed to make multiple edits, and generally misbehaved a lot.
The documentation is terrible. The video tutorials are quite good, however.
I am really disappointed as I've done a lot of research into finance apps before choosing this one.
My research continues, and I'll try to get my money back. This is not the software I want messing around with my finances.
YNAB was a top contender... I'm not fond of its Adobe AIR heritage tho.
MoneyDance runs in a Java VM, so forget that one.
Never gave iBank much of a chance, so I will try it next.
I sent a couple bug reports to these guys, on a Sunday, and received a reply that evening! This is impressive. Their response was to ask for more information, like logs from the console, and such.
I'm a long time user of BBEdit, and like BBEdit a lot.
I tried TextMate awhile back, and found it to be pretty cool. There are some handy features, and it could be a time saver for some things. I ended up spending a week with it, doing all the code editing I would normally do in BBEdit.
What I couldn't get past was the single character undo. Maybe there's a good reason for that, but it's about the stupidest thing an editor could do. Why would anyone want that? Don't people undo any more?
I just downloaded the latest version 1.5.9 (one year since the last release) to see if that was fixed, and it still has single character undo.
I'll stick with BBEdit. TextMate does nothing better, and lots of stuff worse, than BBEdit (for me!).
There are lots of people using TextMate, and find it terrifically useful. Good for them.
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Webbla
Broz reviewed on 04 Feb 2012
When I use it, Webbla spends a lot of time spinning. I has not, however, crashed. When I first started using it, I imported a LOT of URLs. Webbla spun and spun and spun. It hogged the CPU, and the fans on my MBP were doing their best to keep the machine cool. I let it run for at least 30 minutes, and it did finish. I might have force quit another app, but this one was not officially "unresponsive" in Activity Monitor. It was unresponsive for my use till it finished doing whatever it was doing.
This app is not Bookdog, or Bookmacster. Those two apps have their own issues (UI is horrible), but they do sync up bookmarks from all your browsers. Webbla is a stand alone URL keeper thingy. The description on Macupdate, and on the developer website might make that clearer. It's accurate, but incomplete (in my opinion).
Webbla will import URLs from browsers (tho not directly from Chrome). You can use it to arrange your URLs and tag them. You cannot then pop the nicely arranged and tagged bookmarks back into your browser.
The tagging is quite handy.
The collections you can create are useful. The smart collections are also useful in a different way.
The documentation needs editing. I find bad English and misspelled words. There are no excuses for this. This is relatively costly software, and my expectations are for professional documentation.
I hope the developer takes the money I gave him for purchase and continues to improve the product. It has a lot going for it, but has a long way to go.
+1
TextMate
+1
PyCharm
Broz reviewed on 13 Dec 2011
The downside is that it is Java based, running in a Java VM. It is plenty fast, and quite configurable. The editor is very good, but has at least one missing feature: drag and drop. Yes, you can select text, and move it someplace else with drag and drop. You cannot select text and COPY it someplace else by holding down the option key. That's standard Macintosh procedure, and not Java.I have also seen some quirks with clipboard utilities (PTH Pasteboard, CopyPastePro). You basically can't use them.
The support team at Jetbrains are excellent. Pycharm is quite stable. I'm still finding features that surprise and delight.
Worth the money, but is not perfect.
+1
Quicken Essentials
Broz reviewed on 30 Jul 2011
One other reviewer pointed out that if you are using Lion, you can't import previous data files. True, as the stupid conversion app (separate) won't run under Lion. Quicken Essentials will import something directly, but I sure don't know what. It won't import OFX, QFX, or QIF. So, what the heck does it import? This is so completely, utterly insulting, I can't tell you. Intuit does spell out the defficiencies some place on their web site, I think. I'm just stunned that they would actually release software that mostly doesn't work for previous users.
I can see how the app is fine, if you're not using Lion, or if you're starting an account from scratch.
I've not found a finance app that can handle basic finance like previous versions of Quicken.
-1
DeltaWalker
Broz reviewed on 11 May 2011
DeltaWalker will not connect to the remote server using SFTP, a Solaris box. I can connect to that server with standard ssh connections, and any of several FTP/SFTP tools I have.
I did raise this issue with Deltopia, and they were quick to respond and eager to help. They wanted to test with our server. I could not give them access to our internal server, for various reasons. The problem was never resolved because I did not, and still do not, have time to chase it down.
So, it's a nice product, but one of the key reasons for my use does not work.
PyCharm
Broz rated on 20 Feb 2011
[Version 1.0]
+3
Leap
Broz reviewed on 09 Jan 2011
While this app will quickly and elegantly find all the applications (or whatever file type) files in any particular folder, it won't find items with any sort of mildly complex query. You can't find all the files of a specific type in two different folders. You can't find everything of this type, but not ending in .pyc. HoudaSpot, or Spotlight, or Easy Find are better at this sort of thing. To get around this issue, you can go to the Finder and assemble a complex query, and save it as a Saved Search. Leap works nicely with saved searches created in the Finder.
The documentation is decent, but needs some work. There are some mistakes, but they are pretty minor. The screencasts are nice, but unpolished. There's background noise, and I think I heard a phone ringing in the background of one. Yes, the screencast got the job done, but let's be professionals and record it again. It can't take that long...
$59 is way too much for this utility. The Mac App store's price of $25 is perfectly reasonable. I'm rating the "value" low because of the price charged by the company on their website. Maybe that will change.
+2
MoneyWell
Broz reviewed on 09 Nov 2010
If you visit the discussions on the developer's web site you will find he and his crew are very helpful with questions from the users. This is very impressive.
I have spent a heck of a lot of time with this app. I've been using Quicken for at least 15 years, maybe more.
Because of my experience with Quicken, I had certain expectations. Because of this, I was initially very frustrated with MoneyWell. I've since come around to the MoneyWell way of thinking. Mostly.
I'm still learning.
Split transactions continue to frustrate. In Quicken, I'd enter my paycheck, with all its tax items categorized. This is possible in MoneyWell, but I'll be danged if I can figure out how. I put in the total pay (a positive number), and then enter the tax items (negative numbers). Ha! MoneyWell will NOT let me enter the tax items as negative numbers, and it won't let me set the total going to checking correctly. I'm not alone, as there's plenty of chat about this very thing on their discussion groups.
The basics of the bucket system is still confusing to me, BUT I am getting that. I believe I will benefit from that once I figure it out. I like the philosophy behind this method of budgeting.
Standard documentation is non-existent. The help file is pretty good, but it's not full documentation. I think this new version has an updated help file too. The videos are quite good, but not helpful if you just want to search to find out how to do something specific. Who wants to wade thru an 8 minute video when searching a document would only take seconds?
All in all, a nice application. The learning curve for this long time Quicken user is a steep curve indeed. It should be worth it, but I won't know for a month or so.
MoneyWell
Broz reviewed on 31 Oct 2010
I started using it yesterday, and spent a number of hours with it both days. During that time it has stalled for 5 minutes or more (not crashed, tho), created buckets with duplicate names, asked if I wanted to create ANOTHER duplicate bucket, failed to make multiple edits, and generally misbehaved a lot.
The documentation is terrible. The video tutorials are quite good, however.
I am really disappointed as I've done a lot of research into finance apps before choosing this one.
My research continues, and I'll try to get my money back. This is not the software I want messing around with my finances.
YNAB was a top contender... I'm not fond of its Adobe AIR heritage tho.
MoneyDance runs in a Java VM, so forget that one.
Never gave iBank much of a chance, so I will try it next.
+2
+21
This is encouraging!
+5
TextMate
I tried TextMate awhile back, and found it to be pretty cool. There are some handy features, and it could be a time saver for some things. I ended up spending a week with it, doing all the code editing I would normally do in BBEdit.
What I couldn't get past was the single character undo. Maybe there's a good reason for that, but it's about the stupidest thing an editor could do. Why would anyone want that? Don't people undo any more?
I just downloaded the latest version 1.5.9 (one year since the last release) to see if that was fixed, and it still has single character undo.
I'll stick with BBEdit. TextMate does nothing better, and lots of stuff worse, than BBEdit (for me!).
There are lots of people using TextMate, and find it terrifically useful. Good for them.