I rarely post reviews, but MacUpdate is always the place I come to, to read user reviews and to decide if I try and buy a product, or when to steer clear from products.
So here's my contribution.
Today I purchased the Timelog/Grandtotal bundle after trying both for a while.
I come from Stuntsoftware's "On The Job" who is now officially promising this kind of application to come soon, for almost a year now (the anouncement went up in November 2007).
He has been telling me even before that he was thinking in that direction when I mentioned my needs for a program like this.
I consider myself a loyal customer, and thus waited for something to come.
While nothing came, my timetracking and invoicing have become a mess, I invoiced with pages, later numbers, I tried bento, and tried every billing app out there.
Stuntsoftware has many people on the edge of their seat, hoping something will "come soon" but nothing comes, not even a promised blog post.
So, out goes my loyalty, and in comes media atelier.
While I was not instantly overwhelmed by it's ease of use (I find especially Timelog a little hard to understand at times), I was very impressed by the responsivness of the developper.
I contacted him with several questions and I also found a bug in a beta release.
He answered promptly and the bug I found was resolved within minutes.
It shows that the developper cares about his product.
I did not hesitate and instantly bought a license, and I wouldn't have hesitated even if it was twice the price (59 euros for the bundle really is a bargain !)
I'm still learning both programs, but the more I digg into them, the more I'm starting to really like them.
I now regret I didn't make this decision earlier.
I'll also post this review with TimeLog, since the two actually belong together.
I rarely post reviews, but MacUpdate is always the place I come to, to read user reviews and to decide if I try and buy a product, or when to steer clear from products.
So here's my contribution.
Today I purchased the Timelog/Grandtotal bundle after trying both for a while.
I come from Stuntsoftware's "On The Job" who is now officially promising this kind of application to come soon, for almost a year now (the anouncement went up in November 2007).
He has been telling me even before that he was thinking in that direction when I mentioned my needs for a program like this.
I consider myself a loyal customer, and thus waited for something to come.
While nothing came, my timetracking and invoicing have become a mess, I invoiced with pages, later numbers, I tried bento, and tried every billing app out there.
Stuntsoftware has many people on the edge of their seat, hoping something will "come soon" but nothing comes, not even a promised blog post.
So, out goes my loyalty, and in comes media atelier.
While I was not instantly overwhelmed by it's ease of use (I find especially Timelog a little hard to understand at times), I was very impressed by the responsivness of the developper.
I contacted him with several questions and I also found a bug in a beta release.
He answered promptly and the bug I found was resolved within minutes.
It shows that the developper cares about his product.
I did not hesitate and instantly bought a license, and I wouldn't have hesitated even if it was twice the price (59 euros for the bundle really is a bargain !)
I'm still learning both programs, but the more I digg into them, the more I'm starting to really like them.
I now regret I didn't make this decision earlier.
I'll also post this review with GrandTotal, since the two actually belong together.
I installed it this morning, and all of my snippets have vanished.
I'm still waiting for a reply from smileonmymac, but no update should ever loose any data.
+6
GrandTotal
viskwal reviewed on 01 Oct 2008
So here's my contribution.
Today I purchased the Timelog/Grandtotal bundle after trying both for a while.
I come from Stuntsoftware's "On The Job" who is now officially promising this kind of application to come soon, for almost a year now (the anouncement went up in November 2007).
He has been telling me even before that he was thinking in that direction when I mentioned my needs for a program like this.
I consider myself a loyal customer, and thus waited for something to come.
While nothing came, my timetracking and invoicing have become a mess, I invoiced with pages, later numbers, I tried bento, and tried every billing app out there.
Stuntsoftware has many people on the edge of their seat, hoping something will "come soon" but nothing comes, not even a promised blog post.
So, out goes my loyalty, and in comes media atelier.
While I was not instantly overwhelmed by it's ease of use (I find especially Timelog a little hard to understand at times), I was very impressed by the responsivness of the developper.
I contacted him with several questions and I also found a bug in a beta release.
He answered promptly and the bug I found was resolved within minutes.
It shows that the developper cares about his product.
I did not hesitate and instantly bought a license, and I wouldn't have hesitated even if it was twice the price (59 euros for the bundle really is a bargain !)
I'm still learning both programs, but the more I digg into them, the more I'm starting to really like them.
I now regret I didn't make this decision earlier.
I'll also post this review with TimeLog, since the two actually belong together.
+4
TimeLog
viskwal reviewed on 01 Oct 2008
So here's my contribution.
Today I purchased the Timelog/Grandtotal bundle after trying both for a while.
I come from Stuntsoftware's "On The Job" who is now officially promising this kind of application to come soon, for almost a year now (the anouncement went up in November 2007).
He has been telling me even before that he was thinking in that direction when I mentioned my needs for a program like this.
I consider myself a loyal customer, and thus waited for something to come.
While nothing came, my timetracking and invoicing have become a mess, I invoiced with pages, later numbers, I tried bento, and tried every billing app out there.
Stuntsoftware has many people on the edge of their seat, hoping something will "come soon" but nothing comes, not even a promised blog post.
So, out goes my loyalty, and in comes media atelier.
While I was not instantly overwhelmed by it's ease of use (I find especially Timelog a little hard to understand at times), I was very impressed by the responsivness of the developper.
I contacted him with several questions and I also found a bug in a beta release.
He answered promptly and the bug I found was resolved within minutes.
It shows that the developper cares about his product.
I did not hesitate and instantly bought a license, and I wouldn't have hesitated even if it was twice the price (59 euros for the bundle really is a bargain !)
I'm still learning both programs, but the more I digg into them, the more I'm starting to really like them.
I now regret I didn't make this decision earlier.
I'll also post this review with GrandTotal, since the two actually belong together.
+1
Virtual DVDs
at the moment I am using dvd assist, but this solution seems much more elegant, if frontrow works with these files.
+1
TextExpander
I installed it this morning, and all of my snippets have vanished.
I'm still waiting for a reply from smileonmymac, but no update should ever loose any data.
+1
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
This has been reported over and over through the course of the beta.