SKYHORSE  Just wanted to update this, particularly since it apparently was NOT the software that caused the problem. An NVRAM chip on my MacBook Pro picked just the time I was trying to run Onyx 1.9.8 to fail, and that's what led to the issues experienced. Once fixed and 1.9.9 loaded, it runs fine now.  
(Version 1.9.9)

SKYHORSE  Odd stuff this time (1.9.8). I've used Onyx for years and have always been able to rely on it. This time was different. On my old G5 (running Leopard 10.5.4, then 10.5.5) it ran flawlessly. On my MacBook Pro running 10.5.4, when it quit, the laptop wouldn't reboot. The little white light would come on, but that was it. It wouldn't even reboot using the install disc and holding down the C key. After removing the battery and line power for three minutes, it would reboot normally.   
(Version 1.9.8)

SKYHORSE  My earlier review was based on a few weeks' experience, and was positive. I've now used this software longer, and can no longer recommend it at all. First, QIF imports from my other financial program (which had always worked perfectly up till then) suddenly started going haywire and Prospects started crashing on import, even though the QIF's were in as plain a text as you can get. That exporting app (Checkbook) continues to work flawlessly to this day with 10 accounts containing many thousands of transactions. I worked with the Prospects developer for several weeks to try to resolve these crashing and import problems, even providing the crash data and actual QIF samples. He couldn't find the problem no matter what we did. So I decided to take the app off my computer, including its preference file (these were the only two files concerning it that I could find) and restarted with a fresh download of the same version (1.1.3) from the developer. THIS IS EVEN WORSE! I put in a single cash account that has an active balance of about $9,300, but the QIF was over 4,600 items long. Prospects only found 2,469 of them and reports that my balance is -$2,624.29 as of 26 March 2054! It lists hundreds of transactions spaced over the years from 2008 up to 2054! However, it also says that my current balance is $22,602.02. Can this product announce its uselessness any more clearly? SAVE YOUR MONEY, DON'T BUY THIS.  
(Version 1.1.3)

SKYHORSE  Over the years, I've used most of the financial applications available on Macintosh--and there sure are a lot of them. This is probably the most complete and sophisticated I've ever seen for this early a release. More important, it gets right a number of critical things. I have ten different income and investment accounts and occasionally transfer data between them. I have four years of data with many thousands of transactions. Using QIF, after registering I was able to import all of them correctly to the penny into Prospects. I was able to update them with new data and only add the new...and it was accurate. The completeness and ease of custom reporting is far better than I remember of Quicken for Mac or Windows (both of which started forgetting reconciled transactions after a couple of years). Prospects provides an exceptional view of your financial status. Even with all the data I've put in it, it remains extremely quick, something I can't say for iBank, but can for Splasm's Checkbook. This application is not quite complete yet--it doesn't display reconciled data yet, so I'll keep using Checkbook despite its minimal report displays as my primary tool and exporting QIFs to Prospects till I have this. It's clear that the developer plans to add it as it's in the instructions already, but the column for it isn't in place yet. It also doesn't have a separate password to lock it, so you have to rely on your encrypted drive and password for that to keep your data safe. But Prospects can slice and dice your data better and easier than anything I've seen yet, and most important of all, can handle very large volumes of data accurately and quickly. Terrific product!  
(Version 1.1)

SKYHORSE  Fascinating. I've been using Radnor to manage DosBox for years now to let me run some of my favorite old DOS games...but of course that was on PPC. I recently tried it out on my new Leopard MacBook Pro, and even though Radnor isn't written in Universal IT STILL WORKS FINE, and I can continue to play my old DOS games. Good thing, because I can't get the developer's website to resolve either from MacUpdate or Google.  
(Version 1.0)

SKYHORSE  Works as advertised--I misunderstood the directions. When placed in Applications, the app will run from the menu bar, and will persist there. It does save several steps in opening specific files, and does seem to open NeoOffice faster than Neo does coming up on its own. Very nice product.  
(Version 1.2)

SKYHORSE  Great idea--if only it worked better. It works fine when you open the .dmg file and then open the NOMu icon. It installs itself in your menu bar and you can then select both to have it come on at open and a hotkey combo. You then have to close it in order to toss the NOMu drive icon you installed it with. And it works fine once in the menu bar--even opens NeoOffice faster than normal, and to a file you select. However, when you close the drive icon, it closes the app in the menu bar. When you log back in, there's no NOMu item in the menu bar and none in Apps or Utilities. You have to start over. So it ends up being MORE steps to open your file in NeoOffice. Sigh.  
(Version 1.2)

SKYHORSE  I've used this software since version 1.5 in 2004, and it was very solid then. Unfortunately, it's had a number of issues since moving to binary a couple years ago. Although these have largely been worked out over the intervening time, I'd moved on to Checkbook, which did everything I needed including handling 10 different accounts, so this became my backup package. However, I now have almost 6,000 transactions covering several years in Checkbook, and it remains as fast as ever. iBank has however gotten slower and slower with each additional QIF import to the point that even opening it in 10.4.11 takes nearly a minute now, as does ANY additional action. So I've moved on. Sad.  
(Version 2.3.12)

SKYHORSE  Thanks for the suggestion, but a single (even dual core) processor is inadequate for an enterprise with 16,000 internal customers and several thousand more external and 40 locations around the world. We have built more than 40 custom ColdFusion apps that get used continuously by our customers, and we wanted to use Flex for RIAs--but obviously we'd need much more horsepower than we'd get from something as lightweight as BlazeDS. The issue's not money for us, it's trust. We're sticking with ColdFusion for now because they haven't led us down the garden path there to this point--but we are evaluating potential replacements and migration strategy in the event that we feel we might need to in the next few years. Too bad, because we love CF and think we'd have really liked Flex, but trust is worth a lot more than money.  
(Version 3.0b3)

SKYHORSE  Great looking product. Last year, I was looking to get 12 copies of the high end version of Flex at about $800 a pop at that time for my development team. It looked like an ideal extension from our existing and very substantial ColdFusion product suite. However, after the order was placed, we found that in order to deploy on network the product that we created with the $800 product, you need a Flex server license that ran $20,000 per processor on the server! There was no mention of that at all on their Flex front ends at that time. In fact, Adobe made it VERY hard to find that information at all so we could even confirm that we would have to have that as well. We eventually found that it was true, and cancelled our order. No Flex for us, even if Adobe changed their pricing, as we now have a serious trust issue with them. Just our experience, yours may differ.  
(Version 3.0b3)

SKYHORSE  I've been using this application now for three and a half years, and have many thousands of entries in it. I came to it the hard way, after using Quicken since 1993 (in Windows) and finding that since the Y2K change to Quicken that it began to forget an occasional previously reconciled transaction every now and then, which made it impossible to balance my checkbook. This happened in both Windows and Macintosh versions. I've also tried most of the other Macintosh financial software over the last six years as well. Some like iBank had a very rough transition to Universal, and others either didn't have what it took over time or lacked the right mix of features to be able to quickly and easily track my finances in ten different accounts including investments, with transfers between them. Checkbook has never faltered anywhere! It has consistently produced accurate, very easy to use and track results, is very easy to set up, and does exactly what it says it will, inexpensively and effectively. It doesn't have all the reporting features of Quicken or neat pie charts like some, but the charts it does produce are clear and easy to read...and do cover all categories of info. This is an outstanding application that combines both ease of use with utter reliability and accuracy. I couldn't recommend it more highly.  
(Version 1.8.1)

SKYHORSE  I've been using Combine PDFs (also free and here on MacUpdate) for several years on PPC and Intel Macs with perfect success. Why do we even need this app?  
(Version 0.1)

SKYHORSE  I've played this game for a couple of years now off and on on 10.3 and 10.4. It's an enjoyable game to a degree, but the word "unstable" doesn't begin to describe it. Once in awhile I've lost and ended up with a score, but normally I get up into the level 30-40 area and then the game tanks (literally) on its own, with me way up in points and way ahead on tanks. That means a very high frustration factor as well, particularly when you were doing very well. But freezes and crashes are too reminiscent of why I left Windoze.  
(Version 1.2.1)

SKYHORSE  Wow, both the name and the basic appearance are almost identical to Checkbook from Splasm, except that Checkbook's got a lot more features (like reconciliation) and multiple accounts. I need those added features and so use Checkbook. I wonder if this one's database will hold up with many thousands of entries over multiple years like Checkbook, too. I don't want to discourage the developer, but this looks to a non-lawyer like it's close enough to another product for a copyright challenge.  
(Version .1b)

SKYHORSE  This is a lot of fun for those into model railroading, particularly if you don't have the space or time for a real layout (besides, you don't have derailments on this one!) The price to me is reasonable for what you get, which is WAY more than a track design CAD package, and it's the only software of its kind I'm aware of for the Mac.  
(Version 2.0.1)

SKYHORSE  Thank you! We needed these!  
(Version 1.3.5)

SKYHORSE  This is an incredible application. I've used commercial products of this type for years, am familiar with most of them, and migrated to this one for Monday morning this week. In the week since, I've worked literally hundreds of items (I run HR systems operations for a U.S. Federal agency with dozens of facilities around the world), and use this application as the core of my operations management as I did its predecessors. It is clearly the best of the lot. It has the highest information density (most data in the least space) I've seen--and doesn't seem to slow down with volume of data, at least so far. I'm tracking numerous projects and contexts with it, and it's done very well for me. I had tested it over the last couple of weeks and had data disappear on me, but the (near) daily updates have apparently taken care of that, as I've lost nothing since (I back up regularly regardless).

I have top notch developers of my own, but I can't imagine how IGTD's developer has the time to do the incredible amount of work each of these versions entails. How many people are working on this thing, anyhow?

One added feature I'd love to see given the fact that I track not only my own work but tasks I assign others in this is a category for Assigned To, so I could sort by Context, Project, or Assigned To. It would make this a good management tool as well as personal task tracker then. I write a PDF of the completed items at the end of the week to archive separately as completed actions, so it would be helpful there to have a category for Assigned To as well. I'd also like to have the option to be able to archive structured data (say a week's worth of completed tasks) similarly in the event that I needed to retrieve information on something done in past months or years though, since I expect to be using this application for years to come. That way I could delete them and not eventually clog the database. If they were accessible separately (even as text, and not in the regular IGTD DB), that would be best as I could put a retrieved item next to current status on the screen.

A truly exceptional product by an exceptionally talented, productive, and responsive developer. This is the kind of software that literally drops Window users' jaws, and makes it a joy to be using a Mac.  
(Version 1.3.5)

SKYHORSE  This is a superb application that keeps getting better and better, and 2.5.1 continues the major improvements of version 2x. I have fourteen years of entries, 5080 total, in this app so far--and replaced MacJournal with this one for reasons of quality, not price. It is now quite fast to open even with this many entries, less than four seconds (was 17 seconds with 1x versions). I haven't lost anything yet in about three years of use. Search is extremely fast and relevancy based--excellent! There's a lot of additional information pertaining to entries now that is available to the user. I've also always found Phil Dow to be extremely responsive and user-oriented. In short, I'd rate it as best of its class, just as he intended it to be.   
(Version 2.5.1)

SKYHORSE  How can the license be "free" if this costs $39.95?  
(Version 1.3b1)