by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 23, 2007 | Featured, Macworld, Writing
LiquidLedger 2.0 Another of the several personal financial programs I’ve reviewed this year, LiquidLedger is good, but not nearly as good as the other offerings in this arena. Version 2.0 offers a significant UI update that makes LiquidLedger easier to use and...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 20, 2007 | Featured, Macworld, Writing
Moneydance. The Quicken alternative.Quicken may be the de facto standard of personal finance applications, but that doesn’t mean you have to use it. Moneydance, which is a Java-based cross-platform application for managing all of your personal finances, offers...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 7, 2007 | Wanders
Jacob overlooking the manmade lake near the Cornish Estate dairy barn. The downside to living 3000 miles away from your siblings is that you don’t get to see them as often as you’d like. This past weekend, after a trip from SF to Oslo to NYC, my youngest...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 10, 2007 | Beacon Dispatch, Writing
Just in time for the political hi-jinx season, and after a brief hiatus, the Beacon Dispatch is back… on the web. We haven’t found a good way to get the paper back out in print, but the Dispatch is now redesigned and back on the web in a fashion...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 17, 2007 | Commentary, Macworld, Writing
Great program with a few glitches Let’s be clear about this: I love Apple’s new Pages ’08. So much so that I plan to start using it every day as my main word processing program. No, this isn’t some kind of left-over-from-the-nineties...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 16, 2007 | Macworld
Or, 30 more seconds lopped off of my 15 minutes of fame… With the advent of the Internet, podcasts, Youtube and the like the old fifteen minutes of fame adage may well be a vestige of the Andy Warhol past. But, I did get about 30 seconds on the Macworld...
