Reading, Writing, Wanderlust, and Commentary
Fading Red’s Koku is a is a clever little app that allows you quick and dirty access to your banking information. While it’s a great entry level tool, and a v1.0 app to boot, it would benefit from a few more online banking options and better/more traditional reconciliation tools. Otherwise, great little app.
My review of Koku is now up at Macworld.com.
FoldingText is like no other text editor you’ve ever used. While it allows you to perform basic text editing without a hitch, it also offers some features you don’t expect to find in a basic text editor, including todo lists, formatted text, and a built-in Pomodoro timer.
You’ll find my FoldingText review at Macworld.com.
Hands down the best personal finance app I’ve had the pleasure to use. My review at Macworld.com:
Evernote
My Evernote Review is now online @ Macworld.com. While it’s unlikely that’ll I’ll keep Evernote on my Mac or iPhone now that the review has been published, the program has one very useful feature that differentiates it from all the other note capturing apps; it recognizes the text in any image that you capture. As I said in the review,
… take a photo of a document, prescription label, book cover, or anything else containing text, and within seconds of when that image is uploaded to Evernote’s servers, that text is fully searchable.
It’s a kick booty feature, and the one feature that makes Evernote a standout.
NeatReceipts
Mix:
1 – Large box of receipts
1 – Box NeatReceipts for Mac
Combine, then serve your receipts to your shredder.
My review of NeatReceipts for Mac is now online at Macworld.com. Great little tool for collecting data and getting rid of clutter.
I just completed a preview of Intuit’s Quicken Financial Life, which is now online at Macworld.com.
There have been some questions on the Macworld Forum and requests for screenshots of other parts of the program, so I’m going to provide shots that we didn’t use in the Macworld article here.
It’s important to note that the current beta of Quicken Financial Life is REALLY a beta. In other words, there is much about this program that is not working yet, some of which is really important, like account reconciliation, which you cannot do using the current beta. What I was able to see worked nicely, but, again, it’s important to note that I did no testing with this program. I didn’t download account info from my bank, couldn’t reconcile an account. In fact, the data I used came directly from Intuit.
In short, the article was exactly what the title says, a Preview of an application that’s very much in the early stages of beta testing and at least six months away from potential release.
Here are two of the aforementioned screenshots:
My review of Palringo and Flutter is now online at Macworld. hHate to say it, but these two apps hit the can shortly after I took this screenshot…
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Palringo and Flutter both work, but neither is a replacement for real MMS.