If you try to get help, you get a notice that they are very busy writing the software and may get back to you within three weeks. Even more unfortunate, support, which is typically very good with Omni Group products, is nonexistent. I can't sync anything since an update last week. Lately, crashing has come up more often than not. Is the update going to fix things? Or is it going to send the whole thing crashing down. You spins the wheel and you takes your chances. Getting the daily update is like playing roulette. They send updates every day, but it is a long way from being done. The worst part, is that to sync the iPhone version and the desktop version, you have to pay full price for what is essentially an alpha version of the software. Mac) account or another webDav server, so the whole setup is quite pricey. To get the system to work you have to buy both OmniFocus and OmniFocus for the iPhone. Unfortunately, OmniFocus is not ready for prime time. I have read the book and agree with much of what he says, so I thought this would work well. It is based on David Allen's "Getting Things Done". OmniFocus is not supposed to be a run of the mill task manager. One reason I selected this is that it is made by the Omni Group, which also makes the very excellent OmniGraffle, which we have on all of our machines, and OmniOutliner and OmniPlan, which we have on several. My old method of emailing it to myself, worked okay with the Treo, but it was inefficient, particularly since it takes longer to send an email with the iPhone. I wanted to be able to find something where I could enter a task on my iPhone when it popped into my head and have it sync with my computer at some point. ![]() ![]() Since one of the weak spots in Exchange for Mac and the horrible iCal is task lists, that was want I really wanted. Once I got the iPhone, I started looking for some cool apps. Feel free to post any suggestions and I will definitely check them out. We have a pretty speedy T-1 connection here, but these things are still very slow to run. Perhaps we are a little old fashioned about having our financial information on teh interwebs, but the real issue is speed. We have looked at online stuff, like NetSuite, but we don't like that option very much. I have tried almost everything I can find for the Mac, but nothing seems to be close. I would love to use Peachtree, but unless you are running Windows, that is not an option. We need something a little more robust, that can handle consolidation and other things that are tougher to do in entry level packages. However, it has limitations which our SmallBiz is starting to run up against. It has a good chart of accounts functionality, good controls built in and is generally superior to Quickbooks in almost every way. MYOB Accountedge, though it has a strange interface, can take a small business much farther. Quickbooks is easy to use and works fine for a sole proprietor, but it falls flat as things get a little more complicated. Basically, you have two options: Quickbooks and MYOB. The one major difficulty in running a business entirely on Macs is the availability of decent accounting software. Even if they don't, it is a great package. Hopefully soon they will come out with an iPhone version to sync with the desktop version. ![]() It is one of the few software packages that I really am glad I have-a real convenience rather than a boring necessity. You can put whatever you want into it (at least so far I have not found anything that would not work), organize it the way you want and have it all at your fingertips if you need it. MacJournal is perfect for organizing all that stuff. Or, perhaps you just want it all in one place under the project name. You know you are going to need this stuff, but it isn't worth bookmarking in your browser. You get stuff from newspapers, emails web searches, whatever. It is like the little corner of my desk where stuff that is important enough to keep but not important enough or long lived enough to file sits. The value in MacJournal, as I see it, is a catch all for all the stuff you need to keep-at least for a while, but don't know where to put. For me, though I could do that stuff in a lot of different ways. It does do that stuff-I can do a post in MacJournal and have it post here, if I want. MacJournal is touted as a journaling and blog software package. A very good one was Pascal and Pascal Write, which was a Mariner product. Mariner is an old timer in the software biz-if you are old enough to remember pre-Windows or even Windows 2.0, you may recall that there were other spreadsheets and word processors before MS came to dominate. One little app that I find indispensable is MacJournal from Mariner Software.
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