Writes 'If your bank uses the Extended Validation certificates that require a higher level of identity checking on the certificate authority's part (as at least one Seattle bank does), you may not be able to download transactions using the Mac version of Quicken. As older Web browsers do, but instead throws an error and refuses to download transactions. Intuit says they're working on a fix — but users may have to wait 'a couple of months,' and even then the fix may not be applied to versions before Quicken 2007.' It's Quicken, arguably the largest personal finance software developer giving paying customers the cold shoulder. This isn't even a 'bug' in as much as they decided they would ignore the issue on the Mac platform in hopes that they could just point at the (.still. unfinished) Mac product and say 'there's your patch buddy, $60 please'. On the up side, this is not nearly as wide spread a problem as it might be.
Based on my own experience there are a not insignificant number of Macintosh based Quicken users that bought Parallels and an XP license just to run Quicken for windows. No baloney, I know 5 and I didn't even suggest it to them. The OS X product sucks that bad.
One more thing. Quicken Online. Their free product. It works better than the for $ product on the shelf.
It actually gets QFX files from your bank (even if you're on a mac). The primary reason those Parallels users switched in the first place. Sure there are a few features missing, but it's a product that caters directly to a growing market segment that all other financial products ignore.
I am converting from quicken 2007 for Mac to quicken essentials and have gotten to a screen that says 'conversion and export succeeded' Then it says 'from within quicken essentials, choose file>imp.
People living paycheck to paycheck. Not because it's free. Because it's features are built around telling you how you are going to make it to the next paycheck. When I moved from Windows to Mac three or four years ago, one big sticking point was losing Quicken (because the Mac version, even to a relative naive person such as myself, was so very obviously sub-par). I ended up going with moneydance.com - and because it's cross-platform compatible, as I slowly switch from Mac to Linux, I won't be stuck out in the cold again. And they do respond to bug reports. It isn't free (as in beer or as in open source), but it was less expensive and have gotten numerous upgrades without having to buy a new license.
I can offer these tips from my experience making the switch from Quicken to GnuCash. 1, The first of January makes life easy, so.use. it!
As in, by Jan 3rd - 5th you will have very, very little paper to 'balance' the books with, so Do It, and Stay on Top of It (like a hawk) and the repetition over time, plus relatively small workload of a few items of paper to balance and account for, download from the bank, etc. Works in your favor. Much easier than 'catching up' later in the year. 2, I did the above. Quickbooks Pro 2009?
No Mac version to be found yet. No 2008 or 2009 version for the Mac! 2007 is.still. the latest one they offer!
They've been promising they're going to replace Quicken for Mac with a whole new financial management product, but it's not even scheduled for release until Summer of 2009! intuit.com Personally, I'm looking at switching over to a shareware product called iBank.
It can import all your info from Quicken, looks MUCH nicer, and actually has regular updates: iggsoftware.com. Mac users have always been second-class computer users. Mac gets fewer games made for them and fewer applications made for them. The applications that do get made for them have decreased functionality, service or support in some way.
This is especially true when there is a Windows version of the same. (. insert microsoft conspiracy theory here.) But given the recent surge in Mac netizenship, it is past time for these vendors to start paying more attention to Mac users. But it wouldn't hurt to join some users groups and start circulating petitions. And if those fail to get notice, pool a VERY large amount of money and contribute heavily to open source products with emphasis on the features and functions most needed and most missing in the commercially negligent. I'll bet some $20 donations from individuals could amount to a LOT of money fast - just make sure that Intuit and other vendors know that you're doing it.
They say that voting with your dollars makes a difference, but I think if they see that open source is their competitor, it will get a LOT more attention. There are certain exclusions to this, of course - forget about ever begging Microsoft to write a more feature complete version of Office for Mac. It is NEVER going to happen. Instead, skip right by the begging/petitioning stage and advance DIRECTLY to supporting Open Source projects. When large sums of money are pooled prior to donation, you have the power to help steer a project in ways that smaller, individual donations would not receive. I might have said the same thing, but lately, the quality of Adobe Creative Suite has REALLY started to fail. Both on the Windows and Mac sides.
Users are coming up with great interpretations of what 'CS' means. 'Crappy Suite' 'Creative Shit' and all sorts of things like that. As the product grows, it seems to get less stable. Once again, this is true both on Windows and Mac as I support both platforms and both have similar problems.
I am not familiar with other 'art' software used by Mac users. Sometimes what you propose can work, but honestly?
I don't think so with a 'flagship product' like Microsoft Office. People generally aren't buying it because they think it's the best tool for the job. They buy it because they're afraid using anything else will be less compatible with all the documents out there. Years after the open source advocates pushed for using OpenOffice instead of MS Office, you still see pretty much every college student buying a copy of MS Office for their new Macbook notebook.
Quicken for Windows is a nasty tangled beast, and mainly that is because of its custom UI. You can actually see it painting the display in agonizing detail on machines 1.5GHz.
Clearly they are not getting much use out of standard Microsoft libraries. Why, then, not jump to Java as other apps are doing? Moneydance, an up-and coming program with most of Quicken's functions runs on any desktop platform because of Java.
Its easily 5x as nimble as Quicken too. FWIW, my bf uses Quicken and is moving to Linux. TFA is talking about the OFX interface to their bank not working.
OFX in GnuCash is handled by the aqbanking library, which switched to using gnutls rather than OpenSSL a while ago. I didn't find any specific mention of EV certificates on the gnu.org web page, but since it does support X.509 certificates I wouldn't expect there to be a problem. I suspect the post you labeled a troll is in fact just someone who has an earlier version of GnuCash and/or aqbanking that's not setup correctly, because it's only. Cute, but two things:. Quicken doesn't cost $50 if you buy a copy that's a year or two out-of-date. Not much has changed in the field of checkbook balancing since the 14th century, give or take a few hundred years, so if you run Quicken 2006, you're not sacrificing a whole lot.
I think I paid about $10 for my copy of Quicken 2006. With Quicken, the entire setup, from the time I took the CD out of the wrapper, to the end of setting up transaction download for about 15 accounts, took under 90 minutes. I use Quicken as nothing more than a glorified check register where I enter everything manually, so none of their sunsetting-features-to-force-upgrades shenanigans ever bit me. Having said that, it still pisses me off what a half-assed product Mac Quicken has always been, and it.really. grinds my gears that Bill Campbell sits on their board.and.
Apple's board and.still. the Mac gets short shrift. I don't know how Jobs hasn't broken his foot off in someone's ass about it- especially since people have their lives in Quicken, and the fact that it's a HUGE pain in the ass to migrate from Quicken for Windows to Quicken for Mac has probably dissuaded more than a few people from switching to Mac. I don't know what's so fucking hard about using cross-platform data file formats and providing 100% feature parity with the Windows version, I really don't. I wish Apple would roll their own financial iApp as a shot across Intuit's bow, to get them to straighten up and fly right. Intuit has about 80% of the US SMB market, in spite of the fact that they suck. Quickbooks has their insane market share because Quickbooks is, hands down, the best SMB accounting package.
I wish I could possibly tell you how much my life has improved since converting from Peachtree (which I got free after rebate) to Quickbooks (which I paid full price for). It really is that much better. I used to fall way behind in my books because of how much I dreaded fighting with Peachtree.
Quickbooks just works. Competition is a good thing, and I'd love to see someone else raising the bar, but. Wow is my experience/opinion different from yours!
I find Quickbooks to be just horrible. I use the Windows version (under VMWare Fusion on my Mac) because the Mac version doesn't even pretend to support the only thing I still use it for (the credit card billing). But even the Windows version (which all of the following is about). Well, it is full of just plain bugs.
For example, there is an obvious trivial bug in the forms entry for credit card expiration date for a customer's preferred payment method. Intuit is dead to me. I use moneydance.com. It's cross-platform (try the demo) and works great. Imports wonderfully from Quicken. Aside from that, there are maxprog.com benandruby.com fastforwardsw.com fortora.com options for mac. And quite a number of sourceforge.net for Linux too.
There's even GPL'd gnucash.org for more sophisticated accounting. And because I don't like Intuit, here's an offtopic tip- did you know that thanks to a certain pre-Bush president, any company who wants to sell tax efiling software also has to provide irs.gov to the general public? Because if you think about it, why the hell are IRS tax filing servers (paid for by the public) not made available to the public?
Rather, only certain corporations who then SELL their services to the public to use them? Seems a little unfairly tilted towards big business, doesn't it?
Wouldn't you think the government would provide software to the public directly? Well the Clinton administration thought so too, but irs.gov to let them keep their oily grip on the tax filing software in exchange for this 'free filing software' deal. Never heard of it? Well, they certainly don't advertise it widely.
And I've noticed that in years past they've lowered the maximum income to qualify. Currently it's an adjusted gross income of $54,000. According to the web site, more info for this year becomes available January 16th. The more you know. Out of all the applications that could be made in a platform independent language such as Java Quicken/Quickbooks would be high on the list. No massive requirement for graphics modest processing of data, displaying of pleasant however mostly simple forms. Its value is in all the exceptions and rules it uses to follow.
Not porting to Java is a stupid move for this app. Besides allowing Mac, Linux, Windows or whatever user ability to access the app and sell more copies and have the same version across them.
There is less work on their part having a Mac Unit and a windows unit all trying to to get each part working, probably having to get lessons learned relearned across each platform. Going with Java or some other platform independent way of processing common logic. You're thinking like a programmer, not a business.
Porting costs money for something the majority of your users don't care about and which the minority affected can at this point do nothing. When the market share that competitive products on the Mac amounts to a more money than it costs to do something, they'll do that thing, which will be the cheapest thing they can do to address the problem. Which won't be a complete rewrite.
That kind of thing only happens when people who care about the product itself. When the market share that competitive products on the Mac amounts to a more money than it costs to do something, they'll do that thing, which will be the cheapest thing they can do to address the problem. Which won't be a complete rewrite. Then again you gotta spend money to make money, don't throw good money after bad, and invest in long-term gain. The story absolutely addresses the idea of doing the cheapest thing, which is not always the cheapest in the long run. That is to say: maintaining multiple plat.
Mac users are 2nd class citizens to Intuit and that shouldn't be supported. Ok, that behavior is basically telling Intuit, 'Hey, you don't have to support the Mac after all! Your Mac users are so desperate for your product, they'll do the work for you - including spending hundreds of dollars on Windows and virtual machine software!' No, if you actually don't want to support them, don't buy their software. Give that money, instead, to an open source project (like GnuCash, say), or find someone else - there are a few in.
After all, it's not like they don't have someplace to look for alternatives. apple.com has a whole section on their downloads website dedicated to third party business and financial software.
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This includes freebies, shareware, and demo versions of larger, more robust packages that they can try out. (Yeah, I know, that covers everything.) Can anyone recommend any of the software available in there?
I need to recommend something for my parents sooner or later too, come to think of it, and the 2006 version I'm using now is getting a little hoary. Bank accounts, bonds, stocks, and most other items in your portfolio can be viewed online nowadays so why are people still using quicken to track this stuff? It was the cat's meow in the 90's when you didn't have access to all of your financial information online, but nowadays I got better things to do than type in or download all my financial transactions each week. Besides, most peoples' spending and savings habits don't change whether you use financial software or use not.software ain't going to make you a great investor. Quicken, like all similar financial software, is designed to allow you to see what your income is, what your outflows are, make estimates, and gauge in a moment whether you have the money or not to do something. That's an incredibly valuable tool, one that most anal./ers (should) respect. Quicken just happens to be the biggest name out there.
Quicken is not about making good investments. Quicken is about being able to see your net worth in a moment and make spending and saving judgements based on what. To add myself to the set of Quicken alternative comments, I'd like to promote Mvelopes.com. It's an easy-to-use software as a service (SaaS) solution that runs as a full-page Flash application and uses a proactive budgeting approach rather than Quicken et al's reactive budgeting approach. With mobile browser access, it's possible to check the balance of each virtual envelope before making purchases, which helps make it proactive - you can avoid spending money in the first place if the current balance of th. You would think SOMEBODY there would have at least ONE macintosh, and give it a run through, and if it comes up with a showstopper like this they'd have fixed it before it went out the door.
This is a failure of either the QA team who simply didn't bother testing on a mac, or they did test it and reported the bug, but (as SO often in software dev) the mac is seen as a 'fringe' platform and the time spent fixing / retesting it would blow the milestone and/or due date to GM the product, and the PHB's would a. I have used Quickbooks for the past 13 years and I must say that the support for fixing features and getting new features added to quickbooks really sucks. I know this first hand as I have requested features several years back and still they did not implement it. Quicken may be a yearly purchase but Quickbooks is setup as a subscription system and even though I have requested features, they do not want to implement simple features like Customized Duplex invoice printing, FIFO/Average cost pricing, or some s.
73rd House District, Rep. Chris Afendoulis.
73rd House District, Rep. Chris Afendoulis 73RD HOUSE DISTRICT (A portion of Kent County) Current representative: The current representative for the 73rd District is Rep. Chris Afendoulis (R-Grand Rapids Twp.). The district includes he city of East Grand Rapids and the townships of Cannon, Courtland, Nelson, Oakfield, Plainfield, Spencer and Grand Rapids Charter Twp., according to House Republicans. Afendoulis serves on the House Appropriations Committee.
He was first elected to the House in 2014. A map of the 73rd District is available. Afendoulis raises money through a state House candidate committee, Chris Afendoulis for State House. In October, he launched a candidate committee to run for the state Senate, Chris Afendoulis for State Senate. He's also connected to a leadership PAC, the Afendoulis Leadership Fund. TALLY: Top Disclosed Donors To Rep.
Afendoulis And Connected Committees From 2013 Through Today 1. Senate Republican Campaign Committee, $130,297 2.
VerHeulen Leadership Fund, Rob VerHeulen, $50,500 3. Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Health PAC, $28,800 4. MAC PAC, Peter MacGregor, $21,000 5. Stamas Leadership PAC, Jim Stamas, $20,000 6. Compete Michigan, Mike Shirkey, $20,000 7. Michigan Association of CPAs, $19,000 8.
Nancy and John Kennedy, Autocam, $18,000 9. DeVos family, Amway, $16,500 10. Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, $14,095 DETAILED LISTS Top donors to Chris Afendoulis for State Senate for 2017-2018: 1. Chris Afendoulis for State House, transfer, $200,713 2. Senate Republican Campaign Committee, $130,297 3.
MAC PAC, Peter MacGregor, $20,000 4. Stamas Leadership PAC, Jim Stamas, $20,000 5. Compete Michigan, Mike Shirkey, $20,000 6. VerHeulen Leadership Fund, Rob VerHeulen, $20,000 7. Friends of West Michigan Business, $12,500 8.
Moving Michigan Forward II, Arlan Meekhof, $12,000 9. DeVos family, Amway, $12,000 10. Realtors PAC, $10,000 11. Kent County Republican Committee, $8,000 12. Chatfield Majority Fund, Lee Chatfield, $7,500 Top donors to Chris Afendoulis for State House for 2017-2018: 1. VerHeulen Leadership Fund, Rob VerHeulen, $8,000 2.
Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Health PAC, $5,500 3. Health Care Association of Michigan, HCAM PAC, $4,000 4. Abraham family, S. Abraham & Sons, $4,000 5. Michigan Association of CPAs, $3,500 6. Meijer PAC, $3,500 7.
Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, $3,500 8. Friends of Spectrum Health, $2,750 9. DTE Energy Co. PAC, $2,500 10. Veltman family, Autocam Precision, $2,500 11. CMS Energy Employees for Better Government, $2,250 Top donors to the Afendoulis Leadership Fund for 2017-2018: 1.
Peter Secchia, Grand Rapids, $5,000 2. Jeffrey Baker, Car City, $5,000 3. David Mehney, Skytron, $2,500 4. Mark Meijer, Life EMS Ambulance, $2,500 5. MAC PAC, Peter MacGregor, $1,000 6.
Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association, MITA, $1,000 7. Dave Khorey, Varnum, $1,000 8. Realtors PAC, $1,000 9. Karen O’Donovan, Grand Rapids, $1,000 Top donors to Chris Afendoulis for State House for 2015-2016: 1.
VerHeulen Leadership Fund, Rob VerHeulen, $10,000 2. Afendoulis Leadership Fund, Chris Afendoulis, $10,000 3. Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Health PAC, $7,800 4.
Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, $6,125 5. Michigan Association of CPAs PAC, $5,000 6. Health Care Association of Michigan, HCAM PAC, $4,000 7.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan PAC. Molina Healthcare of Michigan, $3,500 9. Auto Dealers of Michigan, $3,000 10. Friends of Spectrum Health, $2,750 11. Delta, $2,100 12. DTE Energy, $1,900 13. Friends of West Michigan Business, $1,650 Top donors to the Afendoulis Leadership Fund for 2015-2016: 1.
Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Health PAC, $10,000 2. VerHeulen Leadership Fund, Rob VerHeulen, $7,500 3. John Kennedy, Autocam, $5,000 4. Callton Action Fund, Mike Callton, $5,000 5. Health Care Association of Michigan, HCAM PAC, $5,000 6.
Business Leaders for Michigan, $5,000 7. Meijer PAC, $3,500 8. Leonard Slott, retired, $2,500 9. Mark Meijer, Meijer executive, $2,500 10. Friends of Spectrum Health, $1,250 11. Maxim Healthcare Services, $1,000 12. Michigan Jobs Fund, $1,000 13.
Dan Hibma, $1,000 14. David Carroll, Quicken Loans, $1,000 15.
DTE Energy, $1,000 16. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, $1,000 17. Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association PAC, $1,000 Top donors to the Afendoulis Leadership Fund for 2012-2014: 1.
Dan Hibma, $6,000 2. Craig Newhof, $6,000 3. John Kennedy, $5,000 4. Roland Palmer, $5,000 5. James Osterhaven, $5,000 6. Richard Steigenga, $5,000 7.
Michigan Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association PAC, $4,970 8. Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Health PAC, $2,000 9.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan PAC, $1,500 Top donors to Chris Afendoulis for State House for 2013-2014: 1. Michigan Association of CPAs, $5,000 2.
DeVos family, $4,500 3. Chris Afendoulis Candidate Committee For Township Office, $3,796 4. Debbie and Alan Abraham, $2,000 5. Nancy and John Kennedy, $2,000 6.
Mary Beth and Mark Meijer, $2,000 7. Georgia and James Nicholas, $2,000 8. Emili and Leonard Slott, $2,000 9. Norma and Lewis Van Kuiken, $2,000 10. Auto Dealers of Michigan PAC, $1,500 11. Linda and David Mehney, $1,250 12. Donna and Arthur Veltman, $1,250 Campaign finance reports can be found in the Michigan Secretary of State's campaign finance database.
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