Thursday

[nightdog_barks]

Heh, just now saw a pair of house finches come to drink at the bird dish.

Warm, hazy sun. 90 degrees (32.2 Celsius). Mr. N is back from Miami and is working from home today. Got car inspected yesterday -- took along Olive Kitteridge to read but as it turned out the wait wasn't too long. There was another customer doing the same thing (reading), except she was using a Kindle.

Comments

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Corgiguy has the latest version of Quicken for Mac and he loves it because it synchs with our online banking and Turbo Tax. But he is better that sort of thing than most people (he designs and writes software for a living).

I don't have many Excel skills and mainly use it at work for doing very simple stuff like creating a database of contributors and then adding up the total at the bottom. That's very easy to learn to do and anything more complicated I can usually Google and find out how to do.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the latest version of Quicken would require me to have an Intel Mac; I have an older PowerPC.

I've found a VERY promising alternative, though, that will run on my machine and will cost about $150. Something called AccountEdge 2009. Looks much better to me so far, and while it gets fewer reviews overall, MacWorld and the users are both giving it higher marks than Quicken/Quickbooks products.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

That does look like a good program. That they offer a free trial, training and a money-back guarantee are all very positive signs.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

Yup. So I think my plan is:

1. Set up new LaCie hard drive

2. Download free trial of AccountEdge (um, if that's still possible for me, with my older Mac)

3. ???

4. PROFIT!