I bought this software Feb 18, almost as soon as it hit the stores. Believe me, it was the biggest disappointment ever. As a Quicken user of 12 years, this software is not recognizable. It’s nothing but a budget tracker, with none of the advanced features of Quicken for Windows. Actually, this software is like [...]
Final Cut Express is a very powerful video editing package.If you are thinking about making the step up from iMovie (as I did), you need to understand that the level of sophistication and power in this package is exponentially greater than that of iMovie.If your video editng experience is limited to iMovie, don’t expect to [...]
4th Update in review of version 3.1: You may have read that upon upgrading to version 3.1 I was elated by the apparent performance boosts. However, after using the Windows 7 virtual machine more extensively, I have to say that the performance increase is only superficial. Upon a fresh install of Windows 7 32 bit, [...]
this is much the same as CS4 but with a few new features,but one thing you should know is that most plug-ins currently only work in 32bit,therefore you must start it in 32bit(double click on the PS icon in finder and “get info”,then tick the box “open in 32bit”).The problem here is that PS CS5 [...]
MobileMe has been much maligned over the years.Used to go by the name of .Mac.Apple charges $99 a year for the service, way more than it’s worth, but you can usually catch it at a discount on Amazon which brings the price closer to the true value. If you have multiple Macs or an iPhone, [...]
I used this and used VMWare Fusion 3. Both have issues. But Parallels has fewer deal breaking issues. So I chose Parallels. I use a 13″ MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. I run Windows 7 in the VM. Here are my findings: Parallels 5 Pros: Fast, rock solid Cons: Windows Manager (which manages the Aero [...]
Updated to delete mention of issues that were fixed in the R4 patch… Intuit’s Quickbooks for Mac team has been busy fixing bugs since this product was released, already having published four bug-fixing updates.There are still some issues with the product which can be read about in the Intuit Community forum, but it is clear [...]