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Ted seems to idle at 30% CPU usage on my MacBook running Leopard. That’s with no episode checks going on. Restarting the app doesn’t help.

this cpu problem is known and only occurs on leopard for some strange reason. I fixed it for the next release. Could you try the latest development version and see if that helps.

Gorgeous UI, but beauty is only skin deep. To be avoided until (unless?) it matures into a more feature-rich application, especially at the price they’re asking!

I’m a fan of the envelope method of budgeting, but when Budget was not quite up to the UI standards I was after, I gave MoneyWell a try. It took about 3 minutes for me to discover missing features I could not do without, such as multiple currencies, basic localization (e.g. non-US date formats), and transaction matching on QIF import.

For now, Moneydance remains the king of Mac finance apps for me. It seems I might just have to write my own envelope extension for it…

Amazing app. A month ago I have trashed MS Money (via Parallels) and switched totally to MoneyWell. Did I mentioned that the developer responded all my emails within 2 hours? Now that's called support. Worth every penny!

cdcolt - were you able to import your MS Money files into MoneyWell?

I have not tried as I have aborted as such MS Money.

Having used a lot of conventional finance applications, I find MoneyWell a breath of fresh air. It really helps you to monitor (and maybe even stick to) a budget rather than just act as a list of your transactions. While it does lack a few features such as scheduled transactions, it is continually being improved.

I've tried nearly every finance managing app available for Mac... and finally found out that MoneyWell was the best for my personal use.

The great thing about MoneyWell is the way it allows you to manage your budget : it uses the envelope method, so you put money in different "buckets"/envelopes and use it until the bucket is empty... you're not checking the way you spent your money after spending it (like in most apps). It allows you to really control your spendings, not just analyse them through reports and stats.

The UI is great. Yeah, there're still a few features missing, but the developper is one of the most reactives : 2 updates this week, answers to every question... The 1.3 is on the way, with scheduled transactions for example. The last updates corrected a lot of things, and I think things like handling non-US date formats (when importing QIF at least) and QIF import in general [cf. sentience post] are now fixed.
Besides, I like the fact that it doesn't have a handful of features useless to most of all or that a specific app would handle better. I don't like for example mixing budget management with stocks management.

This app has totally changed the way I think about my spending habits. With MoneyWell, I understand what it takes to control my finances. I recommend this program to anyone looking for more than a way to track their accounts; MoneyWell causes you to control your financial future.

Although this is a very nice implementation, I find I don’t need to be constantly aware of my bandwidth usage. Consequently, I prefer iiNetUsage (a dashboard widget) that I can check on as needed.

I use the free Plaxo service to sync the built-in Thunderbird address book with the Apple Address Book. Works beautifully!

I started using Thunderbird, and just love it. I added Lightning for my calendaring, with the provider addon so I can sync my calendar to Google Calendar so I can sync it back to iCal and ultimately my iPhone...Works fantastic. Sugarbird is great for integrating with SugarCRM, and with a couple hacks to the iCal plugin I can synchronize Lightning with SugarCRM. A couple more hacks you can find online and TB 2.0.0.6, I am connected with the mac address book.

Thunderbird is the way to go.

Whereas mail.app can't handle virtual identities, Thunderbird does so with ease by the installation of the Virtual Identities extension. You can get multiple accounts in mail.app. You can even set it to allow you to send email from multiple addresses, if you PRE-CONFIGURE it and follow certain restrictions. Thunderbird, however, lets you create on-the-fly addresses, learns when to suggest what virtual identities should be used for what recipients and the extension is completely free.

Thunderbird's junkmail filter is rather decent, too. Mail.app has spamsieve, if you want to pay $30. Thunderbird's builtin bayesian filtering as well as spamato are free, however.

Thunderbird has a fantastic extension called Nostalgia/nostalgic which lets you quickly filter messages into certain folders with the touch of a couple buttons. You can get an addon to mail.app which does this, but it involves an annoying pop-up interface to accomplish it. Oh, and like most of the apple software in the world, it costs $9.

Thunderbird also has numerous extensions that let you add reminders and tags and notes and classifications to messages. Mail.app has this as well, but it's another $30.

There are numerous other extensions that make life with Thunderbird far superior. Not having thunderbird interact with the operating systems' address book is pathetic, but it's easily overlooked when the alternative is to use mail.app, spend at least $70 for extensions (not to mention future updates to them) and still not have the same functionality that thunderbird has.

Also, the latest OSX build of thunderbird has a very nice OSX-ish feel to it. Not quite on-par with the way the mail.app interface looks, but if you're more concerned with functionality, there is nothing in the thunderbird interface that would detract from the experience.

Sounds like a nice idea, but definitely doesn't work for me on Mac OS X 10.4.9 (Intel). All I get is a green rectangle with "xCuts" displayed in it. I can't move the widget, and there are no visible controls on its surface.

Could it be it only works on Leopard pre-releases?

@ sentience:
If this happened after you have installed Safari 3.0b, then the culprit is this new version of Safari. This also happened to me with xCuts and it has affceted other widgets: Amazon Art, IP Locator and Dicionário (a Portuguese language dictionary). Probably I have a few more widgets that have stopped working, but I did not test them all yet.
Read my post in Safari 3.0b page and then read a post in The Unofficial Weblog (TUAW) about this subject.

Agreed, mikel.

The Foundation version is free and is very useful, but if you use CVS extensively, the Pro version's features (like the Conflict Solver, querying transactions, etc.) are invaluable.

Download URL is 404.

Looks promising! If development continues as promised, I will no doubt adopt this to manage my MODx-powered site.

A Thunderbird extension named ThunderBayes makes this particularly convenient to use with that app.

I wouldn't recommend "lean and mean" text editors like TextMate and BBEdit as alternatives to full-fledged IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA. For hard-core developers that can truly benefit from an integrated code/test/build/debug environment, there is no substitute for the rich refactoring and static analysis features of a tool like this.

That said, there is definitely room for improvement on the performance front, and the cross-platform UI certainly isn't very "Mac-like".