thomasinasaidthis

After I upgraded to Leopard, Preview began behaving very strangely, opening on my secondary (laptop) display instead of my main (external) display, which was a real drag literally. So I've found a solution in Skim for pdfs and ViewIt for most other image files. (Actually ViewIt will open pdfs also, but I like Skim's annotation features etc.

It's true, the site doesn't look like the kind of site that a reputable and experienced software developer would establish.

And since you ask for feedback, here are some specifics...

First, it's very poorly designed – one long page to scroll through with too many variations to font and font-size, random use of colours and underlining, basically breaking all the rules of good graphic design and website presentation (looks like an amateur website from the earliest days of websites). Second, and this is related to the poor design, the information is badly organised, excessive in quantity, and it never seems to get to the point. Third, the language has a "they're trying too hard" impact on the reader.

I wouldn't necessarily assume it was a scam (many scams look very very professional) but it sure does look unprofessional, which makes me assume that the people behind the software aren't professional. I also don't expect the software interface to be well designed when the website is so poorly designed.

If you want your visitors to have confidence in your software offering, then the site has to look like a software site, not a hard-sell, excessively wordy, trying-too-hard amateur outfit that happens to have software that you can download somewhere on it.

Here's an example of something better - which I chose completely at random from a google search for mac finance software - not necessarily the best example, but at least it does look like it belongs in the world of mac software providers. Take a look:
http://www.fadingred.org/cashbox/

Notice the key elements:
Clean design that fits the screen; very few words, it says in a sentence what it does; a few screenshot thumbnails right there to look at; a clear download link; a clearly visible support area - and this is where you can list your FAQs and provide more detailed information about how it works and what the benefits are; good use of clickable links. I'd consider trying that software; I wouldn't try yours.

And remember, don't push all those "benefits" so hard. The truth is, most of your visitors will already be well convinced of the benefits of managing their finances and of using finance software - that's why they're looking around at the options, including yours! What they want to know from you is not the list of benefits, but what your software does - i.e. what are its functional specifications - expressed in a clear, succinct way. If the software does what I'm looking for I'll try it out. But I don't want to read through screeds of "let me introduce myself" stuff on an ugly website to work that out.

PS. If you're following advice on how to present your product, it's pretty bad advice that doesn't work in the 21st century (if indeed it ever did). Did you ever hear of the saying, "show don't tell" - instead of trying to tell us how great you are by using a great many words, present the site in a way that shows or reveals how great you are.

Really, really useful app. Wouldn't be without it.

This is a really useful app, great for grabbing bits of streaming audio, or scheduling live broadcasts. The Pro version allows you to set lots of stuff and do some processing with its support for plug-ins. The Skype capture with one channel for the sender and the other for the receiver is very useful.

Very elegant, straightforward audio editing app. Similar in functionality to Audacity (which is free) but for the dollars you spend you get a much nicer looking and more intuitive interface and some neat features that Audacity lacks. I use Sound Studio for nearly all my audio editing work, which includes working with classical music as well as editing podcasts – very pleased with its performance. If you're looking for nondestructive editing this won't do, but otherwise I'd highly recommend it.

An update. I upgraded to Leopard having forgotten about the good advice I read here! As a result I was obliged to fork out for the upgrade to SOHO Notes 7 in order to retain access to all my old notes.

And I'm glad to say there are some improvements. You now have the option of backing up on quit instead of start up, which makes a big difference.

Unfortunately (and this may be to do with my upgrade to Firefox 3 around the same time) SOHO Notes no longer captures the web page title when clipping from the web in Firefox. Every note clipped from the web comes out "firefox-bin (Grabbed)", which isn't very meaningful. Chronos tells me this is because Firefox doesn't use the same standard as, say, Safari, and so SOHO Notes can't capture the title. That seems odd, since version 5 (with Firefox 2 under Tiger) managed to do this fine!

Another downer: it no longer handles synchronisation of notes on my Palm. (I've turned to the elegant Notes app that comes with Missing Sync to do this now.)

Overall, still a beautiful digital coffin. But I'd also be the first to admit that I definitely don't exploit its potential or make use of all its features.

On the one hand just another pdf manager app... But those few extra touches that make it a ReceiptWallet are wonderful. The ability to organise receipts sensibly and generate reports is a really nice touch.

It's not perfect: I'd like it to recognise my system date preferences and thus adopt the d/m/y format that the rest of the world uses. And the reports aren't very flexible in their layout, so longer categories or notes can be truncated when printed. And I've had to fudge things a bit in order to handle receipts that are split across categories (e.g. part of the expense was professional and part personal). But basically very useful and easy to use.

Absolutely love this app. VERY responsive and active developer. I manage my entire receipts (both home and business) with this app. No other software for the Mac does the job so well than ReceiptWallet.

Very, very useful. Especially for anyone who has a lot of journal articles and other research documents in pdf format. I am in the process of scanning 15+ years worth of paper articles that had previously languished uncatalogued (more or less) in filing cabinets. Once digitised and tagged within Yep they are infinitely more useful to me. Using tags I can actually retrieve and refer to articles that previously I might have forgotten I had.

For all those using this for academic software it may be best to try Papers. It provides a much cleaner way of storing PDFs and makes things much easier to find in terms of science. Plus it has a whole bunch of other advantages.

http://osx.iusethis.com/app/papers

This may just be the answer I've been after for receipts though...

Sort and store / tag your PDF's as well as putting a button on Safari alowing you to take full web page shots and then storing them to your pdf library ! simple to use .
I Love this 1 big time

I've tried iGTD but found it fussy and time consuming, not to mention pretty ugly. Have since been using Things, which I'd highly recommend.

Website down. Nothing about the whereabouts of the app nor the developer.

@ captainbunny:
The download link from MacUpdate is still working.
Try from this page:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24288/igtd

Developer's new URL:
http://www.igtd.pl/iGTD/

It does not work for me. The iGTD.sql error comes up and nothing works. Contexts cannot even be created. I am using Leopard.

非常好用的軟體
這有人寫了中文的介紹
https://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=177&t=654969

I'm really enjoying using Things, which means I DO use Things, which means it's actually of help to me in getting things done. As others have already said, once it gets Apple app integration and the ability to export/sync the info it will be a truly killer app.

It's attractive. But more than that I like its simplicity and flexibility; the neat way it handles the Someday and Postponed aspects of my life. Just a joy to use.

For perspective: I have tried Actiontastic and iGTD. Actiontastic was just a bit too austere and rigid; iGTD is fussy and requires too much "fooling around" with tasks, thereby defeating the purpose. I wanted a simple, elegant tool that would allow for quick capture, speedy processing, and no-brainer retrieval. Things is all that. Bravo! I'll be happy to pay for this app when the time comes.

I think tagging is the key difference and usability enhancement. it allows you to impose your own cross-task structure -- priorities, categories, statuses, etc. whatever the designers didn't think of or want to clutter the UI with.

After reading GTD (what a relief!), I found it ironic that most GTD apps were not simple to use and actually complicated processing tasks. Things follows two philosophies: GTD simplicity and Macintosh elegance.

Things succeeds where I believe OmniFocus failed. This is an easy to use application. Within ten minutes I had inputed over a dozen projects and next actions.

Kudos to Cultured Code!