Scott Gruby’s Blog

Every year we have to fill out the paperwork to get our money back from my wife’s flexible spending plan. I don’t ask much of her in terms of accounting, so this has always been her task. She had to copy all the receipts and assemble them from a big mess of receipts. Well, this [...]

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Today I tried to send a zip file to a client (I’m using Google for Domains so I use their SMTP and IMAP server) and was unable to do so through Mail.app. It got part way through the transfer and said it couldn’t send it. After a bit of trial and error, I discovered the [...]

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While I was working on a ReceiptWallet issue, I needed an older data file, one that was in XML format and created from an older ReceiptWallet version. I have recent backups of all my data, but don’t generally keep an archive of the data as the amount of storage space to keep regular archives is [...]

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We use Gallery2 to store and share photos of our son, dog, family, etc. While many people use free sites like Flickr, paid sites like .Mac and SmugMug, I like to have my own site that I can control and customize. Some of these sites offer prettier albums, comments, etc., I don’t like giving up [...]

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I’m subscribed to Garmin’s blog and saw that they have a “garage” where you can customize the car icon on your GPS unit. While this seems like a gimmick, it shows that Garmin has a little sense of fun and forward thinking in developing their GPS units. In addition, Garmin has new “tours” if you [...]

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Today I reviewed my Bank of America mortgage statement to make sure that my payments were being applied correctly; I pay half of my mortgage twice a month on the premise that I’d cut time off my loan. Well, turns out that Bank of America’s automatic payment program deducts the payments twice a month, but [...]

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I hate to say it, but the Roomba isn’t saving us time. I love the Roomba and Scooba, but the promise of time savings just isn’t there. How can that be you ask? It is quite simple; my wife and I hate vacuuming and the cleaning crew we had wasn’t doing a good job, so [...]

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I’ve had a few users report that they lost all their data when upgrading to the latest ReceiptWallet or DocumentWallet. This really concerns me as I don’t like data loss (who does?). The latest version of both programs switched to using an SQLite database when users were running under Leopard as it is much faster. [...]

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I’ve been thinking about a new rate structure for clients. It would go something like this:

Amount of Notice
Rate

4 months
Standard

2 months
Standard rate + 10%

1 month
Standard rate + 25%

1 week
Standard rate + 50%

1 day
Standard rate + 100%

< 1 day
Standard rate + 200%

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The holy grail of email seems to be push email where you instantly get your new email as it arrives. For years which my NotifyMail program, I basically had this as well on my desktop, but not on mobile devices. With IMAP idle, NotifyMail is obsolete for the desktop, but push email still seems the [...]

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