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Dumbest ReceiptWallet comment
Over on VersionTracker, someone posted a comment about ReceiptWallet saying that Quicken for Windows allows users to scan in receipts and attach them to the register. This is great, except that it is Windows! Most Mac users don't want to use Windows and that's why they use a Mac. Will this feature ever come to Quicken for the Mac? At this point I think it is highly unlikely. Quicken is a very old code base and needs to be made a universal binary to move forward; it is going to take a lot of work to do this and if Intuit was smart, they wouldn't touch scanning on the Mac due to the poor TWAIN drivers that companies like HP and EPSON put out.
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Another run in with AOL
I had another run in with AOL today. I got bounced mail from a customer with the following error messages in it:
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Disappointment with Leopard Delay
Like many people, I'm quite disappointed that Apple has delayed the release of Leopard until October. Many of the features that Apple is touting look really cool, and I want to use them! While major OS updates take time to get them right and we all want to see a stable release, it would seem that a company as large as Apple could get the resources to do such an upgrade in the time they promised. Apple's "excuse" is that they're working on the iPhone and resources have been shifted to it over Leopard.
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Unusable iTunes User Interface
I'm not sure what Apple has been thinking in its recent updates to iTunes in terms of user interface. The changes have taken the product many, many steps back in terms of usability. Just the other day I installed a new DVD drive in my dad's iMac and when we were testing it, I went into iTunes to burn a full DVD to see what happened. I created a new playlist with 3.75 GB of music, changed the iTunes preferences to burn a data CD/DVD and clicked burn. A few minutes later, I tested the DVD in my machine and found that it only had 551 of the 1054 items in the playlist. My dad mentioned I needed to check all the items in the playlist to burn them; I did this and got the full DVD. No where in the interface does it say that only the checked items will get burned; the burn button tooltip says something like "Burn Playlist to CD/DVD"; it doesn't say "Burn only the checked items in the selected playlist". That was my first problem.