Reviews

Below you’ll find an archive of articles I’ve written that involve reviews of products and/or services that I’ve used. Note that regardless of whether or not the review uses affiliate links, I am 100% honest and providing my true opinion of the product.

April Fools! Your blog backup is incomplete.

April 1, 2011

My first VaultPress backup was completed at 7:03pm, Fri, February 25. I felt safe. I had been playing with various WordPress backup solutions, including AWB, BackupBuddy (I purchased it), but wasn’t happy with any of them. AWB only ran when I manually ran it, or else I had to build a cron-job on my Unix [...]

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Goodbye Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac, Hello iBank 4

February 19, 2011

I was wrong. That’s not something anyone likes to admit, but when I’m wrong, I’m wrong, I’ll admit it. Some quick background for any readers who are experiencing my personal saga with Macintosh Finance software for the first time. Back in February of 2010, I was terribly frustrated with the direction that Intuit was taking [...]

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Battle of the Clouds – Rackspace Cloud vs. Amazon EC2

August 1, 2010

You can’t pick up a technical magazine, hang out on Twitter, or read an article on a technology blog without hearing the phrase: Cloud Computing. What is cloud computing? Wikipedia defines it as “Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand“.

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Quicken Essentials for Mac – The Bare Minimum

February 25, 2010

As I mentioned in my last article, iBank – Your Quicken Alternative, I’ve entered my last transaction into Quicken 2007 for Mac. I haven’t deleted it off of my system yet, but I will shortly. This is my review of Quicken Essentials for Mac (QEM as as my fellow bloggers seem to have dubbed it, [...]

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iBank – Your Quicken Alternative

February 21, 2010

I’ve entered my last transaction into Quicken 2007 for Mac. I’m tired of the interface, it’s the last PowerPC application I have on my Macintosh (I want to uninstall Rosetta), and it’s clear to me that while no alternative solution is perfect, I have to move forward. The two leading candidates for me to move [...]

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Intuit Responds – Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac

February 12, 2010

After posting my blog article, and at the direction of several of my readers, I sent an email to my contacts at Intuit pointing out my blog and asking them for feedback. My post eventually found it’s way to Martha Shaughnessy at Intuit’s PR agency for Quicken. She reached out to me asking if I [...]

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Quicken Essentials 2010 for Mac. Why bother?

January 31, 2010

I’m upset with Intuit and I’m not sure what to do about it. First and foremost, let me get this out of the way. I love Quicken on the Macintosh. I’ve used Quicken since at least 1995 (those are the oldest entries in my register in Quicken today, but I think I’ve used it longer [...]

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