Jul 29
About Money
Helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily. It has all the features required for personal or small-business accounting needs.

Money 3.0 features new and simplified user interface, smart accounts, powerful reports, bills management, budgets management, banks management, payees management, inventory management, invoice. OFX, QFX and CSV file format support, improved QIF support and support for multiple currencies.

Jul 29
About Merlin
The only native network-based collaborative Project Management solution for Mac OS X. This version offers many features propelling Merlin to the top of Mac OS X professional project management software.

Here are some of the main highlights in Merlin 2:

- Merlin has now a web module which is included in this version of Merlin. The following browsers are supported: Safari 3, Firefox 2.0+ and Internet Explorer 7.0

- Merlin now supports a wide range of special Mac OS X 10.5 features like Quick Look, iChat Theatre and Mail.

- Network-based Collaborative Project Management
Collaborate with others on the same project file over the LAN or WAN with a single mouse click.

- Access Control for Users and User Groups
Resources can be either single Users or grouped into Resource Groups both of which can be assigned to activities and/or given specific access rights.

Dynamic Planning Mode: Activities which haven’t started yet can be automatically moved to the current date. This is great news for devotees of Agile Project Management.

Bi-directional Synchronization with iCal:
Changes in Merlin are reflected in iCal and vice versa. You can also sync specific resources in a separate calendar.

Enhanced Financial and Cost Models: You can now compare planned vs. actual costs with the ability to determine accruals per cost entry.

Jul 29
About JABMenu
A convenient and intuitive way to utilize your Mac OS X Address Book data through a system-wide menu. The application provides quick access to your contacts’ phone numbers, email, IM, postal addresses, URLs, and notes.

Selecting a menu item can trigger an action such as displaying the content in large type, copying it to the clipboard, creating a new email message, dialing the phone, or showing an address on a map using any of several online mapping services.

Jul 29
About Fanurio
A time tracking and billing application designed to help freelancers manage their work and be paid for it. Here is a list with its most important features:

- Organize your work per client using projects

- Idle time detection to help you record all the time

- Mark your work as billable (flat rate, hourly rate) or non-billable

- Create partial invoices anytime during the project

- Create invoices for single or multiple projects

- Customize invoice templates using your own layouts

- Import clients from other applications by means of a CSV file

- Export data to a CSV file and import it in Excel or other applications

- Create backup copies of your data

Fanurio is designed to manage contracted work and billing for freelancers.

Jul 29
About Lexmark Printer Driver 1.1

The Lexmark Printer Driver Update includes the latest drivers for printers you have used on your system.

This update is available via Software Update and will only be visible if the printer is connected to your computer or a print queue has been created for an earlier version.

Jul 28

Products Editor James Gray recently sat down for a virtual gab fest with Håkon Wium Lie Chief Technology Officer of Opera. They discussed Opera 9.5, Opera’s history, why Linux users should choose Opera and much more.

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Jul 28

Jeff Jarvis is working on a book called What Would Google Do? Since Google just did something good for me — and for a market that needs help desperately — I thought I’d share my experience with Jeff and the rest of you.

What Google Did for me was radically improve one of the most annoying experiences in the Webbed world: registering a domain name.

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Jul 28

Every once in awhile we hear of a cool job that we know Linux Journal readers would drool over. This time it’s our friends over at Inventables and they’re hiring for a Lead Developer, Programmer.

Job description (partial):

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Jul 28

OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta 2 is available in preparation for an official September release. Here are some quick first impressions of the Writer word-processor program.

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Jul 28

A couple of weeks ago, I tangentially mentioned the need for contingency plans. Today, I want to look at them a little more closely. My current job is about as far away from Continuity of Operations (COOP) and disaster recovery (DR) as you can get, yet I still deal in the issues of disasters, and preventing them, both professionally and personally.

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