Financial App Runs on Leopard, iPhone
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IGG Software's iBank 3 update supports transactions via iPhone as well as the newest Mac OS.
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While Apple expects its new OS, Leopard, to bring in $140 million between its launch on Friday and the end of the year, analysts think sales will be even stronger.
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osFinancials is the free accounting package of the future, easy to install, impressive database capabilities with Firebird as a database. Stock control and point of sales integrated with good support and plugins. Integration with osCommerce and VTigerCRM   Yesterday the development team released osFinancials Stable 2.0.1 Bug fix release. This is the first bug fix release for the 2.0 serie started on 25th September.  This release only contains bugfixes to the stable version. No new functionality is added.  The following issues are solved:     1. Error by saving a new created set of books via the Wizard.    2. When create a ledger account WReporting1id error.    3. Add new subaccounts in Edit accounts.    4. Revers debit/credit with tax did not update the tax amount.    5. Detail view of a group in the ledger viewer did not show all accounts details in that group.   Plugins section:     1. Bankimport for "postbank 2" was not handeling debits and credits.
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Companies hustling Leopard compatibility updates out the door include Chronos, CS Odessa, Bitcartel Software and DssW.
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Maui-X-Stream has developed a low-cost emulator that they claim allows Apple's Mac OS X to run on x86 processors. The company announced the software, dubbed CherryOS, earlier this week and proclaimed it to be a breakthrough for home users, software developers and Web designers who operate Windows based PCs.
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You get an email confirming your registration for a Final Cut Studio seminar. Next step: adding the event to your iCal schedule. Since youâre using Mac OS X Leopard, you donât even have to leave Mail or open iCal. Thatâs because Leopard introduces a new technology called Data Detectors that lets your Mac recognize dates, email addresses, physical addresses, and other similar data. In this case, Mail can take advantage of Data Detectors to create a new iCal event for you. Find out how by reading the Pro Tip of the Week.
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When it begins shipping on June 29, the revolutionary iPhone will run applications created with Web 2.0 Internet standards Apple today announced that developers can create Web 2.0 applications that look and behave just like the applications built into iPhone and that can seamlessly access iPhoneâs services. That includes making a phone call, sending an email and displaying a location in Google Maps. Third-party applications created using Web 2.0 standards can extend iPhoneâs capabilities without compromising its reliability or security.
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(InfoWorld) - If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, then Mohammed will come to the mountain, goes the saying. Now, the high-tech version of that saying might read: If the iPhone won't come to the enterprise, then enterprise will come to the iPhone. The announcement this week that NetSuite, a Web-based-only service provider for ERP and CRM to the midmarket, runs on the iPhone without any major tweaking almost as well it runs on a desktop has a lot of people rethinking the capability of the iPhone as a business tool. To make matters even more interesting, NetSuite didn't spend one day in Cupertino to figure out how SuitePhone, as it's now called, would run on Apple's new device, though the two companies worked together in the past to ensure that NetSuite's SaaS (software as a service) solution ran well on Apple's Safari desktop browser. "For the iPhone, we didn't have to do additional development work," says Malin Huffman, senior product manager at NetSuite. Whatever improvements were made to NetSuite 07 in order to work with the latest version of Safari for the desktop "carries over to Safari on the iPhone." While most mobile solutions are limited in what they can accomplish -- dialing directly from a contact manager is typical -- Huffman claims NetSuite customers already use the iPhone and the SuitePhone solution in the field to look up customer history, process credit cards, and even do payroll. So is this a unique circumstance due in large part to the way NetSuite was built originally? After all, it does not use Flash or need Java to run, making porting to the iPhone, which lacks support for both, that much easier. Huffman says no, the NetSuite build is not that unique for a SaaS application, but it may be too early to tell. While the iPhone famously does not support Flash or Java, it does support JavaScript and all the Web standards that AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is built on. Plus, it supports PDFs and Microsoft Word documents. "The AJAX technology allows [NetSuite] to work faster over the slower network than it would otherwise," notes Huffman. Also, because AJAX allows users to drag and drop from selected environments without having to refresh the entire contents of a page, the SuitePhone version makes for a more seamless experience.Â  Of course, there are a number of limitations, as InfoWorld pointed out in its review by Tom Yager. Yager notes that the device will not upload or download files. However, in a SaaS solution like NetSuite, this limitation may not be a deal breaker for purchasing the device. The strong suit of any SaaS solution is in accessing data directly from the server. Focusing on real-time instant access rather than offline access, says Huffman, is what its users care about the most.Â  But Yager also says, "Safari does not allow a Web page to sense finger motion using standard events, so drag, slide, and drag/drop operations require special effort." True, says Huffman. "You wouldn't want to do a lot of configuration of NetSuite on the iPhone. You would do the configuration on the desktop."Â  Safari also lacks the "ability to adjust a Web page's text size," notes Yager. It is a valid criticism, says Huffman, but it doesn't affect NetSuite because users can pinch or drill down. So have too many industry reviews underestimated the iPhone's usefulness in the enterprise? While the iPhone is not perfect, there is no denying that NetSuite ports to this handheld device easily. The apparent ease with which it does that comes from a very obvious but often overlooked fact: Apple has duplicated the Safari browser almost exactly as it exists on the desktop. If you can re-create a browser for a handheld that is almost identical to the desktop version, everything that can be done on the Web on the desktop can, in theory, be carried out on the handheld browser, too. Where Apple has gone the extra mile is in creating a user interface that makes up for many of the small-screen limitations: for example, the so-called two-finger pinch that allows a user to drill down and expand what they are looking at. Huffman adds that users also can customize their views to suit the small screen by setting up dashboards in a one-column format or creating forms that are better suited to the iPhone. There is nothing really new here other than a better-thought-out, user-friendly interface. But Apple took the obvious -- what others have tried -- and put all the pieces together in a single package. Some believe it is so unique that the device may become, in essence, a wake-up call to the entire high-tech industry, especially handset manufacturer designers and software developers.Â  And what that wake-up call from Apple and NetSuite says is that if you build it right, they, the enterprise, will come to the mountain, er, the handset manufacturer.
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After putting Leopard through its paces, Dean Takahashi (San Jose Mercury News) finds it is aptly namedââItâs fast and sleekââand concludes that the latest version of Mac OS X âgives Apple [an] advantage over Microsoft.â It offers âmore than 300 new features, making it the biggest upgrade in a long time,â and âa lot of the features allow you to do things more quickly and more easily.â That includes iChat, which, he says, âgot a good makeover. Besides doing video chats with the built-in Webcams on Macs, you can now use them to share any kind of file with the person youâre chatting with. You can also take over that friendâs desktop in case youâre diagnosing the machine from afar.â
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Now you can browse the files on your Mac as easilyâand enjoyablyâas you breeze through album covers in iTunes or flip through photos on your iPhone or iPod touch. Just choose Cover Flow (a new viewing option in Mac OS X Leopard) instead of Icon, List, or Column view in your Finder window. Learn how you can âGo with the Flowââand pick up some handy keyboard Cover Flow shortcutsâby reading our latest Pro Tip of the Week.
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According to David Needle , customers of NetSuiteâs âon-demand, integrated business management applicationsâ are already using iPhone to take advantage of its web-based services. It was âApple putting Safari on the iPhone [that] made it a simple processâ for the company to extend service to iPhone customers, says Sean Rollings, NetSuiteâs senior director of product marketing. Using the built-in Safari browser, says Rollings, â âsalespeople will be able to get a lot of their work done on an iPhone. You have the ability to check inventory for the availability of a product and get an answer in real time.ââ
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Should you plunk down your credit card for the next version of Mac OS X? Here's what you need to know before you do.
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(InfoWorld) - NetSuite's users can start accessing the company's hosted midmarket applications suite via their iPhones as businesses start to investigate the possibilities of using theÂ much hyped Apple mobile deviceÂ at work. NetSuite 2007.0, the latest version of the company's software-as-a-service online suite, includes native support for the most recent release of Apple's Safari Web browser, functionality that NetSuite has dubbed SuitePhone, the vendor said Thursday. The iPhone, which debuted in the U.S. on June 29, uses Safari as its Web browser. Unveiled last month, NetSuite 2007.0 is being rolled out to the vendor's existing customer base and will be available to new users in August. SuitePhone allows users to log into their NetSuite accounts on their iPhones and access the vendor's hosted ERP (enterprise resource planning), CRM (customer relationship management) and electronic-commerce functionality. Circle of Friends is giving NetSuite a try over iPhone. The 13-person company based in Santa Monica, California, specializes in personal care products for children such as shampoo, bubble bath and sunscreen. "We're definitely a mixed-use shop," said Brian Keare, the company's chief operating officer. "We have half Macs and half PCs. Personally, I use both." Keare purchased an iPhone for his own use at home, he said. After a trouble-free experience buying and activating the device, he started thinking about whether he could use it for work as well. Circle of Friends has previously tried unsuccessfully to access the basic online version of NetSuite from Treo and BlackBerry devices, Keare said.Â In May, NetSuite announcedÂ it would rely on partners to extend its suite to BlackBerries, Windows Mobile devices and Treos. Keare did look into the third-party middleware that makes such access possible, but he found it too expensive and limited in its scope. He's been very impressed with the NetSuite functionality he's able to access for free on his iPhone without having to download any additional software, he said. Keare has already entered and approved sales orders, made deposits and checked inventory from his iPhone. "I won't be replacing my desktop computer, but on the road or on vacation, I'll pull out my iPhone before I pull out my laptop," Keare said. The firm has been using NetSuite for the past two and a half years and likes the all-in-one integrated suite, which gives its employees in the U.S. and a small team in India access to the same information, Keare said. Circle of Friends had previously struggled with back-office applications from PeopleSoft that proved too complicated for its needs and, before that, QuickBooks Enterprise accountancy software from Intuit Inc., which was too limited in its functionality. NetSuite began offering native support for Apple's Safari back in 2004 and has been working closely with the vendor ever since to ensure its suite continues to support the Web browser, according to Sean Rollings, senior director of product marketing at NetSuite. The vendor positions Apple as one of its strategic partners. Coincidentally, as Apple was ramping up to release the iPhone, NetSuite was working on its support for the latest version of Safari. As the consumer buzz about the iPhone settles down, Rollings expects to hear a lot more talk from both vendors and users about the business possibilities for the device. Currently, NetSuite hasn't provided much in the way of tweaking its software for the iPhone, bar the ability for users to configure their dashboards, said Malin Huffman, senior product manager at the company. Initial customer feedback suggests more tailoring isn't required, he added. Â
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Apple has pulled the beta of Boot Camp, the application that lets Mac users run Windows XP or Vista on their Intel-powered machines, from its servers in preparation for Friday's launch of Leopard.Although a Boot Camp 1.4 beta page remains live, clicking on the download link brings up an error message that reads: "The page you tried was not found." A graphic of the Mac OS X 10.5 packaging appears in the background.Earlier this month, Apple reminded users that the license to Boot Camp would expire when Leopard shipped. The application's beta has been available free of charge for Mac owners running Mac OS X 10.4, commonly known as Tiger.While licenses will expire when Leopard launches, Apple has confirmed that Windows partitions created with Boot Camp will continue to work. However, the Boot Camp Assistant, software that sets up and manages Windows partitions, will not. Apple also has said that it will stop delivering driver updates to beta users.Most analysts believe that Apple will not sell a separate Tiger-only version of Boot Camp but will instead use the dual-boot software to entice users to upgrade. Leopard, which is priced at $129 for a single-user license and $199 for a five-license family pack, goes on sale Friday.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate
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Hollywood love inspires DTrace bomb It was all hookers and balloons at Sun Microsystems when the company first found out that Apple would pick up its well-regarded DTrace analysis tool for use with Mac OS X. Now, however, one of the lead DTrace developers has expressed some regrets after Apple "broke" his software in an apparent bid to protect big media and ISVs.â¦
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Intuit tweaks personal finance tool's usability, but update isn't essential if you're running a recent version.
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What's the best way to beat the  commitment involved in iPhone ownership? Bad credit.