My name is Brian Jarrett and I'm a computer programmer and 
Recently I was contacted by IGG Software about a post I wrote back in early 2010 detailing my search to replace Quicken with a Mac equivalent. Doug Bowman (formerly of Google and currently at Twitter) commented about my article on his Twitter feed. I guess that generated a little buzz for a couple days. In [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mac switch’
iBank 4
Posted: 8th May 2011 by Brian in FinanceTags: doug bowman, ibank, igg software, mac switch, moneydance, personal finance, quicken
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SEE Finance
Posted: 14th November 2010 by Brian in FinanceTags: mac switch, personal finance, quicken, see finance
SEE Finance 0.9.12.4 As I mentioned in my Moneydance review, this application was recommended via a reader comment. I hadn’t heard about the application when I did my original review, but it was so good I decided I had to include here. Ultimately I chose to stay with Moneydance, but SEE Finance was so good I [...]
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 on the Mac
Posted: 16th May 2010 by Brian in ComputersTags: mac, mac switch, roller coaster tycoon 2
This is really the only PC game I’ve ever really liked. Turns out it runs great in Sun’s VirtualBox running Windows XP. The only caveat is to turn off the mouse integration while playing; that way the right mouse clicks work properly. Great to have this one back again. This is the only thing I [...]
Turning Off Windows
Posted: 9th March 2010 by Brian in ComputersTags: adium, beyond compare, camino, cyberduck, deltawalker, disklabel, faststone image viewer, filezilla, firefox, flip4mac, gimp, google chrome, gvim, h&r block at home, heritage family tree, ilife, imagewell, imovie, iphoto, itunes, iwork, jollysfastvnc, keepass, keepassx, keynote, libreoffice, mac family tree, mac switch, macvim, mediaface, microsoft windows, moneydance, mysql, neooffice, numbers, openoffice, opera, osx, pages, parallels, picasa, pidgin, pinnacle studio, quicken, quicktime, realvnc, safari, silvermel, swf & flv player, taxcut, text wrangler, thunderbird, tightvnc, truecrypt, vine server, virtualbox, vmware fusion, vnc
When I decided to switch to the Mac one of the first things I did was create an application to application comparison matrix in order to ensure I could find an comparable Mac replacement for all my important Windows applications. I found some great articles written by others who’d made the switch and that really [...]
Moneydance 2010
Posted: 8th February 2010 by Brian in FinanceTags: cha-ching, gnucash, ibank, ifinance, intuit, jumsoft money, kmymoney, mac switch, mint.com, moneydance, moneywell, personal finance, quicken, see finance, squirrel, ynab
DeltaWalker
Posted: 23rd January 2010 by Brian in ComputersTags: beyond compare, deltawalker, deltopia, mac, mac switch, scooter software
The Mac Switch Six Months In
Posted: 19th February 2009 by Brian in ComputersTags: apple computer, mac, mac switch
The iMac’s Mouse Acceleration Curve Sucks
Posted: 20th October 2008 by Brian in ComputersTags: acceleration curve, intellimouse, linux, logitech, logitech control center, mac, mac switch, microsoft
Mac Conversion
Posted: 19th August 2008 by Brian in ComputersTags: linux, mac, mac switch, microsoft windows, the missing sync, vista, vmware fusion
I finally pulled the trigger; I’m now a Mac user. About a year ago Traci’s laptop’s video card mysteriously died so we bought her a replacement desktop computer. We were tight on cash so we bought a low-end Dell running Vista. I’ve lamented since then on my frustrations and disappointments with Vista and Traci absolutely [...]
Why A Mac?
Posted: 11th September 2007 by Brian in ComputersTags: linux, mac, mac switch, microsoft windows
So, why a Mac? Well, I’ve done a fair amount of thinking about this decision and have come to a few conclusions. I need to upgrade within the next two years. My current box, although still quite snappy, will continually become slower and slower as software and operating systems (Vista, in particular) become more processor [...]
