SkaSka wrote:A question for the Mac users: I'm looking at iBank to use natively on my iMac for finance tracking, has anyone used it or have any comments on it?įrom what I've read here, Quicken for Mac is out of the question. However - I am interested in finding a program that will run on Linux - and if there's one that's has the breadth of Quicken I might make the jump. I've considered trying one of the Excel download macros using Yahoo Finance or similar - but I can see a couple of hours to set that up and debug it - which is about a year's worth of regular updates. It does cost me less than 10 minutes once a month to manually update stock prices from my "Portfolio" at GlobeInvestor - I can live with that. I've been helped in that decision because, notwithstanding Quicken's visits to the sunset website, I can still import my bank transactions. But I'm not willing to pay for a reportedly inferior program, plus waste my time figuring out what's been changed, and how to use it, just to maintain, effectively, the functionality that I already have with the old version.
I'd be more than happy to pay Quicken an annual fee to keep using the same program, and to maintain the ability to download stock prices.
I've chosen not to upgrade, based on numerous reports of badly-designed/hard-to-use/uncustomizable interface and features. It doesn't have the setting described above. Quicken 99 does phone home when importing banking transactions. I do not use Quicken to download information from the web. Perhaps it's controlled by Edit->Options->Internet Options->Connection tab->Only during One Step Update. My Quicken 2002 makes no attempt to access the web. Bylo Selhi wrote:All versions since 1998 or maybe earlier "phone home" to look for software updates.There must be a setting that turns it off.
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