Comments on: TinyBooks 6 released; family and small business accounting software for Mac

By: PSW

PSW — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:01 +0000

Did you find something junky, Gregg Thurman? After selling nothing but junk, (refurbished telephone equipment) for years, you probably know junk better than most.

By: Chriswan

Chriswan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:10:30 +0000

Uglier than ugly itself

@Q: I agree on the need to present one's product in a presentable way

By: Small Biz User

Small Biz User — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:18:01 +0000

Ken Dude,

I am using Quickbooks Online. I have to run Windows though and I hate it.

Why don't you do a Web version of your app? Meanwhile you can clean up the website.

By: Q

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:56:38 +0000

To show what we're dealing with here, here's a snippet from the FAQs:

Q: How do you spell Bookkeeping?
A: The correct spelling of the word Bookkeeping is as one word, not two separate words Book Keeping. Bookkeeping is an interesting word because it has 3 pairs of doubled characters in a row… blah blah blah.

No, really? That's fascinating.

btw 'Hg Wells':
"He's not selling websites."
The website is the storefront.

His particular storefront has his product sitting on cardboard boxes with prices and info written on on pieces of paper with pencil.
Ken may well have been 'doing Mac stuff for years', but as has already been pointed out, he is stuck in 1995.
Why would I buy software from a guy how can't even be bothered to offer his product in a presentable way??

By: Hg Wells

Hg Wells — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:14:46 +0000

Ken has been doing Mac stuff for years. He’s not selling websites. The web site accomplishes communicating about what he’s got. Do you look at the brand of everyone’s jeans before you decide to talk to them to be sure their jeans look nice enough for you?

By: Muff 314

Muff 314 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:53:26 +0000

MDN, is this a joke????!!!!

My first ever website (done 12 years ago when I was 14) had a more professional feel than that unusually ugly piece of c**p.

They actualy sel stuff on that website???!!

Wow, wonders never cease...

One thing for sure, going into that site is indeed going through a time machine: Welcome to the new world of frames, animated gif's and the newly introduced Carbon (only on the new Mac OS 9, to be released this coming fall)

By: Foom

Foom — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:16:19 +0000

I'm sorry, I take it all back. Ken's a nice guy and hell, it's a kick to see this stuff still around.

MDN keyword: "mean" as in "I was too mean to Ken".

By: Moof

Moof — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:58:07 +0000

Dogcow called, he/she want it's platinum interface back if you're done with it.

What. The. Frig?

Are you serious? Really?

I honestly thought I had stumbled onto an Archive.org page from 1992.

Hey, does this come in an OpenDoc module? I'd sure love to use it with CyberDog.

I loves me a good frameset.

Hey is HyperCard on the iPhone yet?

Lipstick, meet pig.

Ummmm....ok I'm all out.

Oh wait....

Where's teh Closed Apple key nowadays?

By: mg

mg — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:11:16 +0000

Walk on by… nothing to see here.

By: Evil Twin

Evil Twin — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:09:25 +0000

Holy Crap! I just hit a time warp when I went to that site. Safari turned into CyberDog!!

By: Joe the Moderate

Joe the Moderate — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:50:01 +0000

I agree with iDon’t, but it needs to be MIDI only.

By: iDon't

iDon't — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:25:32 +0000

They need disco music.

By: Quad Core

Quad Core — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:23:13 +0000

But their website uses frames – Wicked Awesome

By: Quad Core

Quad Core — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:22:24 +0000

"I'm actually in the market for a product of this type, but they couldn't even coax me past the front door of this "store."

Try Billings, it is pretty darn nice

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:42:17 +0000

One look at the web site (straight out of the early 90's and probably made with Netscape Communicator or something), and I closed the window.

I wonder how many folks around the world have hit a link for this product and then been instantly turned off by this horrendous web site?

It certainly makes you wonder what the developers of the program know about business (nothing?). One of the first rules of retail is that your store should not send people screaming for the exits covering their eyes. I'm actually in the market for a product of this type, but they couldn't even coax me past the front door of this "store."

Talk about throwing away customers and sales!!!!

By: Gregg Thurman

Gregg Thurman — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:40:49 +0000

I downloaded the Demo. As a free product it is junk. For $49 it is worse than junk.

By: Cubert

Cubert — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:34:01 +0000

My God! That website looks like it is from 1995! The app GUI looks cluttered and they use some non-standard drop-down lists, but it certainly isn't the worst I've seen.

BUT, their icon for it looks like a Windoze 95 leftover.

By: rgbtweaker

rgbtweaker — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:30:03 +0000

NOT FOR OS X! OS 9 only! (remember that from ten years ago?) Only OS X able to run it is the old OS 9 “Classic” mode on older Macs.

By: Radius

Radius — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:57:25 +0000

Someone has taken their first HTML class!

By: 84 Mac Guy

84 Mac Guy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:57:01 +0000

I hope it works, because as Jimithy says, it is butt ugly.

By: Jimithy

Jimithy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:49:16 +0000

I think that their web site.. and the app itself… were slapped pretty hard with the hand of ugly.