Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the release of a new version of the Macintosh accounting and bookkeeping program called TinyBooks.
TinyBooks is a simple, flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping and accounting system for the Macintosh. TinyBooks is designed for Sole Proprietors, home and other small businesses, and family finances.
TinyBooks is a simple way to handle the books for most small companies. You enter your expenses and income, and TinyBooks does the rest. Current and year-to-date “on-the-fly” totals are continually displayed. Fully automatic bar-charting of all expense and income accounts make the determination of monthly trends intuitively obvious.
A fully non-modal Reports and Transaction Search Window offers easy standard and custom reporting and searching. All transactions are easily exportable to other programs as standard tab-delimited text files.
Expense, income and special mileage entry forms can be printed for “off line” entry of data as desired. Non-fiscal years are effortlessly supported, as is the concept of recurring expenses.
TinyBooks includes a Professional Invoice Printer, that is as easy to use as the rest of the program. It prints professional-looking invoices, estimates, proposals, statements (and more) on plain white paper. No special, expensive forms are required. These forms can also be customized with your own logo, fonts, etc.
TinyBooks also includes intuitive support for handling virtually any kind of taxes from any country, including State Sales Taxes, GST (Goods and Service Taxes), PST (Provincial Sales Taxes), VAT (Value Added Taxes) and more.
TinyBooks, based on years of experience “doing the books”, is written exclusively for the Macintosh (OS9 and OSX) and is available now.
For more information, to download a Free Trial, or securely register the program, visit the TinyBooks web page here.
I think that their web site.. and the app itself… were slapped pretty hard with the hand of ugly.
I hope it works, because as Jimithy says, it is butt ugly.
Someone has taken their first HTML class!
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.
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.
I downloaded the Demo. As a free product it is junk. For $49 it is worse than junk.
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!!!!
“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
But their website uses frames – Wicked Awesome
They need disco music.
I agree with iDon’t, but it needs to be MIDI only.
Holy Crap! I just hit a time warp when I went to that site. Safari turned into CyberDog!!
Walk on by… nothing to see here.
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?
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”.
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)
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?
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??
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.
Uglier than ugly itself
@Q: I agree on the need to present one’s product in a presentable way
Did you find something junky, Gregg Thurman? After selling nothing but junk, (refurbished telephone equipment) for years, you probably know junk better than most.