MotionBased has gone down hill

When I got my Garmin Forerunner 305 last year, I signed up for MotionBased and was generally pleased with it. I pay for a yearly subscription (which isn't cheap), so I expect more than just a crappy website. Unfortunately their site has almost become unusable as it is so slow. The other day it took 5 hours or so to upload some runs to it. Today I wanted to upload my marathon and it's just sitting there waiting to process. They need to start adding horsepower to the website and give paying customers priority over free customers. That's just smart business sense. Can I recommend MotionBased to others? At this point, no. Hopefully the service gets better as I have about another 2 years left on my subscription.

ReceiptWallet on Sale!

For one day only, MacUpdate Promo will be selling ReceiptWallet at a discount. Visit MacUpdate Promo at: http://www.macupdate.com/promo/index.php?buy=OoOlQDvPDeq2 on Thursday, May 31, 2007 for the special promotion. MacUpdate Promo has a special deal everyday on some great software; while I'm not encouraging people to wait to make a purchase to get the discount, if you're looking for some new software at great prices, check out MacUpdate Promo.

Note: if you miss this special on ReceiptWallet, I don't know if or when it will run again and I can't give discounts if you miss it.

New family addition

It's been awhile since I blogged last and there is good reason for that! On May 3, we welcomed our newest addition to our family, Aiden Pierce Gruby. He has been keeping us busy and I'm sure he'll do so for the next 18 years!

Dumbest ReceiptWallet comment

Over on VersionTracker, someone posted a comment about ReceiptWallet saying that Quicken for Windows allows users to scan in receipts and attach them to the register. This is great, except that it is Windows! Most Mac users don't want to use Windows and that's why they use a Mac. Will this feature ever come to Quicken for the Mac? At this point I think it is highly unlikely. Quicken is a very old code base and needs to be made a universal binary to move forward; it is going to take a lot of work to do this and if Intuit was smart, they wouldn't touch scanning on the Mac due to the poor TWAIN drivers that companies like HP and EPSON put out.