The Infinite Kind Blog

As of today you can have an infinite drawing canvas in your pocket! This major update highlights the core idea behind SyncSpace by helping you share visual ideas with anyone, anywhere. And as always with SyncSpace, others can contribute their sketches and ideas to your canvas in real-time.

SyncSpace is now a universal app, which means it works on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. It also means that if you’ve already purchased SyncSpace for iPad, you can download the same app to run on all of your other iOS (5 or higher) devices without any extra charge.

SyncSpace on the iPhone has all the features from the iPad, including external display (AppleTV/AirPlay, VGA and HDMI) support (great for teaching & presentations), an unlimited number of collaborators, freehand drawing, embedded text and images. It’s the best place to keep your idea sketches, but now it can stay with you wherever you go.

To get the update, open it in the App Store. You can also get a free trial.

Here’s a complete list of the improvements in this update:

We’re excited to announce that the second update to Moneydance 2012 is now available! The update is available on the Mac App Store as well as directly from our site.

This is a free update to everyone who has a license for Moneydance 2011 or 2012.

Here’s a quick look at some of the improvements in this update:

• Ability to keep files in any folder, including under Dropbox (not available in Mac App Store version)
• Improved launch screen with options to import directly from Quicken Essentials, start with a QIF file, open an existing file, or to start a fresh new set of accounts
• Record check number for submitted online payments from banks that provide it
• Ability to import multiple QIF files in one step
• Improved performance of file saving and prevent rare situations in which it could freeze the app
• Suppress display of duplicate memo fields on the "other side" of transactions
• Minor improvements and bug fixes
• Improved performance and behaviour of Archive function
• If only one Moneydance window is open then the command-W (ctrl-W on windows/linux) shortcut will not close it.
• Restored file/document icon in the window title bar on macs
• Fixed bug in which the number of days to sync to dropbox was not being remembered

As always, an easy way to keep up with Moneydance’s updates, are to follow @moneydance on Twitter or to like us on Facebook.

SyncSpace has always been a wonderful space for sketching and sharing ideas. You could use it for real-time collaborative sketching or to send your visual ideas to Twitter, Facebook, Campfire, and Email. Today, we’ve released an update that adds many important features.

Now that the mad dash involved with releasing Moneydance 2012 is subsiding, I’d like to explain some of the most significant changes that we’ve made.

If you’ve been using Moneydance for a while and have an advanced workflow then you’ll have noticed that it now manages your files in a very different way. Rather than maintain data files in various locations across your computer such as Documents/Finances/MyFinances.md, your files are now kept within a special folder that Moneydance manages. This has significant benefits, but it does come at a cost for people who prefer to manually manage their files. This post will explain the benefits and costs as well as how “power users” can migrate their workflow to the new system.

We’re delighted to announce an update to Moneydance as well as a new way to get it if you’re on a Mac: the Mac App Store!

Some more great news is that this update is completely free if you already own Moneydance 2011! This free update only applies if you download directly from our site.

Here’s a quick look at some of the improvements in this update:

• Runs in a protective sandbox on Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion
• Internalized data storage to allow for upcoming improvements
• Built in Dropbox syncing with the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch app
• Increased level of data file encryption
• Improvements to lots of minor UI issues such as window sizes, column widths, etc.
• Improvements to behind-the-scenes online banking functions

Moneydance on the App Store includes the latest and greatest Java 7 (no need to download it separately) and it is fully compatible with Gatekeeper, the new feature on Mountain Lion that helps you protect from malware and misbehaving apps.

It’s been a great technical challenge to bring a multi-platform Java application like Moneydance to the App Store. In the process, we fixed several bugs in the OpenJDK project and contributed our fixes back to the Open Source community. We’ll post a more detailed review about this process later.

We’re delighted to finally announce the release of version 1.5 of the Moneydance app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch!

The biggest change in this update is the addition of syncing over Dropbox. With Dropbox syncing you can record transactions anytime, anywhere and those transactions are synced whenever you are connected to any network whether it’s 3G, Edge or Wifi. The next time the desktop Moneydance is running, it will apply all of the changes made by any mobile apps.

This update makes it convenient for every iOS device in your household to have a copy of Moneydance with up-to-the-minute syncing.

Your finances are some of the most private information in your online life. Although Dropbox encrypts your data on the server, this wasn’t good enough for us. All Moneydance data that is synced over Dropbox is additionally encrypted using a 128 bit AES key that you specify on your desktop and on each device. This ensures that your data is completely safe, even if the bad guys get access to your Dropbox account.

For help setting up Dropbox syncing with Moneydance you can check out this knowledge base article.

If you have any other questions, visit moneydance.com/help and we’ll get you going!

For our Android-using friends please note that we’re working on an Android version but can not yet provide an estimate for its release date. In the meantime, we wholeheartedly recommend HandyBank for Android, which has gotten great reviews and already has Dropbox syncing (and budgeting!) so it is ahead of our own iOS app.