Gets worse with every version

Gets worse with every version

Only new features - credit report and portfolio x-ray - do not work. Don’t waste your money.

Thanks to all for the heads up about Intuit’s bait and switch with the versions of TurboTax.

As a Graphics Designer by trade, I’ve been using Adobe Acrobat on a limited bases for the past fifteen years. I currently have Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, which came with the CS5 Design Premium Suite. Most designers will tell you that a PDF is meant to be the final, portable version of the file. If you need to make changes to it, the proper process is to go back to the original file, make the changes there, and then reproduce the PDF.

The same old good software I use every year to make submitting taxes easier. Cheaper than paying H&R Block, but just as effective for my situation (Married, filing jointly, we both work, have one kid, own a house, a dog … nothing really complicated). This is my first year buying from Amazon (I usually get my copy from Costco, but Amazon was the same price). I have never done a digital download from Amazon before, but it worked pretty easily.

I’m not yet a VMWare power user, but I’ve managed to get plenty of value out of my copy. VMWare has been great for running virtual Linux servers on my MacBook Pro. There are prebuilt virtual appliances for every flavor and version of Linux. If you want something custom, it is extremely easy to build your own Linux VM from scratch. Once the image is up and running, you can ssh from your favorite Mac terminal into the virtualized linux box and get to work.

Numbers is the weakest point of the iWork suite. As far as I can tell, there is no text-to-columns function. I tend to drop down to perl or perl + SQL for heavy math, so other missing functions don’t bother me. The lack of text-to-columns makes importing data from a SQL query or the command line harder than it needs to be. Still, iWork is a great value. I’m glad I bought it, and recommend it to anyone with a mac.

Numbers is the weakest point of the iWork suite. As far as I can tell, there is no text-to-columns function. I tend to drop down to perl or perl + SQL for heavy math, so other missing functions don’t bother me. The lack of text-to-columns makes importing data from a SQL query or the command line harder than it needs to be. Still, iWork is a great value. I’m glad I bought it, and recommend it to anyone with a mac.

Arrived in several days and worked perfectly in my old Windows 2000 notebook. Terrific product. Thanks.