[Discussion] [MAC]

[D Burch]

Doug,

I should have noted that I am in Canada. I haven't found any tax 
products with solid reviews yet.


Don

doug.leach1 at comcast.net wrote:
>
> ----- "D Burch" <theunk at telus.net> wrote:
> > The MAC thread has been quiet.
> >
> > Ernie have you found this to be so because everything works? Have you
> > chosen an emualtor? I picked VMWare Fusion out of ignorance - it was
> > there on the shelf and I was primarily fociused on getting my taxes
> > filed, having already purchased the windows program. Actually there are
> > not any Mac programs available so next year I will likely do it all 
> online.
>
> I beg to differ.  Tax Cut comes with a Mac version on the CD, which 
> works great.  Requires OSX version 10.4 or greater.  I'm pretty sure 
> Turbo Tax includes a Mac version as well.
>
>
> > If you want to run an older Warp desktop, you have to buy Parallels.
> >
> > I installed Firefox and Thunderbird for browsing and email. They work
> > well. But if you are in an Apple app like iPhoto and select email, tthe
> > link goes to Mail even though Thunderbird is acknowledged as the
> > default. Better to add objects to messages from within Thunderbird.
> >
> > I was trying to look at a traffic webcam and Firefox would not talk to
> > the Flip4Mac plugin. I brought it in through Safari and was able to
> > watch the traffic sliding about. The next time I launched Firefox, the
> > plugin was there and active.
> >
> > NeoOffice as noted before is pretty good and so far handles every MS
> > file I have thrown at it.
>
> Open Office 3.0 had a problem with Excel spreadsheets created with 
> Office 2003.  Crashed upon trying to open.  This is fixed in 3.01.  I 
> don't recall if this existed with OO 2.x.  Haven't tried Neo Office in 
> at least a year.
>
> Doug Leach
>
> >
> > Don Burch
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