Simple Home Budget is perfect to manage your personal finances on netbooks. Netbooks are those cute small laptops that cost so little, and often used to do your online banking, pay bills, quickly create documents and now help you manage your finances with Simple Home Budget.
Simple Home Budget uses small netbook screen real estate effectively (typical is 1024×600, and even less), so you really see this small computer working hard for you.
Simple Home Budget detects small height screens and tries to switch to the “Netbook” layout by itself when you run in first time on your netbook. To turn on or off the netbook layout, use View->Netbook menu item in the main menu.
Desktop users are not affected by this change and desktop layout uses available height of the sidebar to show actual, expected and running totals and maximizing the number of transactions seen on the screen without scrolling.
To update Simple Home Budget and benefit from new available netbook layout, start Simple Home Budget and click on Help->Check for updates…
In addition to this, Simple Home Budget is small and fast application. It will start on your netbook or desktop computer in seconds, so again your cute netbook is used to its full potential.
To download Simple Home Budget, proceed to the download page.
Simple Home Budget is now available in Greek. To change a language (or see the full list of languages available), simply select Settings->Language in the main menu.
To update Simple Home Budget to the latest version with Greek translation, select Help->Check for updates… in the main menu.
The latest version is also available from the download page.
The overview tab provides a 12 months chart showing expenses, income, net income for each month and the running total as well.
All charts are shown in the same scale, so if your Running Total is running ‘high’ (congratulations!), income and expenses for each month may not be seen at their best. For this reason any of four graphs can be switched off by provided checkboxes on the toolbar above, so you can see the chart only, for example, for income, expenses and net income.
Multilingual support was introduced in December 2009, and for the current moment Simple Home Budget is available in the following languages:
English (original, no US/GB separation yet)
Spanish (professional translation ordered)
French (France and Canada variants) (user submitted)
Danish (user submitted)
Hungarian (user submitted)
Croatian (user submitted)
Chinese (user submitted)
Russian (translated myself)
Ukrainian (translated myself)
All users who provided their credentials in the translation received free licenses for Simple Home Budget.
If you like Simple Home Budget and your language is missing in the list, complete translation using on of available languages and as your baseline, send to us and you will get Simple Home Budget license free. You may also edit existing translation is you find it unsatisfying (or create your country variant of the same language) – you will still get Simple Home Budget license for free. All you need to do is use Simple Home Budget – all translation tools are there (click on Settings->Language->Add/Edit translation… in the main menu).
It is expected that some user submitted translations would have some issues – we are planning to use professional translation services (like Spanish was done) for the most common languages. From my side, I usually try to verify a translation by feeding it to Google Translate and other online services to see that translation at least what is suppose to be. Again, your help would be appreciated and free license will be awarded for your efforts.
Overall, I’m very existed about Simple Home Budget being available in other languages. I expect some other issues to be found like specific monetary formats or languages with other writing direction, but I’m willing to take this challenge and I’m sure there is will a positive result from it.
Every month I receive one or two requests from customers asking where their transactions are. While it is always to receive any feedback from Simple Home Budget users, receiving the same request is alarming and requires additional attention – actually after receiving any request, I try first analyze how the user got into this situation in the first place and what I can do about it.
It was interesting to find that new users are asking about disappeared transactions at the beginning of the month, when they actually initially enter transactions for the previous month, close Simple Home Budget, then open it again next day and see no transactions. The reason was that Simple Home Budget selects the current month at the start, and there is no transactions yet entered.
The fix was simple and added: Simple Home Budget now tries to find the latest date for transaction and select that month as the current month. You can switch back to the current month by using the arrow buttons on the calendar or clicking on “Today” link on the calendar.
Then my spouse complained that she has to reach for the mouse to open calculator in the amount field. Although, it was possible to do it by pressing Alt+Down, that was really not helpful – she asked for ‘=’ key she often used in the spreadsheet programs at work. No problem, Simple Home Budget will activate calculator in the amount field if you just press ‘=’ (Alt+Down still works too). While working on it, I was like ‘what if you want to add or deduct to existing amount’, so I expanded calculator activation by key ‘+’, ‘-’, ‘/’, and ‘*’. Even these keys are actually already ‘pressed’ on the calculator. She liked it a lot – while standing on the amount field, just press ‘+’ to add to existing amount – calculator will be activated and already ready for a number to be entered.
Finally, we were looking back at our finances in 2009 (we use Simple Home Budget to manage all our finances), we found some transactions with incorrect amount. By correcting, Simple Home Budget jumped to the month of transaction. What? – she said. What happened is that Simple Home Budget changes the month for just added or edited transactions, so you can actually see in the Transactions tab. But it is not useful when you are reviewing transactions through the Categories tab for last 12 months. The fix was done right away to avoid ‘jumping’ when a transaction is edited through the Categories tab (the Categories has the button ‘Year’ to show you transactions for the current year, as well as edit or delete them.
You can download Simple Home Budget from the download page.
Simple Home Budget 1.9.0 was released yesterday with multilingual support. There are only few translations for the current moment, but we are planning to add new languages very soon!
You can help us because Simple Home Budget has all required translation tools on board. Once you finished the translation, you can send to us right from the program (please complete the first two lines with name and email) and receive free license back!
Accessing the translation form from the main menu
You can base your translation on any existing language, or edit existing language if you already saved it before (or even edit existing translations supplied with Simple Home Budget).
Some basic rules to follow:
please keep %s and %d symbols in the context. We tried to limit them, yet they used several times.
please fill your name and email into the first two lines (Translator’s name and email), so we can contact you back with free license!
You may save new translation unfinished (but see translated items already in the program) and come back to the rest of your translation later. When saving unfinished translation, do send it to us yet:
Click "yes" for finished translation and "No" for unfinished
To resume editing, open the translation tool and select existing translation:
Simply select just created translation as existing one
That’s it! Once you send us the translation, we will provide you with free license and include your translation into the next release!
Simple Home Budget will be available for sale with 100% rebate through boomerapp.com. Simply visit boomerapp store, purchase Simple Home Budget there, follow the instructions there to get 100% rebate.
This promotion is available only for one week – from November 30, 2009 until December 6, 2009 – don’t miss it! Simple Home Budget will help you save your money, and this promotion will help you save on Simple Home Budget!
Simple Home Budget 1.7.6 was released last week. Installer and actual application file are digitally signed by my personal digital certificate. This way you can be sure that downloaded Simple Home Budget copy is the right one and is not altered in any way, especially if you download it from other than http://www.home-budget-software.com/ sites.
Simple Home Budget was updated on March 15, 2009 and supports the import of CSV files now! Full list of features added in this release:
CSV files are supported
Check numbers are recognized on OFX, QFX, CSV files
Added new categories report for the last 12 months (not year-to-date)
CSV format is a generic format, and Simple Home Budget asks you to confirm which column on a CSV file represent what data for Simple Home Budget. In most cases, Simple Home Budget is able to determine by itself each column content – where is the date column or where is the amount column.
Simple Home Budget 1.7.4 also supports check numbers on imported files (OFX, QFX, and CSV).
Another feature added in this release – the last 12 months categories report:
The report shows totals for the last 12 months, not the current year-to-date numbers.
Finally, several internal improvements and fixes were also included in this release.
Simple Home Budget 1.7.4 is available from the download page.
Tracking your finances could be very beneficial for you during current economic times. Yet the word “budget” is still very boring and requires to give even more energy to this exhaustive winter!
Right on time! Simple Home Budget provides you with simple clean interface to track you expenses fast and easy and be aware of incoming expenses.
Simple Home Budget offers easy way to get your budget… without budgeting! Simply enter enter all recurring expenses (even ones that don’t have exact schedule, use “hold until confirmed” option) with their exact or estimated schedule and get expected expenses (and income, and resulting net income) right away for current or future month. Your recurring transactions could be monthly, weekly, bi-weekly, once every three months. etc. – Simple Home Budget will use these individual schedules to determine expected expenses for specific month.
Although you can enter all your receipts in Simple Home Budget faster than you get your bank statement file, Simple Home Budget can import your bank statements fast too! Even more, Simple Home Budget has a quiet self-learning feature during the import! You choose a category for one transaction once and Simple Home Budget learns it! Next file or transaction will be with chosen category! It is also useful feature to spot “unusual” transactions easily – ones that Simple Home Budget does not know yet, will bring your additional attention!
Simple Home Budget is very simple application from the first sight. And it is! But with small, useful, quiet but powerful helpers you will find in every corner of our program! Download and try for free now (free trial for 30 days)! And don’t forget about the 50% off deal on February 12, 2009 at bitsdujour.com!
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