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Cute Netbook Screens Are Welcome!

Sergiy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:58:50 +0000

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.Similar Posts:

Simple Home Budget in Greek

Sergiy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:40:01 +0000

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.Similar Posts:

Multilingual Support

Sergiy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:40:15 +0000

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!Similar Posts:

Digital Signatures

Sergiy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:30:32 +0000

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.

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Import For .CSV Bank Files

Sergiy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:43:43 +0000

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.Similar Posts:

Stay On Budget Without Budgeting

Sergiy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:01:25 +0000

Get Simple Home Budget with 50% discount on bitsdujour.com on February 12, 2009

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!Similar Posts:

How Can I Carry Over The Net Income Left In Previous Month?

Sergiy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:30:38 +0000

The answer is simple: No need to do that.

Net income is the difference between income and expenses for selected month. Running total is the difference between income and expenses for all time before and including selected month. So “carry over” function is in Running Total, not Net Income. By “carrying over” manually Net Income from previous month, you create unreal transaction and alter your real income for next month.Similar Posts:

Comparing To Spreadsheet software

Sergiy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:27:08 +0000

To clean a carrot, you can use usual knife to cut everything else and just scrub it until the carrot is clean. Or you can use a special knife and have every carrot you ever decide to cook perfectly clean easy and fast. The choice is yours.

Simple Home Budget is very simple (but still very useful) and very small application. You may use Excel or Open Office or other spreadsheet program to track your finances. So did we! Our first expense tracker was created in Excel and it lived with us for few months. Until we decided to create small and useful tool Simple Home Budget to the routine excel work from us.

Generic spreadsheet application is designed to help with anything related to numbers, tables, sum calculations, etc. You are the main part of your budget routine.

Do a simple exercise – track how much time per month you spent managing your finances. Multiply this time by your rate per hour. Now multiply this number by 12. This is the cost of your time managing your finances per year. Now try the same with Simple Home Budget and see how much time you spent for one month. Get the difference. Use small fraction of this difference to buy Simple Home Budget, or even get it free, keep the difference.

Simple Home Budget has many simple and useful features designed to help you manage your finances without much distraction:

Automatic monthly view (no need to create new spreadsheet every month)
Recurring transactions that create transactions for your based on different schedules
Expected income and expenses based on different recurring schedules (your budget without budgeting)
Running total
Self-learning (in assigning categories) import from your bank statements

Download and try Simple Home Budget for free for 30 days and decide which way is easier and cost less for you.Similar Posts:

Track Your Expenses To Get Tax Credit

Sergiy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:00:48 +0000

There are many ways to get tax credit if you keep your paperwork right way during the year. Simple Home Budget helps you track your expenses easy and provides with ready paperwork at the and of year.

For example, Canada’s Economic Action Plan provides The Home Renovation Tax Credit up to $1,350 for 2009. More details are on the official page.

Simply create the “Home Renovation” category and enter your Home Depot, Rona, IKEA, or other related expenses there under this category. At the end of 2009, get YTD (Year To Date) amount for this category and get 15% from that amount as your tax credit (actual maximum credit amount is $1,350).

EASY! You can do with Simple Home Budget or Simple Home Budget Lite.

Check other taxation tips and keep track of the expenses eligible for the tax relief (for example, medical expenses). Keep them under separate category to get total amount easily. Don’t forget to keep physical receipts as the proof. By the end of year simply get the amount included in your tax form and receive your tax credit.Similar Posts:

Delete Transactions in Bulk

Sergiy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:18:42 +0000

Simple Home Budget 1.7.0 was released on January 28, 2009 with many internal improvements and bug fixes. This release was planned as bug-fixing release, still it adds some useful features.

A few users requested to delete transactions for certain period of time (let’s say all transactions in 2008). For this reason Simple Home Budget offer the Bulk Delete form available through the main menu (select Tools and then Delete Transactions). The form asks for two dates to determine a date range for transactions that should be deleted. Simple Home Budget provides number of transactions to be deleted during the confirmation request and also offers optional backup before the deletion.

Simple Home Budget Lite was also updated to version 1.7.0 and more stable than previous versions.

To update Simple Home Budget, simply select in the main menu “Help”, and then “Check for Updates…”. Simple Home Budget will download and start the installer – you have to just follow usual steps in the installer. There is no need to uninstall existing version.

For existing registered users this update is free.

Other way to download Simple Home Budget is to proceed to the download page.Similar Posts: