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Has anyone criticizing Apple actually looked at the theme they are complaining about? Here's a link to a screenshot. See it for yourself. Notice the blue apple and the Mac smiley-face icon on the menu bar at the top of the screen. Those are Apple trademarks and if they don't defend them against every infringement then they lose those trademarks.

Not to mention the fact that the casual onlooker might see a computer running this theme and think it is actuall running Mac OS X (not so far fetched since it has the official Apple logo on it and everything). That user will also see the crappy icons at the bottom that don't look half as cool as the real OS X dock, the non-translucent menus/windows, and the windows that don't "slurp" into the dock when iconized and will come away thinking that Aqua sucks when of course they were never looking at the real Aqua in the first place.

Apple clearly doesn't want people mistaking these half-assed themes with the real Aqua which took a lot of effort, design and engineering to build (unlike these cheap rip-offs).

I have a checking account at First Union and I'm also the author of Moneydance (a competitor to GnuCash). I've gotten online banking mostly working in my development version - downloading transactions and synchronization works, but I'm still working on bill-payment.

It should only be another couple of months before I release a beta version of Moneydance 3.0 which will include online banking as well as a bunch of other features.

That said, I think I'll check out what GnuCash is doing. :)

Yes, Virginia, you can get Quicken-alikes in Linux. :)

for Gnucash to get to a similar feature level as Quicken has. Quicken is currently THE ONLY application I still need to boot into Windows for, and I wish I didn't. I keep getting very tempted to switch to Gnucash or Moneydance (which is great, but not open-source). One of the main things that I still need from Gnucash before I'll switch is auto-repeating transactions. Most of the bills I pay are the same each month, so it saves me lots of time if I just click a button, instead of entering the same data over and over again.

But he's collected, in one place, a wealth of knowledge on using Linux day-to-day!

Personal Finance. Moneydance is great!! I am really impressed with it: simple, stable, flexible, smart. This fills a big gap in my day-to-day use of Linux, and gives me another reason to stay out of windows. Anyone using it regularly? Are there comparable personal finance systems out there?

It does a lot of the things that Quicken does but GnuCash doesn't (check printing, reminders, etc). http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance.

It's written in Java so it's a little slower, but it gets the job done.

There is a java accounting package called moneydance. I haven't really used it but it looks pretty cool. I don't know that it's open source though.

it's at http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/