Huch, ich bin wohl schon direkt am Tag der Veröffentlichung auf diesen Artikel gestossen. Der ist echt mal 1a Wenn es darum geht, welche Programme ich für meine Arbeit nutze, kann ich nur das antworten: <ul> <li>Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004</li> <li>Adobe Photoshop 7.0</li> <li>FileZilla</li> <li>und natürlich Browser, wie z.B. Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera usw :)</li> </ul>

Martin Labuschin

I know that it’s not business softwares, but for my website, I’m runing every day on PC : <ul> <li>Notepad2</li> <li>Photoshop CS</li> <li>FlashFXP</li> <li>Firefox and IE (when there’s display problems)</li> </ul> And on my Mac : <ul> <li>BBedit</li> <li>GIMPshop</li> <li>Transmit</li> <li>Safari and Camino</li> </ul>

pickupjojo

Side Job Track — Link Free, web-based job tracking and invoicing tool. Accounts — Link Book-keeping application for OS X. Cheap.

Egor

For CSS Stylesheets I use TopStyle Pro Link I also use PS 7.0, dont know why I aint changed to CS 2. Scripts or sth others I use UltraEdit, and for other programming langs like Java I can offer Eclipse :)

Tom

I came across Market Circle a couple of weeks ago, however I am yet to try it.

Gavin

I use Studiometry for Client and Job management. It can be used for Accounting as well, but I use a separate program for that: Tiny Books. Tiny Books is cheap and ridiculously simple. The interface is nothing to brag about whatsoever, so if that’s important to you don’t get it. I bought it a long time ago and suits my particular needs. Studiometry, however, is a wonderful tool. I’ve tried several others including StudioBoss (has the potential but the customer service stinks and it ended up running slow on my Mac — it uses the Filemaker engine) and iBiz (when it was still iBiz). I also tried creating my own using Filemaker Pro but that just became too time consuming. Even thought about some others but they were just too expensive.

Angie

I have been using iBiz for the past month or so and I am very happy with it. I tried the 10 day trial for a bit and then decided it was well worth the $20 or so. It’s been a huge help with managing multiple projects and is ideal for invoicing clients and handling the not so fun side of things. I would highly recommend it.

Dan

I’m using SideTrack Job. It’s excellent and the developer is really friendly.

kumar

I use Link exclusively for Invoicing, Project and Client management. I prefer it over BASECAMP and BLINKSALE (and it’s free!!!). It’s the best of both worlds all-in-one.

Fredrick

Thank you guys for your suggestions. Well I have to admit that I’m feeling really confindet with SideJobTrack, which has just been redesigned yesterday. Its sleek an intuitive web interface and its new feature to customize estimates and invoices makes it even better. I think I will also use this one for keeping track of my projects. However I am still looking for a desktop application in order to track my time. iBiz, Billings and iRratchet are quite good, but none of them really convinced me — especially because none of them really provides fully customizable templates for invoices and estimates. How do you create your invoices? Do you use one of the tools above and forgo well designed invoices or do you create them using InDesign or similar apps?

Wolfgang

Hoi Wolfgang Ich benutze hauptsächlich Outlook 2003 sowie AFS Kaufmann um meine Kundendaten zu pflegen. Der AFS habe ich für Rechnungen, Mahnungen sowie Angebote und bin eigentlich zufireden damit. Das schöne an diesem Tool ist, dass man seine Rechnungstemplates selber anpassen kann was ich bei anderen sehr vermisst habe. Für die Zeitberechnung benutze ich hie und da Timeless von MagSoftwrx zu finden unter: Link Hoffe du kannst mit den beiden Infos was anfangen :-] Grüsse aus der Schweiz Manuel

Manuel Merz

Comment spam here too?! Please delete any and all comments with Side Job listed in the URL. Thank you.

R. Marie Cox

I create my invoices in Pages, just made a template which I edit as needed :) and as I don’t do much work it works out quite well :)

Jordan

I’m assuming you can do some fun stuff with SJT (although I’ve yet to try). I made xml based invoicing once for a class of mine. A funky orange and white invoice for the web, and a clean black and white printer friendly version. I’ll most likely take some of that and see what I can do with SJT. Cheers!

kumar

Comment spam here too?! Please delete any and all comments with Side Job listed in the URL. Thank you. R. Marie Cox — apparently you don’t want to market YOUR OWN product. Very interesting.

Jennifer

Ich nutze Amtangee (www.amtangee.com) um meine Kundendaten zu sammeln, Mails/Termine/Aufgaben und meine Daten wie Rechnungen/Angebote/etc. zu verwalten. Für die Arbeit selbst nutze ich die Adobe Premium Suite CS, WS FTP und UltraEdit.

Nina

Hi, i’m very interested in such a tool, but all of this above are mac or win versions (except the webbased). Isn’t there any linux solution available? Or at least any webbased that can be downloaded? (I don’t want to do my business on any server, cause these are really sensitive information) Greets

Michael

Jennifer, I don’t want to be associated with comment spam. If someone puts the URL in a comment, that’s fine, but I don’t care for it being used as a person’s Website in the signature.

R. Marie Cox

I have been using StudioCzar for the past 4 months and couldn’t be more pleased. Updated frequently and has great support. I use it for job estimates, time tracking, expenses, company contact info and invoicing. It is a fileMaker based application, so you don’t need FileMaker and runs under Mac and Windows. It is quite an incredible package. They even have a demo to download and try out. Link No, I don’t work for them or receive royalties :), I just love supporting small business. Jay

Jay@pointcreative.net

Studiometry lets you create fully customizable invoices and estimates in HTML, RTF, or whatever you prefer to use. It has a pretty simply yet powerful system where it looks through the code in a template and replaces the Studiometry specific tags with the actual data, allowing you fully customizability of what it creates. We’ve been using it for over two years and the developers are incredibly responsive and helpful.

Jeff

For my time tracking I currently use TimeLog ( Link ), which has some glitches but is really usable. It has addressbook and iCal integration and some reporting features.

Jérôme

I am just now trying ibiz. Will have to see how it works out. Usually I just have a custom Illustrator invoice I update at the end of the day. My projects lately have all be on location so the time are kept in iCal if I every need to check back.

Brad Chmielewski

I use Marketcircle’s Daylite for all content management, project tracking, and time tracking. They’ve just come out with a new invoicing app called Billings, which is quite appealing. I learned of MarketCircle while helping a client install Daylite, and loved it so much I started using it, and even took the steps to become a consultant. Link

Jon Bauerle

Invision Power is currently working on a new billing system which is looking very promising. Its called invision nexus. Here’s a link: Link It can be used for all kinds fo things! Very powerfull!

Sam Granger

I use on my iBook Dreamweaver 8 Flash 8 Photoshop CS Safari + Firefox.

Arne Junker

Are there any invoicing tools out there (Side Job Track not included) that aren’t a subscription service? I’m looking for something that I could pay a one time fee for.

Beth

Also wir haben sowohl unsere Kundenpflege, Zeiterfassung, Rechnungsstellung, Raportierung wie auch Fibu selbst geschrieben hüstel. Zur Verteidigung: wir sind Software Entwickler smile. Nein, wir verkaufen die Produkte nicht — sind nur für den eigenen Gebrauch gedacht. Cheers, Marc

Marc

Here is my list of “musts” for web design/development: <ul> <li>Sony SDM-P234</li> <li>Dreamweaver 4.0</li> <li>Fireworks 4.0</li> <li>RapidPHP 2005</li> <li>ConTEXT text editor</li> <li>SmartFTP</li> </ul> And the others, for all sorts of design: - Photoshop CS - Illustrator CS and it works… Cengiz

Cengiz Ülkü

Ich benutze zur Zeiterfassung das kleine Programm Khronos (Link Eine Freeware-Lösung, die leider nicht mehr weiterentwickelt wird. Sehr schade. Funktioniert aber soweit einwandfrei, könnte aber mal ein neues Gesicht vertragen und vor allem ein neues Icon …

Wolfgang

Hi Wolfgang, falls noch Interesse besteht: Ein gutes Programm zum Erstellen von Angeboten und Rechnungen, zum Verwalten von Kundendaten sowie zur Termin- und Zeitplanung ist Revolver Office Pro. Link Wir arbeiten damit seit mehr als einem Jahr und sind sehr zufrieden damit. Die Computer können sowohl Mac OS X als auch Windows sein und das Programm bietet sogar einen Client-Server-Modus…

Max Fechner

Hi, ich nutze Studio MX, Corelphotopaint und das geniale Tool www.maxivista.de Damit nutze ich mein Notebook als dritten Monitor. Ciao, Holger -----

Holger