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Mac OS X financial management software, iBank, has just added some new features. If you’ve been using the personal and small business finance software, the 3.1 version will now let you preview direct downloads to match your current transactions. You will also be alerted if ever duplicate transactions occur when you are importing to iBank. Likewise, you’ll be alerted when the software found no matching transactions in your financial statement.

Additionally, iBank’s internal browser was also improved. It now loads faster whenever you log-in to your online accounts and more Banks have been included in the update as well. iBank 3.1 has also improved its Smart accounts, capital gains reports, forecasting, importing of OFX files with non-U.S. characters, loading of historical prices and localization and printing transactions.

If you have previously installed iBank 3.0, you can have a free upgrade of version 3.1. While new users will have to shell out $59.99 to get the application. It requires Mac OS X Leopard or later OS X to make it run on your Macs.

Via [Macworld] Product [iBank]

Now that the Christmas for Mac fans (Macworld) is over, the attention shifts to the stockholder’s holiday, the quarterly earnings report.

Apple’s Q4 fiscal earnings are usually the best showing, due to increased sales of particularly of the iPod line during the holidays. MarketWatch reports that “Analysts [...] estimate Apple will earn $1.62 a share on revenue of $9.47 billion. Such forecasts call for Apple’s per-share earnings to rise 42%, and revenue to climb 33% from the prior-year period.”

According to this report, iPods retain a hold on the digital music player market, with as much as 75% marketshare. Also, the most sought-after Apple items this season were MacBooks, iPod Touch’s, and iPod Nanos. Interest in the iPhone also remains high.

Read [MarketWatch]

EasyMoney is intended to help you keep track of your finances. You create an account book, add an initial amount, then add expense and revenue accounts, and enter transactions. Everything is tracked in a single interface.

You can view, save and print all financial activities or just those that occurred during a particular month, track income and expenses by accounts (or categories) to help you budget, and allocate starting amounts for categories to help with accounting.

EasyMoney is a Universal binary and available from To The Point Software for $20.

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