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Enjoy online time tracking with Timepost
Here's a nice application for people who work by the hour ... and must track those hours themselves. Timepost works very simply - just click the start button as you begin working and the pause button when you're done.Now for the good part. Timepost integrates with Basecamp, Freshbooks, Blinksale, FogBugz, Harvest and Tick. Just enable the API access for each service in your account settings and you'll be able to browse all of your open projects. Select the one you're working on from the drop down menu and when you're finished just click the "Post" button. Your hours will be added to the project.
Timepost requires Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later and a single license will cost you $49US.
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Nathan Adams said 11:29AM on 5-22-2008
Finally, a nice simple time tracking app - but $49?? That's pretty ridiculous, for what it does. It's not like it's a full time tracking app, just a front end that leverages the APIs of web-based time trackers. Also, no support for Timefox.
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streetstealth said 12:04PM on 5-22-2008
Timepost: Select jobs/tasks, start and stop timers; $50
Harvest widget: Select jobs/tasks, start and stop timers; $0
(http://www.getharvest.com/widget)
Hmm. Good luck with that.
The Dude said 11:29AM on 5-22-2008
Simple, but a license for Mac Freelance costs less and the program does a heckuva lot more.
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Sam Yel said 11:32AM on 5-22-2008
Great app, but this isn't even worth 5 bucks.
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Luigi193 said 11:39AM on 5-22-2008
That drives me CRAZY... $50!!!!!!
It is a simple app that should be MUCH less... thats like Commercial pricing!
UG.... OPEN SOURCE FTW!!!
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Joseph Crawford said 11:39AM on 5-22-2008
This is nice however useless if you use freshbooks.
http://www.freshbooks.com/widgets/time-tracker/
They offer a free dashboard widget that does the same thing. I could see it useful if the other services do not offer the same capability or you are too lazy to edit the widget to make it work with other services.
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babyfett said 11:44AM on 5-22-2008
I'll stick with the old stopwatch for now. Anyone know of any free or cheap alternatives?
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Joseph Crawford said 11:45AM on 5-22-2008
Read my comment above, I'm sure if you don't use Freshbooks you can alter the source to work with any other service.
domic said 11:50AM on 5-22-2008
50$????
or you could use this.. for free
http://www.gersh.no/projects/worktimer
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GM said 12:24PM on 5-22-2008
wait wait wait =D LOL!
really?!
no...
seriously?!
you, you can't be serious =D LOL!
$50 for a stop watch?
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LuminousNerd said 1:17PM on 5-22-2008
This app shouldn't cost $49. It's worth about $5. That's incredibly ridiculous.
I prefer TaskTime4. It costs a hell of a lot less and has a shitload more functionality.
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Luigi193 said 1:46PM on 5-22-2008
TUAW why would you cover such a ridiculously over priced App??? I understand (and love) when you cover ones that are a good value and do interesting things... but a $50 stop watch????
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Matt White said 1:54PM on 5-22-2008
I'd gladly pay $5 or even $10 for this since I'm a Basecamp user. $49 is WAY out of control, though.
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Jeffrey said 2:25PM on 5-22-2008
Ok, let's see...
Freshbooks
http://www.freshbooks.com/add-ons/#time_tracking
Harvest
http://www.getharvest.com/widget
Tick
http://www.tickspot.com/widgets/
So there...
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Saget said 2:37PM on 5-22-2008
I think the price is reasonable. It's targeted at professional users. $50 for an app that manages an important part of your workflow is not a big deal.
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Mark T. said 4:37PM on 5-22-2008
50 dollars per seat for what it does is unreasonable even in a corporate setting. Let's say I have a workgroup of 5 people: $250 dollars for a stopwatch? I'll pass. If it were 50 dollars for a site license, then I'd understand.
David Sissitka said 3:12PM on 5-22-2008
In my opinion Timepost has too many rough edges to justify its price.
1) Often after stopping the timer the "Clear" and "Post" buttons aren't clickable. Usually restarting Timepost fixes the problem.
2) Often the indentation in the list of tasks is inconsistent.
3) Often when Timepost isn't able to submit time it locks up.
4) Tasks don't stay in sync. I use Tick. When I add a task to Tick it's added to Timepost but when I remove a task from Tick it's not removed from Timepost.
Those are minor problems. Here are a few biggies:
5) Unless the problem is that Timepost isn't able to connect to the service that you're using it with it won't let you know when it was unable to submit time.
6) I sent an e-mail to Timepost support re these problems. A few days later they responded with something along the lines of:
"A new version of Timepost has been released, it's fixed in it."
After having described roughly a half dozen bugs they tell me "it" has been fixed with no indication of what "it" is in their response or the new version's release notes. Not very helpful.
If you can live with these problems you'll probably find that Timepost is usable.
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Danny said 4:16PM on 5-22-2008
As of today, Harvest has an elegant iPhone interface for time and expense tracking: http://news.getharvest.com/articles/2008/05/22/time-and-expense-tracking-from-your-iphone/
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Alistair Holt said 7:06AM on 5-23-2008
Nice but I can't believe people are still making time tracking apps that do not run from the menu bar and to save valuable screen space. Take this with its web service integration and the UI from Work-Timer - http://www.cherryware.de/index.php?section=worktimer&lang=en and I think you'd have a pretty perfect app.
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niclet said 8:19AM on 5-23-2008
Am I missing something here? For 99 cents more ($49.99), you can get iBiz which is a strong time billing an invoices manager application with both widget and menubar projects related timer.
http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibiz/
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