After a year and a half of work, SpendThrift 3.0 is done, and ready for release on 31 October 2007. Why Halloween night? Why not? If you're new to SpendThrift, welcome. If you've been using SpendThrift 2.1 for a long time, well, thanks for sticking with it; i hope it's continued to be useful to you, but moreover, i'm also sorry for not getting a newer version out sooner. If for no other reason than because i enjoy working on it.

At the same time, i definitely don't want to give people the wrong impression--i am not any kind of software professional. i'm a mechanical engineer, who has taught himself to program a bit, and managed to write something that i use every day, which other people might also find useful. So, there may be bugs. There may even be bugs that are beyond my ability to fix (although i have some smart friends i'll call on...). It may take me a long time to fix things--my day job is pretty intense, sometimes. There's a reason that it's postcardware--if i charged people money for it, there's an implicit promise of maintenance that i'm just not able to keep.

Having said all that, i have tested this version for months now; the stuff i use every day works well. i am fairly proud of my work, if i do say so myself. That's not to say there won't be a point release in the next couple weeks if something comes up, but there's a lot of cool stuff in SpendThrift 3. Read on, and i hope you'll agree. Contact me at

and i will do my very best to help. That i do promise. Without further ado, SpendThrift 3.0:

Pick a category. Any category. You can view transactions on a per-category basis. It's nice for keeping track of how much i spend on beer.

Reports in SpendThrift 3 can be customized to show as much or as little as you want. Show a report of the whole account, or just selected transactions. Month-by-month breakdowns, and categorized breakdowns are also new to SpendThrift 3. And it all looks nicer, too.

Printing just plain works better now. It works better and looks better. There's even a nice grid for the printed pages, and better yet, you can easily pick and choose what to print. It should always have worked like this. Printing isn't something i uses, myself, so if anyone has any requests for printing enhancements, by all means let me know.

Setup information for individual accounts, including names, descriptions, opening balances, and passwords can all be found in one easy place now. Not exciting, but surely less confusing.