New Tonido Release 0.6.0.100800 Highlights

We just released a new Tonido release 0.6.0.100800 for all 4 platforms. Windows, Mac, Linux and TonidoPlug. This is a major Tonido release.

Here are the highlights:

New Tonido Money Application

Almost 6 months in the making, we are finally happy to announce Tonido Money Beta. This is the first browser based Personal and Small Business Finance Manager that allows your data to be completely stored locally but still be accessed from anywhere in the world. This really showcases the power and flexibility of the Tonido platform.

This is fully compatible with databases created by the open source Money Manager Ex application originally developed and released by CodeLathe. You can in fact switch between desktop version and browser version effortlessly.

Here are some of the main features:

Checking, Savings, Credit Card or Loan Accounts

• Create and maintain an electronic checkbook - Checking, Savings, Credit Card or Loans, Stock Investment Accounts, Assets
• Manage income and expense transactions within these accounts
• Create your own categories and organize these transactions to track where your money comes or goes
• Manage money transfers between accounts
• Mark transactions as reconciled, unreconciled or void to track them against your bank statements
• Manage Payees

Stock/Bonds/Mutual Fund Accounts

• Track your shares, bonds and related investments
• Track the gain/loss for each investment
• Update current share price automatically

General Account Features

• Ability to handle multiple currency across accounts
• Internationalization of currency formatting
• Unicode support for all data storage
• Track closed Accounts
• Account Summary Views and Navigation- An easy to use tree view navigator to navigate across accounts and summarized views of your accounts, upcoming bills & deposits and income vs. expenses

Import & Export

• Import information from QIF format (Microsoft Money & Quicken)
• Export information from any account to QIF format

Reporting

View your spending/expenses in a wide variety of ways.

• View spending by category over a date range for specific or all accounts
• View spending on a single category over time
• View income vs expenses
• View spending by payee
• View expenses and how you are doing on a budget.

Please note that Money is currently in beta. Also note that IE8 support is coming in a future release.

Thots Improvements

It is now possible to share your thots publicly with the world. Just mark thots as “Public” and they will be viewable by anyone using the public url without logging in.

It is also now possible to customize the header for Tonido Thots. So go wild!

Nicer Explorer UI

Explorer is an app used extensively by our users and it is getting some love. The UI uplift is stage 1 of 2 and expect to see an even more nicer looking UI in the next release.

Simpler Profile Creation & Optional Remote Qn/Ans

We just made profile creation even more simpler (if that is even possible). And, now right after profile creation, you are logged in without wading through the account list screen.

Many people were weary of typing in the remote qn/answer and for them security wasn’t an issue, so now remote qn/answer fields are optional. If they are not set, Tonido will not prompt for them during login.

Caching

One other thing we are always looking to tweak is performance and we are happy to say that Tonido’s UI will load faster than ever before because we are caching most of the HTML/JS bits used for most of the UI. Once you load a particular UI, it will be cached by the browser and you will see it respond more snappily.

Other Bug Fixes

As usual, we have a bunch of other small bug fixes everywhere.

We fixed some crashes with 1-click sharing in Windows, added abilities to clear alerts from the simple launch view and fixed some issues in backup. We also made Unlimited speed setting really default to max speeds on plug unlike what it was previously. Also on the plug, USB read/write speeds should be much faster with this release.

Comments, Questions, Feedback is always welcome, so let us know.