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Entitlements and SandBoxing

This week we have finished porting all our products to 64-bits. We also updated the App Store versions accordingly following Apple new requirements regarding Entitlements and SandBoxing. But do you actually know what Entitlements and SandBoxing are? Even if you are not a programmer it is always interesting to have a small idea about security concepts since we are talking about security. macOS has supported Sandboxing since OS X Lion, which was released in 2011. The Mac App Store has required apps to be sandboxed since March 2012. Windows does not natively provide app sandboxing, but some apps (such as Microsoft Office programs) can be run in a sandboxed mode. Additionally, several Windows utilities allow you to run apps in a sandbox, preventing them from affecting the system or other applications. Sandboxing restricts an application’s access to only system resources, including the file system, for which it’s explicitly given access. A sandboxed application is given a code si...

Personal Finance, what's that?

iCash is a personal finance software intended to keep track of your incomes, expenses, credits, debts and Banks transactions for you. But what does 'Personal finance' actually mean? Personal finance is the application of the principles of financial economics to an individual's (or a family's) financial decisions. It asks, "How much money will you need at various points in the future?" and "How do you go about getting that money?". It deals with questions like: • What is my annual income? • How can I increase my income? • What are my annual expenses? • How can I reduce my expenses? • How do I best budget my available income each year? • How much money can I save each year? • How much will I accumulate over my working lifetime? • Will this be enough to support me after I retire? • How much will it cost each year after I retire? • How many years will I be retired? • How do I pay for large expenses (like children's educatio...