Nancy Smyth | October 8, 2009
Email Marketing is something else that Intuit has built into QuickBooks 2010, so I went to check it out. Requires Internet Explorer and it doesn’t support Windows Vista or 7. How can this be?
Nancy Smyth | October 6, 2009
Another new feature in QuickBooks 2010 is the ability to create your own “Favorites” menu – I have to admit my first thought was “ok is this an accounting package or a web browser?” I’m beginning to get very confused. 507 available items to add to “favorites”, isn’t this overkill?
Nancy Smyth | October 2, 2009
Intuit Workplace App Center is where you can buy or try for free, 3rd party software that lives on the web rather than on your computer. Otherwise known as “hosted” or SaaS (Software as a Service) programs that you don’t own, but rather pay a monthly fee to use this software and all the data is stored on servers owned by Intuit. for those of you who like to own your own software and have that data live on your computers, the Intuit Marketplace still exists with hundreds of beefy applications that really extend the power of QuickBooks – visit http://marketplace.intuit.com to see a complete listing of 3rd party programs that perform a wide range of functions that you cannot obtain directly from within QuickBooks.
Nancy Smyth | September 22, 2009
We received the “Final Release” version of Windows 7. Frankly this is amazing – we actually have a final release of “something” a full month before it will start hitting the computers of our customers. Kudo’s to Microsoft for LONG beta testing periods and a “real” early access program! Roughly 10 plus days ago, Intuit released purchasing availability to it’s ProAdvisors.
Nancy Smyth | August 25, 2009
In today’s busy workplace business owners and payroll administrators are faced with numerous challenges which cause them to want and need to be able to quickly and accurately enter employee time cards by “crew or group” by “job or project” and by day – because that is how they are done on the jobsite. Because of these situations, they also want software that will automatically calculate and distribute overtime hours worked for all employees on all jobs for any given work week – relieving them of the time-consuming and error-prone process caused by manual calculations and time card entries; this is an area where QuickBooks is lacking in functionality.
Nancy Smyth | August 5, 2009
There is NO UPGRADE path from an XP machine to Windows 7, so you will need to do a clean install……this means that you had better back up all of your data to an external source and I mean ALL of your data, your Word files, your Excel files, your pdf’s any document you’ve ever downloaded from the internet that you would “die” without; because a clean install will erase everything from your hard drive.
Nancy Smyth | July 24, 2009
Windows 7 will be installed on new computers beginning in October, so with the news, I’ve decided that I need to jump on the band wagon and build a “test” machine using the Windows 7 Release Candidate (a “Release candidate ” is the version that is the last beta or test version that is released prior to a “final release” for the general public”. )
Nancy Smyth | July 2, 2009
This came in from a newsgroup I belong to and I just had to share!
(Read this to yourself aloud – it’s a must!)
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Nancy Smyth | March 27, 2009
a new breed of construction worker
Nancy Smyth | March 18, 2009
3. The difference between a pigeon and a London investment banker. The pigeon can still make a deposit on a BMW.