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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Odds and ends, Bugs/Recalls, iPhone, Snow Leopard

TUAW Sunday snacks: Some tasty tidbits of random information

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Sep 13th, 2009

In between watching those Sunday NFL games, we're hoping that you're snacking on some TUAW goodness. For your munching pleasure I thought I'd cook up some of the interesting tidbits that have accumulated in our inbox this morning and present them to you for consumption.

First, from TUAW reader Tom, is a fascinating look at a pre-Apple "Apple logo." Apparently in 1969, Piaggio Vespa, world-famous for their Vespa scooters, had an Italian ad campaign featuring apples with both sides missing a bite. The campaign used the Italian phrase "Chi Vespa mangia le mele," or "He who Vespas eats apples." Echoes of the campaign can still be found on various Vespa websites, including the USA site where you'll find many dingbats and buttons are apples with a bite or two taken out of them.

Next, TUAW fan Keith pointed out something interesting. If you go into Settings > General > Usage, there's a list of your iPhone usage. Down near the bottom of the list of statistics is a section called Tethering Data.

This shows up on 3G / 3GS models, since tethering is allowed by many carriers. Of course, as "Seth the Blogger Guy" notes in the AT&T video, American iPhone owners don't get the joy of using their iPhones as wireless data modems for laptops because the AT&T network has insufficient capacity. We've talked previously about AT&T's view on tethering; read here for more info. Of course, there's always the jailbreak option. Read on for more news tidbits.

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Tags: apple, apple logo, AppleLogo, att, quickbooks, quicken, tethering, text messaging, TextMessaging, vespa, world record, WorldRecord

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software

QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Sep 20th, 2008

Accounting is a lot less exciting than watching paint dry, but it's a necessity for companies. Intuit's QuickBooks products for Mac don't get a lot of respect, since Intuit seems to treat Mac owners as second-class citizens. They're still working on improving their products, however, and have just announced QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac.

The new version of QuickBooks is a Leopard-only product, and won't be available for a few more weeks, but it appears to be a solid improvement over its predecessor -- QuickBooks 2007 for Mac. The application, which will retail for US$199.95, features a much-improved interface.

Designed for small businesses, QuickBooks now has a Home Page showing how different business tasks fit together. There are Customer, Transaction, Report, and Vendor centers that organize your entries into single-page views, keeping you from having to switch between dozens of windows as in previous versions. Online banking now expands to over 3,000 institutions and the product integrates with XSilva's LightSpeed Point-of-sale software.

However, there's still no multi-user version, and early reports mention that the application still doesn't have full file compatibility with the Windows version -- something that is critical when sending files to accountants for review.

The Intuit website has not yet been updated with information about QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac.

Tags: lightspeed, quickbooks, quickbooksmac

Filed under: Software

QuickBooks users be cautious of recent update

by Christina Warren (RSS feed) on Dec 16th, 2007

Update: The "update" at the root of this issue HAS NOT been issued by Intuit (see the posts in this thread), the recommended course of action for all QuickBooks 2006 and 2007 users is to run the terminal command as detailed at the bottom of this post. This will turn off all automatic updates and prevent whatever this is from installing on your system. Furthermore, at this point in time, I tend to agree with Tangrams, the user who first reported this issue in both the Apple and Intuit forums, that the best course of action for QuickBooks for Mac users is to not launch the program at all until this mess is sorted out.

~~At the risk of spreading unnecessary FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt),~~ It's not FUD, we want to caution Intuit's QuickBooks users of installing the most recent update, without proper back-ups - especially if you typically store lots of important files on the desktop.

This information comes courtesy of reader Kelly, who also sent us a link to an Apple Support Thread about the issue. It appears that in the latest automatic QuickBooks update, the updater is coming up with a "not enough free space" message (regardless if enough free space actually exists - and keep in mind, this appears to be a 100K update), if the user then clicks "OK" - the result is that any documents, files or folders that were stored on the desktop are then deleted - and as of right now, no simple recovery method appears to exist.

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Tags: quickbooks, quickbooks update, QuickbooksUpdate

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Leopard

New QuickBooks for Mac coming in 2008

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Sep 28th, 2007

QuickBooks 2008 apparently was released this week by Inuit-- unfortunately, this makes the release of the Windows client only. Macworld, however, is reporting that if QuickBooks is your thing, you've only got a few more months to wait. Intuit is still planning to release a version of QB 2008 for Mac... in 2008 itself.

The quote comes from the Intuit FAQ for Mac, which says basically that they're waiting for Leopard to reveal itself before they release their own software. Not a bad reason for delay, I guess, but I really wonder what extra features Inuit might include in their software that would require Leopard to work. Will QuickBooks really be using any of the Core Image stuff to beef up their presentations and spreadsheets? Doubtful, but it would be awesome if they did.

At any rate, Intuit says that if you need QuickBooks right now, there's always the 2007 version, and to stay tuned for everything else, including a release date for 2008.

Tags: 2008, core-image, financial, intuit, leopard, mac, quickbooks, release, small-business

Filed under: Software, Universal Binary

Quickbooks 2007 v9.0, now with native Intel support

by Laurie A. Duncan (RSS feed) on Oct 5th, 2006

Well Adobe may not care enough to release Universal Binary updates, but Intuit seems to care, at least a little. Today they released Quickbook 2007 v9.0. Quickbooks, as you probably already know is a popular accounting app aimed at small businesses. Things of note in this upgrade include:

Track payments, sales tax and inventory IMPROVED
Create and print deposit slips NEW
Customize forms using the Layout Designer NEW
Customize toolbar IMPROVED
Universal binary version for Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs NEW
Share data between Mac and Windows IMPROVED
Comprehensive in-product help IMPROVED
Interactive Tutorial Center NEW

Although Quickbooks users themselves don't seem all that impressed with the program, every step toward native Intel support for Macs for all is a good thing.

Despite being a small business owner, I've never had any use for Quickbooks. Always seemed like overkill for my needs. But if it suits you and you've been wondering whether or not to upgrade, you might wait until the dust settles as there are already several nasty bug reports showing up on sites like MacFixit.

Tags: accounting, intuit, quickbooks, universal binary, UniversalBinary

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