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Boogie Is Not Just a Dance
- Tuesday, 27 July 2010
- Tech
- Written by Richard Oppenheim CPA
Top Tech Question for Penny Pinchers: Part 1
- Sunday, 11 July 2010
- Tech
- Written by Gene Marks
Stuff that doesn’t work – that’s what most technology is. Printers that stop printing. Applications that don’t do what they promised. Computers that freeze up. Thank God Microsoft doesn’t build airplanes or we’d have 747’s dropping out of the sky like flies. Unfortunately, when a relied-on piece of technology, either software or hardware, goes bad it can cripple a small business and cost you a lot of unnecessary money. A good penny pincher will ask himself some hard questions before buying any new technology. Here are few….
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Apps is a Noun - Location
- Wednesday, 30 June 2010
- Tech
- Written by Richard Oppenheim CPA
You can run, you can hide. However, if you are willing, you andanyone else can discover where you are at any time. You can see this capability in action on any episode of the multicity hits like CSI and NCIS.Just to be clear, to be located requires your GPS device to be on and within range of a cellular or wireless signal. When you want to really hide, turn off the device or leave home without it. You can also give your device to someone else, so when the CSI investigator locates the device, it will not be you that has been located.
Read more...App is a Noun - Search
- Wednesday, 09 June 2010
- Tech
- Written by Richard Oppenheim CPA
The current storehouse of iPhone Apps is climbing past 225,000. Mix in the Android and Microsoft Windows platforms and the Apps numbers will grow exponentially for a very long time. My previous article identified categories of applications that are being used and will be used by the accounting community. In this article, the application focus is SEARCH. There may be a few cave dwellers somewhere that have not used search to discover a word definition, a restaurant, or some federal or state law statutory requirements. Readers of The Progressive Accountant know that search is an integrated feature of the publication. TPA provides search to locate an article by title, by a specific category, or by a specific writer. Read more...
A Look at Scanning Essentials
Multi-function devices that can scan in color are great. But a tip to firms that use them: do yourself a favor and turn off the color when you scan. That's the advice of Howard Brown, chief technology officer of Doc-it, a document management software company, as he covered a number of tips regarding the topic of best practices in scanning documents.
Read more...Best Practices for Putting Spam in its Place
- Saturday, 22 May 2010
- Tech
- Written by John Anderson CPA.CITP
Smart is an Adjective, App is a Noun
- Tuesday, 18 May 2010
- Tech
- Written by Richard Oppenheim CPA
It will never end. The “it” is the never ending delivery of smart, smarter and smartest phones along with the even larger supply of good, better and best Apps. How many phones and how many apps are necessary for you? This question can only be answered in terms of what you can afford. The better question is one of the oldest questions of all, reengineered for 2010, which comes first the better app or the smarter phone?
Read more...Disaster Planning Tips from a Katrina Veteran
It will soon be five years since Charles Coe's accounting firm office in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans was left in a pile of rubble by Hurricane Katrina, whose effects are still seen in the barren landscape of the city's Ninth Ward. Coe learned a lot about dealing with doing business during a natural disaster. And asked about the lessons, he gave a list that omitted many of the usual cautions about disaster planning and recovery.
Read more...Designing Mobile Web Sites to Engage Clients
- Thursday, 06 May 2010
- Tech
- Written by Raissa Evans and Jen Lemanski
Old-fashioned Faxes and Phones Still Work
- Wednesday, 14 April 2010
- Tech
- Written by Gene Marks
Mary Shaw owns and operates The Every Day Group, a twenty-person health care consulting firm. These aren't her or her organization's real names. And that's because she has a secret in the way she conducts business. In this modern age, the way she conducts businesses is by sending letters and faxes and making phones calls to customers and prospects. This may sound very old-fashioned in the age of social media, mobile devices and email. But it works.
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