There is No Early Warning System-QuickBook Woes
Common Symptoms that you are headed for trouble (or already in trouble):
You go to run a report, and it “takes forever” for the report to display
You get random error messages when opening, closing or working in QuickBooks or QuickBooks shuts down all by itself
You can’t verify, rebuild or backup your QuickBooks data properly
Minimal Computer system requirements according to Intuit are 512MB minimum. This isn’t even enough to run your computer. We recommend no less than:
Update: The Upcoming Hard Drive Shortage
In our last newsletter we posted a tidbit of information regarding the flooding in Thailand and how this effecting many hard drive manufactures. In a recent article by TechCrunch, “Power was restored in the last week in some areas and Western Digital has just turned the lights back on at one of its factories there.” But, they are still not able to open their remaining facilities.
Tax Deduction Anyone?
News from GFI! Below is an email we received from one of our partners GFI:
“With recent changes to Section 179 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, companies that purchase less than $2 million in software and equipment in 2011 qualify to receive a tax deduction.
This year, businesses can:
» Write off the full purchase price of software and equipment purchases totaling less than $500,000
» Receive a substantial deduction on software and equipment purchases totaling more than $500,000
These tax deductions can be taken in full, rather than depreciated over multiple years, which most business owners prefer.”
Yet Another Reason Not to Use Facebook
by: Mike Close - BBW technician
In the last few days, many Facebook users have been seeing disturbing images ranging from pornographic material to severely abused animals. The images are showing up in users’ news feeds, which are visible by everyone in their friends list. However, it seems the individual person whose news feed displays theses images cannot see the images themselves.
Click on the title above to read more…
Did You Know Verizon is Tracking Your Cellphone?
Lifehacker.com recently published an interesting article. Did you know that if you’re a Verizon customer your cellphone usage, apps, location and activity are being tracked? Lifehacker reports this information according to Droid life. Though Verizon claims this personal information will be kept anonymous many people are choosing to opt out of Verizon’s watchful eye.
Part of the unwillingness to share this information is the obvious privacy issue. However, this information is also being sold to third party advertisers.
Click above to read more on this topic including instructions on how to opt out…