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 Living With Cell Phone Data Caps

November 13, 2013 

Living With Cell Phone Data Caps

The 21st Century brought to the American language a slew of new terms and concepts, from Googling and Sexting to Unfriending and Tweeting. But by far the least understood of the new terms, and the one that puts users at risk of serious limitations or financial penalties, is the Cell Phone Data Cap.

Dave McClure

 How CPAs Should Respond to a Malpractice Suit

November 12, 2013 

How CPAs Should Respond to a Malpractice Suit

CPAs have close relationships with their clients (especially in smaller accounting practices) and rightfully so. Who else is better to understand their client’s financial and business affairs than their trusted CPA? And the relationship generally remains close…

Ralph Q. Summerford

 The Rise of Practice Management

November 7, 2013 

The Rise of Practice Management

If there were ever a Hall of Fame for accounting software executives, I would not be inducted. That honor will be reserved for guys like Scott Cook of Intuit, Clyde Drake, Rene LaCerte and executives of a dozen other software companies.

Dave McClure

leadership-big-roy1

November 4, 2013 

Who’s Really Behind Your Cloud Service?

It is becoming more and more popular for cloud computing companies to not actually provide a cloud at all but resell for another cloud. As TechTarget describes it: “A white label cloud service is a cloud provider that sells customers resources that they can, in turn, offer to their own customers under their own brand....…

Roy Keely

 Pros & Cons of the Windows 8.1 Upgrade

October 31, 2013 

Pros & Cons of the Windows 8.1 Upgrade

From the Bleeding Edge blog. I have now downloaded and installed the official 2.5-Gigabyte Windows 8.1 upgrade/fix/enhancement to the much-maligned Windows 8 operating system.  And the official verdict is, if you absolutely love Windows 8k this is an upgrade that will provide you with wonderful, helpful tweaks and improvements. If you hate Windows 8, this...…

Dave McClure

Stacy-Kildal

October 29, 2013 

Behind the Numbers: Meet Stacy Kildal

Stacy is the owner of Kildal Services, LLC, an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and co-host of the podcast, Radio Free QuickBooks. She has two amazing kids – a 10-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son. Stacy is also a huge fan of (the band) Rush and The Lord of the Rings.

Taija Sparkman

 Memo to Microsoft

October 23, 2013 

Memo to Microsoft

Like most other people, I have suffered for more than a year as Microsoft flailed and flopped and twisted and ambiguated, but enough is enough.

Dave McClure

 Death By Toolbar

October 7, 2013 

Death By Toolbar

Sadly, most consumers have almost no idea where these changes came from, or how to get back to the search engines and toolbars they actually wanted.

Dave McClure

 Blog: Re-Visiting PC-Matic

October 2, 2013 

Blog: Re-Visiting PC-Matic

A long time ago…at least in terms of the life of a blogger…I did a quick overview of the PC-Matic utilities for personal computers. I wasn’t overly harsh, nor overly kind, and did mention that that in my mind the best service they provided was their newsletter.

Dave McClure