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Review: Outright finance management

May 7, 2013 11:23am PDT

Readers have suggested another alternative to QuickBooks; one that is available for minimal cost.

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Manage sales from your Android tablet with MobileBiz

January 31, 2013 1:33pm PST

Jack Wallen takes a look at MobileBiz, a powerful invoicing application for your Android tablet.

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Manage the product inventory in your TomatoCart installation

December 6, 2012 1:08pm PST

In this TomatoCart tutorial, learn how to add tax codes and zones, manage product categories, add products, and change banner images in the ecommerce solution.

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Guide clients to balance trade-offs in app development priorities

August 13, 2012 9:44am PDT

Get tips on helping customers make feature requests and prioritization decisions that support the development team in building the best app possible.

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What UK consultants need to know about IR35

July 26, 2012 2:22pm PDT

Under UK law IR35, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs may examine the contract between contractor and client to determine if its terms could describe an employment relationship.

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Were you hit by the leap second?

July 1, 2012 6:57pm PDT

It caused more damage than Y2K, and lasted for a solitary second. Were you caught up in this weekend's leap second carnage?

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Cloud adoption expected to accelerate rapidly in Singapore

June 18, 2012 8:33am PDT

Singapore's government is offering businesses incentives to adopt cloud computing. Learn how two service providers are responding to the country's rapid adoption of cloud.

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Catch up on AusCERT 2012

May 16, 2012 7:47pm PDT

The 11th edition of the AusCERT security conference is underway on Queensland's Gold Coast, and we've got the video lowdown.

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SohoOS: Helping sohos get it done

May 7, 2012 5:13am PDT

Daryl Lucas takes a look at SohoOS, an online service for small office and home office businesses.

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Geek Trivia: What are only two local U.S. holidays to delay the IRS tax deadline?

April 12, 2012 10:34am PDT

Emancipation Day is the only local holiday that can delay the national U.S. federal tax filing deadline. However, as recently as 2010, another local holiday also delayed Tax Day in much of the...

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Create quick and professional invoices from your tablet with Invoice2go

February 23, 2012 11:55am PST

Find out why Jack Wallen thinks Invoice2go is the best invoicing tool for the Android tablet platform.

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Geek Trivia: Why (and how) did the real-life US government rule that the fictional X-Men aren't human?

February 10, 2012 6:45am PST

Why did a real-life court of US law rule that mutants like the X-Men are definitively non-human -- ironically fulfilling the villainous role that the X-Men's comic book adventures always predicted?

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Schedule of 2012 trade shows and conferences in the U.S.

January 17, 2012 4:06am PST

Interested in attending a trade show or conference in your area of IT? Here's a list of some of the top ones and the information you'll need.

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Changes to expect in filing taxes for 2012

January 10, 2012 7:10am PST

Here are some changes in the tax code and IRS expectations that could affect your filing this year.

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DIY: Steps to take before entering inventory in Openbravo POS

December 17, 2011 3:18pm PST

Don't start entering inventory in your Openbravo POS system before following these preliminary steps.

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Lessons learned in Greece

December 13, 2011 4:18am PST

Patrick Gray travels to Greece to deliver a speech but learns more there than he expected.

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DIY: Manage your inventory in FrontAccounting

December 3, 2011 11:36pm PST

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up and managing inventory items in FrontAccounting, an open source alternative to QuickBooks.

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How to negotiate what you want out of life

November 11, 2011 4:49am PST

Almost every activity in life is a form of negotiation. In this blog John provides seven tips for leveraging business negotiation as a life skill.

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Why did you become an IT consultant?

November 3, 2011 5:33pm PDT

Learn what motivated Chip Camden to start his independent consulting business 20 years ago, and then tell the community what factors contributed to your choice to become an IT consultant.

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