It’s taken me a week to decompress from my fourth QuickBooks Connect. It’s one of my favorite conferences, not just for the accounting industry, but of all those I’ve attended throughout my career’s various endeavors. As always, the education, networking, swag, and food were top-notch. Why I Go Every year I set a goal for […]
Mirroring Two Out of Three Monitors I present classes every week to a live audience and simultaneously webcast them. It poses a unique problem: How can I mirror just two of my monitors, but not all three? I work on my laptop in front of me, and project it up to the screen in the room for […]
Do you give presentations or corporate trainings for a living? You want to wow your audience with visuals that enhance the learning experience. You have needs beyond your computer’s built-in apps. You orchestrate projectors, PowerPoint presentations, and devices. This takes time and its own level of expertise. Here are a few of the technology tools I’ve found […]
There are dozens of email apps out there. You can log into Gmail in your browser, Outlook on a PC, or Apple Mail on a Mac. But they each have their own way of managing your emails. Back in the day, when you downloaded a message, it only lived on the first device that saw it […]
The Dual Monitor Conundrum Did you know you can use your iPad as a dual monitor? In my office, I use not just one, but THREE monitors. I frequently need to pull information from one program and move it into another. When I reconcile bank accounts, I like to use my bank’s activity screen, or […]
Clipboard Utilities are Copy/Paste Heaven Remember Microsoft Office’s “Clippy”? He was the friendly little assistant that popped up when you needed help in Microsoft Word and Excel. Much aligned, Microsoft did away with him about the turn of the century (is it too soon for that joke?). But if you were paying careful attention, he […]
Ten of my college friends and I are having a 50th birthday reunion in Hawaii next month. We’re all bringing our families, and we’re going to have almost 40 people ranging from 2 to 50 years old. Have you ever tried to plan a week-long vacation for just your family? It’s hard enough to keep […]
Technology Evolution One of the things I love about being in computer support is that my job never gets old. Computer operating systems and software are updated almost every day. For the most part, these improvements are wonderful, and helpful. Interestingly, they’re also increasingly invisible. You’ll be happily working away, and then you’ll find a […]
I recently came back from speaking at QuickBooks Connect in San Jose, and they featured new QuickBooks Online 3rd party apps. Third party apps make your QBO even more powerful. The “App Showdown” award-winner, Share a Refund, caught my eye. Did you know that if your FedEx and UPS deliveries are late, even by a minute, you’re […]
My 9 and 10-year-old kids are learning to text. As a computer trainer, I’m happy to teach my kids texting! Here is a funny but telling conversation my daughter and I had!Carrie was staying home with a cough. I dropped off her brother at school, then stopped at the supermarket to pick up food and medicine for her. Here’s our conversation: 7:44am Carrie: I’m […]
Technology changes rapidly. Overwhelmingly quickly! If you’re not tech-savvy, you may be comfortable with your always-done-it-this-way workflow, but you’re missing out on welcome possibilities. For example, MileIQ tracks your mileage so you don’t have to keep a paper log. ScannerPro allows you to take a picture of a handout instead of scanning it in the office, with the […]
At this time of year, it’s not just ghouls and zombies that strike terror into the hearts of intelligent adults. It’s business owners who don’t know accounting who become a monster client, and horrify their bookkeepers and CPAs. To celebrate Halloween I’m going to mix a dozen metaphors, and tell the story of Jason. He’s a Frankenstein-like […]