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April 19th, 2006

QuickBooks 2006 R4 Update Now Available

Information from the Updater Read Me File

Changes in R4:

File operations

You can now use QuickBooks on the same network server as the one your

company file is located on. If another user has accessed the company file,

you will see that the file is locked. An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when

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April 19th, 2006

Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 4 Now Available

Information from Software Update.

Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Release 4 delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 on Mac OS X v10.4.5 and later. This release includes J2SE version 1.5.0_06. With this update J2SE 5.0 becomes the preferred Java version, superseding Java 1.4.2. Java 1.4.2 is still

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April 19th, 2006

Gravatars Update

I’m having second thoughts about that gravatar feature.

Last Saturday, I added a gravatar feature to this site. As I discussed in this article, the gravatar image for anyone who had one would automatically appear when they wrote a comment on this site. Just a kind of cool and funky way to add more

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