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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 backing up to

  QuickBooks for Windows has been resolved.

• An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when opening a company

  file with the setting “Show Reminders List when QuickBooks starts” has been

  resolved.

• An issue with a memory leak when condensing a company file has been

  resolved.

Online banking

• Improvements have been made to the online banking feature, including: 1)

  pressing Return in the Downloaded Transactions window automatically

  performs the default action, like Add to Register, and 2) after adding a

  transaction to the register, the Downloaded Transactions window

  automatically selects the next transaction.

• An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when the filename of an

  online banking file (.qbo) contains a ‘+’ (plus sign) has been resolved.

• Double-clicking on an online banking file (.qbo) now launches QuickBooks

  with the last company file that was opened.

Reports

• Account names are now properly displayed in Profit & Loss reports after

  upgrading from QuickBooks 2005 for Mac.

• An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when creating a report that

  shows a company name with special characters has been resolved.

• Renaming a memorized report now works properly.
• The QuickReport option is now available for all accounts in the Chart of

  Accounts List.

• Invalid characters are no longer displayed in reports when the Company >

  Company Settings > Transactions > Use account numbers setting is used.

Lists

• Custom sorted lists now retain their custom sort order in pop-up menus.

  The Re-sort List option is now available for all lists.

Sales receipts and invoices

• Viewing all sales receipts using the Enter Sales Receipt window’s Prev button

  is now properly handled.

• An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when deleting an invoice

  after round-tripping a file to QuickBooks for Windows with the audit trail

  turned on has been resolved.

Payments

• The Receive Payments window no longer constantly reverts back to today’s

  date.

• Applying a partial payment to multiple invoices is now properly handled.

PayCycle

• An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when trying to save the Edit

  State Tax Information window from within PayCycle has been resolved.

• All vendor information is now imported from PayCycle contractor paychecks.
• An issue with duplicate employees in the Employee List when importing data

  from PayCycle has been resolved.

Other changes

• Accented characters in a company filename are now displayed in the

  Company Settings > Company Information window.

• QuickMath calculations are now properly handled when the setting

  “Automatically place decimal point” is enabled.

• Assigning subaccounts in transactions is now properly handled.
• An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when attempting to add

  1099 status to a vendor has been resolved.

• QuickFill now selects the correct account when the setting “Use Account

  Number” is enabled.

• Changes to the Cost field on an inventory item are now properly retained.
• An issue with unexpected QuickBooks behavior when Contact Sync is turned

  on when previously synced First Name fields are empty has been resolved.

• The font used to display the Reconcile window has changed for easier

  viewing.

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 installed on your machine, but applications will run with J2SE 5.0 unless they specifically request Java 1.4.2.

For more details on this Update, please visit this website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302983

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 personality to the site. Not that we get so many comments here.

On Saturday, I also submitted my own gravatar for rating and approval. And I’m still waiting for it to be approved.

Now in this day and age, we’re all pretty accustomed to immediate gratification. You apply for something online — a new account to access a Web site, etc. — and you get an e-mail message with approval within minutes. This is commonplace. So the fact that I’ve been waiting five days for a perfectly acceptable photo (G rated, I assure you) to get approved makes me wonder how serious the folks at gravatar.com are about this system they set up.

I was over on the site and it appears to be the work of a single very talented but very busy person. He’s working on Gravatar 2.0 (whatever that is) and asked for volunteers to help him rate and approve new submissions. Over 100 people volunteered, including me. I offered up to an hour a week until he was caught up. I didn’t get any reply.

The forums are a mess of extremely frustrated new users (like me) who have been waiting to use the feature. Some of them claim they’re embarrassed because they set up the feature on their sites and they’re one of the few people who don’t yet have a gravatar. I don’t feel that way. I don’t expect most of the visitors here to have one. But I am anxious to see if I implemented it correctly and the only way to do that is to see a comment from someone — like me — who has a gravatar.

Part of me urges those of you who are interested to go to gravatar.com, apply for a free account, and submit an image. Then kindly remind the management there, in the forums, that you’re waiting. Maybe that’ll put a fire under their butts and they’ll use some of those volunteers to rate and approve all the gravatars in the queue.

The other part of me says forget about it. Maybe it was just a bad idea.

I’ve always had a problem with patience. Maybe this is a test.

In any case, I’ll let you know when my gravatar appears so you can see how it’s implemented on this site. I’ll probably write an article about it for WordPress users, too. But first I need to make sure I got it right.

Time, apparently, may tell.