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October 1st, 2008

Advice to Home Buyers

A never-published sidebar.

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November 15th, 2007

Two Blogs? Again?

After over a year of soul-searching, I decide to spin off my book support topics to their own site.

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September 20th, 2006

QuickBooks VQS Revision Info

An update on the book’s revision status.

At this point, Peachpit Press has decided not to revise my QuickBooks 2006 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide for the next version of QuickBooks. This is a financially-based decision; the current book’s sales were not sufficient to warrant a revision.

That doesn’t mean we won’t revise the

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September 18th, 2006

FAQ System Replaced with Comment-Based Q & A System

I retire the old, underutilized system and replace it with a simpler, spam-protected solution.

One of the biggest challenges I have as an author is providing clarifications and corrections of my work to readers on request.

In the beginning, I used to just answer questions submitted via e-mail. But when I started getting dozens

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April 24th, 2006

Another FileMaker Basics Article

Another Article for Advisor Basics is published.

My article, “Streamlining Data-Entry with Value Lists,” for Advisor Basics of FileMaker Pro has been released.

For those of you who are wondering why I write about FileMaker Pro, here are the reasons:

I’ve written three books about FileMaker Pro (although none of them are currently in

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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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March 24th, 2006

Sample Chapter Now Online

Informit.com posts sample Chapter of QuickBooks book.

You can now find a sample chapter of my QuickBooks Pro 2006 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, in HTML format, on the Informit.com Web site. The chapter covers entering sales and related topics.

January 1st, 2006

Out-of-Print Books Q & A

Have a question about something in one of my out-of-print books? Here’s how to get the answer:

Browse through the comments at the end of this article to see if someone else has already asked your question. You might get the answer without even asking! If your question is not asked (or answered), use

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January 1st, 2006

QuickBooks QuickStart Q & A

Have a question about something in one of my QuickBooks Visual QuickStart Guides? Here’s how to get the answer:

Browse through the comments at the end of this article to see if someone else has already asked your question. You might get the answer without even asking! If your question is not asked (or

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