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September 21st, 2009

Quicken 2007 R3 Updater Now Available

Information from the Intuit Web site.

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September 2nd, 2009

Snow Leopard and Rosetta

What you need to know.

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October 1st, 2008

Advice to Home Buyers

A never-published sidebar.

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November 13th, 2007

A Computer without Word?

I try an experiment to see if I can stay productive without Microsoft Word.

Last week, in an effort to get my old 12″ PowerBook to run more efficiently, I decided to wipe the hard disk clean and reinstall Tiger with a clean install. After installing it, I got a little crazy and decided

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October 10th, 2007

Save $10 on Quicken 2008: The Official Guide

Buy the book at a deep discount from McGraw-Hill.

Are you using Quicken 2008 for Windows? The tenth edition of my bestselling guide for Quicken, Quicken 2008: The Official Guide is in stores. But if you’ve been holding off on buying, now’s your chance to buy and save. McGraw-Hill is offering the book for

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April 20th, 2007

Apple Corners 5% of PC Market?

Well, it depends on how you calculate that.

I downloaded my inveestment quotes into Quicken today, I noticed the little newspaper icon beside Apple’s name in the list. The icon indicates a news story for the company. I clicked the icon and found the headine “Apple Corners 5% of U.S. PC Market” with

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January 1st, 2006

Quicken Books Q & A

Looking for additional support for my Quicken books? If so, please read this:

I do not provide support for any of my Quicken Books on this or any other Web site, or by e-mail, telephone, fax, or any other means. This means I won’t answer your questions about these books, no matter how or

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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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