Tired of using QuickBooks and Quicken? We are too! Here are 3 cloud alternatives for bookkeeping. (Plus they make it easy for your accountant or bookkeeper to see all your financial data--whether you are both on Macs, PCs, or a mix!) 1) Xero Can automatically pull in your bank data. Also works ...
Sync photos to an iPhone from different copies of iTunes
Our colleague, the wonderfully talented architectural photographer Connie Zhou, came up with a great method of getting around an iPhone or iPad's desire to marry itself to a single copy of iTunes for the purpose of syncing photos. If you don't know what I'm talking about: after you've synced some ...
Moving Up from iPhoto to Lightroom on My Mac
I’m an amateur photographer, and I have been using iPhoto for years, as a way to store, organize, and edit my photos. Recently I purchased and started using Adobe Lightroom instead of iPhoto. Lightroom has some advantages over iPhoto, including: Can handle many more photos than iPhoto can ...
Wunderlist: My new to-do app for iPhone and iPad (and Mac and Windows)
About a week ago I tried out Wunderlist to handle my to-do list. I’ve been using it every day since then -- it’s now my official to-do list management tool. The app is available for iPad, iPhone, and Android. It’s free for basic use; there’s a “Pro” version that's $5/month that allows you to share ...
FileMaker Pro: It Still Exists (for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Windows)
We recently checked out FileMaker Pro 12, because we wanted to use the Mac to create a customized, shared, web-published application that didn't require a ton of cost or development time. What I discovered was that what's old is new. FileMaker 12 is, in fundamental ways, not significantly different ...
PC’s have junkware. So do Macs. News at 11
Here at IvanExpert, we really don't spend much time with PC's, but a few of our clients have them in mixed environments with Macs. I looked at one today -- relatively new -- that wasn't performing right. And, lo and behold, there was crud galore installed, none of which was known about or intended ...