I recently tried out EditGrid, in response to a post by Dennis on recent enhance­ments. I had already been using Google Spread­sheets a little bit, but not too much, because, quite frankly, it just wasn’t all that intuitive. I consider myself a fairly advanced Excel user, and Google Spread­sheets just didn’t have the same level […]

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Kind of old news (it’s from January last year) but BDO Seidman has imple­mented commercial open source software to manage their nationwide network of member firms. Open source software is software whose under­lying source code is openly available and is usually licensed under the GNU GPL. What I like about open source is that the […]

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Dennis Howlett recently announced a new accounting web app called FreeAgent, which looks pretty cool and seems to be approaching an age-old problem in a new way: All the well known products and services are geared towards people who already under­stand the funda­mentals of book-keeping. Sage, Intuit and others will argue they’ve simplified the user interface […]

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In the world of business, with the notable exception of “creative” indus­tries, IT is dominated by Microsoft Windows. Apple’s Mac enjoys niche success in art and media related circles, but hasn’t been able to crack into mainstream business use. This is not for lack of trying. Apple’s website has a section devoted to how some […]

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A little while back I realized that it might be worth­while to direct all my blog-related email through an @neilmcintyre.ca address, and leave my regular Gmail for personal corre­spon­dence. I set up neil@neilmcintyre.ca and began using it for blog business. But I’ve never liked using stand­alone email clients like Thunderbird or Outlook. I prefer web-based […]

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