From a reader comes news that EditGrid has launched a private beta for an Excel plugin for offline work on spread­sheets. Pretty cool, as Mashable explains: As there are several levels of integration, the whole of the integration is rather seamless — it takes no time to load sheets from EditGrid to Excel, and you […]

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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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