Category Archives: Software

Quickbooks Backup

If you use quickbooks you obviously need to make sure that important data is backed up. No big deal if it is just one person. What if there are many? Quickbooks built-in backup utility unfortunately will not let you backup the company file if there are users logged on. And with many users it really isn’t feasible to expect everyone to log off every day, not to mention if you want to make backup copies throughout the day Continue reading

VmWare Fusion

Recently a client decided they just had to have a Mac. So they went and got one. The only problem: their business applications are windows-based. The answer: setting up a virtual Windows machine. The 2 most popular solutions for that seem to be Parallels and VmWare Fusion. I chose VmWare Fusion simply because I have some prior VmWare experience and wanted to have at least something familiar in the unfamiliar Mac territory Continue reading