FREE BOOKKEEPING

Outright.com is a free service for keeping track of your business and figuring out your taxes.

TIME TO QUICKBOOK YOUR TAXES

Tis the season for accounting programs, and some QuickBook users may be wondering if it’s worth updating to Quickbooks 2009. We had a chat with Bonnie Biafore, author of “Quickbooks 2009, the Missing Manual.”

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INTERNUTS

FirstonMars.com and Bill4Time.com

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IPHONE APPS

New iPhone apps… the personal formulator and podcasting on the go.

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EASY INVOICES

FreshBooks.com is a service for creating and sending out invoices while you’re online. You can send invoices by email, postal mail or both.

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SPREAD THOSE SPREADSHEETS AROUND

A Windows utility called “eXpresso” allows a number of people to collaborate on the same spreadsheet, online at the same time. Now that businesses have employees scattered across the world, such collaboration can be very useful.

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THE DATABASE

After having a word processor, the most important program you can have is a database. There’s one called Blist that is a blast.

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POINT OF SALE

We remember the first time we saw a clerk at a fast food restaurant press a finger on a picture of a sandwich to ring up a sale. Now, just about any business can be set up to do that with a touch screen and some appropriate software.

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ORGANIZE IT ON A MAC

FileMaker has released Bento, a $49 version of the FileMaker database for the Mac’s Leopard operating system. FileMaker is a really great database program, and this is an easy-to-use version for people who don’t have severe database demands (which is most of us).

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FREE QUICKBOOKS

QuickBooks SimpleStart.

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