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I was completely unaware of this but PCLaw does not work on Windows Mobile devices, but only Pocket PC. I hope to get around this situation by installing a product called Airtime and link it to PCLaw. I will let you know how it goes.
Sometimes a client will install Amicus Accounting and want to start posting their old time to it. If this time is in the previous year, you will not be able to post. To fix this issue, make sure everyone is out of Amicus Accounting. Go to Start Up --> System Settings and Change the Financial Year Start and End Date to the previous year. Post all the time for that year and change the settings back to the current year.
Besides being extremely busy adding new clients in the past couple of months, our firm has made two drastic changes, that in the short term, made us less productive, and in the long term made us more productive. I will address these two changes in more detail in the upcoming weeks, but will briefly discuss them below. The first change was that we got rid of all of our Palm based smart phones and replaced them with windows based smart-phones. I am writing this post on a Treo 750 from Cingular, which is way more superior than any palm based phone I have used. The second change is that our firm upgraded all of our machines from XP to Vista. We want to stay ahead of the curb in technology, which is dangerous but exciting. I am still not recommending that everyone switch to Vista and I only have one person in one firm using it. I love it and find it very fast but I am also using a brand new Dell Laptop with a Core DUO 2.0 processor and 4GB of RAM. Surprisingly, the laptop only cost me $1700, before the Vista operating System and Office 2007. The best thing about my laptop is that I am using Virtual PC 2007 to run a virturalized Small Business Server 2003 environment and two Windows XP Environments. When I go to demo products now, I can show potential customers the products in natural environments without messing up my main computer. All in all, both upgrades of the PC and Smart-phone were the right decisions, but the conversion was not as smooth as it could have been. However we have learned from those mistakes and will pass that knowledge onto our clients. Its good to be back.
