WINDOWS & DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

The dates for Daylight Savings Time are changing this year, as required by a law passed in 2005. It turns out your computer doesn’t yet know about that and is fully prepared to muck up appointments in Outlook for the few weeks that are different in the spring...

THE IE7 MENU BAR

The team developing Internet Explorer 7 tried to maximize the screen space available for web pages by shrinking or removing some familiar parts of IE6. The missing menu bar has caused much grief for some of my friends and clients. Sorry! Here’s two tips that...

QUICKBOOKS, IE7 AND COMPUTER SECURITY

Intuit has finally released updates for various versions of Quickbooks to make them more or less compatible with Internet Explorer 7. Here’s the IE7 compatibility chart, with links to the various updates.This is an odd issue with a long history. For years,...

FIX FOR SLOW IE7 PHISHING FILTER

A few people have complained that Internet browsing was slow or erratic after installing Internet Explorer 7. I haven’t been able to find a pattern to explain that – no widespread reports of similar problems online, nothing other than scattered problems...

THE SAD TALE OF AMICUS ATTORNEY

At one time, Amicus Attorney was the premier program for law office case management. In version 5, it had a quirky but easy to understand interface, and a lot of power to link information together and present a unified view of a case – contacts, calendar, time...

IE7 & QUICKBOOKS

Some versions of Quickbooks are incompatible with Internet Explorer 7. It’s hard to say why IE7 came as a surprise to Intuit, but only now are patches appearing to make recent versions of Quickbooks work correctly after IE7 is installed.Here’s the...