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Review: On The Job - Time Tracking for the Mac
Before I became self-employed again. I looked for a time tracking application. I tried one on the iPad which was a complete waste of money. So, I decided to go back to time tracking on my Mac. At least I could evaluate the programs before buying. Over the years, I never found a program that I liked and eventually wrote my own little app. For various reasons, I was tracking time outside of QuickBooks (which I was using for account for my family's LLC) and always ended up recording time and then generating invoices in QuickBooks. At that time, I didn't need an app that also did invoicing, so finding a simple app was difficult. Now that things are different and I wanted to do invoicing in the time tracking app, finding the right tool became easier.
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Running with an iPhone
A few weeks ago I started listening to audiobooks again and became very engrossed in a James Patterson book. I was running with an iPod Nano and walked the dog with my iPhone as well as had my iPhone with me while driving. In order to keep my position in the book, I had to sync the Nano after my run, then sync my iPhone and then before my run, sync the iPhone and then the Nano. This got old real fast (a few days).
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Mystery of poor iPad battery life
Last week I started noticing that my iPad would go from 100% to about 10% battery life in one day with very minimal usage. This had me confused, so I decided to try 2 things to see if I could get the battery life back up. Unfortunately I tried both things in conjunction, so I'm not sure which one of the two made a huge difference. The first is I restarted the iPad. This sounds like a no-brainer, but I usually don't reset my devices. I noticed that I couldn't complete a call on my iPhone the other day, so I restarted it and it felt a lot more responsive; so I gave the iPad a restart to see if it would help.
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Losing a customer
When I setup the DBA for my company, Gruby Solutions, I went ahead and found a free business checking account with Washington Mutual. While I didn't need a bank account as my company is a sole proprietorship, I figured it would look more professional and could have some benefits down the line. When Chase bought Washington Mutual, the free account transferred over. When my wife was looking for a bank account for her business, she also chose Chase.