joelgilb

I have been successful in moving audits everytime I requested it. Key is that it is for the benefit of the taxpayer and that includes if their representation is in a different location.

Amen. good thing that for once I didn't sit on the fence and placed my order!

What is dial up? lol

Don't be cheap! Offer to purchase the practice based on paying some percentage over a period of a couple of years and as the clients come in the door. Good for her and good for you. Not unrealistic to pay somewhere between 50% to 100% of the the fees, paid over 3 to 5 years. I suggest the smaller number as the prior accountant is not there to help maintain the base.

And I just checked the links KC added and apparently I had Conficker E!

and Oh, I can see the images Eric posted the url to now!

Lets see 3 days of dealing with this thing, 3 hours on the phone with Microsoft, who went to monumental efforts to help, but were unsuccessful I am afraid. All virus checking software sites Blocked Blocked and Blocked again! Finally downloaded Avast on a clean machine. Tried to install it and whoa, the drive I tried to install to BLOCKED! But changed the installation software files name and it installed. Virus definitions old so was only able to partially clean it out. Tried to update - BLOCKED! then went and manually downloaded the update on a clean machine and through a monumental effort and several uses of Task Manager to end processes (with difficulty) was able to manually update Avast. 5 hours and 2 scans later it cleaned the virus out. No wonder Microsoft is offering a bounty for information on who created this one.

Anyone have any knowledge of the conficker virus? MY ISP is suggesting I may have it as I am having difficulty with my old antivirus software and can't download their provided security suite

Bowing to the powers to be.

Mel, are you out there? Following what is going on and do you have any news for the future? Still feel that long term, that you are our answer Mel.

Apparently their demo link was just to sign me up for a time. Will report after I try it out

Just found this one: http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite (see below). Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users. powered by Mozilla Under the hood, SeaMonkey uses much of the same Mozilla source code which powers such successful siblings as Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino, Sunbird and Miro. Legal backing is provided by the Mozilla Foundation. Also sounds interesting and gets you away from some other MS applications (MS, a pun on words!)

I haven't yet, but they just sent me a demo link, so they are next. Thx

Another link measures speed of the different browsers http://www.favbrowser.com/safari-4-vs-goog...net-explorer-7/ Firefox 213 Chrome 235 Opera (remember this one) 263 and the Winner Safari 366 Full review http://www.legitreviews.com/article/929/1/ Includes a couple of browsers I have never even heard of - Seamonkey?

Good review and comparison of the 3 browsers: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web...efox-3-1-462848 Couple of mistakes in the review. Suggest some features that Chrome has that Firefox does not. Well althought this may be true, add-ons have provided these same features. Why is Firefox slower. Well they have slowly added features, rather than as they initially indicated had these features only available as add-ons. This, like IE has slowly bloated the software. So, most likely over time Chrome will do the same. Still this review seems to think it is close between Chrome and Firefox, only barely giving the win to Firefox. Which really means, its a personal choice. this second site has an interesting longer term take and suggests that Chrome, will mainly get users from Firefox, meaning if it was able to get all users to switch the best it can garner is 20% of the browser market: http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/09/c...ng-over-20.html "Apple, Adobe, Google, and others have chosen WebKit as their HTML display engine over FireFox's Gecko because it is smaller, easier to understand, and has been faster. But Gecko is purpose-built, from the ground up, to do extensions. No one else has'em. The competitors have traded flexibility for performance. But for much of the cutting edge Firefox using crowd, extensions are really, really important." As for speed, add the add-on (extension) "Fasterfox" and watch the speed of firefox increase, dramatically in some cases. Still Chrome may be faster. Which is faster? Look at this link: http://onlinegadgetbox.blogspot.com/2009/0...s-safari-4.html Hmm Apple's Safari? 30 times faster than all 3? Is this available for Windows? Well as a matter of fact it is and interestingly, it's the first browser to pass the Acid3 security test. http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/03/19/a...download-links/ And although I am a hard and true Windows XP user, Apple does a lot of things better and maybe this is one of them. For me its about the extensions/add-ons though. Firefox has an add-on everything and every way I want to do things in a browser. from zooming pictures, text, to dragging a dropping web urls into a new tab or window, from IE emulation (I have 2 different add-ons here) to tab clicking and mouse gestures. Want foreign web translation, plug in your add-on. Updating Windows without IE, another add-on. Does this slow the program, sure, but now I have my browser with a Cherry on top and Sprinkles!

Agree with KC on dual monitors. Went to dual monitors last season, 1 24" and 1 19" (turned sideways). Now I have the CY tax software open, PY tax software and the adobe Acrobat Pro with my clients data all open simultaneously. and wah la, no paper! Don't skimp and buy a cheap scanner. Make sure you get a reasonably quick ADF with Duplex capability. Will save the hair on the top of your head. There was recent thread here which discussed scanners and is worth looking at. As for scanning software. I have used several versions of paperport and initially liked it. However, after getting a more sophisticated software bundled with my Kodak I65 scanner, I immediately dumped paperport. World of difference. Software is just as important as the scanner. Finally you will need a decent Document Management Software (DM). Would love to help here, but I am still (and it has been 2 years now) looking for one that has all the features that should be included, without paying several thousand dollars for it. What I can say is forget the ATX Document Manager. It is way to low level and IMHO you will pay for using this low cost or free bundled document manager later. KC did have an interesting recommendation for Speedy Organizer at http://www.speedyscan.biz/. I just did an online demo today and for a low cost (under $300.00) has a lot to offer. I did not like that it renamed and moved everyone of my files to its own (well one you direct it to) folder. But to its credit it did not change the file type. It also renames your files, and can create some squirreley names. My concern is what happens when they are gone. Well their answer is it is MS Sql and should not be a problem... BUT still bothers me. Further there is no internal OCR, an almost essential feature in any decent DM. An although it can search inside files, it is a one word exact matching search only and only if the files are searchable. Without OCR many PDF scans will not be searchable. Again minimum needs would suggest a boolean search inside files. Finally, if you structure folders in different ways, as I do ( some by client name, some by type - Wordproc files, Spreadsheet files etc), you may need to create multiple databases and would have to search each one separately. Awkward and cumbersome. Still it looks like a cost effective software to start DM with, although not enough for me I am afraid. Therefore I am still looking for a sub $1,000.00 more featured DM software.

Firefox has worked that way for forever. And has more addons than any other browser, so you can customize it any way you want it

Braeden and the rest of TRX, I agree with Zeke. Thanks for all the efforst out here and handling the bashing many have given you so well. As you may know, I have already signed on with TRX. Looking forward to a better season next year. Also, when do we get the sign-on information and account numbers for your site?

Its not that you had to buy your own pizza that counts, it's the quality of the pizza that counts

Mel: Hope you have been following everything that is going on. Still a lot of folks here interested in your future plans. Also, Enjoy the Surfing!

You could put a deposit down of $20.00 to reserve your copy and not have much risk, plus guarantee your TRX version of the software

Thx Now is it good?

waiting for the answer to Jainens' question. Come on Tom, you asked and left it wide open, now pay the piper!

Had to make another post just to get past the 666 post level, even though as I Jew I don't believe in the Devil. Now once KC defects, it is all over.

Never had skyline chili. Bet if you like it it must be good. So how do I get some? And Oh, Atta-Girl Margaret!