Product / Service Reviews

If I use it I’ll tend to review it. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

06
Nov

Quickbooks 2009 Online Banking is Absolutely Horrible

If you’re considering upgrading to Quickbooks Pro 2009 and you use the Online Banking feature, I have some advice for you–DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT DO IT!!!

I just upgraded from Quickbooks 2006 because you have to upgrade every three years–they force you to by not supporting versions that are more than three years old, meaning you can’t get payroll…

29
Sep

Carbonite and external drives don’t mix.

I tried out Mozy as a solution for online backups about a year ago. Perhaps it’s improved since then but at the time it stunk. It would error out all the time, it took me almost 2 months to create the first backup (even though I had it on all the time and my connection was plenty fast), and so I…

21
Feb

USPS Temporary Mail Forwarding Could Use Some Improvement

Remember how a few week ago I set up temporary mail forwarding so that I could receive my mail in Ohio while I was out of Utah for a month? Well, it was easy enough to set up, but the experience afterwards has been less than ideal, which is a shame, because the post office could make it a lot easier…

04
Feb

Work Anywhere and Check Your Snail Mail Online

I was just turned on to Earth Class Mail, a service that scans your postal mail and shows you images of it online and then allows you to shred it or forward it to the location of your choice, by Chris Knudsen. I haven’t signed up yet, due to the lack of a Salt Lake City street address, but I…

17
Dec

Utah Bed and Breakfast in Midway Near Heber / Park City

I’ll put this bluntly–you and your spouse should try this place out. MWI did the website for the Johnson Mill, a Utah bed and breakfast in Midway, which is right next door to Heber and just a few minutes from Park City, back around 2003. We’ve recently started providing SEO services for them as well.

But even though they’re a client, I can…

05
Dec

Comcast’s Version of Customer Service

I have Comcast’s business Internet service, and I love it. I can’t remember ever having an issue with it. I have 8-10 mbps down, and 1 mbps up for $160 per month. The problem is I’m not supposed to have that. You see, I called in two months ago and downgraded to their 6-8 mbps down/768K up package for $100…

21
Sep

Upgrading to MovableType 4.0 - Worth it or Not?

Not.

06
Jun

Comcast High-speed Cable Internet for Business

I’ve had our office’s Internet connectivity provided by Comcast’s business services division for about a year now and I love it. It’s less than $200 per month and speeds average between 6-8mbps down and are always 1mbps up. It’s hard to beat.

However, I recently tried to change my billing address, and that was a different story.

10
May

Walls

There’s the Great Wall of China, but there are bigger walls that do more to hold us back from achieving our goals and those are the walls we create in our own minds. You know how it works. You’re exposed to new information, and you get this feeling in your head that says “This is a little bit weird…” or…

17
Apr

AppRiver’s Hosted Exchange Server and Spam Filtering

We recently switched our corporate email to a hosted Exchange solution from AppRiver. It happens to be down right now (which is why I have time to blog), but this is still a positive review. Frankly, getting this Exchange server from AppRiver and having their spam filtering is one of the best things we’ve ever done.

17
Apr

Motorola Q with Verizon

Well, I finally did it. I got neither a Treo nor a Blackberry but the Motorola Q. It’s been about two weeks ago and I’m liking it more every day, as opposed to other smartphones I’ve had in the past, the allure of which wore off as time went on.

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