May 28, 2008 at 3:02 pm
· Filed under Apple, iPhone, iPod
Starting with today’s update to MAC OS X Leopard, 10.5.3, which should come down to your Mac automatically in the next week.
You’ll see an option in Address Book to sync your contacts with Google Contacts, this is really good news, as many client’s already are using a combination of Gmail’s great IMAP and Spam filtering combined with Apple Mail, the big issue was that Apple Mail, and your iPhone/iPod uses Mac’s own ‘Address Book’ (not to mention your iPhone and/or iPod’s contact list), wheras GMail relies on it’s own Contact database.
Well rejoice, you can now synce the two of them up and have one unified list of your contacts accessible inside a browsear window, Apple Mail, your iPhone, iPod Touch or any other device that syncs with your Mac, Moto RazR springs to mind.
Details are here: http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/05/mac-os-x-1053-sync-google-contacts.html
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May 5, 2008 at 8:03 pm
· Filed under Apple
A great question, submitted yesterday, followed by my answer, hope it’s useful: Hi Brendan–do you know, off the top of your head, a bank that supports direct connect for Quickbooks? I called Wells F. and they proved their unenlightenment once again…thought you might know, as you mentioned you used quickbooks when i saw you the other day.
,I’m a Bank of America user, forgive me, I came here from the East coast where BoA is sensible, so can’t comment exactly on Wells Fargo’s setup, I’m thinking they absolutely should provide Direct Connect though. In the meantime, here’s the BoA statement regarding Direct Connect:
Can I use QuickBooks with Online Banking?
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Yes. To use QuickBooks with Online Banking, you first must be enrolled in Online Business Suite. Enrolling in Online Business Suite will automatically enroll you in Online Banking with QuickBooks (Direct Connect). Click here to enroll in Online Business Suite.
Once you are enrolled in Online Business Suite, you have two options: You can download checking and savings transactions from Online Banking to QuickBooks using Web Connect, or you can access your accounts and pay bills directly through your QuickBooks software using Direct Connect.
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This is clipped from http://www.bankofamerica.com/onlinebanking/index.cfm?template=faq_quicken
Most likely, you don’t want to move to BoA from WF just for this, but having this website in your back pocket should make negotiating with Wells Fargo, a little easier.Hope this helps, please let me know how this progresses for you, I’m still using good old QIF files 
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