Comments for Billy Fire LLC

Comment on Quickbooks 2006 to stop sending email after May 31, 2006 by Tom

Tom — Sat, 21 May 2011 05:37:15 +0000

This is an old thread which I found because QB is doing the same thing–discontinuing my ability to email invoices because it’s too expensive to support such a thing if a version is over three years old (I have Premier 2008). So, as usual, QB only has 4 improvements for 2011 over 2010 (and I haven’t needed any improvements at all since the 2006 edition).

Yet I’m being strong-armed into dropping $400 for an “upgrade” just so I can use email. And here’s the rub: They don’t have to discontinue email at all! There’s nothing there technologically that costs them anything extra for support, and it costs them nothing extra to leave the older versions capable.

I hate being lied to. HATE it!

Comment on Quickbooks 2006 to stop sending email after May 31, 2006 by Perry

Perry — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:55:03 +0000

Easy work around to send invoices. Simply open up the invoice and select ‘Save as PDF’ from the File Menu and attach saved file to your personal email.

Comment on Super 8mm by Mike

Mike — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:04:26 +0000

Hi, I’ve had that same camera for abuot 20 years now.. got it off my dad.. i filmed 4 years of university on a single 50″ film .. I just got off the phone to a conversion company in Leeds and he was telling me abuot Dwaynesphoto. Can you email me how much the cost was for your conversion so i have an idea of what to expect.. Cheers

Comment on Quickbooks 2006 to stop sending email after May 31, 2006 by martyn.whittaker

martyn.whittaker — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:53:25 +0000

I think it is just a crude, but effective way of getting people to upgrade. There is no good technical reason. Intuit could easily have provided a way for you to enter an outgoing SMTP server so you could send emailed invoices directly from your PC. Also, in the 2006 version there was an occasional problem that meant that when one tried to send invoices it would sometimes hang while trying to contact a, presumably, unobtainable IP address. . The only way I found of clearing this was to close Quickbooks, reopen and send again. I was disappointed that this ‘feature’ has been carried over to the 2009 edition.

Comment on Quickbooks 2006 to stop sending email after May 31, 2006 by Ray

Ray — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:18:37 +0000

Does anyone know if this is an incompatibility because they changed the way they handle emailing the .pdf files or just a ploy to have users upgrade? My current workaround is printing it to my adobe converter and then emailing the file as an attachment.

Comment on Quickbooks 2006 to stop sending email after May 31, 2006 by martyn.whittaker

martyn.whittaker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:33:43 +0000

I think they may have misspoke. I installed Pro 2009 version and I am able to send invoices.

Comment on Quickbooks 2006 to stop sending email after May 31, 2006 by Joel

Joel — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:18:06 +0000

So I contacted support via their Chat application to ask about upgrading to 2009. I was told that the 2009 version will not allow me to send invoices from QB, so I’d be paying $200 to have less features. I wish there was a way to link my mail client to QB 2006, so when I hit mail invoice it would fire up Thunderbird and send the PDF.

My QB stopped sending invoices yesterday, 6 days early. So I spent last night setting up a new process for sending out invoices and price quotes. Thanks Intuit, how robust is Freshbooks?

Comment on Looking for a good and inexpensive way of recording voice by martyn.whittaker

martyn.whittaker — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:02:35 +0000

I don’t remember excatly the model number. I bought the mic from Amazon and it was the frame that came up with ‘other people are also buying’ suggestions. It seems fine, but I expect that with this sort of inexpensive microphone it would be difficult to determine too much difference when using ancillary equipment.

Comment on Super 8mm by rick

rick — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:11:56 +0000

That’s a great pic of the film canister. May I use it on my blog talking about super 8? Thanks!

Comment on Virtual PBX by Techietype

Techietype — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:38:19 +0000

You should try GotVmail or EasyOfficePhone.com. EasyOfficePhone has worked great for us, and they actually provide voip service with SIP phones!!! Check them out. I had 800PBX a while ago, but it was so bad that we left within 3 days.