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oftware Download site. Topics include software product releases as well as SEO and software development information and tips. Software Promotion + SEO This blog covers a range of topics concerning the SoftTester Shareware/ Software Download site. Topics include software product releases as well as SEO and software development information and tips. About Software Promotion Rules How to SEO a web page How to SEO product page SEO Tools Fix your site marketing Useful SEO Excerpts Link Building Guide Knowledge Base Private Posts Why do I have to raise an invoice? An invoice is a notice to your customer informing them of the work you have done for them or the goods you have supplied. It tells them how much money they have to pay you and when. Your invoices enable you to keep a record of how much business you have carried out during that day, week, month or perhaps tax year. If you itemise your services or goods on your invoice you can then also keep track of how much business you do with each of them. Paper invoicing is great, it’s tangible, on the table and there’s no ‘ logging in’ to see it. But in the techie world that we all live in more and more people and businesses are demanding digital invoice files. SliQ Invoicing online helps you to make the leap from paper and postage stamps to digital invoice templates saved in the cloud and sent to you customers by email. Did someone else want a copy of that invoice? With SliQ you just cc them on the email and that’s another postage stamp saved. Of course all the time and hassle finding the red box is saved too. Mistakes – we all make them. But add your invoice up wrong and you might do your self out of a few pennies or pounds. But a digital invoice template will do the adding up and tax calculation for you. 2017 10 12 MikeL Business Software Comments (0) Permalink Essential Invoicing Software Features An invoicing software package needs to have a few essential features before it can truly be said to be more useful than manual invoicing, e.g. using a book of bills or simply using Excel invoice templates. Here’s a list of the top 5 essential attributes you need to look for in even the most basic and easy invoice software:- 1. A selection of professional invoice templates To be considered professional, any invoice package needs to include a set of clean, professional invoice templates. The templates need to be neatly laid out and easy to read. The templates also need to let you add your business logo and contact details including payment instructions. 2. The package needs to let you easily edit the templates Just letting you add your logo to a template is not enough. Any decent invoicing package will need to let you make edits to its templates. You may need different templates for specific customers for example or you may need to rearrange items and show extra information on your invoices, e.g. if you want to publicise special deals or offers from your business. 3. You need to be able to track payments It goes without saying that the main reason for invoicing is to get paid. Make sure any software you purchase lets you easily record payments as well as show reports of who owes money and has overdue invoices. 4. Automates as much as possible of repeat invoicing The better invoicing software supports recurring or automatic invoicing. You should be able to set up an initial invoice or transaction then have the package automatically raise future invoices on a schedule you set, e.g. once a month for 12 months. 5. Handles other documents, especially quotes Any decent invoice software should also handle other documents associated with sales from your business. The most obvious is that and package capable of producing invoices should also be a good quote software too as quoting and invoicing go hand in hand with most businesses. For example, many tradesmen such as electricians and builders often produce quotes for work. They may need to track which quotes have been accepted/ rejected then raise invoices when work is completed and due to be charged. For more information on invoicing, please visit http://www.sliqtools.co.uk/ 2013 02 03 MikeL Business Software Comments (0) Permalink Balance Guide v1.6 iPhone App What’s new in the latest version of Balance Guide ? The multi-account feature has been extended further and now includes transfers between accounts. To provide maximum flexibly, the transfer feature allows you enter a different description and date, catering for differences in clearing. Also a backup and restore feature via Dropbox Balance Guide iPhone app 2012 01 06 Dipsy iPhone / iPad Development Comments Off on Balance Guide v1.6 iPhone App Permalink My security in-security obesession for the year We’ll our kaspersky internet security renewal was coming up so we upgraded. Been good this year, with other products we normally go for something different but have no complaints. So had a look to see what I could get for my mac mini and they don’t have a internet security package, but they have AV so I bought that too ? also turned on the snow leopard firewall. Phew… by JM 2010 10 10 Dipsy Tech Talk Comments (0) Permalink iPhone, why I moved from FMDB to direct Sqlite3 I’m still quite disappointed, FMDB was easy to implement and only a few lines of code to do almost anything. I’ve even posted some example code on my blog. But when I sat and thought about, I realised I’d wasted two days (in total) trying figure out why sql wasn’t working. There must be some problems in the libraries as the sql was working but failed on simple sql statements. So today I’ve decided to use Sqlite3 directly, which has taken me have a day and I have all the previous code replaced and working. Yes, it takes more code and is more difficult to implement. by JM 2010 09 29 Dipsy iPhone / iPad Development Comments (0) Permalink iPhone, how to insert a record using fmdb One of the easiest ways to perform transactions with a database with the iPhone is with the fmdb libraries. Its a few lines of code to do almost anything. This is the primary documentation for fmdb http://gusmueller.com/blog/archives/2005/3/22.html It’s pretty good and straight forward. But, I’ve had some problems today trying to insert a record. None of the usage code I found on the web seemed to be any different to the code I was using. However, after inserting one field at a time I found my problem was due to using an integer where I needed to use NSNumber. So I thought I’d post the code I arrived at, maybe it will help someone else. NSMutableString *strAmount = [NSMutableString stringWithString:txtAmount.text]; [strAmount replaceCharactersInRange: [strAmount rangeOfString: strCurrencySymbol] withString:@""]; NSString *strRecurrance = [self.pickerRecurranceData objectAtIndex:intSelRecurrenceRow]; NSArray *parts = [strRecurrance componentsSeparatedByString: @" "]; NSNumber *numInterval = [NSNumber numberWithInt:[[parts objectAtIndex:0] intValue]]; NSString *strIntervalType = [parts objectAtIndex:1]; // string to date NSString *myDateString = btnStartDate.titleLabel.text; NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease]; [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd MM yyyy"]; NSDate *datStartDate = [[NSDate alloc] init]; datStartDate = [dateFormatter dateFromString:myDateString]; NSString *strDesc = txtDescription.text; FMDatabase* db = [FMDatabase databaseWithPath:@"/tmp/tmp.db"]; if (![db open]) { NSLog(@"Could not open db."); } if (![db tableExists:@"mytable"]) { [db executeUpdate:@"CREATE TABLE ’mytable’ (’pid’ INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT NOT NULL,’desc’ VARCHAR,’sdate’ DATETIME,’interval’ INTEGER,’itype’ VARCHAR,’price’ DOUBLE);", nil]; } [db beginTransaction]; [db executeUpdate:@"INSERT INTO mytable (desc,sdate,interval,itype,price) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?);", strDesc, datStartDate, numInterval, strIntervalType, strAmount, nil]; //NSLog(@"Err %d: %@", [db lastErrorCode], [db lastErrorMessage]); [db commit]; [db close]; by JM 2010 09 27 Dipsy iPhone /...