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Intuit TurboTax Home & Business: Comprehensive Help for Sole-Proprietor Taxes

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TurboTax Home & Business’s attention to detail and excellent data-import features make it the package of choice for sole proprietors with complex tax situations, but it’s expensive and it might be overkill for some sole Schedule C filers.
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Results of a recent survey indicate that CTS’ free software selection reviews, ratings and shortlist consult lead to satisfied software buyers. (PRWeb February 14, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/2/prweb8137297.htm
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Getting Down to Business with Google Chrome

As a college student, I have had plenty of experience experimenting with each of these browsers. Yes, all of them have some problems. But there is a browser that has given me (by far) the least headaches compared to the others. This browser is Google Chrome. Now if you are anything like me, you are very browser specific. When I first heard of Chrome, I did not want to drop Mozilla. It was all I wanted to use (even though Mozilla seemed to crash on a daily basis). But I downloaded Chrome and fell in love almost immediately. The interface is so simple to use, and everything about Chrome seems smoother in general. The browser has literally crashed once or twice over the last 5-6 months (which is miles better compared to almost daily with the others). This is all without mentioning the integration Google Chrome has with Google Apps. Which leads me directly into my next point.

If you are a business, Google has just released something very new to the browser world. It is called Google Chrome for Business (I know, what an exciting name). What Chrome for Business does, is allow for integration of the browser into your business. The new Chrome offers controls for people on your IT team to configure and deploy the browser on virtually any system. An MSI installer and customizable browser settings offer an easy configuration and control of the browser from an IT standpoint. Chrome for Business allows for necessary applications (HTML 5) to be used and integrated. While it is still in the beginning stages, I would highly recommend giving it a try. Whether you are an individual hoping for a better browser, or a business looking for advanced control and uniformity, Google Chrome is the way to go. But enough rambling about how great it is… Try it for yourself and let me know what you think!

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QuizMaker Pro, a Complete Assessment Tool for Home, School or Business, Receives a Major Upgrade

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Class One Software (http://www.classonesoftware.com), makers of software solutions for school and business, announces the release of QuizMaker Pro version 6.0, a full-featured application which generates, administers, archives and scores multiple choice, matching, and short answer tests. In this program, the user can:

Create and save multiple choice, matching, or short answer tests.

Edit previous tests.

Link tests of different kinds together to be graded as one.

Have the computer administer the tests to students, notify students of their scores, allow them to review missed questions, see scores in a file accessible only to the teacher.

Print copies of the test or print the scores for the class.

Include pictures, movies, sounds, and explanations to accompany each question.

Analyze test results by class or by test.

Export tests for formatting in a word processor.

Use many other features.

This major upgrade to QuizMaker Pro adds a database engine for easier and more detailed viewing of student data and scores. This version also adds the ability to link different tests to be graded as one and removes previous limits on the number of questions. The test creator can now also incorporate sound files in addition to pictures and movies. Various user interface improvements, including larger screens, are featured in this latest version.

A manual is available as a separate download. Online help is available within the application.

Registrations are $ 19.95 single, $ 119 site. Upgrades for registered users of v. 5.x are free. Registration information is included with the program. For more information, or to download a copy for Windows XP or Macintosh OS X, please visit: http://www.classonesoftware.com/C_htmls/QuizMaker.html

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The New Formula for Success in the Music Business

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Hardly anybody in the music business understands that the old formula of how to successfully promote a new act is obsolete. The record companies are all aware that there is a big problem but they have no idea what the solution is. What they do understand is that they are unable to recoup their investment in studio time with a good producer, the cost of a good video, the advertising budget, and the cost of the first promotional road tour from the profits on a first hit CD. An act must be capable of repeating and sustaining their initial success in the studio in order for a record company to make a profit because the necessary investment has increased dramatically. Ever since the mid 1990′s the record companies have become painfully aware that there are no acts containing songwriters who can keep on writing more hit songs. All the new acts since the mid 1990′s have one, two, maybe three good songs at the most, and any person who’s purchased a CD since that time will testify to that. The record companies also know that MP3 downloading on the internet is a factor that has negatively affected their profits. Put that together with their inability to find sustainable new acts and you have the two main reasons why so many record companies are losing money. The ones that are not losing money are the ones that have a library of popular artists from the past who continue to sell. The record companies now understand that the internet is the new communications medium, it’s here to stay, and they are all trying to figure out how to take advantage of it. Their pattern has always been to watch the numbers, analyze the trends, and then try to jump on board and ride the wave for as long as it lasts. If I told them what the answer is to the problems they face, they simply wouldn’t know what to do with the information.

The new formula for success is to have the right factors in place first, and then to use the internet’s full potential to bring the artist to the attention of the entire world.

Step 1: In order to create a hit record it is necessary to have a hit song. So what is a hit song? It’s a song that is so blasted catchy that after hearing it one time people cannot get it out of their minds and they will spend money to own the CD. The best producer cannot produce a hit record without having that kind of raw material. My old friend Gary Kelgren said it best – “You can’t polish a turd”.

Step 2: In order to create a hit music artist on the internet, of course it is necessary to have one or more hit songs that have been properly produced, but it is also necessary to have a “hit web site”. So what is a hit web site? Obviously it’s one with thousands of “hits” per day but that’s not the point. The point is that in the same way that a hit song works for a listener, a web site must grab a net surfer’s interest within the first 5-10 seconds and hold their interest long enough for them to find the hit songs and listen to them. But it should also contain entertaining content for people to read and enjoy because a good web site is a much more complex form of entertainment. The best web sites are the ones that have great creative writing and cannot be digested in one sitting, so people will keep coming back for more entertainment. This kind of web site cannot possibly be designed by a web site design professional because real creative and entertaining writing is not for sale at any price. That means the successful artist of the future needs to be more than just a musician in order to take full advantage of the new medium because the web site needs to reflect the artist’s personal expression, and nobody can do that except the artist.

Step 3: Creative internet promotion. The new formula for success may not even require an advertising budget for proper promotion of the web site in order to achieve thousands of hits per day if the promotion is creative enough. But the two previous steps are absolute prerequisites for success in the new medium. A money-losing promotional road tour will be pointless and unnecessary until a large audience is developed by building an internet fan club and selling enough CD’s to warrant a road tour that will turn a profit.

The new formula also contains the potential for making the old costly distribution networks obsolete because purchasing directly over the internet could eliminate the necessity for retail mark-ups and thus maximize profits for all concerned. The Recording Industry Association of America has the correct statistics on what music is actually selling as opposed to what is being played on the radio and what the record companies are trying to market. They list The Beatles as the best selling act/artist of all time with 166.5 million albums sold in the USA alone. They list The Beatles as the best selling act/artist of all time with 166.5 million albums sold in the USA alone. They list Elvis second with 117.5 million units sold, Led Zeppelin third with 106 million units sold, and the top 25 are dominated by classic rock acts including The Doors, The Stones, Pink Floyd, The Eagles and many others. I think it’s very significant that those statistics are becoming geometrically times greater than the number of albums that they sold during their performance lifetimes. What has happened and is happening is that the young people of today are discovering them in droves and buying their music. Traditionally, the record buying public has always been young people between the ages of 12-25 and those demographics have not changed. What this means is that the potential for profit in new classic rock and roll music is beyond calculation.

Credit: Peter Cross is a former professional drummer and a singer/songwriter/producer/Web Master who was among the first to put music on the Internet in a downloadable format in 1996. His web site is very entertaining and at 208 pages, it may be the largest music artist web site on the Internet. You can find this article at: The New Formula for Success in the Music Business. Examples of some of the first downloadable music can be found at: John is Alive and Favorite Toy. His home page is at: Rock and Roll with an Immortal Soul where his copyright is displayed right above the “Greatest Rock Sites on the Web” designation.

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Tips for Protecting your Small Business from Spyware

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It’s always something. A phrase like this goes without saying, even if it is ridiculous. On the Internet, computers are bombarded with malware and other viruses constantly. As a result, people use anti-virus protections for their email boxes, which are often over-flowing with annoying spam. As a result, people use anti-spam apps. Just when you think you’ve got it all under control, suddenly you may find out that your computer has many ad and spy ware apps running in silence in the background to monitor and report on your computers’ activity.

The more benevolent sorts of spy and ad ware apps just monitor your activity, tracking you to the sites your visit so companies can better understand Internet surfing in order to improve their overall marketing efforts. Still, some kinds of spy ware go past just the basic tracking and watch keystrokes, uncovering your password and other critical computer functions – posing a real risk to security. Just how does one gain protection from these pesky little programs? Just like a vampire waits for an invitation into the house, ironically often users agree to install these programs unintentionally. Sometimes just removing these programs can cause your other free and shareware programs to become unusable.

Try these five simple steps in order to detect and avoid programs on your computer

1) Watch where you download

Bad sites often have bad downloads. If you’re trying to find a particular free or shareware application, for a specific purpose, it’s probably better to go with trusted sites with a good reputation; www.tucows.com or www.download.com, for example.

2) Read the End User License Agreement (EULA)

The gibberish and fine print one scrolls through before reaching the “I have read and accept the license terms” may reveal you’re agreeing to spyware. At times it’s better to scan through the contract to look for terms which may be unacceptable to you. In this case, you may want to answer “No I do not accept the terms.”

3) Before You Click, Read

When you visit a website, or when a box of text pops up, often users find them an annoyance and quickly click to make the box go away. Clicking affirmatively before reading the text can be like checking the ‘would you like to install spy ware’ box. The pop-up message most likely won’t call it spyware, but the opt-in terms could be fishy and not to your liking.

4) System Protection

Today’s anti-virus applications are named incorrectly. Forms of malicious code are just a little piece in the total web of threats to be protected from. Virus has expanded to include Trojans, worms, hoaxes and even exploitations of vulnerability along with spy- and adware. Try AdAWare Pro or a similar product to gain protection from spy- and adware in real-time.

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Firewalls, anti-virus and other protection are great, but even so at times spyware gets through to the system. Lavasoft provides several solutions such as AdAWare and Spybot Search & Destroy, which is available without cost.

By following the five steps above, you’ll be able to keep unwanted spyware off the system, detecting and removing unsavory observational software.

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Thursday, November 18th, 2010 music downloads No Comments

Getting Into The Music Business. Part 2

So you still wanna be a star?
Part 2

Whatever genre of music you’re in, you need to define your definition of success. If your definition is ‘being a rich and famous superstar’, then, well ‘good luck’… but if your definition is ‘being a creative artist doing what you want to do in life by sharing your music with those who will listen’, then you should succeed. And if you’ve got the bottle to stick to your own sound and style, your own beliefs of how your music should sound, then you’ve even more chance of success in the long term.

But be warned – flying in the face of convention, of what is current, is always difficult. But trends fade and die – original talent and music does not!

If you’ve recorded an album yourself then get independent feedback, both musical and technical. Friends and family will always say your music is “great” (and hey, that’s fine, you need that support). But, the person who tells you everything you do is great may be good for your ego, but they’re of no practical use at all! The harsh reality is that you need good constructive criticism from independent sources who know what they’re talking about. Okay, easier said than done, but there are publications like “Sound on Sound”, for example, who provide demo reviews.

Another tip is seek out your local recording studio and pay for a studio engineers time (or better still the studio owner if you can), just to listen to your recording. Pick their brains and ask their advice on all aspects of your recording. I did this myself and it was invaluable. You’ve got to make sure you can relate to the studio engineer and that they can relate to what you’re doing. But at the end of the day, you’re paying them just to listen and to give you the benefit of their experience. Believe me, many studios will be glad to do this when they realize you’re serious about accepting constructive criticism and you’re willing to pay the going studio rate for it. But I reiterate, ensure you find someone who has experience and some empathy with the music you’re doing.

The reason that this is so important is because often, when starting out doing a first album you wont have the knowledge or equipment to make it sound anything more than a demo. Unfortunately, so many aspiring musicians get so close to their “creation” that they fail to hear that the music isn’t as good as they think it is, particularly on the technical side!

It’s always good to remember that there are probably tens of thousands of people around the world (maybe millions, who knows?!) doing the same thing you are. There’s no shortage of home studios turning out music and no shortage of organizations, particularly on the Internet, telling you how to “Make it Big”.

So, the trick is to stand out as being ‘different from the rest’ while achieving a standard that is ‘professional’. How do I define professional? Where someone has taken the time and effort to take the recording beyond a home demo. Okay, I know that may seem a little opaque, but the truth is that it’s difficult to define, you just “know”.

Music is very subjective – we all hear different things in it, indeed, we all need different things from music to make it acceptable to us, whether as a composer or a listener. There are great musicians who are technically amazing playing various instruments but record music that is devoid of soul or passion and restricted by self imposed musical constraints. Conversely there are musicians with little or no training who can blow your mind with fabulous and inventive music because they are not constrained by formal musical training. It’s also worth pointing out that being a competent musician doesn’t make for a competent composer of music! And even a competent composer can’t necessarily imbue the composition with that special ingredient that make people sit up and take notice.

It’s also true to say that a good musician/composer is not necessarily a good studio engineer! This is a fact that in my opinion, is often overlooked. Too many composers think that because they have access to an all singing, all dancing workstation and/or computer, they can turn out a great recording. More often than not, nothing is further from the truth. Composing is a talent, and engineering an album is another, very different talent. Mastering an album is yet another, very different talent. I’m not suggesting an individual cannot do all these things well. Of course they can, with years of experience, and even then, with input from other sources.

Too many times I’ve sat listening to a demo where the composer is convinced that the music and the recording is “great” when in fact it isn’t. The recording and use of sounds is cheesy and naff, but the composer can’t hear it because they haven’t “stepped outside the box”, as I would say. They haven’t stood back from the music and really listened to the recording and compared like for like against professional recordings of the genre.

It’s a hard lesson to learn, to be self critical of your own creations and sometimes to realize that your creation is actually far from perfect and that sometimes, the best place for the creation is in the bin and that you need to start again on another idea. But this is probably one of the most important lessons to be learned on the musical journey.

It also important to consider this one unpalatable fact. Your album may be great. It may have nice songs, be well recorded etc. etc. but it simply may not be good enough to be anything more than an inde album that sells a few hundred copies. That’s Life!

It’s a simple fact that record companies will listen to the first 20 seconds of a demo and then switch it off and consign the demo to the bin if it doesn’t make an instant impression.

That’s not just A/R men either. Some years ago, a major label had so many demos that its A/R department couldn’t handle them all so it gave piles of demos to everyone, even the cleaners to sift through. Everyone ended up doing the same thing – if the CD didn’t make an instant impression, then it was “on to the next”.

Sure, that may seem unfair, but if you’re the record label exec trawling thru thousands of demos, how would you do it? Again, I run a small inde label, so I know what it’s like.

I’m not suggesting you record your demo to send to a big label. I’m relating the story to hammer home the point that with so many people making music, all thinking theirs is “the best album ever”, that you have to be realistic – you probably have more chance of winning the UK lottery and the Euro lottery in the same week than getting a record deal!

But that shouldn’t stop you!! Your demo should be well recorded and recorded well enough that you could press it and sell it yourself. In this day and age, that’s probably the best way forward. Sure, still send copy to record labels, but also remember that record labels will be looking for a lot, lot more than just the music. They’ll be looking for experience, an image, a malleable artist and lots more besides for today’s music industry.

Your music should have an identity that stands out from the rest and it should have an emotional presence. Achieving this is very, very difficult and in truth, it cannot be taught or learned. I truly believe music either has that magic ingredient to make the listeners hair stand on end, to perk people interest, or it doesn’t. And that comes from the musician – not the production, the engineering, the mastering the record label or anywhere else – it is the defining essence of the artist.

So, what am I trying to tell you here? Well, to summarize, embark on the road of being a musician with passion and belief but accept that the chance of major success thru a record deal is virtually impossible. Understand that you must listen with open ears to what you do and learn to be critical of your music. Make constructive criticism your closest ally through people whose opinion you value and trust. And however hard you think it’s going to be to have any measure of success, realize that it will be even harder!

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Getting Into The Music Business. Part 1

So you wanna be a star?
Part 1

So, you’ve made the decision! You’ve finished recording your album and it’s the “best” – it deserves to be heard by the world and you’re deserving of the adulation afforded to the creation of such a masterpiece! Of course, you know in your own mind that it won’t be easy to become a star. After all, everyone says that the music business is difficult’. But hey, you’ve got what it takes, you’ve got talent, and this really is a great album – all your friends and family agree – so what can possibly stop you? What indeed…?

Few people outside of the Music Business have any idea just how difficult it is to survive, let alone succeed, in the ever-changing and unforgiving world of entertainment. Being a musician is much, much more than simply writing, recording and performing.

And few people have any idea of what is involved in the recording of a good sounding CD, of the time and effort involved to get that polished sound that every artist who ever produced a demo aspires to create.

Don’t be fooled by inane rubbish like Pop Idol or X-factor. Not only do these sort of programs give a totally false impression of the reality of the music industry, but they totally undermine the integrity of it! And just for the record, I don’t dispute the obvious talent of some of the participants, but the ends do not justify the means! It is indicative of just how low we have sunk as a society that we are happy to watch and laugh at ‘hopefuls’ who clearly have no talent at all, make embarrassing fools of themselves because they really think they do have the talent.

Then, when the competition proper really gets going, we can watch the music business do what it does best, that is, chew up and spit out varying degrees of talent live on our screens in the name of TV entertainment!

The programs are designed to maximize TV ratings and to manufacture a “Pop Star” who’ll be long forgotten in 10 years time. Of course, they’ll say that isn’t so, but then, they would, wouldn’t they!?

We live in an “Instant Fame” society. Celebs and their lifestyles are thrust in our faces 24/7 and far too many people, particularly but not exclusively the young, think fame can be achieved. They are fed the belief that it’s possible to give up the day job and become a star. In reality, it’s virtually impossible. For a greater insight into the realities of the Pop world, check out the Simon Cowel book “I don’t mean to be rude”.

Being a musician, an artist, is a vocation. It’s a way of life in which everything and everyone else, absolutely everything and everyone else, take second place. Musicians are selfish – they have to be by definition, and I know because I am one.

It’s about “The Journey” (much like life) – the journey of self discovery that starts when you realize that being a musician is what you want to do, continues and evolves as you make music and friends along the road, experiencing the highs and the lows and culminates in the realization that the journey doesn’t have an end because you’re always seeking to do something new, always forging new ideas – seeking to write ‘The perfect song’ or ‘The perfect album’. But a word of warning, if you’re fortunate enough to find success, the pressures and the demands will become greater, they’ll not get less!

You can’t do it on a “part time” basis and expect to succeed beyond a bit of fun at amateur level (not that there’s anything at all wrong with that). So, if you really want to ‘succeed’, the very thing that you have to accept is… that you probably wont’! And that isn’t as crazy as it sounds!

You see, the most important thing in music is simply that you love doing it. It’s a way of life that’s in your blood, in your soul, and it takes precedence over everything else. And as mentioned earlier, it’s about the journey.

Now, I can hear you saying things like; “That’s all right for you to say, you’re in the music business”.
Or maybe you’re thinking; “Well I have all these attributes, but how do I pay the bills and still make my way as a musician?”

Yes, I am fortunate enough to be involved in music, enjoying moderate success and recognition in a specific music genre. But what I have learned is, that success is relative.

My life and everything in my life revolves around music. But over the years, and particularly in the early days, my private life and finances paid a very heavy price.

Being involved in music is about being in it for the long haul, not the short term – you don’t even consider the short term. Ask most musicians and they’ll tell you the process is a painful one. When I hear young musicians say they’ve ‘given up everything to be in music’, my reply is, that they have no idea what “everything” is!

Being a musician requires many things, many attributes. Selfishness we’ve already mentioned. Stubbornness is a key factor to – you just have to keep going, then there’s dedication, passion and belief. An acceptance that there will be a lot of hard times. You must be prepared to give everything and more, and even then, even with all those things, if you’re not ‘in the right place at the right time’, success can still pass you by.

And thru all this, you keep smiling. You don’t question why you’re doing what you’re doing or the cost of it in broken relationships and heavy debt. You just keep going because music is such a big part of you!

The one remaining prerequisite for a musician is an understanding and supportive partner – without whom you’ve no chance at all. Reminds me of the old joke: What do you call a musician without a significant and supportive partner? Homeless!

So, finally, what’s the difference between a musician and someone who wants to be a musician? It’s simple. A musician is someone who gets on with it. They step outside of the box of conventional 9-5 and all that goes with it and live the life and all it entails. They probably won’t make it big, but they define their own success and whatever happens, they’ll never lose sight of why they’re doing what they’re doing.

And someone who wants to be a musician, a star? Well, they’re unable to do the above!

So, lets go back to the beginning – If you still want to be a musician, a recording artist, then I’ll give some hints and advice on demos in part 2.

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