Chances are, your doctor isn’t using a Mac. Over 95% of the electronic medical record software on the market today won’t run on Macs. But there’s an online guide that wants to spur more doctors to begin injecting Macs into their practices. PC users have been switching to Macs for many reasons, and easier use [...]

Apple’s mail program, Mail, is gaining a regular place for our business. One of the best things about this software is its ability to travel. We’ve learned to use it on our iPhones to keep up with e-mail while we’re out of the office. The 3G capability is what makes this possible, but you can [...]

There are millions of users of Intuit’s QuickBooks, and for the smaller business that’s a fine choice for accounting and finance on the Mac. But a larger company, or one with business-specific needs, would do well to look at software like Connected Enterprise from Accountek. At the latest MacWorld Expo, the company was displaying a [...]

Filemaker has announced a new Business Productivity Kit which works with its new Filemaker 11 database, a collection of charts and reports that are “a fast-track way for small businesses to get instant results and grow their businesses,” according to VP of marketing and services Ryan Rosenberg. The kit is available as a free download [...]

A few years ago Filemaker released the Bento database, a slimmed down and gussied up version of it’s flagship product. Bento has grown up over those years, and now Filemaker has skimmed off some of its easy to use features in a version 1.0 for the iPad. I had a dream of making this pocket-sized [...]

Apple pointed to the sales of the iPhone as the primary factor in its $13.4 billion Q2 report this week. The device, which Apple sold more than 8.7 million units of, is becoming the equivalent of the inkjet cartridge at HP. High volume, high profit, and a very different product than the company has been [...]

Apple just announced a record $3 billion in profits and $13.5 billion in sales for the quarter that ended three days before the iPad was delivered. The company’s COO Tim Cook said the company was confident about future quarters, too. Meanwhile, the stock is starting to approach the estimates that analysts clocked in once the [...]

An iPhone problem led me into my library of O’Reilly Missing Manuals, an ever-growing sheaf of pages that’s approaching one full foot of dandy advice and training. A Missing Manual for Apple products is often likely to have the crack advice of David Pogue among its authors, making them a pleasure to read and a [...]

MacPractice has been selling Mac solutions for dentists and doctors for many years. Now the software company reports that “We’ve been overwhelmed with requests from doctors who want to use MacPractice on the iPad.” The developer of practice management and clinical software on Macs and iPhones isn’t writing an iPad app for now. Instead, it’s [...]

Creating content is still months away from the iPad’s capabilities, but consuming information is ready today. While publishers like Time-Warner want you to purchase single issues of their magazines for the iPad (at about $5 each), Zinio has a free app and a better idea: delivery of a paid full year’s subscription, ready to display [...]