I already own Quickbooks, but it might be easier to use Freshbooks to keep track of it. I’ll make that decision when I get there.

When we started, we had a few customers testing our product. Great to have a few of those. We quickly put it together, got it into customers hands, when they stopped asking questions and submitting requests/etc we made it public. Then started charging, improving features, adding more functionality. Every app is different not only because of what it does, but its customers. If customers are fine with the current features/functionality, that’s when you should move on. At least that’s what we did.

As to manual billing… Look at something like Freshbooks. Use their API and their recurring billing to get things off the ground.

Mostly I develop on a MacBook Pro (Old beast) but still need to fire up Windows. Need to get a new laptop and was on the Macbook Pro/Air debate for a while, so great to see that it’s a good idea to get the Air. But, will wait couple more months and see what new comes out and then make a purchase.

Hopefully at that point there will be some thunderbolt HD enclosures that will hook up nicely to a Mac display, and then, pure nirvana

And as for using more memory, most people don’t care if it uses more RAM so long as it doesn’t impact the other things they do. Once it impacts other programs, then people start to dig and massive memory use in relation to other applications will surface as a symptom. At that point, it doesn’t matter whether it’s more or less than another program if that other program isn’t causing issues.

The biggest memory problem in Firefox always was that it grew a bit every day for as long as you had it open. Seems to be mostly fixed now.

The service at an Apple store is top notch, assuming you have an appointment. If not, you’re likely going to be waiting a while for technical assistance. That place is usually just mobbed. If you need sales assistance, they always have enough people on hand for that.

I work with a lot of customers who go through Dell for their PC’s, and it’s just awful. Chances are good I’ll never buy another machine from a major manufacturer other than Apple ever again. My only complaints about the Macbook Air are that it doesn’t support 8GB or 16GB of RAM and it doesn’t have a USB 3.0 connector. And even then, everything else just rocks so much that I feel bad complaining about those two things.

There’s an awful lot to be said for the service and treatment you get at an Apple Store when you rely on your laptop for business.
Me and my consultant friends all rely on our laptops to varying degrees – mine’s a Mac, they have Sonys and Dells.

Mine’s been fine so far but I know if I have a problem I can go to the Apple Store (10 mins walk from where I work) and get it seen to right away.
When my friend’s Sony played up he had to visit the Sony shop on the one day a week their technician was in then leave it with them for two weeks. Not good.
Now my other friend’s Dell is playing up – I don’t even want to think about what he’s going to have to go through.

The biggest problem I have is getting used to the keyboard. The function key is where the ctr key should be and you need to hit function + arrow to simulate home, end, page up, page down.

Also the “Delete” button is really backspace unless you press function, then it really is delete.

For such a small machine it screams and rarely uses the fan, though it stays cool.