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  • Explain FreeAgent bank transactions using email receipts

    As part of my ongoing efforts to integrate email and FreeAgent, I’ve created a short screencast that shows how Invoice Porter can automatically explain bank transactions based on email receipts sitting in your inbox. https://player.vimeo.com/video/158884742?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0   The product is in beta right now, so if you’re interesting in trying the… Read ⇢

  • Introducing InvoicePorter for Email

    Some of my regular readers (?) will recall a post I made on the first of February, titled “Import SaaS invoices into FreeAgent”. In this post, I outlined a Chrome Browser Extension I built that short circuits some of the effort needed to get invoices from your various online providers… Read ⇢

  • TestMDM 2.0 is now live!

    It’s been two years since the release of TestMDM 1.0. Today, I unleash version 2.0 onto the world! Whilst the aim and core functionality of TestMDM hasn’t changed, I’ve completely overhauled the UI, both from a visual perspective and a usability persepective. Visual TestMDM 1 used the popular Bootstrap CSS… Read ⇢

  • TestMDM 2.0

    As TestMDM has just had its second birthday (I can’t believe it either), I wanted to start sharing some of the changes I’ve made in version 2.0. The core of the product remains the same with a few improvements to the code. The biggest change is that TestMDM will now… Read ⇢

  • IIS 0x80070020 when starting a website

    As a developer, I run IIS on my PC so that I can test my websites using ForwardHQ. Sometimes, however, I will have an issue starting a particular website and IIS will throw up this dialog. “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process”.… Read ⇢

  • Import SaaS invoices into FreeAgent

    One of the major pains when dealing with SaaS providers, is importing their invoices. We all know the drill: You log into your SaaS application You find their invoice section. You create a new bill in FreeAgent and copy/paste your way through the details and being sure to account for… Read ⇢

  • Git.exe crashing on Windows 10 Insider Build 14251

    Yesterday, I upgraded my desktop to the latest Windows Insider build, 14251. I’ve successfully installed and worked on the previous Fast Ring insider builds over the past few months and I haven’t had any issues. Unfortunately, this build was the exception. My first clue was Github for Windows telling me… Read ⇢

  • 79p for an app? You must be joking! What a rip-off!!

    After many months of simply “not getting around to it”, I finally submitted an update for my MakeMeAPass app. After I completed the submission, I decided to take a look at the reviews. The app is sitting with a 3 star average, which isn’t bad. What surprised me was the fact… Read ⇢

  • Apple Pay with iPhone 5 and Apple Watch

    Now that Apple Pay is live in the UK, I thought it was time to try it out. Initially I thought Apple Pay was limited to the iPhone 6 and that I’d be left out in the cold (until they release a new 4″ version of the iPhone), but I was… Read ⇢