Marking Unsold Contracts

One of the questions we often get asked is if there is a way to mark the contracts in a book that haven't been sold yet. In the past we would have walked you through running a Global search to mark all of the unsold contracts. Recently we added an option to the Sold/Not Sold So Far report to make this process easier. You now have the option on that report to Mark Contracts. So next time you need to mark the unsold contracts, try running the Not Sold So Far report and selecting the Mark Contracts option.

Important Apple Update! By Chris

One week ago Apple released 10.6.2. This update has one very important Rosetta fix for users of Filemaker 8, Microsoft Office 2004, or any other older PPC application that may have caused you to automatically logout of your user. If you're on OS X 10.6 update asap!

Santa Claus is comming to town soon...(by Jamie)

Ok, I am a shopper... I know you all think that BookMan is my LIFE. But, while I do love BookMan, my second love is shopping. I thought I would pass along some fun web sites and ideas for Christmas. The earlier you get your shopping done the more thoughtful you can be about your gift and the more relaxed your Christmas will be. Come on its a WIN WIN!

1. For that grandparent that has EVERYTHING. I say get them a snuggie. No I am not kidding. They are amazing and grandparents are always cold. They will love that you gave them hands-free warmth. I'm getting one for the grandparents in my family this year.

https://www.getsnuggie.com/flare/next?tag=os|sm|go|tm

Corn bags are so great too. I got my grandma one last year and she still tells me how much she loves it!!

http://www.corn-bags.com/


2. For your better half. I'm talking about the special lady in your life. I have LOTS of suggestions here (hint hint Carson if you are reading).

The first on my list would be Sephora. This web site has EVERY THING she will love. The great thing is you can get a gift certificate and let them choose. The best gift on this entire site (in my opinion) is the Fragrance Sampler, 12 samples of great fragrances along with a voucher for a full sized bottle of any one of the samples.

http://sephora.com/

LUSH. This store has amazing bath bombs. I love them. Every single one of them smell so great and make your skin soft as EVER. You can't go wrong.

http://www.lushusa.com/shop

Who doesn't love jewelry?

http://www.theprettypeacock.com/categories/see-everything.html?limit=all


3. For the person who is hard to buy for these are some great sites to check out.

http://www.uncommongoods.com/

http://www.vat19.com/


4. And most importantly.... for the geek in your life:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/?source=google_branded&cpg=ogb1

A Recipe, A Website and Some Bling! by MaryAnn

This weekend Jamie and I went to a local boutique called Bijou Market. We found some great stuff! A local bakery called the Sweet Tooth Fairy (http://www.thesweettoothfairy.com/) was there sampling their amazing Cake Bites (also called Cake Balls). I immediately fell in love with them. If you ever come to town you need to try them. If you won't be coming to town anytime soon, you have two great options. The Sweet Tooth Fairy delivers. Go to their website listed above and check it out. If you don't want to spend the money on shipping, here is a link to a similar recipe. I have never tried this recipe but it seems pretty easy. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/cake-balls/detail.aspx

We also found some fantastic homemade jewelry made by Tom Jewelry Design. Check out her website (http://www.etsy.com/shop/tomdesign). She sold out of everything this weekend at the boutique so bookmark her page and check back in a few days to see her fun jewelry. She had rings (my new ring is pictured), earrings and necklaces in tons of fun bright colors and designs. Jamie and I may or may not have been involved in her selling out of all her jewelry.

This week I was also introduced to a fun new website by my friend Clayton. Check it out at http://springwise.com/weekly/2009-11-05.htm. Springwise is a cool website about new business ideas spotted around the world. There are some very clever and creative ideas.

Nicoles Stress Reliever

I know I'm not the only one who has stressful days... so just for a little bit of humor and fun take a minute or two to Yearbook Yourself at www.yearbookyourself.com. This website has images of clothing trends, hairstyle trends & other high school related things starting from the 1950's until 2000 that you can post your own picture to. All you have to do is find a picture of yourself and and place it. It even allows for you to tilt, crop and zoom so you can make the picture as authentic as possible. Go ahead and give it a try and the first 5 people who are brave enough to send their yearbook picture to one of our BookMan tech support reps will get a BookMan trinket!

Programmer

Uh oh, the programmers can post too!

BookMan... what you may not know!

There are some great new features now available in BookMan version 2.8.

I am going to tell you tell you my 3 favorites:

1. You can now tell why a contract isn't paying commission! We added a new "commission status" to the contract menu that makes it so easy to tell why its not paying (or if its ready to pay).

2. Another great addition is the User Activity Report. This report is a good way to see how your contract entry keyers are doing. How many contracts they key & the accuracy of the contracts keyed. You can run this for your part time employees and your full time employees.

3. My third pick is the ability to sort your marks. All of you are hopefully already enjoying the "Show Marked Records Only" option.... but NOW you can sort your marks too!!! The new sort feature works in all the browse windows.

Fridays with Chris - TGIF

Mac / PC News:

So Microsoft released Windows 7 in October... It's faster, more stable and MS rewrote all the stuff people were hating in Vista. I have one PC and one Mac at home. Of course I upgraded my PC ASAP, to be rid of Vista forever! This is MS's best modern operating system to date for sure. But Microsoft still has a lot of room for improvement in ease of use & just overall understanding of the end user. And I really don't like paying MS $100+ for a OS release that just fixes everyone's complaints with with the last version. (Eric would like me to remind everyone that Snow Leopard is $29!) Everyone seems to have their own take on Mac vs. PC. Use whatever OS you like, but for me OS X is still the best choice for everything but computer games. Hopefully more and more casual computer users will continue to migrate to Macs, and those users will be happy they switched! Snow Leopard keeps adding to the speed and refinement of OS X, keeping the Mac one step ahead of Microsoft and their Windows 7 release (Vista Service Pack 1).

Checkout the new iMacs! These new models, announced in October, are Apple's best value if you need a Mac with a lot of CPU power. I'm not a huge fan of the new keyboard (no number pad!? what were you thinking Apple?) or the new magic mouse. But those can be replaced for cheap. :)

Favorite Utah Celeb:

BookMan would like to give props to their favorite local celebrity, Gary Coleman! Keep on, keepin' on Gary....

Nice Things To Know, by Melissa

At Work:

Don't like going back and forth between your mouse and keyboard?  Navigate between browse windows by using short keys.  Under the file menu, each browse window has a letter next to it.

Hold down the Option(Alt) and Command(apple) keys and then the letter corresponding with the browse window and BookMan will open or jump to that browse window.

For your entertainment:

I love live performance in most of it's forms.  :)  Last night's live performance of choice was a musical comedy murder mystery called Curtains.  If you happen to be in the Salt Lake area between now and November 21st.  I highly recommend it.  Lots of laughs.  Good times. 

MaryAnn's Favorite Things!

Favorite BookMan Shortcut:
Clearing Marks in BookMan












Are you tired of going to the Marks menu every time you need to clear your marks? Quit going to the Marks menu and learn the short cut! The short cut is option+command (apple)+semi colon (;). Try it right now....seriously...hurry before you forget...


Favorite Cooking Website:
www.topsecretrecipes.com/
Check out this website for recipes from your favorite restaurants. This week's secret recipe is the Soup Nazi's Mexican Chicken Chili. The secret recipes are only free for a limited amount of time so check it out soon.

Favorite Youtube Video:


This video is old so you have probably seen it, but who doesn't need a good laugh on a Wednesday. Poor lady!

Favorite Cupcake Store:












sprinkles.com

I am normally not a cupcake fan BUT, I am in love with these cupcakes! If you have a store near you, you need to go eat one for me! The frosting is amazing!!! Try the Black and White or Vanilla Milk Chocolate or....

Favorite Blog I Follow:

nieniedialogues.com/

Amazing blog about a lady who survived a plane crash. She was on Oprah recently. Read her post from the past year to get her full story.

Favorite BookMan Customer:

To be decided....chocolate might make you my favorite...hint hint!

What are your favorite things? Leave us a comment.