For a while now I have been looking for a good solution for online billing for clients that I have. I have tried using Quickbooks and while that is a very nice application I just cannot access it from anywhere I am unless I have it installed on both my home machine and my laptop. I did look into the online version of Quickbooks that Intuit offers however this was only for IE users. Sorry mac users. Tonight I have started looking at Freshbooks and I must say that it is very nice.

I signed up for a free account but with as easy as it is to use I think I will be upgrading soon. You can customize how your invoices will look, add clients, projects, tasks. This is just the tip of the iceberg though. They have a nice dashboard widget that Mac users can use to track time. When you are developing you don’t want to have to flip back and forth from a web page. You just want to start the timer and then go back and stop it. A web based timer means it is yet another window that has to remain open.

I am going to furthur explore the system but since it is free to try why don’t you go sign-up for an account and check it out. If you do a lot of online work I am sure you will find it very useful.

Ok so things have not gone as smooth as I would have liked.  When we first looked at the apartment in Peabody, MA it was in need of some desperate work before anyone could live there.  The landlord said that he was going to get things into shape and that things would be ready by March 1st.  This was giving him almost 90 days to get the apartment ready.

We moved down here around the 3rd of March based on the landlord saying that the apartment was ready.  When we arrived with all of our stuff in the Uhaul we found the apartment was still far from being ready.  We had to put all of our stuff in storage and are now staying with my girlfriend’s father at his house.  While things are going good I don’t want to be an inconvenience.

Claire and I have found another apartment and it will be ready by April 1st (fingers crossed) and hopefully we can get settled into our own place.  I cannot wait to get the apartment all set-up.

On a good note we went today and got our gym memberships at Bally Total Fitness today.  I am looking forward to working out and getting into shape while also increasing my muscle tone.

Last night after work we finally made the move down to the Boston area.  It was late by the time we got down here and things are going to be quite hectic over the next few weeks while things get settled down.  I am really excited to be down here and cannot wait to finally be settled and not have to worry about things.  I am still working during the day but will be quite busy during the evenings and weekends.  If you are from the Boston area hit me up, I need to meet people here HAHA.