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When Mark Lapidos, president and originator of The Fest, decided 34 years ago to feed his passion for The Beatles with an annual Beatles Fans Celebration, the furthest things from his mind were computers and databases. Any thoughts about managing a repeat event and bringing The Fest to numerous cities around the country just did not hang around. However, The Fest grew into an annual event held in multiple U.S. cities to bring Beatles fans together. His Beatles passion turned into a full-time business for him.

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Fans, Festivals, FileMaker: E-Commerce Gets a Little Help From Its Friends

Intuit’s small-business accounting solution, QuickBooks, has gotten more than just a pretty facelift with its new QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac edition. Not only does the user interface utilize Mac OS X’s Leopard look and feel, but it also it now sports handy new features that are exclusive to the Mac platform. Available now, the latest version represents a significant upgrade to the product, many versions of which are designed to let small-business owners get their accounting work done and out of the way as quickly as possible.

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Intuit Whips Up QuickBooks Accounting 2009 for Mac

Security software vendor PC Tools has watched the rise of two cause-and-effect security factors in the Mac OS X world — first, the growing popularity of Macs along with increasing market share, and second, the accompanying attention of malware that’s targeted directly at Mac users. Consequently, PC Tools has launched a beta edition of iAntiVirus, a new antivirus and antispyware tool designed specifically for Mac OS X. While the Mac maintains an industry-leading reputation for being generally healthy, some troubling Mac-focused security vulnerabilities have recently come to light.

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PC Tools Offers Sentry for Mac Security