Fruitbowl - Fresh Ideas from Hawke's Bay

Here's one for all you accountants here in Hawke's Bay and further afield... You might have heard of a little accounting software company called Xero started by a few years ago by local Bay boy. Well, last time I looked that little company was worth about $1.5 billion. That's right - Xero is seriously disrupting the accounting world and a lot of people are getting excited by the possibilities ...Read more

You might have noticed that Fruitbowl has been getting hit pretty hard with a lot of spam comments lately. The site has a WordPress plugin called Akismet which normally does a fantastic job of filtering out spam comments. The site receives about 2000 spam comments per month. Usually nearly all of them are filtered but for some reason lately more are getting through. So it's probably a problem ...Read more

Don't wait for the future to arrive.. Design your own toys, jewellery or spare parts and print these straight from your computer right now! Find that hard to believe? With a 3D printer that is a reality as much as printing out a piece of paper is! The MakePlace is a place in Napier where you can come to meet, learn and build (almost) anything. Think of it as a gym that you join, but instead of ...Read more

One of the things I regularly get asked by our exporter customers is how they can set-up an international phone number to appear closer to their markets. i.e. A Melbourne 039 XXXXXX number that terminates to a landline in Napier As it happens, it is really easy... Set-up a Skype account at http://www.skype.com Add Skype credit Select your online numbers in the countries you want ...Read more