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Microsoft Lookout

With a New Year comes the resolution to be more organized and if this is your resolution for your company, look no further than “Lookout” for Microsoft Outlook.

This add in allows for lightning-fast search within your e-mail, contacts, calendar, and file system. In addition, Lookout can search for items in Personal Folders Files (.pst), your Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail account, and public folders as well as search multiple .pst files simultaneously.

Lookout is the only personal search engine that can search all of your e-mail from directly within Outlook. All you have to do is type in a search term, hit enter, and a list of results will appear locating the term hidden in any subject lines, the body text of e-mails, phone numbers, and addresses.

Not only does Lookout allow you to have quick searches within email, but in your calendar and shared calendars as well.

Click here For a free download of Microsoft Lookout V 1.2
 

Madison Office
Applied Tech Solutions, Inc.
203 South Paterson Street,
Suite 500
Madison, WI 53703
Ph: 608.257.6051
info@appliedtech.us

Stevens Point Office
Applied Tech Solutions, Inc.
1313 Second Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Ph: 715-344-3703
info@appliedtech.us

These days, responsible computing means more than not spreading viruses and not hacking into someone else’s system. The waste that results from disposing of electronics such as computers and mobile phones, called e-waste, can be highly toxic. The United Nations Environmental Program estimates that, each year, 20 million to 50 million tons of e-waste is dumped into landfills around the world. That works out to about 4,000 tons per hour.

Almost every component is built with some kind of toxin. Computer circuit boards hold lead and cadmium. Monitors’ cathode-ray tubes have lead, cadmium, phosphorus, and barium. In fact, a large CRT may contain as much as 4 to 8 pounds of lead. Even cables are bad for the environment, as they are sprayed with brominated flame retardants. Such chemicals can leach into the soil and groundwater.

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Planning for a Quick Recovery

Learn about what you can do to quickly and effectively recover your business' systems in the event of a disruption.

For most small and mid-sized businesses, computing systems and electronic information are necessary to conduct business on a daily basis. You shouldn't have to think about disasters causing you to lose valuable resources and data, but the reality is that the risk of unforeseen circumstances and disruptions to IT systems is always present. If your IT systems go down, it's not only inconvenient, it could cost your business a substantial amount of money. A study by Forrester Research estimated that the average cost of downtime for an e-commerce site is $8,000 per hour.

Facing E-Discovery

Learn about e-discovery and the changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure going into effect on December 1, 2006, and what you can do to make your business compliant.

The increase of electronic information has led to a new era in legal proceedings whereby courts can now mandate searches of digital data for evidence. This process is known as e-discovery, short for electronic discovery. E-discovery can include searching data on a single computer as well as on a network.

By Kim Komando
Reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center

Most people don't use every feature built-in with their software applications. We tend to pinpoint those we find helpful and call it a day.  Here are five features within Microsoft Word, the word-processing software in Microsoft Office, that I use in my business to save time and money.

1.Create and design your company's letterhead, choosing from an array of free clip art from Microsoft.
2.Send the same letter to many people without addressing each separately.
3.Add a watermark to a document so everyone knows that it is a draft.
4.Keep an eye on changes that people are making to documents.
5.Use a shortcut for many of your tasks.

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