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Art Hill
What is you job title?
Service Technician
How long have you been with ITSolutions? 4 years. But, I have 32 years in this business.
With all that experience is there anything you can't fix?
Not, really. I enjoy understanding machines and making them work.
There probably isn't any piece of tech equipment that I haven't fix
at one time or another.
What is you passion outside of work?
Scuba Diving. I have dived all over the world in places such as
Australia and Mexico and I'm also a coin collector.
What is you next Scuba Diving project?
We a going up to Salt Point State Park on the coast in Sonoma County
and dive for Abalone. There are camp sites and you can cook your
catch right there.
Can I go?
No
Tip
of the Day:
Passwords: Be creative
If you can't remember hard passwords no matter
how hard you try, put your password in
parenthesis. baseball38 is a weak password.
(baseball38) is much better. When you
change your password, you should always change
at least half of it and when you do, change the
parentheses as well. Change the parentheses to
asterisks, exclamation points or dollar signs.
*sallyandbob39* is better than sallyandbob39,
and jimandbetty93! is better than jimandbetty93.
Quote of the day:
"The ultimate metric that I would like to
propose for user friendliness is quite simple:
if this system was a person, how long would it
take before you punched it in the nose?"
Tom Carey |
1032 11th Street
Modesto, CA 95354
Voice: (209) 578 9739
800 845 4628
Fax: (209) 578 5463 |
4 Battery Tips for Your Mobile
Gadgets
By
Christopher Elliott
 Reprinted with permission
from the
Microsoft Small Business Center
Mention the words "battery
life." The first gadget that comes to mind is probably the
energy-consuming laptop computer — particularly if you're on the go
a lot.
If not, it should be.
There never seems to be enough juice to run your portable PC, as I
griped about in a previous article. Ah, but if laptop PCs were the
extent of your battery blues, you might not feel so, well,
powerless.
But power problems
plague other mobile devices. For example, a 2003 In-Stat/MDR survey
found that long battery life ranked as the most important feature to
business users when selecting a wireless handset. Users of personal
digital assistants (PDAs) are just as concerned about a possible
energy crisis. I know because I am one and I never seem to stop
worrying about running dry.
So, what about mobile
gadgets? How do you make sure your batteries last as long as
possible?
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Outlook 2007 'To-Do Bar' Helps You
Manage Your Day
Outlook 2007 includes new productivity features like the To-Do Bar,
Instant Search and more
E-mail is a big part of
more and more jobs, with some workers now required to respond to
dozens of mails each day. So, naturally, the tools used to manage
e-mail keep getting better.
Look no further than
Outlook 2007 for the evidence. The latest version of the venerable
messaging program that ships with the Microsoft Office System takes
its built-in e-mail/calendaring/task management tools to another
level.
If you're already an
Outlook user, here are five reasons to upgrade to the latest
version.
Manage your day
better with the To-Do Bar - Outlook 2007 introduces the To-Do
Bar, which sits on the right side of the main Outlook window. The
To-Do Bar gives you a consolidated view of your calendar, upcoming
appointments, tasks and flagged mail, making it easy to see (and
act) on priorities. Instead of looking at scraps of paper, notepads,
planners, and the Outlook Inbox, you can see everything you need in
the To-Do Bar.
In the To-Do Bar you
see a Date Navigator (a small monthly calendar), your upcoming
appointments and a list of your tasks. Here you can accept/decline
meetings, quickly access the full Calendar, add new tasks,
categorize, rearrange, and change the dates of your tasks – all
while responding to e-mail.
Cut through inbox
clutter with Instant Search - It doesn't take long for inbox
clutter to make it hard to find old messages you need to review.
With the Instant Search feature in Outlook 2007, you can locate
e-mail, tasks and appointments you’re looking for from within the
Office Outlook 2007 interface. Instant Search also looks for those
keywords within your e-mail attachments.
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The New Wave of Spam
 Spam
continues to be a pervasive problem that all small to mid-sized
businesses must deal with. According to the most recent Symantec
Internet Security Threat Report:
- Between July 1 and
December 31, 2006, spam made up 59% of all monitored email
traffic. This is an increase over the first six months of 2006
when 54% of email was classified as spam.
- 65% of all spam
detected during this period was written in English.
- Spam related to
financial services made up 30% of all spam during this period,
the most of any category.
- During the last
six months of 2006, 44% of all spam detected worldwide
originated in the United States.
Dealing with spam is a
waste of valuable employee time. According to a new study conducted
by Nucleus Research, two out of every three email messages received
by today's business users are spam. The study also says that users
are spending 16 seconds identifying and deleting each spam email, at
a cost of $712 per employee in lost productivity, which translates
into an annual cost of $70 billion to all U.S. businesses.
Image-based spam
"Image-based spam" has become a popular technique among spammers
because of its ability to bypass traditional anti-spam filtering
technologies. Instead of sending messages as text with or without
accompanying images, spammers have started sending messages that are
comprised only of images.
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There's a much better way to get rid of spam Mr.
Buster |
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Battery Tips