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Clean Sweep Your PC
reprinted with permission
from the HP Small Business Center
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Introduction
Is your desktop so cluttered you can’t even see your
background picture? It’s time for a quick and easy PC deep
cleaning. Enjoy a more organized filing system and hard
drive that will help run programs faster. Now roll up your
sleeves—let’s get your files, programs and photos under
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Create a plan
of action
Start off by thinking about what you’re going to do with the
files and photos that are collecting dust on your PC’s hard
drive. You basically have three choices when it comes to
organizing: delete, file or store.
- Delete any
files that you no longer need: old party invitations,
bad digital photos, 2-year old PTA letters and programs
you haven’t used in a few years.
- File any
documents or photos you use regularly: your most recent
photos, important documents you’ve scanned or projects
you’re working on.
- Store
items you will need in the future: all your digital
photos, insurance and mortgage paperwork you’ve scanned,
your journal or creative writing. You will also want to
store important items that need a duplicate saved in a
backup location.
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Meet
Stuart Jenkins
He’s standing on top of a box!
Used with permission of Joel H. Weldon &
Associates, Inc.
http://www.SuccessComesInCans.com
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Have you ever
wondered about the word “discipline”? What images does it
conjure up in your mind? Doing what you have to do? Toeing
the mark? Keeping your nose to the grindstone? Putting
restrictions on your behavior and actions? Setting limits?
If these are some of the negative connotations you would
assign to the word “discipline,” then you’ll really enjoy
hearing the story of Stuart Jenkins, and you may find it
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“Mrs. Jenkins,”
the grade school teacher announced to Stuart’s mother, “your
son will never graduate from high school, let alone attend
college. It’s because of his dyslexia, you see, he’s
learning disabled.”
Stuart sat in the
slow class in the one-room schoolhouse in a little town in
Nebraska where everyone knew everyone. The worst part was
not that the town labeled him “dumb” and “stupid.” The worst
part was that Stuart believed the labels. Until, that is,
the day that everything changed.
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Three Ways to Thrive in an
Uncertain Economic Upturn
reprinted with permission from the HP Enterprise Center
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Signs
of a possible upturn are reenergizing businesses.
However,
this recession isn’t ending in a sharp economic upturn.
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“We know that the
fall has stopped, but we are not yet sure whether the
economy is going to grow again fast,” said Olivier Chatain,
assistant professor of management at The Wharton School at
the University of Pennsylvania. Because consumers have lost
money and are still worried about their jobs, “it’s not
clear that demand will bounce back very fast.”
The hopeful
outlook is overshadowed by a projected slow recovery riddled
by ups and downs. So, businesses are struggling to adapt to
a new normal: uncertainty. Experts offer advice in three key
areas for operating in a hopeful, but uncertain, economy.
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Good, Bad, or
Indifferent: Microsoft Outlook Anywhere
By Blake Britton, Vice President, Axxys Technologies
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While most of us can
receive and send email from any computer that has an Internet
connection via Outlook Web Access (OWA) or through a mobile device
(Windows Mobile, Palm, or Blackberry), what I miss is the full
functionality and speed of Outlook. With Exchange 2007 and Outlook,
you can now have that functionality wherever you have an Internet
connection. Outlook Anywhere and Exchange 2007 provide your network
administrator easier configuration of the ability to use Outlook
anywhere. Yes, if your system has Outlook, and it is configured to
run RPC over http (use of your local Outlook to securely connect to
MS Exchange), then you are connected to you email system and have
full Outlook functionality whenever you have an Internet connection. |
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January
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Meet Stuart Jenkins |
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Microsoft Outlook Anywhere |
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Six
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6 Wireless Threats to Your Business
by Christopher Elliott
reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
If you think a promiscuous
client is a scantily-dressed customer, you're in trouble. And I'm not
talking about having an affair.
Think an evil twin is a
horror-movie villain? Wrong again. The horror you should be bracing
yourself for is not on the silver screen — and it's not from a rolling
pin flung at you from across the kitchen, for that matter. Rather, the
trouble is in the airwaves and targeted to Wi-Fi users.
Both the "Promiscuous
Client" and the "Evil Twin" are two of the latest wireless threats to
your small business. If you haven't heard of them, you probably will
soon.
"What would happen to your
business if your strongest competitor gained access to all of your
data?" asks Greg Phillips, chief executive for AirTegrity Wireless,
Inc., a Stateline, Nev. wireless security company. "Unfortunately, it is
a very real possibility if appropriate controls against these new
threats are not exercised."
So what's out there?
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Quote
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is
this:
To rise above the little things.
- John Burroughs
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