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In this newsletter:
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Global Newsletter
February 2009
New Year, New Office
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This month we continue our advice on technology’s little hassles, with a few more areas that can be easily and inexpensively solved.
Starting from scratch? If you have a document, spreadsheet or presentation to create, see if the topic is used by other businesses too. An online search or a visit to the Microsoft website may uncover a template that you can apply to your situation. Common examples include budget templates, sales presentations and employment forms.
How paperless is your office? Consider email as a great alternative to regular postal mail. Your financial software may even allow you to email invoices directly from it. It you are concerned about document details being changed, you can find free software to ‘print’ your documents electronically into an unchangeable Adobe Acrobat PDF format. This is widely used by airlines for sending flight details and receipts via email.
Morning slowness? If you have time to finish your coffee whilst your computer starts, there could be some easy tweaks which will improve its performance. Review the items in your ‘Startup’ group of programs and look at the icons in your ‘system tray’ by your computer’s clock, to see if you really do need everything to start up at once. Also, check and see if your anti-virus software is set to perform a scan each morning, perhaps changing the schedule to during your lunch break instead. If computer slowness is a constant problem, then a software tune-up or additional memory could improve the performance for less than the cost of a new computer.
Lost your internet connection? Intermittent internet connection faults are very frustrating and can be caused by any number of things between your internet provider and your computer. Keep a log of any drop-outs and call your internet provider to check if there is a fault on your cable or phone line (especially for ADSL). Ensure that all of your telephones and faxes have ADSL filters. And, if you also have wireless access to your internet that is provided by another ‘box’, follow this method to get things up and running again after a drop out:
- Power off your internet modem and your wireless router.
- Power on your internet modem.
- Wait for the ADSL light to be solid (approx. 40 seconds).
- Power on your wireless router.
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Talk to Computer Troubleshooters ~ Avonside about how a few small tweaks to your office technology could make the world of difference. |
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Sale: Ex-Lease IBMs
We have just got in a new supply of ex-least IBM PCs
- Windows XP Profesional
- Pentium 4 3GHz
- 1GB (1024MB) RAM
- 80GB Hard Drive
- DVD-ROM Drive
- 3 Month Warranty
- Only $450!
- Upgrade to a CD/DVD Writer for only $70
We have also got some Ex-Lease LCD Monitors in stock for $160.
Buy a monitor, computer and upgrade to a CD/DVD Writer for only $650!
Available while stocks last. Prices include GST.
Does not include data transfer or other related services. |
Backing up your computer is boring
But boy is it critical. In today’s digital world there has never been a greater need to secure your important information. With just one virus or Trojan making its way onto your computer, you risk the threat of losing your bank records and other financial information, digital photographs, audio playlists, software you purchased and downloaded from the Internet, and personal projects. That’s not to mention your e-mail address book, your Outlook calendar, and your Web browser bookmarks.
There are many ways you can unintentionally lose information on a computer. A child playing the keyboard like a piano (or is that just my kid? - Ed!), a power surge, lightning, floods. And sometimes equipment just fails. If you regularly make backup copies of your files and keep them in a separate place, you can get some, if not all, of your information back in the event something happens to the originals on your computer.
Deciding what to back up is highly personal. Anything you cannot replace easily should be at the top of your list.
What CTS offers is True Image Backup that provides both full image and file-based backups, so you can choose to back up individual files and folders and save them on the internet for safe keeping. For total protection, image-based backups take a snapshot of your entire computer - including programs and the operating system - which can be restored in the event of a hard drive crash or catastrophic operating system failure.
With the added cost of a few hard drives we can provide a managed backup solution to ensure the safety of your computer data
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Offsite backup and recovery is part of both our H.O.S.T and B.E.S.T plans.
If you are worried about any sensitive data, photos or other non-replaceable items, talk to Computer Troubleshooters ~ Avonside about the options we have for you. |
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Contact Computer Troubleshooters ~ Avonside:
Graham Love – graham@avonside.co.nz
Peggy Love – peggy@avonside.co.nz
Nate Walker – nate@avonside.co.nz
Richard Bassett – richardb@avonside.co.nz
Andrea Jones – andrea@avonside.co.nz
Adam Butler – adam@avonside.co.nz
Phone: (03) 389 3887
Newsletter Archives available at: http://avonside.co.nz/news.htm
Newsletter edited by Nate Walker |
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