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Dual Screens – I’m a believer…

"Weather you measure your productivity in facts researched, alien spaceships vaporized, or articles written, adding an extra monitor will give your output a considerable boost."

Its a proven fact that having two screens will increase productivity. If you are looking for data to justify the extra $150 – $200, New York Times has a great [...]

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Information Overload – Getting things done…

We live in a time where there is information coming at us from all angles in the form of E-Newsletters, Television Media, Websites, Radio etc, etc… With all of this information out there, where do we find the time to get anything done?
As you can probably imagine, in the ever-changing world of computer technology, [...]

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Get Microsoft Office Professional on the cheap.

If you are a student, or are the parent of a student and need Microsoft Office, you are able to get it at a 91% discount through a Microsoft program called "The Ultimate Steal". You basically provide some information about your educational institution and Microsoft gives you Word, Excel, Groove, Publisher, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook, InfoPath, [...]

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Out of Office when you are out of the office.

As you may be aware, Outlook has an "Out of Office" feature that can be configured when you are away from your PC to respond automatically to incoming messages with a predefined message letting the sender know you are unavailable. This works great if you remember to do it when you are in front of [...]

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Staying in sync on a budget…

There is an old Unix utility I used to use all the time called ‘rsync‘. This very useful utility would essentially mirror a directory on you hard drive to a directory elsewhere of your choosing. Several NAS (Network Attached Storage) vendors utilize rsync today to perform backups to and from NAS devices and brand their [...]

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