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		<title>Does Your Email Etiquette Suck? &#8211; Part Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Use Email Responsibly: A couple of years back, a business associate came to me with a deal he and a friend were working on. They wanted my help in setting them up with an online web server or a web host who would let them send out unlimited &#8220;unsolicited emails&#8221; to a list of small businesses they had just bought. Seemed their current ISP had frozen their account and then banned them. Both were complaining about how unfair the local ISP was being. The friend told me until they got shutdown that she had been making over a $1000 a week from people ordering their print services. Now the print service was legit. They were a local printing company that would accept orders from over the net and then submit odd-job lots to a local printer who would run them on the cheap and drop-ship them to the customer. The printer kept his presses and print crews busy, my associate and friend made a nice commission, and the customers got a nice stack of affordable business cards and letterhead. I told them, no thanks. So what was the problem? IT was spam. It was spam then and it is spam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Email Etiquette Suck? &#8211; Part Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop falling for the &#8220;We Holding Your Money in Dubai&#8221; scams and other Phishing Stories: Nope. You have not won the lottery. You do not have a large sum of cash sitting and waiting for you in a bank in Dubai, Nigeria, Kenya or LA (Lower Asheville, NC). Nope, no, nein, non, no way, it ain&#8217;t your luck day. Give it up already and stop clicking on these internet frauds. They are just neat ways crooks have to capturing selling your identity information to other spammers and credit card forgers. Got an email from your bank, PayPal, eBay, Amazon, or some Federal Credit Union Association, lately? Unless you have initiated contact with these organizations, (you asked them to contact you) don&#8217;t click on the hyperlink in the email. It is a scam. Sam&#8217;s Club is not giving you a free gift certificate (even after all the money you spend in there). Fake or spoofed emails from reputable companies is called &#8220;Phishing&#8221;. Pronounced, &#8220;fishing&#8221; like you reel them in. Some phishing emails are good, very, very good. And why not, since spammers pay some very good programmers top dollar for their work. For them bilking you out of money, credit card [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Email Etiquette Suck? &#8211; Part Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Set Aside an Email Address For Online Use: Create and use an email address just to use online when you sign up for email lists, chat rooms, websites and online registrations, etc. Keep your other email addresses for direct-to-direct contact with customers and business associates. Yes, everyone says they will respect your privacy, and everyone says they will not sell your information&#8230;so how did my spam address, &#8220;spam(at)mydomain.com&#8221; get out so quickly&#8230;? Hmmm? Try not register or sign up for every &#8220;special report&#8221; or white paper you see online. Free can sometimes have a price tag paid with spam. Learn How To Control Your Email Filter: Unless your email is going through one of the big boys like AOL, a broadband ISP or an online service Yahoo! or Google, your messages are going to a private email box from your ISP or through your website. That means &#8220;you&#8221; are in control of how many email addresses you can create and the email filters that they pass through. Get comfortable with your email filter. I&#8217;m sure your ISP or website hosting service has reams of documentation and will gladly spend time explaining how to set and monitor any email filters you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Email Etiquette Suck? &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop Chain mail, Bad Jokes and E-Mail Hoaxes: Now about off-color jokes, chain e-mails and hoaxes. I got two words for you: STOP IT! Sexually explicit messages, racist jokes, goofy virus warnings and hoaxes or any hate-filled e-mails have damaged reputations; gotten people fired and even arrested. As a small business owner, you will often have a &#8220;public&#8221; email address and a &#8220;private&#8221; one. You or your friends and family will eventually get them confused. Instead of trying to remember which email you need to forward the &#8220;Hot Bod of the Day&#8221; out on, just stop it and don&#8217;t send it at all. Here&#8217;s a good rule of thumb; if it would embarrass you if someone other than the intended recipient read your message, don&#8217;t send it. People will and have &#8220;forwarded&#8221; along the most private and explicit of emails to other people. Why take a chance? For example, there was a young business executive who sent an email to her then boyfriend detailing their latest sex-capdes with pictures&#8230;he in turned forwarded it to his two &#8220;best&#8221; friends on the shush-shush (who worked at the same world famous law firm he did it). Somehow, it ended up in the international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Email Etiquette Suck? &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 05:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like those other famous siblings the Hilton sisters, (Paris and Nicky), Spam and Email are both in the headlines a lot. Email is one the primary workhorses of modern communications. Email has made business-to-business communications fast, scalable, and extremely cost-effective. Without email, millions of dollars in data and deals would just simply not be possible. However, its evil sister Spam (unsolicited messages) is drowning the business world in a constant flood of drunken digital debauchery costing US organizations an estimated $10 billion dollars in lost revenue and shadow costs (hidden expenses) to combat it. As a result most business people are starting to take a closer look at the email they receive as well at the messages they send out. It used to be that email etiquette mainly consisted of not using profanity, learning all the latest &#8220;:) smileys and &#8220;NOT WRITING IN ALL CAPS&#8221;. But now people&#8217;s reputation and careers have been tarnished and sidetracked due to what was deemed inappropriate emails. So what can you, a small operation do to protect your business? Follow these eight tips to lessen the impact spam and bad email has on your company. Beware The Unknown Attachment: If you didn&#8217;t ask for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desktops are from Chrysler™ &amp; Laptops are from Refrigadare™ &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 04:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now you can &#8220;fix&#8221; all of the above problems by buying after-market parts like keyboards, mice and monitors but you did get this thing to be mobile, right? Laptop replacement parts for the average &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; Joe are expensive, hard to come by and tough to work with. Trust me on this one. Imagine lots of itty-bitty screws and tiny plastic parts and that&#8217;s just opening the case. Since you aren&#8217;t an authorized dealer, you will spend hours online or on the phone tracking down spec sheets, part numbers and used/new laptop components. The word &#8220;labor-intensive&#8221; is not applied lightly. You get the picture. All those things could be easily modified or changed on a regular old desktop with a quick trip to your local electronic superstore. And I won&#8217;t go in the short battery-life (which are never covered in the warranty and cost almost as much as a used laptop of the same age); &#8220;lug damage&#8221; (oops, I dropped my laptop and it can&#8217;t get up) and overheating issues some laptops have; this article is just too short for that. So, Now What? Unless you have to have one for work or study, I would say why spend the cash? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desktops are from Chrysler™ &amp; Laptops are from Refrigadare™</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 04:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should You Buy a Desktop or a Laptop? So why would I compare a car manufacturer to an appliance maker? And what the heck does any of that have to do with your computer? When people ask me to either upgrade or repair their laptop for them; I usually tell them to take it to an authorized dealer, wait 1 to 3 weeks and be prepared to take out a second mortgage. I&#8217;m just kidding, but only a just a little bit. Of course you can replace parts in a laptop like you can any other PC, but the point I&#8217;m trying to make is that desktops and laptops are fundamentally different. Ok, smarty-pants, we both know that laptops were designed to be the ultimate, portable computing tool for road warriors, students on the go and other users who desire mobility (i.e. surfing the web from bed or paying the bills from the kitchen table). While desktops, on the other hand were designed to be the stay-at-home workhorses. Desktop computers (either a true &#8220;desktop&#8221; model or a floor-based &#8220;tower&#8221;) are designed like automobiles in that they can be easily modified or upgraded with standard after-market parts. This is called &#8220;open-source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Started</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 03:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that you have determined that this website is right for you we can move on. How this Website Works One of the hardest parts of repairing computers is learning where to begin. Non-technical people get all tangled up in the &#8220;hardware vs. software&#8221; thing and waste hours searching online trying to piece together odd-n-end bits of information and figure out went wrong with their machine. And then more importantly, waste their hard-earned bucks on junk, when they do finally know which part has gone bad. To eliminate this merry-go-round of misinformation, wasted money and lost hours, the meat of this website has been broken down into sections.  I will go over each section in detail and explain how it can help you with your computer issues. Computer Components Under the Hood &#8211; The Ten &#8220;Moving&#8221; Parts: An illustrated summary of the main components inside a standard computer, their names and what they do. Computer Processes What Happens When You Start&#8217;er Up? &#8211; The Power-On-Self-Test (POST): explains in plain English the processes that a computer must complete before it becomes ready for use. This section also explains some the error codes and messages your computer sends to you when something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use This Website&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 03:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had any of these problems? You have a strange problem with your hard drive&#8230; You are not sure what is wrong but when you boot up your hard drive simply takes forever to bring Windows up. You keep hearing funny sounds but you don&#8217;t know what to do. Your computer is so slow&#8230; The darn thing is running slower than molasses in Alaska. Every time you boot up it seems to take forever and it keeps getting worst. Now you are getting Window &#8220;Blue Screen of Deaths&#8221; error messages. Your computer will not turn on&#8230; It was acting funny yesterday but you just didn&#8217;t have time to fool with it but now the darn time won&#8217;t even turn on. Your computer is full of viruses and spyware&#8230; You have &#8220;porn-pops&#8221; every time you go online now and you notice that files keep disappearing. You have done everything the &#8220;gamer guy&#8221; at work told you to do but things keep getting worst. Your computer keeps restarting&#8230; You just simply cut if off because it would work for a little while then just cut off and restart all by itself&#8230;over and over again. If you have had any problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to spring clean your computer _ Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 01:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chancer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC Clean Up and Maintenance Techniques Delete all old programs Go to &#8220;Start &#62; Programs&#8221; and use the &#8220;uninstall&#8221; tools on any old applications that you or your family no longer needs. If a program doesn&#8217;t have an uninstall program, then go to &#8220;Start &#62; Control Panel &#62; Add/Remove Programs&#8221;. Remove any programs here in the dropdown menu. But be careful…&#8221;when in doubt…leave it the heck alone.&#8221; If you are not sure what a program does, look it up online. Run Microsoft&#8217;s Disk Cleanup Your computer routinely creates little files that are either unnecessary or temporary. Often applications leave these orphan files just lying around taking up valuable disk space and hogging resources. . It&#8217;s your job, as a computer power user to clean out those cyber &#8220;cobwebs&#8221; in the corners of your system. You can regain your lost disk space my using a Windows utility called Disk Cleanup. The program Disk Cleanup comes with the Win98/Me/2000/XP/Vista operating systems. It was designed to remove unnecessary files from your system. Use Scandisk to detect potential hard drive errors. Scandisk is one of the built in Windows utilities that can help you maintain a tidy hard drive. Scandisk detects and repairs minor [...]]]></description>
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