VODA Newsletter December 2009

Improve and Accelerate Team Performance

In our complex work world, effective collaboration is critical. Workforces are geographically dispersed. Travel and budgets have been reduced. Information overload is considered normal.

Cisco Collaboration solutions help you build more effective teams across corporate boundaries, companies, and continents.
Provide customers instant access to company experts. Form teams quickly, sharing the most relevant business information. Meet three customers in three countries in one day, as if everyone is in the same room.

You can improve interactions, encourage innovation and creativity, make better decisions, faster, and increase your responsiveness to customers and the market. The Cisco Collaboration portfolio, along with services from Cisco and our partners, bring together:

Improve workflow and reduce your organizations environmental impact

Capture and deliver documents electronically, speeding up processes, time and reducing paper use. HP's end to end solutions and products will help your organization reduce the environmental and carbon impact of printing.
With HP products it's easy to reduce energy costs:
HP Instant On technology can help reduce your carbon footprint

» Find out how

WiMAX - Your Internet on the GO!

If you had to go inside a coffee shop to make a call on your
cell phone, you’d cry foul, right? So why treat it like a simple fact
of life that you need to be within easy distance of a hotspot to
get high speed Internet connectivity?

www.intel.com/go/wimax

• WiMAX will do for broadband Internet access what the cell phone
did for telephone service—give you access to the Internet while
you’re on the move.
• WiMAX will deliver Internet access speeds similar to DSL and
cable connections, directly to your WiMAX enabled notebook
computer or mobile Internet device.
• WiMAX won’t replace Wi-Fi, but rather will fill in between
hotspots and extend your Internet access on the go.

What is WiMAX?

WiMAX combines the familiarity of Wi-Fi with the mobility of cellular
that will deliver personal mobile broadband that moves with you. It
will let you get connected to the Internet, miles from the nearest
Wi-Fi hotspot. Soon, Mobile WiMAX will blanket large areas—
metropolitan, suburban, or rural—delivering mobile broadband Internet
access at speeds similar to existing broadband.
WiMAX is built for the future with advanced, efficient wireless
technology that provides higher speeds than today’s wide area wireless
technologies. It will be able to completely transform your mobile Internet
lifestyle, enabling you to connect in ways you’ve only dreamed about.

How Does WiMAX Work?

Think of WiMAX as taking the best part of cellular network access–
the part that allows you to easily connect anywhere within your
service provider’s wide coverage area and taking the best part of your
Wi-Fi experience—the fast speeds and a familiar broadband Internet
experience. And combining them into a new wireless standard.
Expanding Your Wireless World. You’ll be able to get
WiMAX as a subscription or pay-as-you-go service that lets
you take your broadband with you, similar to the way you
receive mobile phone service.

WiMAX is a Wide Area Network (WAN) technology. Service providers
will deploy a network of towers that will enable access over many
miles. Internet access is instantly available anywhere within coverage
areas. And like Wi-Fi, WiMAX is a standards-based technology that will
unleash the benefits of open markets and global economies of scale
to deliver the devices and services that consumers want.

Holding out for a great deal that will allow you to buy the IT solutions you need? It doesn’t get any better than The Big Easy offer. This year, when you purchase from any 2 of 11 Microsoft® product categories, you can get a Microsoft partner subsidy for up to 30 percent toward your next purchase.*

So—that limited IT budget you thought you had?

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Put together complete solutions that help you reduce IT cost and complexity. Deploy high-value, easy-to-manage products that help you keep your company’s sensitive data protected and your systems active and available.

It’s simple—for every qualifying software purchase you make, we’ll give you subsidy dollars to use for additional hardware, software, and services. Don’t wait! This offer expires December 31, 2009. Contact us today.

Full list of the Winkey combinations for Windows 7:

General:

Win + Up	Maximize
Win + Down	Restore / Minimize
Win + Left	Snap to left
Win + Right	Snap to right
Win + Shift + Left	Jump to left monitor
Win + Shift + Right	Jump to right monitor
Win + Home	Minimize / Restore all other windows
Win + T	Focus the first taskbar entry Pressing again will cycle through them, you can arrow around. Win + Shift + T cycles backwards
Win + Space	Peek at the desktop
Win + G	Bring gadgets to the top of the Z-order
Win + P	External display options (mirror, extend desktop, etc)
Win + X	Mobility Center (same as Vista, but still handy!)
Win + # (# = a number key)	Launches a new instance of the application in the Nth slot of the taskbar. Example: Win+1 launches first pinned app, Win +2 launches second, etc.
Win ++ Win + - (plus or minus key)	Zoom in or out

Explorer:

Alt + P

Show/hide Preview Pane

Taskbar modifiers

Shif + Click on icon	Open a new instance
Middle click on icon	Open a new instance
Ctrl + Shift + Click on icon	Open a new instance with Admin privileges
Shift + Right Click on icon	Show window menu (Restore / Minimize / Move etc Note: Normally you can just right click on the window thumbnail to get this menu
Shift + Right Click on the group icon	Menu with Restore all / Minimize all / Close all etc
Ctrl + Click on grouped icon	Cycle between the windows or tabs in a group

Quote of the Month

Christmas --- that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance --- a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
— Augusta E. Rundel

Product of the Month

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Increase productivity
Reduce the direct and indirect costs of enterprise
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CM3530 MFP series. This device sits on a desktop,
yet has all the features of a high-performance color MFP—with print, copy, scan, digital send, and fax1 capabilities. Enhance work team productivity with
black-and-white and color print speeds up to 31 pages per minute (ppm). Time To Completion of a typical office print job can be up to 40 percent faster with Instant-on Technology.2 Count on reliable, consistent, high-gloss, high-quality
printing with HP ImageREt 3600 and improved HP ColorSphere toner. Meet your specific business needs with support for a range of paper sizes and
types, including glossy and heavy paper.

Enjoy enhanced networking and enterprise-class security with the HP Jetdirect embedded print server. Powerful management tools like HP Web Jetadmin,
HP Easy Printer Care software, and HP Embedded Web Server save time and money. Remote troubleshooting, print job tracking, and proactive
alerts make HP supplies easy to manage and replace. Reduce total costs
Save time while providing greater value to users and your business. Easily control who can print in color and how much with HP’s Color Access Control
technology. Auto Color Sensing detects whether a document is color or mono and adjusts settings accordingly. Cut paper consumption with standard
automatic two-sided printing and copying. Get black prints for the same cost as on a black-and-white HP LaserJet MFP—and you can still
print in color!3 Choose the high-capacity black print cartridge for even more value. Create professional-looking documents in-house and make the desired impression on employees and customers for less than the cost of outsourcing.

For more information call a VODA sales representative today.
250.374.8002

Ask the VODA Expert

Q: How to burn .ISO files without installing extra software in Windows 7?

A: Windows 7 introduces an easy to use applet that makes burning an .ISO image simple. Double click the DVD or CD .ISO image and the “Burn Disk
Image” applet automatically appears. Burning files is easy!
a) Place a blank unformatted CD or DVD into your CD/DVD drive.
b) Right click on the .ISO or .IMG file you want to use to burn a disc.
c) Click Burn disc image.
d) Next to Disc burner, click on the drop down arrow and select the CD/DVD drive with the blank disc you want to burn to.
e) Check the Verify disc after burning option if you want Windows to verify the disc image after burning the disc. Note that you should skip verification if you are in a hurry, as this process requires additional time.
f) When it finishes burning the disc image to disc, click the Close button.
The DVD (or CD) is now ready to be used without ever having to find, install, and use a third-party tool.

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