January 2007                    

New Year

The New Year is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Cultures that measure yearly calendars all have New Year celebrations.




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As we look forward to the coming year, VODA Management and Staff would like to take this opportunity to wish all our customers and friends, a healthy and happy new year in 2007.



Saying Happy New Year From Around the World

Afrikaans

Voorspoedige nuwe jaar

Arabic

Kul 'am wa antum bikhair

Basque

Urte Berri on

Bengali

Shuvo noboborsho

Chinese (Cantonese)

Sun nien fai lok

Chinese (Mandarin)

Xin nian yu kuai

Czech

Stastny Novy Rok

Dutch

Gelukkig nieuwjaar

Esperanto

Bonan Novjaron

Finnish

Onnellista uutta vuotta

French

Bonne année

German

Ein glückliches neues Jahr

Greek

Eutychismenos o kainourgios chronos

Hawaiian

Hauoli Makahiki hou

Hebrew

Shana Tova

Hungarian

Boldog uj evet

Indonesian (Bahasa)

Selamat Tahun Baru

Italian

Felice Anno Nuovo or Buon anno

Japanese

Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu

Korean

Sehe Bokmanee Bateuseyo

Laotian (Hmong)

Nyob Zoo Xyoo Tshiab

Latin

Felix sit annus novus

Nigerian (Hausa)

Barka da sabuwar shekara

Norwegian

Godt Nytt År

Philippines (Tagalog)

Manigong Bagong Taon

Polish

Szczesliwego Nowego Roku

Romanian

La Multi Ani si Un An Nou Fericit

Samoan

Ia manuia le Tausaga Fou

Spanish

Feliz año nuevo

Swahili

Heri za Mwaka Mpya

Swedish

Gott Nytt År

Vietnamese

Chuc mung nam moi

Welsh

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda


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  • There are 5 programmable buttons with 59 selectable functions each, plus special features such as: Vertical scroll - press a button and drag the mouse to scroll with greater precision and control than the scroll wheel / Auto click - automatically perform a double click by pausing the pointer / Click lock - press and hold a button momentarily to simulate continued pressing without holding down the button
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Many tasks users regularly perform using the mouse can be more efficiently achieved using ‘keyboard shortcuts’:

  1. When copying and pasting, after highlighting the text/picture/etc, rather than using the drop down menus, or right clicking and choosing ‘copy’ or ‘paste’, simply press ‘Ctrl-C’ on your keyboard to copy, and ‘Ctrl-V’ to paste.
  2. Cut’: ‘Ctrl-X
  3. Undo’: ‘Ctrl-Z

 

The ‘Tab’ key is used to advance the cursor to the next text box, selection, button etc.

Using ‘Shift-Tab’ works in reverse, moving the cursor to the previous selection.
 (note: this does not work when formatting text, where the ‘Tab’ key moves you to the next ‘tab stop’)

The Windows Key is an excellent tool for expediting common tasks:

  1. By itself, it opens the Start Menu.
  2. ‘Windows-M’: Minimize all open windows.
  3. ‘Windows-Shift-M’: Restore minimized windows.
  4. ‘Windows-E’: Open My Computer (or ‘Windows Explorer’).
  5. ‘Windows-F’: Search for files and folders.

 

There are many other keyboard shortcuts (of varying usefulness) available.

An almost mind boggling list can be found at the following link:

http://support.microsoft.com
/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301583



Most Popular New Year's Resolutions:

Lose Weight
Pay Off Debt
Save Money
Get a Better Job
Get Fit
Eat Right
Get a Better Education
Drink Less Alcohol
Quit Smoking
Reduce Stress Overall
Reduce Stress at Work
Take a Trip
Volunteer to help others

 








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TIPS ON HELPING YOU KEEP YOUR
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION!!

Keeping your new year’s resolution seems to be one of the hardest things to do. The following tips might just help you keep your promise.

You can break negative patterns and keep resolutions throughout the year by keeping everything in perspective.

Focus on realistic goals that you can measure. Breaking things down into small steps will help you manage your results. And you will see results. For example, don’t try to lose all the weight you want at once. Set small goals like losing 5 pounds at a time.

If you have a project in mind, split the job up in smaller sections. It will make it easier to accomplish and you will see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Don’t put off your starting point by waiting until you have more energy or this and that. Start immediately. Get off your butt and start doing. Once you start, you will be wondering why you didn’t start sooner.
Good Luck!


 

Quick Tips for Getting Organized for the New Year

1. Clean and organize your desk. Go through all your files and get rid of anything old. Color code your file folders to make it easier to separate.

2. Make a to do list. Make a list of what needs to be done everyday.

3. Use your outlook calendar. There are many features in outlook that help in keeping you organized. Eg. Appointment reminders, contacts folder and more.

4. Set a couple of big goals you want to achieve in the coming year. Review your goals often to keep the momentum going.

5. Get rid of any office supplies you haven't used in the past year. Return them to the store for credit or donate them to your favorite charity. The less clutter there is in your office, the more happiness there'll be in your life. If you buy a new printer, donate the old one. You don't need two printers--the old one is just taking up space. This goes for everything in your office.

6. Update your rolodex. Get rid of all files that you have not contacted in the past year.

7. Feng Shui your desk and surroundings. Yes, it really works!!




"What command prompt commands are still useful in Windows XP?"

 


Using the command prompt may seem extremely "old school" but there are still some commands that are faster and more powerful than their graphical counterparts. Here are some of the most useful, supported commands in XP:
 
(Remember the command prompt can be brought up by hitting the Start button, going to Run, and typing CMD in the run dialog box.)
 
ipconfig - Windows IP configuration - Useful for troubleshooting your internet connection. Displays the current IP address of your computer and the DNS server address. If you call your ISP for reporting a bad internet connection, he will probably ask you to run ipconfig.
 
fc - FC is an advanced DOS Command that compares two files and displays the differences between them. You can even set fc to resynchronize the files after finding a mismatch.
 
type - Displays the contents of a text file in the command window.
 
ping - Ping network command followed by the web-address or IP address tells you about the health of the connection and whether the other party is responding to your handshake request. Ping tool can also be used to convert the web address to a physical IP address.
 
tree - Visual directory structure - You often need to take prints of your physical directory structure but XP has no simple "visual" commands for printing directory contents. Here, try the Tree DOS command and redirect the output to a text file.
 
tree > mydirectory.txt
print mydirectory.txt
 
attrib - Attrib lets you change attributes of System files and even hidden files. This is great for troubleshooting Windows XP.
 
assoc - Which program will open that .xyz file - The assoc DOS command can be used to either display or even modify the file name extension associations.
 
move - More flexible than copy-paste - For instance, if you have a lot of XLS and DOC files in the 'My Documents' folder and want to move only those XLS files that have their name ending with 2006, Just type the following at the command prompt:
 
move *2006.xls c:\2006Reports\
 
This is far superior to manually selecting all the documents you would like from Windows Explorer and using cut\paste.
 
find - Find is the most powerful DOS command. The find command searches for a specific string of text in a file or files. After searching the specified file or files, find displays any lines of text that contain the specified string.
To search your hard disk to find and display the file names on drive C: that contain the string "Google" use the pipe (|) to direct the results of a dir command to find as follows:
dir c:\ /s /b | find "Google"
 
Other tips for using the command line:
 
Drag to avoid typing: When your command acts on a file or folder, you must type the path to that folder after the command. You can save typing time by dragging the file or folder from Windows Explorer into the command window.
 
To view help at the command-line, at the command prompt, type the following:
 
CommandName /?

 

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