October 29, 2009
Billions of emails are sent every day, and some days if feels like they all land in your mailbox. Uncontrolled, email, and its repeated interruptions, can become a distraction from your work.
1 – When you want it:
Unless you are expecting a critical or time-sensitive message, don’t handle emails as they come. Depending on your daily volume, set up fixed times, or even make it a habit to check your email as you move from one task or project to the next. Disable your alerts if necessary.
2 – On your screen once:
Any one email should only hit your screen once and be processed. Whether it is replied to, discarded, printed, or filed away in a project or archive folder, you should process it the first time and move it out of your inbox.
3 – Format it:
Unless you have corporate standards, write your emails how you would prefer to receive them. Use greetings. Make the subjects rich and explicit. Sign your emails. Provide your contact information. Use correct grammar. Do not write all in caps. Be courteous.
4 – Thread carefully:
Keep your emails focused. Multiple revisions of a same document with multiple threads of discussions and multiple round trips between parties are not best handled via a single email. When necessary, send more than one email to the same recipient and request that they stay on topic in their replies. Or, when you sense confusion, pick up the phone, reframe the discussion, and resume your email from there. And, make it possible for your email recipients to do the same by providing them with your phone number or instant message contact in your signature.
5 – They don’t all want to know:
When receiving an email addressed to multiple recipients, don’t reply to all unless all would benefit from your email. It wastes time for all and does not speak well about your email etiquette.
6 – Empty your inbox:
Your don’t leave mail in our physical mailbox, to attend to it someday. There is no benefit in leaving email in your virtual one either. Make it a habit to leave your inbox empty every day.
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July 2, 2009
Pricing for Canon Ink and Canon Toner increased on 7/1/2009 by an average of 11% and 6.7% respectively.
TallyGenicom announced a supplies price increase of about 14% to be effective on 7/13/09.
Also, effective on the same day, Printronix announced a price increase of an average of 5.7% on all their supplies.
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March 23, 2009
Expect broad price increases on many brands of consumables on April 1st. Brother, Lexmark, Okidata, Panasonic, Samsung, Xerox have already announced their prices will increase between 5% and 9% that day. About 400 items all together. Not a joke. We promise. So, stock now and save as much.
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January 7, 2009
HP iPrint Photo is a free downloadable software application that allows you to print photos stored on your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch.
To use it, download the HP iPrint Photo free application from your Apple’s App Store to your iPhone/iPod Touch. Then simply click on the iPrint icon, select the photo to print from your photo album, and choose the Print option at the bottom of the screen.
The software leverages Apple’s Bonjour technology to automatically locate the networked inkjet printers connected to your local WiFi and the wireless HP printers on your network. Choose your printer and that’s it.
You should now be printing your photo in 4″x6″ format.
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December 8, 2008
It did to one of our valued customers who could not understand why, after installing Skype on his PC, he could no longer check our useful list of Manufacturers’ Telephone Numbers as he did before.
Skype’s default installation includes extensions for Microsoft Internet Explorer and for Mozilla Firefox. To disable these extensions:
1. Open your web browser
2. On the toolbar, click the icon to turn off the Skype Add-on/Extension icon as shown here: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/help/guides/ie_addon/
Alternatively, you can uninstall Skype from your computer and reinstall it checking off these two extensions after clicking on the Options button before launching the installation:
- Install Skype extension for Mozilla Firefox
- Install Skype add-on for Internet Explorer
Either one of these two solutions will allow you to view your phone numbers the way you did before installing Skype, while enjoying the benefits of this great service.
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September 23, 2008
Microsoft’s upcoming Internet Explorer will include a new set of privacy settings designed to give users more control over their information.
Users will now be able to choose whether to share their browsing and searching information and to know how it is used.
InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate Blocking settings will allow users to prevent the browser from saving any search or browsing history at all and also to automatically delete such data at the end of each session.
Users will also be able to disable saving of all off-line data including cookies, passwords, and form data.
More information on these and other new features is available when you visit Microsoft.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is currently in Beta 2 release and is due out in the next few weeks.
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