There’s only a year-and-a-half left until we have to say Good-Bye to Windows XP for good. Are you ready?
For many businesses, upgrades are on the horizon– whether they like it or not. Microsoft plans to discontinue support for Windows XP (and Office 2003) in 2014.
Why are we bothering to tell you this now? Planning is in order. Many businesses are still running Windows XP. In many cases, other software they use is also outdated and not compatible with Windows 7. Now, they’re faced with upgrading not only Windows and Office, but also their CRM, other expensive applications, and even the physical computers as well.
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One person runs on a treadmill for an hour while another runs down the street for an hour. At the end of that hour, both are dripping sweat, but the first runner is standing in the exact spot he started. The second runner made it all the way to the market.
This example is the difference between Activity and Productivity.
A lot of us work hard and get sweaty at work, but at the end of the day, we are standing in the same spot we were at 8am—no closer to our goals.
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Seeing 120 unread messages in your inbox can be overwhelming. How would you like to get that number down to about 70 without reading or even opening a single message?
In the last Outlook blog, we showed you how to eliminate 40 distractions per day by turning Outlook off. The next step in attaining full productivity is getting all the messages you don’t need to respond to out of your Inbox altogether.
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App Review: RedLaser – Barcode and QR Code Scanner
Works with: iPhone, Android, Windows Phone
This is the most popular bar code and QR code scanning app on both the Android Market and the iPhone App Store — and for good reason. It is one of the few apps on my phone that I use regularly and actually provides me benefits other than mind numbing repetitive entertainment (fruit ninja?).
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Continued from Part 1
Week 3:
The following week, another familiar face joined me at Cody. Sean Lynn (DE Consultant) came with me to Detroit to teach the students something he learned to do in Iraq—make network cables.
We brought CAT 5 cable, ends, a crimping tool, scissors, and a test kit to show the kids how to make their own Ethernet cable. It is a pretty complicated process that consists of getting 8 very small wires into the plastic tip exactly how you want them before you clamp the tip onto the wire.
Cody Project: Semester in Review Part 1 of 2
Dynamic Edge has continued its outreach program this year providing weekly after school technology classes for the students at Cody High School in Detroit. I (Bryan Emmendorfer, Sales and Marketing) head out to Cody each week and bring along with me a techie, a geek, or someone smarter than me in general, for some small class size, hands-on, interactive, sandwich fueled, non-classroom style, high level learning.
