NEWS FROM THE EDGE

Tech Tips and Advice from the Experts at Dynamic Edge

Why You Must Stop Multitasking!

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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Outlook Tips: Uncluttering Your Inbox!

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

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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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Cody Semester Highlights – Part 2

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.

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Cody Semester Highlights – Part 1

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.

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Getting Rid of a Facebook Virus

We have all seen those annoying spam posts on our friend’s Facebook walls. Or gotten the apology/please don’t click on that/my account was hacked inbox message. These Facebook viruses are spread when a hacker gains control of another user’s Facebook account and starts blasting out spam to the their friend list. How does the hacker gain control? Well, they could have manually hijacked your password, or you could have clicked on a bad link. Or, you could have downloaded a “rouge app” by mistake. All finger pointing aside, if your Facebook has somehow been compromised, follow these steps to take to protect your data and stop annoying your friends:
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