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June 2007 |
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Welcome to B&D System Engineers newsletter for June
We would like to keep you up to date with the latest IT developments and
trust you will enjoy reading this newsletter.
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Sony's long-awaited Video Walkman is the
nano's worst nightmare. It's a rocket aimed squarely at Apple's
posterior. Incredibly slim, it reproduces celluloid greats in
eye-popping, retina-frying resolution.
The
NW-A800 Walkman's two-inch QVGA screen is breathtaking to
behold. It's sharp, crisp, bright and brings Hollywood's finest
to magnificently vivid life. The way that Sony has crammed it
into a casing that's 9mm skinny, yet feels like it could
withstand a nuclear winter, is pure design voodoo.
Battery
life is nothing short of marathon. One juicing gives you enough
for around two films back-to-back, or 25 hours of music.
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well as video, this baby plays back tunes ripped to MP3 and
ATRAC. Crystal sound quality is assured, thanks to a pair of
bundled earphones that are so fine, they decimate the tinny
tripe supplied with lesser players.
Movie transfer is
drag-and-drop, while Sony's supplied music software is on
nodding terms with Vista.
This looks like the Walkman
that Sony's been promising since it resurrected the brand a few
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Walkman
Vs nano
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Walkman |
nano |
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Price |
R2499 (4GB) |
R1955 (4GB) |
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Video playback |
MPEG4 |
Nope |
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Music playback |
MP3, ATRAC |
AAC, MP3, AIFF, WAV |
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Battery life |
Six hours vids; 25 hours music |
24 hours |
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Screen size |
two-inch |
1.5-inch |
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Thinness |
9mm |
6.5mm |
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Coulours |
Black, White, Pink, Blue |
Silver, Black, Green, Blue, Pink |
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As Corporate Governance rules and regulations become
more stringent, with particular reference to acceptance of
emails as official documentation, the demand for corporate and
SMME fax solutions is increasing. An electronic faxing solution
is far more cost efficient, less time consuming, and
significantly more secure than traditional faxing methods. A
user now has the ability to seamlessly communicate with both
email and fax clients simultaneously, and through the desktop
email platform using SMTP as Internet Email, attached files are
delivered to traditional fax machines.
The facility provides the VAX user the ability to
receive faxes direct into their email “In-Box” with their own
unique fax number and to send faxes worldwide from their desktop
email platform, each with its own unique features and pricing
options.
Receive Faxes as Email with own unique fax number (08667)
• Free incoming faxes
• Sending Faxes from Email including “Bulk-Fax” facility.
• 3 Day archive of all fax traffic accessible online.
• Online itemised billing.
• Online monitoring on the status of sent faxes.
• Online History of sent and received faxes.
USER BENEFITS AND COST SAVINGS
• Immediate connection and activation as no software or hardware is required resulting in no lead time for the
installation of equipment.
• Outbound fax operates with existing email systems including Microsoft Exchange or Outlook.
• No expensive fax server system with the associated maintenance and support staff.
• Utilises current investment in email, internet infrastructure, systems and software.
• Confirmation of fax delivery / non-delivery to sender’s email “In-Box.”
• Received faxes can be directed to any email address world wide.
• Eliminates the media cost of incoming faxes (savings on paper and printing costs) as well as the labour cost of
fax distribution.
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For Pricing please contact Sales at sales@3gi.co.za or 012 663 1515 |
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The latest version of Microsoft Office
is a marked departure from previous Office incarnations, in ways
both good and bad, and it is a truly great product. The most
remarkable change relates to the new look, and the improved
navigation. While previous Microsoft Office products
were notorious for their cluttered toolbars, many which floated
between the top and bottom of the screen at will, Microsoft has
done well to clear up the mess.
All the various functions and
commands have been reorganized and recategorized, and instead of
individual toolbars for each set of commands, they're all
separated at the top of the screen using a tab system. It’s an
elegant and instantly recognizable solution, and personal
productivity is no longer hampered by wasted time fruitlessly
looking for the right button. Everything is where you expect it
to be, and each tab contains functions and commands relevant to
the type of work you wish to do on the document.
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navigation system has been completely overhauled as well.
Pressing the Alt key now superimposes a shortcut key over the
commands at the top. For the first time ever in a Microsoft
Office package, every single command has a shortcut key, and
instead of having to memorise obscure shortcuts, they’re all
there, visible with a single keypress. Need to insert a comment
into a Word document? No problem. Press Alt on the keyboard
once, press ‘R’ for review, then press "C" for comment. Simple,
elegant, effective.
There's a few other neat touches. The
entire suite is web-enabled, and addons, fonts and the like can
be easily downloaded from Microsoft's website. While this may
not be new, the reworked interface and improved help
functionality makes it a lot easier to find what you need.
Microsoft have even included a downloadable add-in that allows
you to save documents in PDF format.
On the negative
side, Office adopts a new format. Word documents are now by
default saved as .docx, Excel as .xlsx. The new formats are not
backwards compatible with older versions of Office, nor with
popular open source office suites such as OpenOffice. In order
for those not using the latest version of Office to see what
you’ve done, you'll need to specifically save it in the older
format.
Other than a few minor niggles, the latest version of Office is a worthy successor, a marked improvement in many ways, and a far more slick and polished effort on the whole.Read more
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Get Started with the 2007 Microsoft Office System |
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Acer TravelMate C213 Super-sleek slider
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 For the most part, a tablet PC is a somewhat specialised device.
For those taking notes during a business meeting, for sketch artists and graphic
designers looking to ply their trade, it's a fantastic device, capable of enormous
versatility. However, if you're not specifically going to be using the touchscreen,
a tablet is not a particularly sensible buy.
The Acer TravelMate C213 is different. It's a tablet PC that's
more than a tablet. It's a more of a small-form notebook with
tablet functionality than a tablet PC. The reason for this
unconventional claim is the notebook's unconventional design.
While most tablet PCs use a screen with a swivel hinge, the C213
uses an innovative slide system, with the screen sliding up and
down from normal to tablet position.
This has several
advantages over the more conventional hinge method. For
starters, switching the tablet between the two modes is far more
simple. Instead of having to lift the tablet up, or clear the
area of obstructions, the tablet can be switched within its own
footprint. It's a huge advantage when you're working with
limited space, such as in a car or on a plane. Using rails also
offers another crucial advantage over the hinges used on a
normal tablet: it's far more stable. The hinge on most tablets
is typically somewhat flimsy, and while in normal mode, there's
typically a lot of play on the screen. The C213 has no problems,
with the screen locking into either position smoothly and with
no play. This makes it as easy and comfortable to work on as a
regular notebook.
And it's quick too – the Intel Core 2
Duo 1.6GHz processor has no trouble handling Adobe PhotoShop,
even when working on supersized images. With a full gigabyte of
RAM and a 120GB hard drive, the C213 offers plenty of room to
grow into. The nVidia GeForce Go graphics card falls just shy of
offering gaming performance, but serves more than adequately for
movie-watching and multimedia-heavy work on the C213's 12.1"
screen.
It's a fine tablet PC, and it makes for an
equally capable notebook. For the consumer looking for a small
factor device that has tablet functionality, the Acer TravelMate
C213 may not be the cheapest device on the market, but it smacks
of quality, and with its attractive design and innovative rail
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