Hot Tips For Your Business and the Summer!

Summer 2008 - Vol 2, Issue 2

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In This Issue

Greetings!

Synch Up Your Smart Phone Wirelessly

Interviewing Tips to Ensure Your Hires are Winners!

The Art of Searching

Hot Links

Good Deeds

Greetings!

Hello Joanna

What has this beautiful Chicago summer brought to you? Have you enjoyed the festivals, beach, art, outside patios, movies in the park, summer dance etc. Check out www.metromix.com for upcoming events. This issue is dedicated to getting the most out of your summer! We'll help you get started with our special 25% discount on set-up or synch of your mobile device (see details below) so you can stay connected from the beach, mountains, or wherever your vacation takes you.

"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."

Famous Saying by Ada Louise Huxtable

Synch Up Your Smart Phone Wirelessly

matt

Smart phones have become much more prevalent in the last few years. With smart phones comes the ability for always-on mobile access to your email as well as to the web.

But did you know that you could also have access to your Outlook calendar, contacts, and task list wirelessly as well?

There are three types of phones that provide this capability: Blackberry's, iPhone's, and Windows Mobile devices. All of these products have the ability to link with your business Exchange Server and to enable you to download your contacts, email, calendar, task list, and in the case of the Blackberry, your notes. What makes this a great option is that it doesn't cost anything in license fees. All it requires is some configuration on the server. Once the configuration is complete, it is easy to add new devices as well.

If you are interested in this configuration and are not yet "fully connected" please contact MXOtech to receive your 25% discount on the service. It will make your life much easier!

Matt Cooper, Network Systems Administrator

Interviewing Tips to Ensure your Hires are Winners!

Recently I presented Successful Hiring for Your Work Culture for the West Loop Organization. I wanted to share with you some good interview questions and other links I recommend when considering hiring a new employee. Please visit our web site to download tips that are useful for employers of all sizes. http://www.mxotech.com/successful_staffing.html. Our recent placements have included:

Application Developer - SQL/VB

.NET Developers

Systems Engineer

Sr. Java Developer

Business Intelligence Consultant

Please contact us if you have any hiring needs in IT.

Joanna Sobran, President

The Art of Searching

matt

The best way to start any online search is to take a few general concepts and add in one or two very unique details about your search topic. For example: if you want a quick breakfast drink, you may want to type in - breakfast drink, smoothie, fruit smoothie, protein drink etc.. Doing this alone will help target good results. Encapsulate phrases in quotation marks so that the search will look for that exact phrase word for word. The first set of results may not be perfect. Pick through these results and examine the words and phrases being used on those web pages. Sometimes you will notice a word or phrase that may act as a better search term. Many web sites have search engines that only look through the site's data narrowing your search and improving the odds. If your results link to pages that look like they may have more information try searching in that web site. The Google engine allows a user to type in specialized syntax to modify a search operation (many search engines allow some form of this). If you want to search for sites with the word "test" in the URL (website name or page) then type "inurl:test" (w/o quotes) in the Google search engine. This will yield only results with the word "test" in the webpage address. You'll find a list of operators is listed here: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html. And take advantage of special search engines. Search databases of images http://images.google.com or US Government information http://www.google.com/ig/usgov ...many more exist. You may even search for a better way to search!

Michael Dugan, Sr. Systems Engineer

Hot Links

Are you having problems sending large files via e-mail? Try http://yousendit.com to transmit files up to 100 MB for free. It's a fast and secure way of sending files across the Net. If you need to send more than 100 MB at a time, you can opt for the affordable pay plans available as well.

Wish you could see that Word Document on your home computer? Set up an account and go through the easy installation at http://mycast.orb.com. You will be able to access all of your pictures, documents, videos and music from any internet-connected PC or Mac. Our favorite recent find!

Want some background music at the office? Go to http://www.pandora.com to create your own radio stations based on the music you like. Pandora takes a song or artist that you like and creates a radio station playing similar songs. It's excellent to discover artists and songs that you haven't heard before plus no commercials. The site is sponsor-driven and is free.

Would you like to uplift your financial spirits and position yourself to be lucky? Check out a new book written by one of our clients - Julie Murphy Casserly. http://www.emotionbehindmoney.com.

Do you like to experience new food on the North Side of the Chicago? Check out our friend Sarah's blog for reviews of the great restaurant and ones to avoid! She's also a great writer if you need a helping hand on the business side http://eatingupbroadway.blogspot.com.

Good Deeds

matt

Feel like doing something easy this summer for a good cause? Donate your extra inventory to reduce your hardware clutter, and feel good doing it! We recommend you consider Technology 4 Humanity for your donations of working computers, monitors, scanners, printers, keyboards, and mice; this marvelous organization distributes them to people with disabilities and other worthy recipients. Visit Technology 4 Humanity for details on how your company can participate.

Joanna Sobran and the MXOtech Team Microsoft Certified Partner Logo

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