January 2008
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Press Release

Five Databranch Employees
Earn New Certifications

OLEAN/ELMIRA HEIGHTS:
In continuing with their pledge to represent the leaders of the Information Technology market, five employees of Databranch, Inc. have earned new vendor certifications to better serve their clients.

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Windows Vista and the 2007 Office system
— better together

The first time you see the 2007 Microsoft Office release running on the Windows Vista operating system with the Windows Aero user experience, you'll notice a difference. And what you see on the surface is just the beginning. Microsoft conducted extensive research to find ways to make it quicker, easier, safer, and more fun to get your work done. From more search options and enhanced file browsing to great visual cues for finding what you need, you'll find a lot of changes — for the better — in how you work every day.

Watch this demo to see how the 2007 Office system and Windows Vista perform together to improve your work experience.

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The Most Productive Article You Will Read this Quarter:
How to get Treatment for Email Overload
By Craig Davis, SLPowers

Corporate workers are now spending as much as 40% of their time dealing with email. I personally have come to expect between 100 and 150 emails every business day. From the important, such as a new customer requesting information to the mundane, such as an endless chain of email discussions between colleagues. It's come to the point where the issue can no longer be ignored.

I've assembled a list of tips that you can use to help keep the problem at bay, at least until software catches up and solves the issue for us.

1. Get a search tool on your PC or notebook, RIGHT NOW.  The three leaders are Google Desktop Search , Windows Desktop Search, or my personal favorite, X1 by Yahoo. These tools index all of the emails, files, pictures, documents, etc. on your hard drive in advance. When you search for them, the files that match whatever you search for get called up instantly and update as fast as you can type or delete another letter.

For more tips, read on

The Top Eight Computer Myths!

Since most computer problems are resolved either by random or ritualistic action on the part of the user, or by following mysterious instructions from an allegedly knowledgeable support person, it's hardly surprising that there are lots of pseudo-religious myths about PCs. Between them, these stories can waste a lot of your time and money. Worse yet, you could become one of the myths' promulgators, and exacerbate the problem!

This article is partly about the worst of these myths, but it's also about how to spot misconceived ideas yourself.

1: Everything's a virus!
By far the most common PC myths concern viruses. Novice computer users are renowned for assuming that anything that goes wrong with their PC must be caused by a virus, and misguided virus warnings are one of the most popular kinds of non-commercial junk e-mail. Many of these warnings clearly originated as a joke (e-mails titled "Pen Pal Greetings!" that warn you never to open an e-mail titled "Pen Pal Greetings!", for instance), but many computer users don't know what their computer can and can't do and so forward the "warnings" promiscuously.  

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How to Make a Wi-Fi Connection (Almost) Anywhere

The promise of a free wireless Internet connection enticed Lynn Fox into booking a room at the Holiday Inn Express in Madison, Wis. Who could blame her?

Fox, a community relations professional from Iowa City, Iowa, relished the thought of no more wires. No more clunky dial-up connections. No more phone bills. When she checked in, she thought she was home free.

But even though the signal showed up loud and clear on her laptop, Fox couldn't find her way online. "The technician I spoke with diagnosed it as problem with my firewall. He said I should disable it and try connecting again," she remembers. "I said, 'Forget it.'"

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