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Dear
Dependable,
We hope you find the articles in our newsletter
interesting and fun. We've created this
newsletter
as a way of communicating interesting and
important
trends affecting you and your business.
If you have questions or
concerns about your network infrastructure,
contact us at (818) 541-9195 or email
support@dcgla.com.
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Brent Whitfield
| Cool Stuff - PocketFinder Tracking
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Locate
anything almost anywhere, instantly,
with this
nifty tracking device from
PocketFinder. This small device,
about
the size of an
Oreo cookie,
can track any item to within 30 feet with a
single phone
call. It works all over the world thanks to
the global
positioning system and cell phone networks.
Put it in your luggage and get
notified when
your
luggage takes a flight without you. Put it in
a child's
backpack and find out whenever they leave
pre-approved zones (the library, school, etc). It
can even
check when your lead-footed teenager is
speeding. It
lasts 7 days on a single charge and texts you
when its
battery is low.
The company that makes PocketFinder also makes
tracking devices for fleet vehicles called
VehicleFleetFinder. These rugged devices fit easily
almost anywhere within a car and give you a wide
array of data about the car's position and the driver's
habits. Manage your company's vehicles more
efficiently with the device's informative reports. You
can see instantly where vehicles in your fleet are, what
direction they are going and at what speed they are
going there at.
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| Ask The Answer Guy - Download Youtube
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Brent,
I like watching videos on Youtube, but
sometimes I don't have an internet
connection, like
when I'm on a plane or when I don't have
great cell
reception. Is there a way I can download my
favorite
videos from Youtube to my computer or cell
phone so
that I can watch them again and again?
Youtube videos are a huge part of our
culture
and
everyone has their favorites. Whether you
are looking
up sports clips or the latest internet fad,
there is
something for everyone on Youtube.
When I want to download a Youtube
video
for my cell phone or just to have, without
having to
search for it, I use a program called YouTube
downloader. It's free and very easy to use.
Simply type
the Youtube URL into YouTube downloader's search
bar and select what file type you want.
Within minutes
you'll have the video at your fingertips. Try
it out
here.
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| Tips and Tricks: Create Studio Quality
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MP3
files are everywhere, small and quickly made
they are very easy to use. For your favorite
albums
though, you probably still want to pop in a
CD to here
the richest, most complete sound possible.
There is a
way to keep the portability and ease of use
of MP3
files without sacrificing on quality and it's
called FLAC.
FLAC has much higher quality audio than MP3
but it's
a compressed so that it doesn't take up
nearly the
space of a CD track.
We have found an easy way to convert
your
CDs to FLAC with a free program called Exact
Audio
Copy. Download it here.
When installing be sure that the audio format
is set to FLAC. During installation you are
also able to
choose if you want to link EAC with a
service
called Freedb. It will save you the hassle of
manually entering album names and song titles
by grabbing them online.
To get your CD rips as accurate as
possible
you're going to want to install this great
add on for
EAC called AccurateRip.
This plug-in compares the
audio files you've extracted from the CD with
what
other users have ripped for the same CD. If
it's not
accurate, you may want to consider cleaning
or trying
a different device to rip the CD. With the
help of these
two great programs you will be able to listen
to your
music at its best, anywhere.
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| Security Corner: Removing Personal
Information From Your Phone |
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Today's phones contain so much of our lives;
we carry
around email addresses, phone numbers, photos
and passwords. When it's time to get rid of your
phone don't let all of the information fall
into the wrong
hands. Recellular
has compiled a library of handy
guides to make sure that when you dispose of
your
phone, your information stays private. Just
enter your
phone's model and they will email you a guide
on how
to completely remove all personal data from your
phone.
They also have information on how to
donate
your phone to a good cause. When buying a new
smartphone for yourself why not donate your old
phone to a well deserving charity, like the
March of
Dimes or Phones for Haiti? While your old phone
might not have all the new features of the
latest
models, it can still make a big difference
with one of
the many charities Recellular can help you
donate to.
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| It Talk: Stopping Stuck Print Jobs |
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If you
print a lot of documents you may notice that
sometimes your print jobs just don't print for whatever
reason. Most of us know to click the printer icon in the
system tray and simply right click the job and select
delete. This doesn't always clear up the problem: the
job will say deleting when it isn't doing anything. Here
is a way to remove print jobs if that happens. In
Windows open the command prompt on your
computer by pressing Start, then Run, and then enter
cmd. In Vista you need to right click the cmd.exe icon
first and select run as an administrator. Then enter
the following.
net stop spooler
del c:\windows\system32\spool\printers\*.shd
del c:\windows\system32\spool\printers\*.spl
net start spooler
We have also created a blog to act as a home
for some of our articles that ended up too
technical or varying in topic to put into
these newsletters. Take a look at the
DCG Blog if
you are interested in reading about various
free utilities, tips, tricks, ideas and other
bits of great information.
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