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Hello Friends,
Wow! Those Google guys are on a roll, buying up
very useful, powerful and easy-to-use software,
then improving on it and finally giving it away to
consumers FREE!. Bill Gates and Microsoft claim that
they are not threatened. They should be. The
Google boys are the Robin Hood of the Windows
world, and we are all benefiting.
Like the Google boys, your friendly Rent-A-Geek
Team is dedicated to
providing valuable tools and information to make your
computing time safe,
productive and FUN!
Thank you for choosing the Rent-A-Geek Team as
your preferred service provider!
Sincerely,
Keith Schiehl
Rent-A-Geek Founder and Team Leader
| Instant Messenger Threats on the Rise! |
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Instant Messaging (IM) services have been the
target of choice for virus authors lately. AOL's AIM
service was recently infiltrated with a NASTY
virus
that filled the PC with spyware and other
viruses.
MSN has been a target as well,
with the
latest version of MSN being required to stop
some of
the threats. Yahoo is not immune to such threats
either.
A recent study detailed that IM
threats are up 1500% this year!!! Please make sure
you have proper antivirus and a router/firewall for
the best protection.
Call our office to set up an appointment and we will
help protect your stuff.
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| Google Picasa is FREE and FUN! |
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Check out Google’s photo management and editing
software, Picasa, available for FREE.
This software is
a must have for users of Windows 98 and ME, as it
provides many of the great features introduced in XP
for emailing and printing pictures. However, XP users
will love it’s smoother, easy-to-use interface. The
only products comparable at this level are ACDsee
and Photoshop Elements (both $50).
Read a great review of Picasa HERE
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| OpenOffice.org 2.0 Final Edition released. |
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We are seeing many customers these days who’s
NEW PCs came with a 60-day trial version of
Microsoft Office. Once expired, they were shocked
to find the additional cost required to return to
productivity and to work on their existing
documents.
For these people we are recommending
OpenOffice.org 2.0; an open source office suite
compatible with nearly every Microsoft Office
document, spreadsheet and presentation.
In fact, I am using OpenOffice.org 2.0 to write this!
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| Find Anything on Your Hard Drive! |
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For all the information fanatics out there, Google has
introduced Google Desktop 2.0 (GD2). GD2 is a swiss-
army of tools and gadgets (widgets) which run in
a “side-bar” on your screen.
After install, Google Desktop 2 indexes the contents
of your entire hard drive. Once indexed, GD2 can
find anything (photo, email, document, etc) on your
hard drive by simply typing a few words into the
search window. Results are instantly returned in a
Google window; just like online!
Add-on Widgets can be installed to deliver live RSS
Feeds (updates and news) from your favorite web
sources.
Find out more about Google Desktop 2 HERE
See some cool add-on Widgets HERE
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Hollywood Calling on Line One! |
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The Rent-A-Geek Team, founded in
1999 in Vernon, BC is becoming World Famous!
The recent acquisition of www.rentageek.com and
1-800-RENT-A-GEEK have created quite a
stir.
We even received a call recently from the Maury
Povich Show in Hollywood, California!
Thanks, Maury.
A call centre is planned for the Okanagan in 2006, as
we continue to expand our online service, Click-A-Geek!
Not too shabby for the little guys in Vernon, BC.
Come visit today!
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Thanks from the
Rent-A-Geek Team!
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