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Issue 44: The Technology Issue, Part 1
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June 2012
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Greetings!
We're all techies, whether or not we want to be. Computing devices, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones, are pervasive in our lives. Even our homes, TVs, and cars are getting smarter, and often have the word "Smart" stamped right on them, just to prove it.
Sell-Through Solutions is a technology training company, and we love to exchange tips. We're sure you'll find at least one way in this newsletter to work (or play) with technology better and, of course, smarter. Enjoy!
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Free $5000-to-$10,000 Audiophile Upgrade
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 The best audiophile tweaks and discoveries are the cheap ones--or better yet, free. After reading a review in Widescreen Review about an AV receiver with a flash storage-based music player that surpassed "all those high-end CD players and transports selling for $5,000 to $10,000," we were intrigued. Our mission: try to get similar audiophile sound using what we had lying around the house. Did we succeed? Yes! Continue...
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How to Hack Your Android Phone
|  Hacking was once more often associated with illegal tampering and compromising security. Not any more. Now, the most popular hacking, customizing Android phones, is legal, and even encouraged by Android developer Google.
The open-source Android operating system invites you to bring your best creativity and cunning to mod and hot rod your smartphone just the way you like it.
If you're curious and good at following instructions, you can get started hacking your phone right now. Read on to find out more... |
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The Ultimate PowerPoint 2010 Tool
|  The Ultimate PowerPoint tool is the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT), but not the way you're using it. If you're like 95% of PowerPoint users, your Quick Access Toolbar (that thin strip of tools at the top left of the PowerPoint window) still sports the few default tools: Cut, Copy, Paste, and Save--all of which are more easily accessed via keyboard shortcut.
Our ultimate Quick Access Toolbar bristles with tools all the way across your screen: tools you use constantly; tools difficult to access with the keyboard; tools buried in the Ribbon; secret and awesome tools you've never heard of.
Attendees to the Sell-Through Solutions PowerPoint Boot Camp receive our Ultimate QAT along with their training. Now, you can have our QAT, too. PowerPoint 2010 users, download the Ultimate QAT from our secure file service here. Instructions to replace your toolbar with ours are included with the download. (PowerPoint 2007 users: Sorry, but the process is different for every operating system, and forces you to get into protected files. We recommend you spend the $118 and upgrade to 2010 today; it's worth it.)
After installing your QAT, explore each tool by hovering your mouse over the tool, and experimenting with a PowerPoint file. Also, try to commit the first nine tools to memory, as they're the easiest to access with a keyboard shortcut. Simply hit and release the ALT key, then the number corresponding to the tool's position on the QAT, and the tool does its job. (For example, hit ALT then 4, and the Duplicate This Slide tool works.) Feel free to reorient the tool order to match your workflow.
This optimized toolbar will speed up your work in PowerPoint more than anything else you've done this year.
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When Technology Strikes Back
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While the purpose of technology is to enhance the quality of life, not all technology succeeds. Everyone can point to an epic fail, from HD-DVD to Microsoft Bob. 
The latest technology swing-and-miss comes courtesy of the new MyFord Touch system, hilariously dissected by Car and Driver columnist John Phillips. Read what goes wrong when technology runs amok...
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In the Next Issue...
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 The Technology Issue continues later this summer with Part Two! Sell-Through Solutions has auditioned the upcoming Windows 8 operating system for months, both on desktop and tablet. You'll get an up-close look at the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Also, we'll explore things a Windows 8 tablet can do that an iPad can't even dream of, and vice versa. Stay tuned for the mayhem!
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Sell-Through Solutions is the leading provider of training content development and retail sales training support for the world's preeminent Consumer Electronics and computer vendors.
Sincerely,
Charles Thompson
Sell-Through Solutions, Inc. |
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