Outlook Tips  

Remove Duplicate Holidays from the Outlook Calendar

When you accidentally add Holidays twice or duplicate them when syncing with a smart phone or you added holidays for more than one country and decided you didn't need all of those countries, you can remove them and you don't have to do it one at a time.

Use a List view and group by category. Delete all then re-add the Holidays.

When you import calendar items into Outlook, if you select the Allow duplicates to be created option in the Import and Export Wizard, items already in your Calendar are duplicated.

To remove duplicate items from your Calendar, do the following:

1. In Calendar, in the Navigation Pane, select the Calendar folder.
2. On the View tab, in the Current View group, click Change View, and then click List.
3. Click the Subject column heading to arrange all the calendar items by subject.
4. Hold down CTRL while you click each duplicate calendar item in the list.
5. When you have selected all of the duplicate calendar items, press DELETE.

 Note    To prevent duplicate calendar items when you import calendar items into Outlook, select the Do not import duplicates or Replace duplicates with items imported option in the Import and Export Wizard.

GREEN TIPS

E-WASTE DISPOSAL

E-waste is a popular, informal name for electronic products nearing the end of their "useful life." Computers, monitors, printers, televisions, VCRs, stereos, copiers, and fax machines are common electronic products. Also included in the category are batteries, toner cartirdges, memory, flash cards/drives, cell phones, telephones and video cards.

The question is:  do you know how to dispose of any or all of the above properly?  Here's a big hint:  no, they do not belong in any of the black, green or blue trash barrels you were given by the city for waste disposal - even if you hide them well! 

The problem is computers and other electronics contain cadmium, lead and brominated fire retardants and plastics that do not decompose normally and have a toxic breakdown.  Tossing electronics in the trash can lead to the contamination of local water supplies and is just not a good idea if you care about your planet.

The good news is there are more than a couple of options for safe disposal.  These are just a few:

1.  CLICK HERE for drop-centers located near you.  (Also included is information for disposal of other items:  plastics, paper, metal, glass, automotive, yard, household and hazardous.)

2.  CLICK HERE for both free drop-off centers & collection events.

3.  CLICK HERE for drop off spots, to schedule a pickup & collection, for collection events, oh, and a very cool E-Waste recycling carbon footprint calculator to see how your efforts benefit the environment. 

NOTE:  For security reasons, you should never just give away or dispose of your old computer without properly wiping away your existing data. Simply deleting your old files or reformatting your hard disk is not enough, since the data can still be recovered from your computer by someone using a data recovery program.

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How do you know that it is time to change your marketing plan?

1.  Look at your marketing materials - is everything branded?  Are you using the same colors, fonts, layout for your webpage, letterhead, invoices, signage, and marketing materials.  If they don't match, then you need to redesign them so you communicate a consistent brand for your company.

2.  Set short and long term goals for your company.  You need to know what you want to achieve within the next year and within the next five years. 

3.  Know how to connect with customers (clients).  Try to find the best networking locations to meet the clients who will do business with you.  Find your target audience and work the crowd.

4.  When you meet people, listen to their message.  Don't interrupt by giving your marketing message while they are talking.  Engage people with meaningful content and conversations. 

5.  Check out your competitor's messages.  Try to stay ahead of them by knowing their marketing messages.   

Cecile@ceocomputers.com

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Web 2.0 Sites

Cell Phones and Cancer 

The debate about whether or not using cellphone contributes to cancer has continued for quite some time.

A recent study by World Health Organization (WHO), exposes new concerns about health and cellular devices.

Experts say earpieces Can Minimize Possible Risks From Cellphones.

The following article, by US News,

explains how cell phones may cause harm.

 The World Health Organization (WHO) says that it might. After a group of scientists from 14 countries, including the United States, analyzed peer-reviewed studies on cellphones, the team announced that there was enough evidence to categorize personal exposure as "possibly carcinogenic to humans."

This puts cellphones in the same category as lead and auto exhaust. The WHO report noted that there wasn't enough evidence to prove the radiation from cellphones is linked to cancer, but enough to alert consumers to a possible connection.

Dr. Michael Schulder, vice chairman of neurosurgery and director of the brain tumor institute at North Shore Long Island Jewish School of Medicine in Hempstead, N.Y., said the category into which WHO is putting cellphones is one that asserts there may be a concern. "That's fairly weak as a concern goes," he addded.

According to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates radiation from cellphones, "there is no scientific evidence to date that proves that wireless phone usage can lead to cancer or a variety of other health effects,

including headaches, dizziness or memory loss."

Proving a causal relation between cellphone use and brain tumors is very hard to do, Schulder added. "It [would] take following many patients over many years to try to draw a connection," he said. "Even if a connection exists, it will be very hard to prove."

What is a Wordle? 

Multiple Choice Question:

A.  An individual who WORries or is otherwise preoccupied with the proper preparation of nooDLEs.   

 B.  A misspellling.  Whatever happened to word check?

C.  Word + cuddle = a word that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. 

D.  A toy that creates graphic representation of the most frequently used words in a blog or text.

If you guessed D, you're absolutely right!  (What gave it away?) 

A Wordle allows you to be creative and use your text to generate cool designs referred to as"word clouds".  The more frequently a word appears in your text, the greater prominance it will have in the design.

But since a picture is worth a thousand words - perhaps literally in this case - you really need to check out the wordle that was done for the US Constitution below:

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Click here not only to see more examples, but  to create your own.

Note:  If it does not work the first time, you might need to install or update Java on your computer.  Just click in Wordle to follow the directions to complete this update.

Ask the Professor - Cecile Bendavid

Professor of Computer Science - California State University Northridge and Director of New Business Development for CEO Computers.

Question:  What are computer health risks to people? 

 Answer:

The health risks posed by computers, if any, are not fully understood and investigative research is always ongoing.

Areas of possible health risk include: eye strain/damage, repetitive motion injury to hands, neck/spinal injury, and mental health issues including addiction.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the most common health issues regarding computers because of repetitive motion which pinches nerves.

There are extremely low levels of RF emission from computers that are not known to constitute a health risk. 

   For more information, call Cecile at CEO Computers at 818 501-2281.