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A Tip-Letter by Cary Root
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Free Clip-Art!
Win XP - R.I.P.
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August 25, 2013
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Two more business productivity tech-tips for you this week. I hope you enjoy and benefit from them. If you have a really good one of your own, please let me know so I can share it with everyone else. Talk to you online!
 
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Free clip-art!
Google Images


Whether you want to make a PowerPoint presentation more interesting, add some professional touches to a report, or even spruce up a boring spreadsheet, you can break up all of those numbers and text with some content enhancing clip-art.

 

There are thousands of clip-art sites on the internet where you can find what you need. Most of them charge $1 to $10 per image. In most cases, you don't need to pay for clip-art.  Google has an amazing site where you can download almost anything imaginable for free. And it's really quick and easy! 

 

Simply go to https://www.google.com/imghp or fire up Google and then click on "images" at the top of the screen. Type in what you want, and presto! Go ahead and give it a try.

 

  • Type "price of gold 2013 chart" without the quotes, into the search box and press enter. Click on one of the pictures to see it a little larger. Then right-click on the picture and select "save as" to save it to your computer.
  • Try typing "protractor" 
  • Try typing "protractor blue"
  • Once the pictures are saved on your computer, go into your word processor, spreadsheet, or website, and import the saved file into your document.

There are tons of fancy options that help you sift through millions of photos and quickly find just the one you want. To learn about them, go to the Google Images help page:

 

https://support.google.com/images/?hl=en  

 

Enjoy!


Countdown - 7 months to ditch Windows XP!
Why you HAVE to change.


My philosophy with computers is if everything is working and you don't need anything more, don't change. Too many businesses buy new computers sooner than necessary. As a result, I have dozens of clients who are still running computers with Windows XP. After all, XP was the most stable operating system that Microsoft ever made.
 
On April 8, 2014, about 7 months from now, Microsoft will be officially retiring Windows XP and stopping all security updates. 
 
Because Microsoft will stop patching XP, hackers will delay releasing their new viruses and dangerous exploits - holding them between now and April, and then selling them to criminals or using them themselves on unprotected PCs after the deadline.

If a hacker discovers a remotely executable XP vulnerability, and publishes it today, Microsoft will patch it in a few weeks. But if they sit on it until April, the price for it could very well double.
 
What does this mean to you and your business? Start planning NOW to either upgrade or replace every one of those computers that run Windows XP. Although it is possible to keep the same computer and upgrade the operating system to Windows 7, the cost and complexity of doing that, makes it better to toss the whole thing and buy a new one.

Questions or thoughts on this? Join the discussion online at our online group.
 
I genuinely appreciate referrals. If you know someone who is is unhappy with their IT support, or who wants to use the newest technologies to improve their business, please let me know.

I hope you enjoy these IT tips and tricks.  More next week!

Best,

Cary M. Root, President
Root-InfoTech

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