Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 Basic: #2 Formatting the Address Book

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

What is the difference between SEO, SMO and SMM?

SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. SEO is an on-going process of optimizing your website site for search engine, so that, when a customer is types a word or phase in the search engines, such as, Google, Yahoo.., the search engine can find your website and list it on its result page.

According to netcraft.com, as of Oct 2010, there were 240 million registered domains. In other words, the chance of a search engine finding and listing your website, as one of the result, is 1 in 234 million sites. Thus monitoring, fine-tuning and optimizing a website plays an important role in managing the website and improving the chances of being found by search engine. According to accuracast.com, the average click rate for website listed at position 1 to 4 in the search result page, the click through rate is 18%. That is, higher the website listing on the search result page increases the number of online visitors to your site. Here are 10 SEO tips by Steve Wiideman, "SEO Expert".

SMO is an acronym for Social Media Optimization. SMO is the strategy used to drive the traffic to your site from sources other than search engines. Some of the SMO techniques include blog commenting, social bookmarking, social networking, video and photo sharing.

SMM Is an acronym for Social Media Marketing. [Wikipedia] SMM is a form of Internet Marketing using social network to promote business or website using tools such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. The Top 20 Social Media Sites. It provides an opportunity for directly interact with a targeted group. [More about SEO, SEM & SMM]

Monday, October 25, 2010

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Converting PowerPoint Presentation To Video

Now that you have done creating a PowerPoint presentation and you are ready to convert it into a video, you can use PowerPoint 2010 to do that. PowerPoint 2010 has an added functionality for a presenters to easily convert a presentation into a Windows Media Video (.wmv) file that can be distributed using a disc, the Web and e-mail.

Listed below are the steps for converting a presentation into a Windows Media Video file:

Step 1: Open the presentation using PowerPoint 2010. Click on the File tab at the top-left corner of the ribbon.

Step 2: While in the File Menu is open, scroll down to Save & Send option and click it. This will display all the options available for saving a file in different format in the middle panel.

Step 3: To save the presentation as a video file, click on the Create a Video option under File Type category.

PowerPoint To Video Conversion



Step 4: In the Create a Video pane on the right panel, click the Computer & HD Displays down arrow. PowerPoint 2010 provides a user the option to save the presentation in one of the following video format:
Mode
Description

Resolution
Computer & HD DisplaysTo create a high quality video for viewing on a computer monitor, projector or High Definition (HD) Displays.960 x 720
Internet and DVDTo create a video for uploading to the Web and burning to standard DVD.640 x 480
Portable DevicesTo create a low-quality-small-size file for portable devices.320 x 240
You can choose any of the option listed above that will benefit the most from your presentation.

Options for saving a presentation as small to large resolution movie.

Step 5: Next click on the drop down for Don’t Use Recorded Timings and Narrations, select one of the following options:

the option to incorporate all recorded timings, narrations, and laser pointer gestures in the video file.

You can have your presentation play through according to timings that you set for each slide and can queue up recordings and laser points as well.

There’s the option to record Timings and Narrations if you require them, otherwise click “Don’t use recorded timings and narrations.”

Option to save video file with recorded timing and narrations
OptionDescription
Don’t use Recorded Timings & NarrationsSelect this option if no timings or narrations have been recorded.
Use Recorded Timings and NarrationsSelect this option if you recorded and timed narration and pointer movements
Record Timings and NarrationsTo turn on the record for time narration and pointer movements
Preview Timings and NarrationsTo preview the record of the time narration and pointer movements
Step 6: The default time spent of each slide is set to 5 seconds. You can manually adjust the time spent on each slide enter the number in the text box next to Seconds to spend on each slide or click on the up arrow to increase or the down arrow to decrease the duration (in seconds) for each slide.



Step 7: When you’re ready, click on the Create Video button to start the conversion process. When you click on the Create Video button, PowerPoint will pop-up the Save As window.

Step 8: In the Save As Window, go to the File name text box, enter the name for your Windows Media Video file, choose the target location and click on the Save button to save the file.

Saving a Movie File

You can continue to use PowerPoint while the video is being created.

Vazi Okhandiar

NR Computer Learning Center

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Friday, August 27, 2010

SCORE: Hot Topics in Internet Marketing

SCORE Hot Topics in Internet Marketing
Vazi OKhandiar Presentation on Google Analytics for SCORE Hot Topics in Internet Marketing at Newport Beach, CaliforniaOrange County SCORE, a nationwide nonprofit organization dedicated to the formation, growth and success of small business, conducted a workshop, August 25th, on a hot topic roaming “this” generation called Internet Marketing. Vazi Okhandiar, Elissa Warrantz, and Amir Banifatemi all provided entrepreneurs and small business owners in Orange County at the Newport Beach Public Library information on Google Analytics, Internet Law, and Social Media and Networking. There were 100 attendees who were eager to embrace the wisdom and buzz about Internet Marketing from the three presenters. The workshop consists of three lectures with Q&A in between each topic. By the end of the night, attendees walked away with PowerPoint handouts, resource guides, and a bountiful use of information to conquer the internet world. Bob Bradley, organizer of the event, has presented over 50 successful Internet Marketing workshops for SCORE. For more information on workshops and SCORE, visit www.score114.org.

 

Google Analytics SCORE

Bob Bradley, Vazi Okhandiar, Elissa Warrantz, and Amir Banifatemi

The presentation on the Google Analytics is also available at the website http://www.slideshare.net/HotTopics114/score-google-analytics.

Vazi Okhandiar

NR Computer Learning Center


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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Improve Productivity using Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps

On June 7, 2010, Microsoft released Office 2010 Web Apps (www.office2010. microsoft.com) on SkyDrive (www.skydrive.com) for users in the US. You can now upload, create, view, edit, and share Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote documents from virtually anywhere. To use Office 2010 Web Apps you do not need to have Office 2010 desktop version.

The Office Web App does not provide all the functionalities available in a desktop application. However, it does provide limited functionalities that are needed for editing, communicating and collaborating when two or more people need to work on a document together. The Web Apps on SkyDrive allows multiple users to access and edit a particular document at the same time, and no one can get locked out of the document. The Web Apps also maintains a version history, so that if you make a mistake or don't like what someone has done to the document, you can go back to the previous version of the document. The Web Apps also include enhanced search capability and a more comprehensive drill-down into currently stored files.

To use Office Web Apps, simply go to http://www.skydrive.com or http://office.live.com and sign in with a Windows Live account. The Windows Live SkyDrive provides upto 25GB free online storage space.
For more information on Microsoft Office 2010 Web Apps, visit http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364807,00.asp and http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/

Vazi Okhandiar
Director
NR Computer Learning Center
http://www.nrclc.com/

Monday, May 31, 2010

SEO: Indentifying Broken Links in Your Website

A broken link (also known as deal link or dangling link) in a website is a link that doesn't work anymore, because they link to a page or a site that do not exist anymore. It is a dead end for a customer and a search engine. These links can drive your potential customers away and prevent search engines from properly indexing your website. It is a good idea to regularly check all the links on your website to make sure that they are all working.

Google provides a Google webmaster tools to help user identify the broken links. For more information on how to setup and use the Google webmaster tool to check the broken link, visit http://sixrevisions.com/website-management/find-remove-broken-links/

If you don’t want to create an account on Google, then there are several free online tools available to check for broken links on your website. Following is a list of few sites that provide free tools to generate the list of broken link on a site:

To use the tools listed above, click on any one of the links and enter the URL for your website or webpage. The tools will provide you with a list of all the broken link(s) on the submitted page. Once you have the list of broken link, fix the links on that page.

It is a good idea to regularly check for broken links on your website and fix them immediately to ensure continuous availability of your content in order to maintain your customer base and to improve your website ranking.
 
Vazi Okhandiar
Director
NR Computer Learning center
For more information on our training program, visit http://www.nrclc.com/

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Technology for Small & Medium Size Businesses (SMB): Email Marketing

Email Marketing

Technology for Small & Medium Size Businesses (SMB): Email Marketing

Technology for Small & Medium Size Businesses (SMB): Email Marketing

Email Marketing

For a small business, an email marketing is an important tools for generating interest, creating your brand recognition, generating leads and increasing sales. However, you should avoid sending an email to a person who has’t given you the permission to send them an email. An unsolicited email is considered spam. When too many people report your email as a spam, it can get your email address black listed by major ISP servers and you will not be allowed to send emails using your email address again.

There are methods that you can use and are considered ethical and responsible for collecting email addresses. Some of the methods include using permission based marketing techniques, such as, asking your customers before adding them to your email list, or if they are willingly to give you their email address in return for a service (like monthly newsletter or ebook..) that you provide. Once the client is on your email list, you should also offer them the opt-out option to unsubscribing to your e-mail if they do not want to continue receiving the email from you.

To learn about the email marketing rules visit http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/ezine-publishing/email-marketing-rules.html and to learn about the list of phases that you would want to avoid using in your emails so that the ISP servers do not flag your email as SPAM, visit http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/ezine-publishing/avoid_spam_filters.html

Vazi Okhandiar, Founder, NR Computer Learning Center (http://www.nrclc.com/)

Monday, April 19, 2010

10 Steps to create a greeting card using Microsoft Word 2007

To create a Mother’s Day Card using standard letter-size paper, follow the steps given below:
Step 1. Start Microsoft Word 2007. (Start -> Programs -> Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Office Word 2007).

Step 2. Next click on the Office Button (top right corner) and from the drop down menu select New option to create a new document. This will open up the New Document Window.

Create New File

Step 3. Within the New Document window, select Blank and recent template from the Templates pane. From the choices of templates offered, choose the Blank document and click on the Create button at the right bottom corner to create a new blank document.

Blank File
Step 4. Next click on the Page Layout tab and select the page setup option at the right bottom corner of the Page Layout tab. This will open up the Page Layout Dialog box.

Page Tab

Step 5. Within the Page Setup dialog box, select Landscape for the page orientation and select 2 pages per sheet from the drop down menu for the Multiple Pages option. This option tells Word to vertically split each page down the middle to creat a greeting card. The first set of two pages will contain the front and back of the card, while the second set of two pages will contain the inside of the card. Click OK button when done.

Page Layout

Step 6. Press Ctrl+Enter three times to add hard page break between four pages. You should now have total of 4 pages. The page 1 is for the inside left hand of the card. It is usually blank. Page 2 is for the inside right hand side of the card. This usually contains the message. Page 3 is for the outside back page of the cards. It usually contains the logo or the contact information. Page 4 is for the front of the card. This page contains the picture and the text.

4 pages
Step 7. To create a Mother’s Day Card, add graphics and text to each half of the page as desired. For best results, use the program's drawing tools to create text boxes because you can move these boxes and position your text with more precision than you could if you used simple typed text on the page.
Leave Page 1 blank since it is will be the inside left-hand page of a card.

The Page 2 will be the inside right-hand page of the card. Type a message for your mother such as “Mom. You are the best. Happy Mother’s day”. You can also add picture or draw shapes using shapes and/or add fancy text using Word Art.
Page 2 of the Mother's day Card
Page 3 will be the outside "back" cover of the card. If desired, you can add a logo, your name and/or contact information.
Page 3 of the Mothers Day Card
Page 4 will be the cover page. You can make it as attractive as you like. Add as many picture and/or text that you desire.
Page 4 of the Mothers Day Card

Step 8. When you are finished, preview the card before printing. (Office Button -> Print-> Print Preview)

Print Preview Mothers Day Card

Step 9. You may need to zoom out in order to see all 4 pages on one screen.


Step 10. When you are finished, print the first two pages (Page 1 and Page 2) inside of the card. Flip and rotate the printed page so that the inside of the card is upside down, put it back into the printer and print page 3 and 4. Congratulations!! You should now have a Mother’s day card that you can fold in the center and given to your mother.

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Happy Mother's Day
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

What is Adobe Certification, why and how to get it?

Q1. What is an Adobe Certification?

More than ever before, you need a way to tell the world about your expertise in digital communication technology. Adobe certification is an industry standard of excellence, and it's the absolute best way to communicate your proficiency in leading products from Adobe.  Adobe Certification is a program offered by Adobe System Inc. to show that an individual has attained a certain level of expertise with different Adobe products.

The certification process involves preparation and study, followed by an examination to measure
the competency. There are two type of Adobe Ceritification Exams: Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Exam by Certiport for entry-level Certification and Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Exam by Pearson Vue for professional-level Certification.

Based on the expereince, expertise and certification level, you can chose to work toward any one of the following categories: 
  • Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Exam
  • Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Exam
  • ACE Specialist
  • ACE Expert
  • Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI)
The educators, students and professionals can get certified for both entry-level (Adobe Certified Associate) and professional-level (Adobe Certified Expert) skills. NR Computer Learning Center (NRCLC) is an Authorized Testing Center in Orange county and provide services to anyone interested in Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) certification and Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Certification to certify their knowledge in using the popular Adobe products such as Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, AffterEffects and RoboHelp.

Q2. What is an Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) Certification?

An Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) is a Certification by Adobe for students who want to certify in the
entry-level skills in planning, designing, building, and maintaining digital media using Adobe product. This
certification is good for high school students, entry level website designers, teachers and professionals who want to prove their skills in Adobe products.  To receive an ACA Certification, you must pass one or more following product-specific proficiency ACA exams:
  • Adobe® Photoshop®
  • Adobe® Flash®
  • Adobe® Dreamweaver®       

Q3. What is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Certification?

An Adobe Certified Expert  is a person who has demonstrated proficiency with one or more Adobe software products by passing one or more the following product-specific proficiency ACE exams:
  • Adobe® Photoshop®
  • Adobe® Flash®
  • Adobe® InDesign®
  • Adobe® Illustrator®
  • Adobe® Premiere Pro®
  • Adobe® AfterEffects®
  • Adobe® Dreamweaver®
  • Adobe® RoboHelp®

Q4. What is an ACE Specialist Certification?

An ACE Specialist is a person who specializes in a specific medium: print, web, or video. To see the list of required exam, visit the website http://www.nrclc.com/FAQ/FAQ_Adobe.html

Q5. What is an ACE Master Certification?

An ACE Master Certification recognizes the person who has demonstrated proficiency with entire product suites. To become certified as an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Master, you must pass the exam for each of the products in the suite.

Q6. What is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) Certification?

Adobe Certified Instructor is an instructor who has passed one or more Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) and qualification satisfies an instructor qualification requirements (a teaching credential, passed the CompTIA CTT+, or equivalent).

Q7. What are the benefits of Adobe Certification?

Following is the list of benefits of an Adobe Certification:
  • Adobe certification helps IT professionals in getting a
    raise, finding a job, or promoting their expertise.
  • Adobe certified experts can demonstrate expertise with
    Adobe products and platforms, and apply their skills to add
    value to the workplace
  • Adobe certified instructors are experts that have the
    knowledge to teach Adobe products and technologies.
  • Adobe Certified Associate is a certification program that
    validates the skills of job seekers.
  • Differentiate yourself from competitors
  • Get your résumé noticed
  • Gain recognition from your employer
  • Leverage the power of the Adobe brand
  • As a employer, Certification help find the right
    individual for the project quickly with the right skill level
    and capabilities.
For more information on the Adobe Certifications, visit the Adobe site at http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/ace/


Q8. What is the process for getting an Adobe Certification?

It is a four step process:

1. Select the level of certification you wish to achieve (ACA or ACE)

2. Select for the product you wish to certify in (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe RoboHelp, Adobe Captivate)

3. Register and prepare for the exam

4. Take the exam

Within four weeks of passing a certification exam, you will receive an official certificate in the mail with an Adobe logo from Adobe that highlights your accomplishment.
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Q9. What is covered in the ACA Certified exam?

Click here to view the learning objectives covered on ACA Exam
.
Following link will provide the information on preparing for the ACA Exam:

Q10. How do I register for an Adobe Associate Certification exam?

The registration for ACA exam is a two step process. The first step requires you to purchase of the voucher for the Exam. The voucher can be purchased online from website http://www.nrclc.com/ or call the NRCLC center at (714) 505-3475.

You have an option to purchase one time test for $75 or a voucher with free retake for $85. You also have an option to purchase discounted package with an online practice test and Voucher with Free retake for only $189. To purchase a ACA test voucher and/or practice test, visit http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/ace/

The second step involves registering for the ACA test. If you want to take the test at NR Computer Learning
Center, located in Orange, CA, call the center at 714 505-3475 to setup an appointment for the test. We are open Mon to Sat from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM. For all other location, visit http://www.certiport.com/ to find a location closest to you.

Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exams are administered by Pearson VUE Authorized Testing Center. To register online for the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) exam visit the website http://www.pearsonvue.com/ and search for location NR Computer Learning Center as the test location or you can call NR
Computer Learning Center at (714) 505-3475. We will be happy to assist you through the registration process. The ACE certification exam fee is US $150.

Special Offer: Educators and students are eligible for 50% off the regular fee for the Adobe ACE exam. Register online to take advantage of this offer. Once you have registered online, you will be sent an e-mail message that contains a unique voucher number that allows you to sign up for an ACE exam* at the educator discount by contacting the Pearsonvue at www.pearsonvue.com


Q11. Does NR Computer Learning Center (NRCLC) provide any assistance in preparing for the Exam?

NRCLC provides you an option to purchase voucher with an computer based online "ACA Practice Test" for a year. The practice test is valid for a year. For further information, call (714) 505-3475.

NRCLC also provides students an option to purchase study material for preparing for ACA exam. For more information, visit http://www.nrclc.com/or call us at 714 -505-3475 to discuss the option that will best suit your situation. 

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Vazi Okhandiar
NR Computer Learning Center
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

9 Steps To Promote Online Business with Limited Budget

In current economy, businesses are looking for a cost effective and efficiate ways of marketing their product and services with limited budget. Following is a 9 step process on how you can start promoting your business online with limited budget:

Step 1: Develop a marketing strategy. Identify your goals, an outcome of the promotion. Identify the target market – the demographic (such as age, gender, location etc) of your market segment. Develop a time line as to when do you expect to archive your goal, so that you can fine-tune your strategy based on the results. You should also identify how you plan to reach your targeted market.
Step 2: Develop a website that list your product and service identified in your marketing plan.

Step 3: Optimize your website to generate traffic. You want to make your website search engine friendly, so that it is listed on their search engine. Several sites on Internet provide ideas for optimizing your website. For example, Google’s website http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#1 provides few ideas on website optimization. Also, run your pages through free web optimization tools such as http://www.metatags.com/  to make sure all your pages are search engine friendly.

Step 4: Use social media for online marketing. Join online social media such as facebook (It’s free!) and twitter (It’s free!). It is important that you use the online social media correctly; otherwise, you will lose people’s interest. Eventually, you do want the people on your network to go to your site. There is a lot of tips available on the Internet for best practices on using online social network for business.

For more informaiton on online social media for business, visit 10 reason to use Twitter for Business and  I signed my company up for an account on facebook now what

Step 5: Create a Blog to talk about your product. You can use social media to drive your traffic to your blog and company website.

Step 6: Convert visitor to customer. Once you have the traffic to your website, you want to convert these visitors to your customer. Give them a reason, such as discount, free e-book, tips & trick etc, for them to join your mailing list. Finding a new customer is always more expensive than a satisfied returned customer.

Step 7: Use Web Analytical tool such as Google Analytics (It’s free!) to analyze the buying partner of the visitors to your site.

Step 8: Based on website analysis, fine-tune your website to meet customer’s need. If there are gaps in what customer need and what you are selling, then develop an affiliate membership or partnership with companies that will help fill the gaps to provide a complete package to the customer. A satisfied customer is the best advertisement.

Step 9: Use Google AdSense to advertise your product or service. Use the Adsense to acquire new customers both online and offline.

Vazi Okhandiar
http://www.nrclc.com/
NR Computer Learning Center
2100W. Orangewood, #110, Orange, CA 92868

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Tips on Search Engine Optimization

Bob Bradlay, SCORE Counselor for Small Businesses, presented tips on the do and don't of  a web site to make it search engine friendly. During the 2nd half of the presentation Bob covered the Online Advertizement (AdShare) and how they work. Following is his presentation:
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The presentation on Using Seach Engine Optimization by Stephan Specer, Fonder and President of Netconcepts covers the 4 keys of SEO: Keywords, Content, Links and Site Structure is given below.
by Vazi Okhandiar
Director, NR Computer Learning Center

Friday, February 26, 2010

Developing Business Intelligence Report using Open Source Technology

On Feb 11, 2010 Shaku Atre, Mark Gamble and Vazi Okhandiar presented a webinar on Interactive Analytics for Business analysts and developers to become familiar with using Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) to design and develop Interactive Financial Dashboards and Business Intelligence (BI) Applications with rich data visualizations.

BIRT is a top level project within Eclipse and is the fastest growing open source reporting technology with over 5 million downloads in the past 2 years. Actuate founded and continues to co-lead the Eclipse BIRT open source project.

The presentation consisted of following three parts:

  • Part 1: Introduction to Business Analytics
  • Part 2: Introduction to Actuate BIRT
  • Part 3: Introduction to Eclipse BIRT

PART 1: Introduction to Business Analytics

Shaku Atre, Founder and President of the Atre Group, Inc., presented on an introduction to Interactive Analytics, the components of an interactive analytic application and the use of an interactive analytic application in a Financial Industry. The presentation included developing cost effective Business Intelligence (BI) application using Open Source, a difference between a "good" software and "bad" software and how BI applications have evolved over the decade.


Video Part 1: Introduction to Business Intelligence by Shaku Atre

PART 2: Introduction to Actuate's BIRT Reporting Tool

Mark Gamble, the Head of the Actuate Marketing Applications Team, included an overview of Actuate and an introduction to Actuate Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT). Mark Gamble also demonstrated the use of Actuate BIRT to develop various types of reports and dashboards for analyzing business data.

Video 2: Introduction to Actuate BIRT by Mark Gambel

Part 3: Introduction to Developing BI Application using Eclipse BIRT

Vazi Okhandiar, Founder of NR Computer Learning Center and a Vice President of Technology at mLogica, Inc, presented on the introduction to the BIRT Architecture, Eclipse BIRT installation and JDBC & MySQL configuration. Vazi also gave a live presentation illustrating how simple report can be created using Eclipse BIRT and MySQL.

Video 3: Introduction to Eclipse BIRT by Vazi Okhandiar


About the Presenters:
Shaku Atre
Shaku is a world-renowned expert on Business Intelligence and database technology. Shaku is the Founder and President of the Atre Group, Inc., and has written six, very successful books on database-related topics, which have been translated in many languages. She worked for IBM Germany, IBM World Trade Corp. in various capacities. She was an IT Partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Mark Gamble
Mark is the Head of the Actuate Marketing Applications team that builds and maintains reference Actuate applications. He joined Actuate in 1999 as a sales engineer in Detroit, supporting sales efforts for Actuate Version 3. With thorough knowledge of Actuate product capabilities and business applications, Mark emphasizes both technical and business benefits in his presentations. Depth of knowledge and engaging style make him a popular choice for live Actuate demonstrations.

Vazi Okhandiar, PMP, MCT, MBA, MSCS, BSEE
Vazi is an Executive Director at NR Computer Learning Center and a Vice President of Technology at mLogica, Inc. She has over 20 years of experience in consulting and providing training in IT Project Management, application architecture, design and web-based application development. She has worked for Toyota, General Motors (GM), Electronic Data System (EDS) and Computer Science Corporation (CSC).

Friday, February 5, 2010

5 Tips On How To Take Care Of Your Computer

1. Protect your computer from viruses, spyware and hackers by running an anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall. Run a complete virus and spyware scan on your computer at least once a week.

2. Do not install more than one anti-virus on the computer. When you have more than one anti-virus on your computer, they try to remove each other by classifying the other as a virus.

3. It is a good practice to enable the auto-update feature on the anti-virus software on a daily basis. This allows the computer to update the anti-virus definition file to protect the computer from being attached by the latest viruses. Make sure you schedule the update at a time when you will not using the computer.

4. Use Defragmentation option (Start Menu> Program> Accessories> System> Defragmentation), at least once a month to defragment files. This will reduce the clustering of files on your hard disk.

5. Use Disk Cleanup (Start Menu> Program> Accessories> System> Disk Cleanup) at least once a month to remove the temporary files from your computer.