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• Beijing Olympic tickets scam
  
  SCAMwatch is warning consumers to beware of Beijing Olympic Games tickets scams.
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating allegations that several websites which purport to sell Olympic tickets such as www.beijing-tickets2008.com or www.beijingticketing.com are scams; taking consumers’ money without supplying any tickets.
  
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• eLearning for ACCHO Members
  Funded Microsoft Office courses are filling now!
  
  Have you already registered for elearning in Microsoft Office programs?
  
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• Is your PC ready for Microsoft™ Windows Vista®?
  
  Take the AMD/ATI Windows Vista Readiness Test.
  
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• How do I manually lock my PC?
  
  Locking you PC, either in the workplace or at home, is a good way to keep your data secure when you are leaving your computer for any period of time. If you don’t lock it then anyone walking past can open up all your personal data.
  
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• What is OpenOffice?
  
  OpenOffice is a free office suite available for varying operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux, and a few others. It is intended to be a backward compatible alternative to Microsoft Office and has a collection of different applications that work together closely to provide the features expected from a modern office suite.
  
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• Implement Quick Launch Bar to Start Frequently Used Applications
  
  Simply drag an icon on your desktop to the Quick Launch portion of the taskbar. It will then appear next to the other Quick Launch icons (e.g., Internet Explorer, Outlook Express).
  
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• How to utilize the Quick Launch Toolbar
  
  The Quick Launch Toolbar is a group of small icons next to the Start button. If you can’t see yours, right-click on an empty spot down at the bottom of your screen in the Windows Taskbar.
  
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• Tips & Tricks: Resizing your Digital Images and Photos
  
  If you find that your digital photos are too large to email, then consider downloading the FREE Image Resizer from the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP webpage...
  
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• What does a reinstallation of Windows actually do?
  
  Reinstalling Windows creates a minor amount of repair in the registry. This is limited to Windows-specific keys and objects. If the damage is not in a Windows installed driver, then you're really going to accomplish nothing by a reinstall.
  
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• Windows Shortcut Keys
  
  Here is a list of some shortcut keys that may be handy from time to time.
  
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• Policies that can protect your organization from Viruses,
  
  A common internet scam is known as Phishing (yes, it is spelt correctly). Some e-mail messages ask for credit card numbers, network passwords or account numbers. Links in these messages actually take you to websites that, whilst legitimate looking, are in fact run by internet thieves. If you enter your data, you give those thieves the information they need to access your computers or bank accounts.
  
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• Tips and Tricks: Using Outlook 2003 Junk Email Options
  
  Outlook 2003’s junk email options provide you with automatic spam filtering based on what you think is and isn’t spam via a method of analysis called Bayesian filtering.
  
  The more you teach it about what you think is and isn’t spam the more accurate it gets at filtering out what you consider as spam.
  
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• Tips and Tricks: Cut, Copy & Paste
  
  When you want to move text(or anything else for that matter), around a document or between documents and applications you use a feature of windows called the clipboard.
  
  New users usually use the edit menu to access these features, but the edit menu is usually accessed using the mouse which involves taking your hand away from the keyboard to move the mouse and this is a rather slow method.
  
  A faster way to complete this and many other common windows functions is using shortcut keys.
  
  The short cut keys for cut, copy and paste are ctrl-x, ctrl-c and ctrl-v respectively.
  
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• Tips and Tricks: Internet Error 404.
  
  Anyone thats been on the internet longer than a week has most likely seen one of these error messages:
  
  404 Not Found
  
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• Tips and Tricks: Send To
  
  Need a quick way of moving and copying files around your system ?
  
  The Send To menu on the right click context menu enables you you to send files to common locations like a floppy disk, a CD/DVD if you have a burner installed, your Desktop as a shortcut, in an email as an attachment or into your My Documents folder.
  
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• Tips & Tricks: Using Anti-Spyware/Anti-Virus Software
  
  See our factsheet
  
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• Tips & Tricks: Transfering your data to a new PC
  
  Getting a new computer often requires repeating much of the same setup configuration you originally did with your old computer. Locating this data and figuring our how to move it to your new PC can be difficult & painful. However, users of Windows XP can streamline this process with the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.
  
  Migrated setting groups include Internet Explorer settings & Favourites folder, Outlook settings and data, Dial-Up connections, Phone and modem options, Taskbar settings, Mouse and keyboard settings, Regional options, Office settings, Network drives and printers & My Documents folder.
  
  A more detailed guide is available from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/mgrtfset.mspx
  
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• Infoxchange Australia appointed as a Sony Vaio reseller
  
  
  
  
  Infoxchange Australia has been appointed as a Sony Vaio Lap Top reseller.
  The Sony VAIO 14.1" BUSINESS NOTEBOOK is only $1,699.00
  
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• Tips & Tricks: Resizing your Digital Images and Photos
  
  If you find that your digital photos are too large to email, then consider downloading the FREE Image Resizer from the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP webpage...
  
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• Infoxchange / Green PC selected to provide PC's
  Culturally Caboolture
  
  Culturally Caboolture, a Queensland State Government project, has funded Infoxchange Queensland to provide personal computers, internet access, and computer training to forty Samoan families living in the region.
  
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• Making Links 2005 - 'Putting Technology to Work in the Community Sector
  Non-Government and Community Organisations Making the the Most of the Web
  
  A conference for community and non-government workers will show it's not only corporate giants and dotcoms that can successfully harness the power of the World Wide Web.
  14 and 15 November 2005 University of Technology Sydney
  
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• Cost effective Internet Services from Infoxchange
  
  Infoxchange Australia is famous for it premium "No Engaged Signal" Internet service, a help desk answered by friendly staff and no 40 minute hold times!!
  We can provide Australia Wide reliable 56K, no engaged signal Dial up services, as well as High speed DSL services to 99% of populated Australia.
  
  Dial up plans start from as low as $12.95 per month, and we have a range of DSL plans from unlimited downloads, right through to Business grade high speed broadband offerings.
  
  So if it's for the home or the office, we have the right plan with the support and back up required.
  
  Give our help desk a call today 9418-7400
  
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• Infoxchange Partners with D-Link to provide Wireless Products to "Not for Profits"
  
  Infoxchange Australia has partnered with D-Link Australia, to provide Wireless Products in to Not for Profit agencys at heavily reduced rates.
  If you were ever thinking of making the change, now is the time to do it!!
  
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