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Author Anonymous - Understanding Using a Signature Netiquette When communicating in the business arena, using a signature can make you look more professional. It is also considered courteous; at a glance, the reader can see who wrote the message and how to contact you. Make sure your business signature includes your full name, job title, company name, and contact information. At the minimum, your contact information should include your e-mail address, but other things worth including are your phone number and a fax number, if applicable. If you use one e-mail account for multiple purposes, you might want to consider adding a second signature for personal use, if possible. A personal signature will add your personal touch to an e-mail message. Keep It Straightforward - Understanding E-mail Reading Methods Netiquette People do not read e-mails; they skim. If you want your message to get the attention you think it deserves, split it up into easily-digestible units. Here are some tips: More than six lines? Split it up. Important information? Make it a one-line paragraph. Multiple pieces of important information? Make a bulleted list (like this one). No Need to Open - Understanding End of Message Abbreviation Netiquette When placed at the end of the subject line in an e-mail message, "-eom" stands for "end of message." It can be used to notify your recipient that there is no text in the message body for them to read. Use this when you only need to send a quick message; since they will not have to open the message, your recipients will save some time. If you receive a message with "-eom" in the subject and need to reply and add text in the message body, be sure to remove the "-eom" designation. What Were We Talking About? - How to Change the Subject Line of a Message in Outlook Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 With messages coming in daily to multiple folders, the subject line can be an invaluable resource to help you determine at a glance what a given message is about. Sometimes you receive a message with a blank subject, or a subject that does not best describe the message contents. Fortunately, you can modify the subject line to something that you feel is helpful for your purposes. Outlook 2003: Open the message. Click the Edit menu and choose Edit Message. Click in the Subject line and type what you want. You can also edit the body of the message if desired. Close the message; click Yes to save the message when prompted. Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010: Open the message. Click the Message tab, select Other Actions (Outlook 2010: select Actions), and then choose Edit Message. Click in the Subject line and type what you want. You can also edit the body of the message, if desired. Close the message; click Yes to save the message when prompted. Additionally, in all of the above versions you can edit just the subject line by opening your message and clicking your mouse in the subject line and typing what you want.This enables you to change the subject but not the message. When you are finished making your changes, close the message and click Yes to save the changes. Missing Something? - Including a Subject Line Netiquette The subject line of your e-mail is like the title of a document; it tells you what the e-mail is all about. Do not neglect to include one! Find the main idea of your message and state it. Some e-mail programs may, with other factors, mark a message missing a subject as junk and not deliver it to the recipient's Inbox. A clear subject for an e-mail message will help your recipient prioritize and categorize your message, and will also make it easier for you to locate the message in your Sent Items folder.
Why you need and how to create a Mobile signature
When sending messages from your Windows Mobile device, BlackBerry or iPad it can be useful to let your recipients know that you are not at a desktop or laptop computer. One way to do this is by ending your messages with a signature that includes this information. When your recipients see a signature that concludes with something similar to "Sent from my Windows Mobile device," "Sent from my BlackBerry," they will understand that you are on the go and may need to be brief in your replies. Mobile Sign-off - Creating a Signature for Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Pocket PC Edition - 5, 6 To create a signature: Open the Messaging application from Start, Programs, or Soft Key from the Today screen. Click on Menu, tap Tools, and select Options... Tap Signatures... Select the account, then check the "Use Signature with this account" checkbox and type your signature. If you would like this signature on your replies and forwards, then check the "Use when replying and forwarding" checkbox. Click OK on the top right to apply the Signature. Click OK at the top right to close the Options dialog For Brief's Sake - Using a Signature on a BlackBerry BlackBerry All Versions To create a signature: Select Messages from the Main menu. Click your trackwheel (Menu Button on models 8100, 8300, and 8800) and select Options. Select "Email Settings." Select "Use Auto Signature" and change it to Yes. Scroll to the signature field and type your signature. Hit the Escape key and Save your changes. Your new signature should be applied Who Are You? - Adding an E-mail Signature on Your iPad iPad iOS 4.x When sending mail, especially for business, it is a good idea to add a signature to your messages. The signature identifies you and provides information that will allow your recipient to contact you. On the main screen of the iPad, tap the Settings icon. In the left-hand menu, tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars. In the second section under Mail, tap Signature. Type whatever you would like to show as your signature, exactly as you would like it to appear. When you are finished, simply tap another option or click the Home button to exit the screen. The signature you enter here will be automatically added to all e-mail messages you create on your iPad. If you would like to edit or delete the signature for one specific message, you can edit it as you would the rest of the text while you are typing the message.
What computer should I get Pt. II
In the previous blog,What computer should I get?, I avoided answering the question directly because there is no single answer. Instead, I began to walk down the list of decisions that I found myself making as I had to answer that question for myself. This article continues down that path. • So far, I've discussed type, brand, model, weight and screen size as well as Mac vs. PC. Continuing downthelist of priorities: Memory As I've mentionedelsewhere, the one thing that has the biggest impact on Windows' performance is the amount ofRAMinstalled. It's the one upgrade that can have immediate payoff and can extend a computer's useful life. I recommend that you: Get more than you think you need now Make sure you caninstalleven more later In my case, I'm maxing out the RAM in my new laptop right away at eightgigabytes. In general today, I wouldn't bother getting less than two gigabytes and I'd make sure that the machine was upgradeable to eight. As you can imagine, this recommendation changes over time as operating systems require and machines are capable of holding more RAM. Processor Processor speedseems to have leveled off lately. Maximum speeds seem to be hovering at around or just over the three Ghz level, although processor speeds around two Ghz are common. What's new are the number of "cores". My current desktop machine has a quad core CPU, which means that there are effectively four CPUs or processors within the singleCPU chip. I now recommend that you at least get a dual-core processor and consider a quad. Dual core has immediate impact as it allows your PC to remain responsive, even if a single process is trying to use the CPU heavily. As software adjusts to the availability of multiple core technology, you'll see it start to have a significant impact in overall speed. "Obviously, price is an important component for everyone." The highest speed and maximum number of cores typically come at a premium price that isn't proportional to the increase in speed. So processor speed isn't something into which I invest a lot of money. I typically shoot for the middle of the available options on speed. Most people look only at processor speed when selecting a system, and while it's important, it doesn't necessarily make as much difference as you might imagine. If you're browsing the web, for example, processor speed is almost irrelevant. It's your download speed that limits you. If your machine has a slow disk, that may make a larger difference for many applications than processor speed. And as I said earlier, having enough memory perhaps makes the biggest difference of all. Hard Disk The original version of this article had the following quote: I haven't filled up the 20-gig drive on my old laptop and haven't filled up the 60-gig drive on my desktop, so clearly disk space wasn't a terribly important issue for me. My, how times change. My current laptop has a 500-gigabyte hard drive in it. No, it's not full, and I could do with the next step down that's offered: 320 GB. I'll probably opt for the 500 GB anyway. I've seen how disk space can fill up over time. My desktop has 2.5 terabytes of storage, and while there's plenty of elbow room, it's getting used. For normal word processing, email, and internet browsing, the smallest available hard drives are often more than sufficient for most folks' usage. If you plan to have a lot of images or music, or if you do videos, then hard disk space becomes more important. Wireless & Networking I need wireless. In fact, I'd probably say that there's no reason not to get at least 802.11b/g wireless capability in any laptop these days. The incremental cost is low and the flexibility later can be significant. What I've explicitly avoided is mobile broadbandhardwareincluded in the machine. These are the equivalent of cellular modems built into the PC. It sounds very handy, and I'm certain that it's a perfect solution in many cases. The problem that I see is that it does require a contract with a cellular provider, often for up to two years, and the hardware installed is often specific to that provider. I much prefer to get my connectivity outside of my computer, be it a USB cellular modem, a portable WiFi hotspot, or open WiFi access where I travel. There's significantly more flexibility doing it this way rather than tying yourself to a specific cellular provider for a year or more. In the wired world, PCs should be coming with gigabit ethernet connections in almost all cases. There's no longer a reason not to have this. Peripherals & Other Upgrades I tend to add very few additional components when I purchase a machine. I let my future needs drive what to purchase and more importantly when. The peripherals that make sense for you will vary based on your expected needs. A CD or DVD burner, or an external USB drive is almost a must for backups if you don't have another approach already. In general, USB interfaces are a good thing. While they're not a deal breaker (we're fairly low on the priority list, after all), more USB ports are better. At this writing, USB3 is just starting to appear. I'm not springing for it myself and I expect that, for the vast majority of consumers, we're still just a tad too early to make it a real recommendation. Software OK, I'll confess that I have an advantage here. As a former Microsoft employee, I have access to their current software at discounted prices through the company store, so I rarely pay for bundled software with my machine. That being said, because the system will come with an operating system installed, I would select Windows 7 Prowith media. Getting it pre-installed will save me the setup time. Operating system choices are both easy and difficult: choosing the Windows 7 part is easy today, but which edition is often not very obvious. I personally recommend Windows 7Probecause when I try to help people resolve issues, it has some utilities and capabilities that Windows Home does not. Windows 7 Ultimate just isn't worth it for the average consumer or even small business. Try to get the installation media. If all that's available is "recovery" media, then make sure to use imaging software to take a snapshot of the machine's hard drives the day that it arrives. Then, this is your fallback reinstall-from-scratch image. You'll often be offeredsecuritysoftware pre-installed. I recommend declining it and installing any of the good, free alternatives immediately after you've received your machine. Price Computers and software are my career and hobby, so you might expect that I'd be willing to throw more money at a computer than some folks. As it is, I've run through my selections andthenlooked at the price of just under $2000 - for a fairlypowerfulroad-warrior kind of machine that's not an unreasonable price (and surprisingly somewhat less than the machine I'd selected 6 years ago). Obviously, price is an important component for everyone. There's no real rule of thumb that I can offer here other than to state that all of the decisions that lead up to this are trade-offs against the final price. Bigger, faster hard drives, more memory, name brand network cards, and so on all incrementally add to the price. It's one of the reasons why I like the Dell website for ordering; I can craft a machine to meet my needs and make trade-offs against my budget. Even if it's only a guide to configuring a computer you might purchase elsewhere, it's an easy way to see the impact of some of your choices and decisions.