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	<title>Nicom IT Solutions Blog &#187; Productivity</title>
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	<description>Nicom IT Solutions Inc. is a full service IT professional services firm providing Software Development, IT Consulting, E-commerce Solutions, Technical Support, and Web design &#38; Development in addition to staffing services.</description>
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		<title>Neat Outlook trick</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2010/03/neat-outlook-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use a little trick with Outlook signatures, and from what I gather from talking to a few folks, not too many people do this.
Do you find yourself sending the same email over and over again to different people (“We’ll keep your resume on file”, “Here are the directions to our office”, etc.)?
What I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking Software Boosts Seaport Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/11/tracking-boosts-port-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AJAX]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first met Chris Lambie, the new Herald Business Editor, I explained that I always strive for my column to be about real life business situations where technology plays a part, and to speak from personal experience as opposed to secondary research.
Why not then write a story about my company and something it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Business Owners in HRM are Technology Savvy</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/09/small-business-owners-in-hrm-are-technology-savvy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/09/small-business-owners-in-hrm-are-technology-savvy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If ever I had to put together an army, I’d recruit Costco shoppers for their sheer loyalty. My comments in last month’s column garnered more feedback than usual, most of it illuminating the privileges of membership which I so callously discounted in my remarks.
In my world, the privileges of membership usually relate to technology groups. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Free Long Distance Calling, Skype’s the Limit</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/04/for-free-long-distance-calling-skype-is-the-limit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/04/for-free-long-distance-calling-skype-is-the-limit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We were working on an important proposal just at the time when my business partner, Dave Nicholson, and his wife Judy were scheduled to travel to Mexico on vacation. Since Dave’s job is to keep me from giving away the farm, it was important for us to collaborate on this proposal no matter where in the world he happened to be at the time. So we decided it was a good time to try out some long distance Internet telephone usage.

We agreed ahead of time when Dave would be available for a call, and when I contacted him I found him (naturally) in a bar. Judy was using his laptop at the time, so she informed Dave that his computer was “ringing”.

When we connected I was amazed at how clear he sounded – except that his voice was much deeper, and he sounded like one of those deep synth disk jockeys. “Hellooowrmph!” I guess when his voice was broken up, sent through cyberspace and put back together – sort of like those transporters on Star Trek – something must have happened to enhance it.
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		<title>Save Time and Money with a Content Management System</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/04/save-time-and-money-with-a-content-management-system/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/04/save-time-and-money-with-a-content-management-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Ord</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If a website is going to be successful, fresh up-to-date content is the key but updating your website can quickly become a hassle if you don’t have a content management system (CMS) in place. You could rely on your web design firm but that can become costly, and cutting out the middle man is always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping a USB Drive to a Folder</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/03/mapping-a-usb-drive-to-a-folder/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/03/mapping-a-usb-drive-to-a-folder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Milne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you plug in a USB pen drive Windows automatically assigns the next available drive letter. This can become a little confusing when you are dealing with multiple devices. The following are instructions on how to map a USB device to a folder:


Create a subfolder under &#8220;My Documents&#8221; called USB;
Under the USB folder create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Use a Bookmarked Text in the Footer of a Document</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/02/how-to-use-a-bookmarked-text-in-the-footer-of-a-document/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2009/02/how-to-use-a-bookmarked-text-in-the-footer-of-a-document/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Milne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1. Select the text you wish to be displayed in the footer;
2. Click the &#8220;insert&#8221; tab;
3. Click the &#8220;Bookmark&#8221; icon;

4. Enter the name for the bookmark and click add;


5. Open the footer of your document;
6. On the insert tab click the quick parts icon and select field;

7. From the Field name list select &#8220;Ref&#8221;, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Mixture – Remix</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/12/holiday-mixture-remix/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/12/holiday-mixture-remix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year for the holidays I rallied the troops at my office to see if we could come up with tips and trick that you can use every day when using technology and we came up with quite a number of suggestions.
Once again our staff gave generously and here is this year’s list for you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dozen Web Sites to Add to your Summer Reading Program</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/08/a-dozen-web-sites-to-add-to-your-summer-reading-program/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/08/a-dozen-web-sites-to-add-to-your-summer-reading-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we enter these dog days of summer, why don’t you take a break and visit some of
these interesting web sites to see if there are utilities you would like to use to
make your life a little easier.
I thank the folks at Nicom IT Solutions, particularly Barry Milne, for sharing these
with us. (The sentences in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Your Desktop or Laptop Computer</title>
		<link>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/01/managing-your-desktop-or-laptop-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nicomit.com/index.php/2008/01/managing-your-desktop-or-laptop-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat d'Entremont</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vista]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months back I wrote an article about keeping computer networks safe and secure. Now it’s time to write about desktop computers. That shiny new piece of gear you just got for Christmas will be a source of frustration if you come to depend on it and it fails you. So here are some [...]]]></description>
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