caloosa tech times - march 2011
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I.T. By The Sea's Newsletter - March 2011TRANSCRIPT
13102 Palm Beach Blvd - Suite AFort Myers, FL 33905
Phone: 239-344-7574Fax: 239-236-0389Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: M-F 9am-6pm, Sat 10 am-6pm
Be Sure To Visit Us At:ITByTheSea.comFloridaInventoryServices.com
• Upgrades and Repairs• Network Support• Data Protection And Recovery• Assets Inventories• Website Design and Hosting• Internet Marketing• Mobile Marketing• Social Media Marketing
Services We OfferNetwork Design • Network Maintenance • Upgrades/Repairs • Web Design/Hosting • Internet Marketing • Social Media Marketing
We Want Your Input!Do you have an idea to make this newsletter better? Would you like to submit a story, article, or green tip? We’d love to hear from you!Call us at: (239) 344-7574OrEmail us: [email protected]
Continued from Page 1....art - This extension indicates an image file that was
compressed with AOL (America Online) technology. Both Internet Explorer and the AOL service software can display this kind of file.
.avi - This extension indicates a video file playable by most multimedia viewers including Microsoft's Media Player.
.bmp - This extension indicates another image file that might have originated from Windows Paint program.
.dll - This extension indicates a Dynamic Link Library which may contain additional programming code for software. Many different programs often share Dynamic Link Libraries and you'll find a lot of them in the Windows/System directory .
.exe - This extension indicates a program or an appli-cation like Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, or Outlook Express. Use extreme caution when downloading .exe files from the Internet since malicious programmers like to hide viruses in these types of files.
.gif - This extension indicates another image file and it stands for "Graphics Interchange Format." .Gif files are of-ten smaller than .bmp files (described earlier) and they're commonly found on Internet web pages.
.jpg - This extension indicates yet another image file and it stands for "Joint Photographers Experts Group." Like the .gif file, it's commonly found on Internet web pages. It's much smaller than both the .gif image and the .bmp image.
“As a business owner, I know youdon’t have time to waste on technicaland operational issues. That’s wherewe shine! Call us and put an end to
your IT problems finally and forever!”- Christine Roux, I.T. By The Sea
Volume IV, Issue 3March 2011
Fort Myers, Florida
Inside This Issue...
What's That File?....Ps. 1 & 4
What Is Social Bookmarking And How Can It Help? ….Ps. 1 & 2
Vita's Tips And Tricks….P. 2
Fun Facts About St. Patrick's Day ….P. 2
Meet Our Clients Of The Month: Family Chiro Rehab Center….P. 3
The What?... GeekTalk To English Dictionary... P. 3
Go Green Corner... P. 3
239-344-7574 I.T. By The Sea // Page 14 // Caloosa Tech Times www.ITByTheSea.com
What's That File?An Introduction To File Extensions
In an effort to be "user-friendly," Windows hides the most important part of a file name from new computer users: the extension. Okay - I'm assuming that the reasoning behind hiding extensions is a "user-friendly" one because I just can't come up with any other reason for hid-ing them. No harm could ever come from seeing an extension, but plenty could be learned from it. Fortunately you have this article to guide you through some of the most common extensions that you'll run into.
But before you can see file extensions, you need to turn them on. From Windows Explorer, click on the "Tools" menu, and select "File Options." Click the "View" tab and then uncheck the box next to "Hide file extensions for known file types." Click "OK" and you'll notice that the files in Windows Explorer show a dot and group of three letters after their names. That dot and group of three letters is known as an "extension," and the extension explains what kind of file it is.
A file could be a plain text file, an image, a sound, a video, or program. But without seeing the extension, you wouldn't know it unless you double-clicked on it. The following list defines some of the most common extensions that you'll find on your computer.
.au - This extension indicates a sound file. Most sound players will play this kind of file. (continued on page 4)
What Is Social BookmarkingAnd How Can It Help Your Business?
In the field of website promotions, links are not enough. And most of the time, web masters go through the season of waiting, where they just watch and wait for that visitor to come. Sadly this happens most of the time. The sigmoid curve applies to website marketing and promo-tions as well. At first, your site goes through the process of building, often the hard and difficult process we go through in marketing: planning, goals-setting, etc. Then it grows, where many visitors flood and traffic your page. But then soon enough, it declines. This is the reality of most businesses. The S-curve applies to all. So in the area of website marketing and traffic generation explosion, we might want to consider some effective solutions if we want to thrive and dominate the internet marketplace.
What Is Social Bookmarking?Social Bookmarking has been there for long but only a few people really know what it is
really about. Similar to bookmarking the favorite pages of your business book or magazine, or bookmarking the last page you’ve just read in your favorite novels, social bookmarking works in the same way too. Contrary to using the bookmark feature of your web browser, social book-marking involves not only you, but the many users also in the internet. This is why social book-marking is considered as one of the best effective ways to promote websites and your brand.
(continued on page 2)
.mid - This extension indicates a sound file created with aMusical Instrument Digital Interface. Windows Media Player will run these files, however they don't sound like normal .wav or .mp3 files (see below). .Mid files are designed to product synthetic sounds using a computer's sound card.
.mp3 - This extension indicates a sound file that authenti-cally reproduces voice and/or music. Windows Media Player will run this kind of file.
.scr - This extension indicates a screen saver file.
.sit - This extension indicates a Macintosh archive StuffIt file. They will not open on a Windows system.
.ttf - This extension indicates a font especially designed for use on a Windows system. It stands for "True Type Font."
.txt - This extension indicates a plain text file that can be opened with Notepad.
.wav - This extension indicates a sound file that like the .mp3 file, can be opened with Windows Media Player or Windows Sound Recorder. .Wav files are much larger than .mp3 files.
What's That File?An Introduction To File Extensions
Vita's Tips
And Tricks
2 // Caloosa Tech Times www.ITByTheSea.com 239-344-7574 I.T. By The Sea // Page 3
Get More Free Tips, Tools, and Services At My Web Site:
www.ITByTheSea.comGo Green Corner
Sharing ComputersTo Save Water
Userful Corporation announced a give-away of its software that turns one computer into many in celebration of World Water Day 2011 and Earth Hour 2011.
Userful is giving away a free-2-user version of their software that enables users to turn their existing computer into two independent station.
Download it here: http://www.userful.com/products/downloads/free-2-user
Got any green tips you’d like to share with our readers?Email them [email protected]
The What?... GeekTalk To English Dictionary
Meet Our Clients Of The Month:Family Chiro Rehab Center
Hi everyone, I am sitting here with the beautiful Dania and the beautiful Maria from Family Chiro-Rehab Center which is a new business here in Fort Myers. Please tell me about the services you offer.
Dania: We do medical exams, chiropractic adjust-ments, physical therapy, massage therapy and we do facials.
Ro: You work a lot with auto accidents as well,.Ro: I also know you have a great special going on
right now. So would you like to tell me about it?Maria: We do have a 50% special going on for these
two months March and April. It is for the therapeutic Massage with the purchase of a European Facial they will get 50% off.
Also we have our basic specials for facials, which is $30. Not only does it make you look good you also feel good. A European facial is $45, if you just want to do a therapeutic massage is only $35, a therapeutic mas-sage for neck shoulders and back is only $45.
We also have gift certificates and as you know Mothers Day is coming.
Another special is if you have a back pain, with this
coupon you get a $10 visit to see the doctor and from there we give you a free massage.
When these specials are done in April we will have more specials.
Maria: Our hours are Mon-Fri 9-5. Our contact information is (239) 690-2900. The address is, 14651 Palm Beach Blvd that is suite #106A, Fort Myers FL33905. We are in the Palm Beach Professional Park. Our email is [email protected]
Ro: I know you have done some work with I.T. By The Sea can you tell me about your experience with us?
Maria: It has been great, especially with Ro because she went an extra mile for me, I hounded her for three days to get a better price. I did my own shop-ping on the side and to be honest with you, there was no price like theirs. She went the extra mile for me trying to get me other bargains, within her company, outside her company and guess what, I am sticking with them because they are the best.
Listen to Dania and Maria' Full Interview at:http://itbythesea.com/testimonials/hear-hear.html
What Is Voice Recognition SoftwareAnd How Can It Help?
Continued from Page 1...How Can Social Bookmarking
Help Your Business?Social Bookmarking has some amaz-
ing benefits. One of its benefits is heavy promotion. By joining social bookmark-ing sites, you get to tag or mark your website for others to see. And once it is viewed by many, alas, you give the notion that your website is something to be taken seriously, and that your brand is really good. Since you are using the internet and the art of socialization as your primary tools, you are 100% sure that your site will get promoted in the internet. Although it may take time to grow your marketability through social bookmarking, once it is marked, it is there. This means that once you have made it to the top list of the most book-marked sites; you are going to be there for a long time. Your marketability will stay long too. Hard efforts equals to long-term results.
How Social Bookmarking WorksSo how does social bookmaking
work? Here is a simple way to do it: 1. First, join a social bookmarking
site, and sign up for a new account. The most popular website on social book-marking is www.delicious.com. You may also check other popular sites in the internet.
2. Then once registered, try install-ing a button on your toolbar. By then you are ready to go. In just a simple click on that website (you may want to click your own here), you already book-mark it for others to see. The good thing about this technique is that if a friend of yours has a similar interest on your brand or website, he/she may bookmark it also. Then just like the universe, which is constantly extending, your business will continue to expand and grow in marketability and profit. Social bookmarking is really something.
Fun Facts About St. Patrick's DaySt. Patrick’s Day is observed on March 17 because that is the feast day of St.
Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. St. Patrick’s Day is a national holiday in Ireland, and a provincial holiday in
the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador.The actual color of St. Patrick is blue. Green became associated with St. Patrick's Day during the 19th century. St. Patrick did not actually drive snakes out of Ireland; the snakes represent the
pagans that he converted to Christianity.The very first St. Patrick's Day parade was not in Ireland. It was in Boston in
1737.In Seattle, there is a ceremony where a green stripe is painted down the roads.Most Catholics attend mass in the morning and then attend the St. Patrick's
Day parade.In Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, people traditionally wear a small bunch of
shamrocks on their jackets or caps. In Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, children wear orange, white and green badges,
and women and girls wear green ribbons in their hairThe phrase, "Drowning The Shamrock" is from the custom of floating the
shamrock on the top of whiskey before drinking it.
This month we are going to explore some of the abbreviations used on the web.
If you have ever visited Facebook, Twitter, or even your onw email Inbox, you must have seen at some time: LOL, ROFL, IMHO, or anoth-er of those acronyms. In fact they have become so common that some of them have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Here is a shortlist of them and what they acxtually stand for:LOL: Laughing Out Loud, and its variants: ROFL: Rolling On The
Floor Laughing, and ROFLMAO: Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A... Derriere Off
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion and its variant IMNSHO, you guessed it: In My Not So Humble Opinion, LOL
AFK: Away From Keyboard or BRB: Be Right BackIDK: I don't know
Hi, it's me, Vita. Here is an Irish saying in honor of St. Patrick: " Glac bog an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bog tú"(Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.) Like it? :)
5 Useful and Easy iPad2 Tips1 - Tweak Spotlight searchesGo to Settings, General, Spotlight
Search 2 - Tweak Push and Fetch settingsGo to Settings, Mail, Contacts,
Calendars, Fetch New Data.3 - Change your email signatureGo to Settings, Mail, Contacts,
Calendars, Signature4 - Take a screenshotPress Home and the sleep/wake
button at the same time.5 - Show traffic conditions Open Maps, press page icon in
the lower right, and turn the Traffic overlay on.
Vita's Tips
And Tricks
2 // Caloosa Tech Times www.ITByTheSea.com 239-344-7574 I.T. By The Sea // Page 3
Get More Free Tips, Tools, and Services At My Web Site:
www.ITByTheSea.comGo Green Corner
Sharing ComputersTo Save Water
Userful Corporation announced a give-away of its software that turns one computer into many in celebration of World Water Day 2011 and Earth Hour 2011.
Userful is giving away a free-2-user version of their software that enables users to turn their existing computer into two independent station.
Download it here: http://www.userful.com/products/downloads/free-2-user
Got any green tips you’d like to share with our readers?Email them [email protected]
The What?... GeekTalk To English Dictionary
Meet Our Clients Of The Month:Family Chiro Rehab Center
Hi everyone, I am sitting here with the beautiful Dania and the beautiful Maria from Family Chiro-Rehab Center which is a new business here in Fort Myers. Please tell me about the services you offer.
Dania: We do medical exams, chiropractic adjust-ments, physical therapy, massage therapy and we do facials.
Ro: You work a lot with auto accidents as well,.Ro: I also know you have a great special going on
right now. So would you like to tell me about it?Maria: We do have a 50% special going on for these
two months March and April. It is for the therapeutic Massage with the purchase of a European Facial they will get 50% off.
Also we have our basic specials for facials, which is $30. Not only does it make you look good you also feel good. A European facial is $45, if you just want to do a therapeutic massage is only $35, a therapeutic mas-sage for neck shoulders and back is only $45.
We also have gift certificates and as you know Mothers Day is coming.
Another special is if you have a back pain, with this
coupon you get a $10 visit to see the doctor and from there we give you a free massage.
When these specials are done in April we will have more specials.
Maria: Our hours are Mon-Fri 9-5. Our contact information is (239) 690-2900. The address is, 14651 Palm Beach Blvd that is suite #106A, Fort Myers FL33905. We are in the Palm Beach Professional Park. Our email is [email protected]
Ro: I know you have done some work with I.T. By The Sea can you tell me about your experience with us?
Maria: It has been great, especially with Ro because she went an extra mile for me, I hounded her for three days to get a better price. I did my own shop-ping on the side and to be honest with you, there was no price like theirs. She went the extra mile for me trying to get me other bargains, within her company, outside her company and guess what, I am sticking with them because they are the best.
Listen to Dania and Maria' Full Interview at:http://itbythesea.com/testimonials/hear-hear.html
What Is Voice Recognition SoftwareAnd How Can It Help?
Continued from Page 1...How Can Social Bookmarking
Help Your Business?Social Bookmarking has some amaz-
ing benefits. One of its benefits is heavy promotion. By joining social bookmark-ing sites, you get to tag or mark your website for others to see. And once it is viewed by many, alas, you give the notion that your website is something to be taken seriously, and that your brand is really good. Since you are using the internet and the art of socialization as your primary tools, you are 100% sure that your site will get promoted in the internet. Although it may take time to grow your marketability through social bookmarking, once it is marked, it is there. This means that once you have made it to the top list of the most book-marked sites; you are going to be there for a long time. Your marketability will stay long too. Hard efforts equals to long-term results.
How Social Bookmarking WorksSo how does social bookmaking
work? Here is a simple way to do it: 1. First, join a social bookmarking
site, and sign up for a new account. The most popular website on social book-marking is www.delicious.com. You may also check other popular sites in the internet.
2. Then once registered, try install-ing a button on your toolbar. By then you are ready to go. In just a simple click on that website (you may want to click your own here), you already book-mark it for others to see. The good thing about this technique is that if a friend of yours has a similar interest on your brand or website, he/she may bookmark it also. Then just like the universe, which is constantly extending, your business will continue to expand and grow in marketability and profit. Social bookmarking is really something.
Fun Facts About St. Patrick's DaySt. Patrick’s Day is observed on March 17 because that is the feast day of St.
Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. St. Patrick’s Day is a national holiday in Ireland, and a provincial holiday in
the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador.The actual color of St. Patrick is blue. Green became associated with St. Patrick's Day during the 19th century. St. Patrick did not actually drive snakes out of Ireland; the snakes represent the
pagans that he converted to Christianity.The very first St. Patrick's Day parade was not in Ireland. It was in Boston in
1737.In Seattle, there is a ceremony where a green stripe is painted down the roads.Most Catholics attend mass in the morning and then attend the St. Patrick's
Day parade.In Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, people traditionally wear a small bunch of
shamrocks on their jackets or caps. In Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day, children wear orange, white and green badges,
and women and girls wear green ribbons in their hairThe phrase, "Drowning The Shamrock" is from the custom of floating the
shamrock on the top of whiskey before drinking it.
This month we are going to explore some of the abbreviations used on the web.
If you have ever visited Facebook, Twitter, or even your onw email Inbox, you must have seen at some time: LOL, ROFL, IMHO, or anoth-er of those acronyms. In fact they have become so common that some of them have been added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Here is a shortlist of them and what they acxtually stand for:LOL: Laughing Out Loud, and its variants: ROFL: Rolling On The
Floor Laughing, and ROFLMAO: Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A... Derriere Off
IMHO: In My Humble Opinion and its variant IMNSHO, you guessed it: In My Not So Humble Opinion, LOL
AFK: Away From Keyboard or BRB: Be Right BackIDK: I don't know
Hi, it's me, Vita. Here is an Irish saying in honor of St. Patrick: " Glac bog an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bog tú"(Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.) Like it? :)
5 Useful and Easy iPad2 Tips1 - Tweak Spotlight searchesGo to Settings, General, Spotlight
Search 2 - Tweak Push and Fetch settingsGo to Settings, Mail, Contacts,
Calendars, Fetch New Data.3 - Change your email signatureGo to Settings, Mail, Contacts,
Calendars, Signature4 - Take a screenshotPress Home and the sleep/wake
button at the same time.5 - Show traffic conditions Open Maps, press page icon in
the lower right, and turn the Traffic overlay on.
13102 Palm Beach Blvd - Suite AFort Myers, FL 33905
Phone: 239-344-7574Fax: 239-236-0389Email: [email protected]
Office Hours: M-F 9am-6pm, Sat 10 am-6pm
Be Sure To Visit Us At:ITByTheSea.comFloridaInventoryServices.com
• Upgrades and Repairs• Network Support• Data Protection And Recovery• Assets Inventories• Website Design and Hosting• Internet Marketing• Mobile Marketing• Social Media Marketing
Services We OfferNetwork Design • Network Maintenance • Upgrades/Repairs • Web Design/Hosting • Internet Marketing • Social Media Marketing
We Want Your Input!Do you have an idea to make this newsletter better? Would you like to submit a story, article, or green tip? We’d love to hear from you!Call us at: (239) 344-7574OrEmail us: [email protected]
Continued from Page 1....art - This extension indicates an image file that was
compressed with AOL (America Online) technology. Both Internet Explorer and the AOL service software can display this kind of file.
.avi - This extension indicates a video file playable by most multimedia viewers including Microsoft's Media Player.
.bmp - This extension indicates another image file that might have originated from Windows Paint program.
.dll - This extension indicates a Dynamic Link Library which may contain additional programming code for software. Many different programs often share Dynamic Link Libraries and you'll find a lot of them in the Windows/System directory .
.exe - This extension indicates a program or an appli-cation like Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer, or Outlook Express. Use extreme caution when downloading .exe files from the Internet since malicious programmers like to hide viruses in these types of files.
.gif - This extension indicates another image file and it stands for "Graphics Interchange Format." .Gif files are of-ten smaller than .bmp files (described earlier) and they're commonly found on Internet web pages.
.jpg - This extension indicates yet another image file and it stands for "Joint Photographers Experts Group." Like the .gif file, it's commonly found on Internet web pages. It's much smaller than both the .gif image and the .bmp image.
“As a business owner, I know youdon’t have time to waste on technicaland operational issues. That’s wherewe shine! Call us and put an end to
your IT problems finally and forever!”- Christine Roux, I.T. By The Sea
Volume IV, Issue 3March 2011
Fort Myers, Florida
Inside This Issue...
What's That File?....Ps. 1 & 4
What Is Social Bookmarking And How It Can It Help? ….Ps. 1 & 2
Vita's Tips And Tricks….P. 2
Fun Facts About St. Patrick's Day ….P. 2
Meet Our Clients Of The Month: Family Chiro Rehab Center….P. 3
The What?... GeekTalk To English Dictionary... P. 3
Go Green Corner... P. 3
239-344-7574 I.T. By The Sea // Page 14 // Caloosa Tech Times www.ITByTheSea.com
What's That File?An Introduction To File Extensions
In an effort to be "user-friendly," Windows hides the most important part of a file name from new computer users: the extension. Okay - I'm assuming that the reasoning behind hiding extensions is a "user-friendly" one because I just can't come up with any other reason for hid-ing them. No harm could ever come from seeing an extension, but plenty could be learned from it. Fortunately you have this article to guide you through some of the most common extensions that you'll run into.
But before you can see file extensions, you need to turn them on. From Windows Explorer, click on the "Tools" menu, and select "File Options." Click the "View" tab and then uncheck the box next to "Hide file extensions for known file types." Click "OK" and you'll notice that the files in Windows Explorer show a dot and group of three letters after their names. That dot and group of three letters is known as an "extension," and the extension explains what kind of file it is.
A file could be a plain text file, an image, a sound, a video, or program. But without seeing the extension, you wouldn't know it unless you double-clicked on it. The following list defines some of the most common extensions that you'll find on your computer.
.au - This extension indicates a sound file. Most sound players will play this kind of file. (continued on page 4)
What Is Social BookmarkingAnd How Can It Help Your Business?
In the field of website promotions, links are not enough. And most of the time, web masters go through the season of waiting, where they just watch and wait for that visitor to come. Sadly this happens most of the time. The sigmoid curve applies to website marketing and promo-tions as well. At first, your site goes through the process of building, often the hard and difficult process we go through in marketing: planning, goals-setting, etc. Then it grows, where many visitors flood and traffic your page. But then soon enough, it declines. This is the reality of most businesses. The S-curve applies to all. So in the area of website marketing and traffic generation explosion, we might want to consider some effective solutions if we want to thrive and dominate the internet marketplace.
What Is Social Bookmarking?Social Bookmarking has been there for long but only a few people really know what it is
really about. Similar to bookmarking the favorite pages of your business book or magazine, or bookmarking the last page you’ve just read in your favorite novels, social bookmarking works in the same way too. Contrary to using the bookmark feature of your web browser, social book-marking involves not only you, but the many users also in the internet. This is why social book-marking is considered as one of the best effective ways to promote websites and your brand.
(continued on page 2)
.mid - This extension indicates a sound file created with aMusical Instrument Digital Interface. Windows Media Player will run these files, however they don't sound like normal .wav or .mp3 files (see below). .Mid files are designed to product synthetic sounds using a computer's sound card.
.mp3 - This extension indicates a sound file that authenti-cally reproduces voice and/or music. Windows Media Player will run this kind of file.
.scr - This extension indicates a screen saver file.
.sit - This extension indicates a Macintosh archive StuffIt file. They will not open on a Windows system.
.ttf - This extension indicates a font especially designed for use on a Windows system. It stands for "True Type Font."
.txt - This extension indicates a plain text file that can be opened with Notepad.
.wav - This extension indicates a sound file that like the .mp3 file, can be opened with Windows Media Player or Windows Sound Recorder. .Wav files are much larger than .mp3 files.
What's That File?An Introduction To File Extensions