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		<title>Pasting Text into HTML Format Emails</title>
		<link>http://www.fifosys.com/blog/helpful-tips/pasting-text-into-html-format-emails</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fifosys News Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Helpful tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you send or reply to an HTML-format email and you want to paste in some text from another application such as Word, the chances are that your pasted text will take on totally different (and usually unexpected) formatting &#8212; it will stick out like the proverbial sore thumb.  One of the most straightforward ways [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you send or reply to an HTML-format email and you want to paste in some text from another application such as Word, the chances are that your pasted text will take on totally different (and usually unexpected) formatting &#8212; it will stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. </p>
<p>One of the most straightforward ways to blend the pasted text into the email is as follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>Paste it into the blank Cc or Bcc box (where you would normally type the list of addressees)</li>
<li>Select all of the text that you just pasted and cut it.</li>
<li>Now paste it into the body of the email where you want it.</li>
</ol>
<p>The act of pasting the text into the Cc/Bcc line strips out any formatting information, so that when you come to paste it into the HTML, Outlook has no option but to adopt the format of the existing text, and hence your pasted text fits right in.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you paste your text into a blank document in Notepad (from the accessories menu). This will have the same results.</p>
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		<title>How to Spot an Email Scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fifosys News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Request for passwords and other personal information. Most scams are designed to trick you into turning over your passwords, user names, account details and other personal information. Never send this information in an email message.   Use of the well known company names. Cybercriminals often use the names of well-known companies, like Microsoft, to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> </p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Request for passwords and other personal information. </strong>Most scams are designed to trick you into turning over your passwords, user names, account details and other personal information. Never send this information in an email message.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Use of the well known company names</strong>. Cybercriminals often use the names of well-known companies, like Microsoft, to increase legitimacy and convince you to release your personal information. </li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Threats that require you to take action</strong>. In the scam above the cybercriminal claims that your account will be deleted if you do not respond with your personal information. Professional organisations generally do not send threatening messages by email and will not ask for personal information in an email message.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bad grammar and misspellings. </strong>Legitimate companies will have copyeditors who would never allow spelling and grammar mistakes to pass their desks.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Generic greeting.</strong> Legitimate messages are not often addressed to &#8220;Account Owner.&#8221;  For example if Microsoft or your bank need to send you official correspondence about your email account, they will address you by name. However, remember that cybercriminals do have ways of getting your name from your email address. So, even is the email is address directly to you, check for other signs of a scam.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>Here are some useful links from Microsoft where you can get more information regarding email scams and internet fraud.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/symptoms.aspx">How to recognize phishing emails or links</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/Msname.aspx">Avoid scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/reduce.aspx">How to reduce the risk of online fraud.</a></p>
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		<title>Do you have Unnecessary PC Programs Running in the Background?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fifosys News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[•To see the programs currently running on your PC  o Push Ctrl-Alt-Del on your keyboard  o You should now see a dialog box labeled Close Programs  o There will be a list of names. Each one of those is a program running right now in the background. Two of the items listed here are always [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>•To see the programs currently running on your PC<br />
 o Push Ctrl-Alt-Del on your keyboard<br />
 o You should now see a dialog box labeled Close Programs<br />
 o There will be a list of names. Each one of those is a program running right now in the background.</p>
<p>Two of the items listed here are always there &#8211; Explorer and Systray &#8211; those are Windows components and they are supposed to be there. But everything else is a program running now that gets loaded automatically every time you start Windows.</p>
<p>But how do they get loaded?</p>
<p>There are a couple of places where you can find out.</p>
<p>1.Look at your startup files.<br />
 • Go to Start/Run, and type Sysedit.<br />
 • In the resulting window you&#8217;ll see many cascading Windows.<br />
 • In the Autoexec.bat window you might find a few lines to start a program. Or in the Win.ini file, look at the load= and run= lines. Anything in those lines after the = sign is a program to be loaded.</p>
<p>2.Windows also has a startup folder where it checks every time Windows starts. If there are any programs listed, it will start them automatically. You can find the contents of the startup folder by going to Start/Programs/Startup.<br />
You probably think how did they get in there since you didn&#8217;t put them there. Some of them need to be running in the background to function properly, such as a virus scanner. They put themselves into a startup menu automatically when you install them. Others might not need to be there, but they load anyway to be available when you need them.</p>
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		<title>How to setup your Out of Office from your BlackBerry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 15:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fifosys News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go to your email Press the BlackBerry Button Go to &#8216;options&#8217; Go to &#8216;email settings&#8217; Scroll down to the bottom You will see an option for &#8216;Out of office&#8217; Switch that on and type in the message you want]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Go to your email</p>
<p>Press the BlackBerry Button</p>
<p>Go to &#8216;options&#8217;</p>
<p>Go to &#8216;email settings&#8217;</p>
<p>Scroll down to the bottom</p>
<p>You will see an option for &#8216;Out of office&#8217;</p>
<p>Switch that on and type in the message you want</p>
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		<title>Messenger in Command Prompt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fifosys News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you know your colleagues IP address do the following: Firstly, open Notepad and enter: @echo off :A Cls echo MESSENGER set /p n=User: set /p m=Message: net send %n% %m% Pause Goto A Now save this as &#8220;Messenger.bat&#8221;. Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see: MESSENGER User: After &#8220;User&#8221; type [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">If you know your colleagues IP address do the following:</p>
<p>Firstly, open Notepad and enter:</p>
<p>@echo off</p>
<p>:A</p>
<p>Cls</p>
<p>echo MESSENGER</p>
<p>set /p n=User:</p>
<p>set /p m=Message:</p>
<p>net send %n% %m%</p>
<p>Pause</p>
<p>Goto A</p>
<p>Now save this as &#8220;Messenger.bat&#8221;. Open the .bat file and in Command Prompt you should see:</p>
<p>MESSENGER<br />
User:</p>
<p>After &#8220;User&#8221; type the IP address of the computer you want to contact.<br />
After this, you should see this:</p>
<p>Message:</p>
<p>Now type in the message you wish to send.<br />
Before you press &#8220;Enter&#8221; it should look like this:</p>
<p>MESSENGER<br />
User: 56.108.104.107<br />
Message: Hi</p>
<p>Now all you need to do is press &#8220;Enter&#8221;, and start chatting!</p>
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