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July Newsletter 2012

Summer if finally here! We think this newsletter has a little something for everyone. You can also find our newsletter on our Facebook page! Don’t forget to check out some fun activities for July.

July 2012

In this Month’s Newsletter:

Monthly Electronic Deal
The New Monitor Everyone Should Have
Tech Tip Brought to you by Alandale Training
This Montth in Tech History
July Events in and Around Vancouver

Monthly Electronic Deal

Each month we will supply you with a product that we believe is a great deal and may suit your business or personal needs. This is an opportunity for you to save time and energy shopping around for what’s best at the best price, because we have done it for you!
HPG HP FOLIO 13 I5-2467M 128GB 4GB

Price: $1299.00 CAD
*prices does not include HST, Office Suite or deployment labour

If interested contact the sales team at sales@itsmail.ca

The New Monitor Everyone Should Have

Click this link to read the latest review on this great new monitor.

Dell UltraSharp U2412M Monitor

TECH TIP OF THE MONTH

Brought to you by Alandale Training a great resource online for tips and on-site computer training courses in Vancouver, BC. Visit their site at www.alandaletraining.com.

As I work on a spreadsheet in Excel I find I sometimes want to record why I entered a specific value in the cell or what a complex formula does. Comments let you do both of these things.

To add a comment to a cell:
1. Right-click on the cell
2. Select Insert Comment
3. Key in the text and then click outside the comment box

A small red triangle (the comment indicator) appears on the top right corner of the cell. To display the comment, move the mouse pointer over the cell.

To edit or delete the comment, right-click on the commented cell and select Edit Comment or Delete Comment.

Now you can capture the thought process behind all those great spreadsheets!

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This Month in Tech History
July 10^th, 1856 – Nikola Tesla is Born
July 27^th, 1866 – Trans-Atlantic Cable connect America to Europe with the telegraph.
July 20^th, 1969 – Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon.
July 26^th, 1989 – Robert Tappan Morris is the first person to be indicted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

EVENTS

Here are some fun events happening in and around Vancouver.

July events in and around Vancouver!

Thanks for reading and have a great July!

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June Newsletter 2012

We are excited about summer finally arriving this month! We hope you enjoy this month's newsletter and take advantage of the tech deal, learn something new and please go out and have some fun!

June 2012

In this Month's Newsletter

ITS Electronic Deal
Tech Tip Brought to you by Alandale Training
This Month in Tech History
June Events in and Around Vancouver

ITS Electronic Deals

HP Smartbuy LA2205WG 22IN Widescreen LCD Monitor 1680X1050 1000:1 5ms VGA DVI DisplayPort HDCP
$240.00 CAD

TECH TIP OF THE MONTH

Brought to you by Alandale Training a great resource online for tips and on-site computer training courses in Vancouver, BC. Visit their site at www.alandaletraining.com.

Subscriber asks 'How do you get rid of that "paste" drop-down box that automatically appears and doesn't want to go away!'

In recent versions of Microsoft Office, when you paste text into a document the Paste Options graphic appears below and to the right of the text you pasted. Click on it and you can choose Keep Source Formatting, Merge Formatting or Plain Text.

It provides a handy way of controlling the formatting of the pasted text. Yet it can also hide some of the text in your document and it doesn't go away even after you have chosen one of the three options. (You may not be happy with the outcome of the option you chose so it's easy to pick another option).
So how do you make it disappear? Just press Esc.

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This Month in Tech History

All tech history information is found on the Software & Information Industry Association

June 8, 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee was born. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. While working at CERN in 1989, he proposed a project, based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. On Christmas Day 1990, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet. The first Web site built was at CERN and was first put online on August 6, 1991

June 25, 1979 – The first National Educational Computing Conference was held in June 25- 27, 1979 in Iowa City. The conference was created to replace the tenth Conference on Computers in Undergraduate Curricula, (CCUC) in an effort to expand the scope of information covered. The first conference was chaired by Ted Sjoerdsma and covered a hardware debate: on micros vs. minicomputers, the development of educational software: CAI, CMI, simulations for subject specific uses (math, science, social sciences, health, engineering) and defining teacher competencies for pre-service, in-service training. The conference, now run by ISTE

EVENTS

Here are some fun events happening in and around Vancouver.

EAT Vancouver Food + Cooking Show

International Workshop on Social Computing, Network, and Services

2012 Interlink Web Design Conference

Father's Day Celebration

Day out with Thomas

Vancouver Jazz Festival

Thanks for reading!
Hope you have a great June & Happy Father's Day!

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May Newsletter 2012

We hope all the showers bring May flowers and sunshine. May is going to be a great month, as we have two very important birthday's to celebrate, Mother's Day, Victoria Day weekend and of course some great techie stuff to share!

May 2012

In this Month's Newsletter:

Birthday Celebrations at ITS
ITS Electronic Deal
Tech Tip Brought to you by Alandale Training
This Month in Tech History
May Events in and around Vancouver (be sure to check this out, there are a lot of events in May)

Birthday Celebrations at ITS

To:
Jason Davies
Christina Bombelli
Can you guess their age? Hint, it's the same!

Monthly Electronic Deal

Canon Imagefomula P-215 Scan-tini Portable Document Scanner 600DPI Duplex USB3.0Canon Imagefomula P-215 Scan-tini Portable Document Scanner 600DPI Duplex USB3.0

Price: $350.00
*Price does not include HST

If interested contact the sales team at https://www.itsconsultinginc.ca/contact/

TECH TIP OF THE MONTH

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Windows has a desktop calculator that can be handy for doing quick calculations.

To display the calculator:
1. Start button, All Programs, Accessories
2. Calculator

When entering numbers, you can either use the number keys on the keyboard or click on the number buttons on the calculator. Like most desktop calculators, it has a memory.

Want to copy the result of your calculation to another application? Here's how:
1. Click on = to complete the calculation
2. Ctrl+C
3. Switch to the application
4. Ctrl+V

Need to do scientific calculations? No problem:
. In the calculator window, View menu, Scientific

Happy calculating!

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This Month in Tech History

May 11 ^th, 1951RAM was patented by Jay Forrester!
May 12^th 1936 the keyboard is patented
May 26^th, 1995 Bill Gates uses Microsoft to support the growth of the Internet
May 31^st 2006 The Pirate Bay is raided and shut down (for 3 days)
May 25^th, 1977 Star Wars – A New Hope was released

EVENTS

There are so many events happening in May. Go out and have some fun!

Festivals, Marathons, Mother's Day, Victoria Day and more!

Thanks for reading! Hope you have a great May!

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