May 2008 PCSS
Newsletter
Greetings friends! We hope spring has lifted your spirits and is invigorating your life. Happy Cinco de Mayo to our Mexican friends!
We continue to keep our blog updated weekly. April’s Earth day celebration has motivated us to be more energy efficient (as if $3.60 gas wouldn’t help to motivate). We are doing an energy series the past few weeks. Please check it out: The State of Technology
We are still doing training classes at your site. If you have 2 or more that want to have a class or if you would like individual tutoring let us know. Here is a link to the classes we teach: PCSS Classes
Our printer special last month worked out so well so we only have a few specials this month. June may or may not be the last month of Windows XP sales. No one is saying much at Microsoft. They did release Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista. We’ve installed it on our Vista Laptop PC, but haven’t seen much difference. We’ll have more details in next month’s newsletter.
May Sales and
Specials
Need a very basic PC? Well we have one for sale this month. HP dx2250 desktop PC AMD Desktop Computer - AMD Athlon 64 3800+ 2.4GHz, 512MB DDR2, 80GB SATA HDD, DVD-ROM, 10/100Mbps LAN, Windows XP Professional, MicroTower. 1 year warranty for $349.00. Options include upgrade to 1GB memory $49.00, DVD burner $49.00, Second hard drive 120GB $99.00
We have 3 different laptops in stock:
Lenovo 3000
N200 - Intel Celeron 540 1.86GHz Notebook 512MB RAM, 80GB SATA HDD,
CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive, 15.4" WXGA VibrantView
TFT LCD, Modem, 1GB Ethernet, WLAN 802.11b/g, Windows XP Professional $599.00
HP Smart Buy 6720s Intel Celeron 550 2GHz Notebook 1MB L2 cache,
1GB 667MHz DDR2 memory, 120GB 5400rpm SATA, LS DVD±RW SuperMulti,
15.4" WXGA BrightView, Intel GMA X3100, 10/100
NIC, 802.11a/b/g, Vista Home Basic $599.00
HP 6715b with AMD Turion 64X2
Dual-Core 1.9GHz, 2x512KB L2, 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, 120GB 5400rpm SATA, DVD/CD-RW
combo, 15.4" diagonal WXGA BrightView, TPM1.2,
Fingerprint Sensor, Gigabit NIC, 802.11a/b/g, Vista Business OR Windows XP Pro
$699.00.
USB Flash Drives – 2GB - $18.00, 4GB - $31.00
250GB External Hard Drive - $99.00
HP LaserJet 1006 basic Black/White for $109.00
HP Color LaserJet 3600dn (duplex/network) - $760.00
HP Deskjet 4180 Printer/Scanner/Copier - $80.00
LCD Thin Color Monitors – 17” - $189.00, 19” - $239.00
MS Office 2007 (Word/Excel/Powerpoint) $142.00
MAC Office 2004 (Word/Excel/Entourage) $142.00
MS Outlook 2007 $97.00
TrippLite 550VA
Wireless Optical Mouse - $29.00
MS compact Optical Mouse - $13.00
Optical Mouse - $10.00
May Sites of the
Month
A good source of checking out energy savings myths: Energy Myths
Everything you wanted to know (and more!) on Complact Florescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
We seem to take more pictures in the Spring. Here are two great free utilities that can help with handling your digital pictures. The first is from Microsoft and lets you resize your pictures (Pixel decreaser or increaser!) Image Resizer Images Download
Photoscape includes everything from a file viewer to a photo editor, slide show creator, batch editor, screen capture program, and more. Photoscape Image Editors Download
Do you ever have a file you can’t open? If you can find the file extension (the 3 letters following the period in the file name like .wpd) you can go to this site and find out what program will open the file: FILExt - The File Extension Source
Are you tired how your Windows looks? Looking for some visual adventure? Try the Windows Matrix site. There you will find customizing hints and techniques to keep you busy through summer: WinMatrix.com - Windows Desktop Customization Community.
If you patiently come this far, we would like to announce
the beginning of the Clearwater Park & Friends Happy hours. Starting this Friday, May 9
from 6PM till dark. The first
event will be at the Mogas (you know them) at