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My name is Michelle & I head up Trade & Lateral Development. We are focused on building better relationships with our clients & bring this weekly PC Tip to you, free of charge, to do that.

Please let us know if there are any tips that you'd like us to cover!

CONTENTS

1. PC Tip 96: Check the Available Space on your Harddrive

2. What is Trade & Lateral Development about?

3. Book Review: Easy Microsoft Office 2003

4. Have you entered the competition yet?

5. Noseweek Article: 'MAIDEN WAS NO VIRGIN'

6. Feel Good Slot

7. Who are BDT Computers & the Businesswomen's Association?

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PC Tip 96: Check the Available Space on your Harddrive

As you get older your memory starts to go

- among other things...

Ever tried to install a new program on your computer, have gone through the whole process, only to be told that you don't have enough disk space? This means that you don't have enough memory left on your harddrive to accommodate the program - very frustrating!

This tip will show you how to check how much space you have available before you start! Also use it to check how much space you have left before you might have to consider a new or additional harddrive.

1. Close all your programs so that you are on your Desktop

2. Double click the 'My Computer' icon (usually in the top left hand corner of your screen)

3. Right click the icon called (C:) (this is your main harddrive)

4. Click 'Properties' & check the 'used' vs 'free' space.

(Usually if you have a Gig or more you should be more than ok to load any program that you'd like!)

What is Trade & Lateral Development about?

Trade & Lateral Development is an innovative, service-driven, digital communications company that has been in operation since May 2000.

We will advise you on how best to broach your digital communications concept, will design the correct digital brochure to suit your needs & will disseminate this brochure to your database of clients.

Trade & Lateral Development (Pty) Ltd

www.digitaldynamite.co.za [email protected]

Phone: 031 266 7013 /4 Fax: 031 266 7015

Book Review: Easy Microsoft Office 2003

1 simple computer tip a week is brilliant, but sometimes you'd like to look through a computer book that covers a topic from start to finish - without confusing the daylights out of you along the way!

Trade & Lateral Development & Pearson Education now bring you a fortnightly Computer Book Review & an opportunity to win 1 of the books reviewed each month!

Easy Microsoft Office 2003, Nancy Lewis

The perfect book for beginners who want to learn the Office applications through a visual, full-colour approach!

- More than 100 hands-on tasks to get you up & running quickly

- Designed to teach the easiest, fastest, or most direct way to accomplish Office tasks!

- Perfect for new & upgrading Office users

- Large typeface increases readability

Find out more about this book or purchase it online!

Published by Pearson Education and available from all major bookstores or www.kalahari.net

Book Review Competition

Competition: Last chance to win this book!

If you want to win the book, simply complete the form below! Remember to include 2 email addresses of people you think will BENEFIT from these PC Tips, to validate your entry.

Click Submit, once only, the OK:

NOSEWEEK News Article

Trade & Lateral Development & Noseweek Magazine have joined forces to bring you a weekly excerpt from one of Noseweek's outstanding news articles.

Noseweek - South Africa's unique investigative magazine for inside information on business, the professions, politics & society - anything you weren't supposed to know!

'MAIDEN WAS NO VIRGIN', Noseweek 54

In October, fledgling company Maiden Air (Pty) Ltd announced they would be flying between South Africa and London four times a week from 14 December. The company offered travel agents attractive commissions on ticket sales of up to 12%.

Agents rejoiced: more seats, low fares - and great commissions! But alas, there was a flaw in the plan. Maiden Air was still in the process of applying for a Foreign Operator's Permit and, as it later emerged, had no aircraft. In the end Maiden was denied a permit and several agents were left out of pocket. As John Morrison, chief executive of the Airline Association of South Africa, points out: "It's unethical to sell tickets without a licence, otherwise any Tom, Dick or Harry could just start selling tickets."

But who cares about ethics?

Rob Williamson, CEO and sole stakeholder of Maiden Air, isn't just any Dick; he put in a lot of effort convincing the travel industry that his was a legitimate operation.

See www.noseweek.co.za for the full story.

The 'Feel Good' Slot!

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." - Peter Kay

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." - Harold Wilson

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