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Firewalls, Flu, Facebook & Photos
Subject: Firewalls, Flu, Facebook & Photos
Send date: 2009-08-03 14:49:40
Issue #: 8
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Welcome!

Dear [FIRSTNAME],
As well as our regular articles this month we have a lovely bit of security software to protect your home PCs, a fantastic article for those of you wanting to use Facebook for work and some nifty on-line facilities we’re looking at for High Holy Days services.

All the best

Marc

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Places of interest on the web

Free Personal Firewall

anti_virus.www.sxc.hu.1160103_98450957http://personalfirewall.comodo.com
Comodo are now offering a free Firewall & Anti-Virus package for Windows free for personal use. NB: This software is not licensed for use with work PCs.



Build you own book digitiser

beer.www.sxc.hu.1012381_77340537http://bkrpr.org/
For those of you with technical bent into homebrew kit. Here’s a project to keep you busy. Included are detailed instructions on how to build the hardware and the software to run it. If anyone gets this running let me know. There’s a huge stash of rare books that would be fantastic to give people access to on their PCs!


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Files, documents & programs for you to keep

Here are a few highlights of some of the new files available in Community Resources:

  • Forms for Volunteers
    Gilly has put together a whole raft of forms to use with volunteers. Don’t forget to scroll down to see them all.
  • Swine Flu - What to do
    A fact sheet for staff regarding Swine Flu at work.
  • NATO Phonetic Alphabet Cheat Sheet
    One quick one from me – the international phonetic words for letters to help spell email addresses, names, licence keys, etc. over the phone.

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Tips, tricks and fixes

We'd love to answer any questions you have. Just reply to this email any we'll post the answer in Fix in our next issue.

So you want a Facebook Fan Page?

Facebook Non-Profithttp://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/05/so-you-want-a-facebook-fan-page-.html
Last week one of our synagogues asked me whether they should be setting up a Facebook Page or a Profile to communicate with their younger members. Luckily for me Brian had just sent me a link to a fantastic blog post for Non-Profits using Facebook (Clare – I hope this helps!).
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Swine Flu & High Holy Days

Yellow TVAs Swine Flu spreads, there’s a possibility that a large amount of people could be ill during the High Holy Days. The Health Protection Agency may even change it’s current advice regarding public gatherings if things get out of hand.
Is there some way we can easily/cheaply provide alternatives for people who can’t attend services?
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Rakefet Photos

Dear Lise,

The Rabbi is terrible with names.  If he is talking to someone after services, he has no clue what his name is, and when someone calls him and identifies herself by name, he has no idea who it is.  I don’t suppose Rakefet has a solution for this one, but I just thought I’d ask.

Baffled in Birmingham


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