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DEAL OF THE MONTH

May is a Star Wars month – MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

So, what else would offer as a deal of the month than the HP LaserJet Enterprise 700 color, affectionately known in our office as THE DEATH STAR. This thing does it ALL…30 ppm, Print, copy, scan, fax and digital send, up to 11x17 media size, 4 paper trays, scan to email, auto duplex printing, 100 sheet ADF (auto document feeder). This is your all office solution to your printing needs. It comes with a 5-year warranty with options to extend your coverage, AND we have leasing options to get your payments down to as low as $159 per month!

A New Hope

Product Spotlight | OneDrive

AUTHOR | Microsoft

OneDrive for Business is an integral part of Office 365 or SharePoint Server, and provides place in the cloud where you can store, share, and sync your work files. You can update and share your files from any device with OneDrive for Business. You can even work on Office documents with others at the same time.

Note: OneDrive for Business is different from OneDrive, which is intended for personal storage separate from your workplace. OneDrive for Business is also different from your Office 365 team site, which is intended for storing team or project-related documents. If you have a small business, it's ideal to set up your file storage to use OneDrive for Business and Office 365 team sites together. Read More

Dropbox’s latest idea could change the way you think about cloud storage

AUTHOR | TechCrunch

One of the problems with Dropbox and indeed all cloud storage is the way they have implemented how you view your cloud storage on your local drive. If you want to access your cloud file system in your local file management tool, you literally need to have it stored on your drive, which really defeats the idea of having cloud storage in the first place — especially on devices with smaller hard drives.

Alternatively, you could open Dropbox.com and navigate to your files in a separate interface, an approach just about everyone dislikes.

Dropbox wants to change that. Read More

Should you store your data in the cloud?

AUTHOR | Malwarebytes LABS

It’s pretty simple to understand where a file goes when you save it on your PC. It lives on your hard drive, possibly housed in a set of folders you’ve created and organized yourself. That file is only stored on your computer, unless you decide to email it to yourself or save it on an external hard drive or USB.

Now what about the cloud?

At its most basic level, “the cloud” is just fancy-talk for a network of connected servers (a server is simply a computer that provides data or services to other computers). When you save files to the cloud, they can be accessed from a computer connected to that cloud’s network. Now take that idea and multiply it to understand how the cloud works for you. The cloud is not just a few servers, but a network of many servers typically stored in a spaceship-sized warehouse—or several hundred spaceship-sized warehouses. These warehouses are guarded and managed by companies such as Google (Google Docs), Apple (iCloud), or Dropbox. Read More

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TIP | De-clutter your inbox in Office 365
AUTHOR | Office Blogs

Clutter learns from your actions to determine the messages you are likely to ignore. As less important messages arrive, they are automatically moved to the Clutter folder. Clutter does this by leveraging Office Graph’s sophisticated machine learning techniques to determine which messages are Clutter. It gets smarter over time, learning from your prior actions with similar messages, and assessing things like the type of content and even how you are addressed in the message. Read More

drool worthy recipes

RECIPE | Overnight Blueberry
French Toast
PREP TIME | 15m
COOK TIME | 1h 15m

WHY DOES THIS ONE GET OUR VOTE?
I recently made this for our monthly company breakfast meeting, so right off the bat it's great for larger crowds. It's a nice twist on french tost and is really pretty easy to make.

Just a couple of notes You can use frozen blueberries if fresh isn't in season. Instead of cubing the cream cheese, I would try whipping it in a mixer first, the chunks didn't melt real well for me, and that might also help it to cook through a bit better as my first attempt was still a bit undercooked in the middle.

life hacks

TIP | 7 Netflix Hacks You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
AUTHOR | Cool Material