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What happens when a world authority on the English language meets a world leader in electronics?

In the case of Oxford University Press and SHARP, the result is the new PW-E series of full-content electronic
dictionaries.

Both the PW-E500 and PW-E300 offer the complete contents of the Oxford Dictionary of English
and the New Oxford Thesaurus of English, with the PW-E500 boasting the added benefit of The Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations. With SHARP e-dictionaries, it’s easier than ever to search, cross-reference, and
explore word definitions, find alternative words, and discover relevant quotations. What’s more, all this
convenience comes in a stylish, lightweight case that makes a SHARP e-dictionary your ideal portable English reference tool.

Featuring a crossword solver and anagram solver

CROSSWORD SOLVER – Enter question marks for a word’s unknown letters, and the Crossword Solver will check the ODE database for all possible words that match.

ANAGRAM SOLVER – This feature checks the ODE database for all anagrams of the word you enter. Ideal for crosswords and other word games.

A SHARP e-dictionary delivers comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of modern English usage. With the PW-E series, SHARP gives you the full contents of two dictionaries* and a thesaurus — all from Oxford University Press, creator of “The World’s Most Trusted Dictionaries”.

SPELLCHECK FUNCTION
If you’re unsure of how to spell a word, the Spellcheck function finds near or exact matches. Compare the various definitions and put an end to misspellings and word confusion.

CONVERTER FUNCTION
The PW-E500 and PW-E300 come with two converters: a user-settable currency converter, and a metric converter,
which converts lengths, weights, temperatures, and so on.

HISTORY FUNCTION
The History Function allows you to recall a headword or phrase previously searched for in one of the dictionaries, allowing you to keep track of your recent searches.

The perfect place for this new data shredder is in the department. As an all-rounder, it shreds paper, CD-ROMs, floppy disks, credit cards, access entry cards, and I.D.s.

This new concept allows you to shred CD-ROMs in strip cut as well as in cross cut particles.

• On / Off control via light barrier

• cutters will shred paper clips and staples

• separate slot for CD-ROMs

• LED for control display („shredder ON“, „paper jam“, „overheat“,„open removed“ and „bin full“)

• dustproof enclosed bin

• easy to empty – simply slide out the bin

• moveable on four castors

• contemporary colour and design for all office environments

• 10 years warranty on cutters

Lamination will extend the life of any document, especially if it is frequently handled.

Lamination protects a document from dirt and damage and gives it a durable, wipe-clean surface which is totally sealed and waterproof. ‘Carrier-free’ machines are used without a carrier, which makes laminating large quantities of documents less time-consuming.  However, a carrier protects valued documents from coming into contact with any glue or dust inside the laminator and its use is recommended for an exceptionally pristine result.

The document to be laminated is simply placed inside the laminating pouch and fed through the laminator. Any document is tamper-proof once it has been sealed within the laminating pouch. It is impossible to amend or change a laminated document nor can it be removed from the laminated seal. The laminating pouch bonds with the surface of the document, so that it looks brighter and cleaner.

Text appears crisper while colours are enhanced or subdued, depending whether a gloss or matt finish is chosen. Rexel Laminating Pouches are compatible with Rexel branded and most other laminating machines.

Only the best quality materials are used in their manufacture and all sizes have rounded corners to ensure safe handling and provide a more attractive finish.

Create, save and share … in colour

Anything you write on the board with colour markers can be scanned and saved allowing you to capture and
distribute an accurate colour representation of your meeting notes.

The scanned data can be saved in industry standard PDF or JPEG file formats. A time stamp function allows you to insert the current date and time in the upper right corner of your saved images, facilitating easier organisation and filing.

A built-in SD Memory Card slot and USB Flash Memory port allow you to store your data directly on a removable SD Memory Card or USB Flash Memory device and transfer it to a PC, making the UB-2315C suitable for today’s “paperless” file sharing demands.

For added convenience, the UB-2315C comes with a high-resolution 1.8-inch colour LCD that enables you to easily
operate a variety of functions, as well as to confirm scanned images on the LCD screen.

The UB2315C employs a “Running Scanner Type” design whereby the scanner module runs above the electronic board surface. This means you can attach flipcharts or other printed material to the board surface and scan them together with anything written directly on the board.

The smooth steel board surface is durable, easy to write on, and easy to clean. Both the front and
back surfaces are whiteboards and switching between them is made simple by flipping the board
using an ergonomic lever.

You can transfer the scanned data to your PC via SD Memory Card or USB Flash Memory. With the bundled Panasonic Document Management System software installed on your PC, you can easily edit, print or distribute the scanned data.

The High Definition Era Comes to Digital Still Cameras

High definition is a new standard for digital still cameras today.  LUMIX lets you easily record and view both still and motion pictures in high definition.

All LUMIX models record wide-screen, 16:9, full- HD images. These images are simply breathtaking when displayed on an HDTV, which handles about four times the data of a standard-definition TV. With LUMIX, you can enjoy a whole new style of HDTV viewing with family and friends. Connect Directly to an HDTV

HD Motion Picture Recording
The new LUMIX models record high-resolution 1280 x 720p HD motion pictures at up to 30 frames per second. Because LUMIX assures beautiful image quality in both still and moving pictures, you can have even more fun with your digital still camera.

PC PRO’s Magazine – ‘Recommended’ HL-4040CN High speed, network ready colour laser printer

The Brother HL-4040CN colour laser printer can print up to 20ppm in mono and colour and thanks to Brother’s single pass print technology, where the paper collects the ink in one pass through the printer, this increased speed doesn’t come with a hefty price tag. It’s also one of the safest printers in its class, thanks to Secure Socket Layer (SSL) , ensuring that unsecured data passing over the network cannot be accessed by other users.

KEY FEATURES OF THE HL4040 Colour Printer

• Up to 20ppm colour & mono print speed
• Built-in network connectivity
• Up to 2,400 x 600dpi print resolution
• Up to 250 sheet standard paper capacity and 50 sheet MP tray
• Print directly from a digital PictBridge camera
• Print directly from USB flash memory drive

The HL4040 is Easy-to-Use
The 3 colour LCD display ensures that at a glance printer status is quick and easy to see.

Features Direct USB Printing
Printing of index shots, images or files direct from a USB memory stick is now a reality. A very quick and easy way to print. (File formats PDF, JPEG, TIFF)

PictBridge Direct

Photo Printing using the built-in Pictbridge interface, pictures can be printed from your camera saving time on downloads, editing and printing.

Sorting through the vast array of digital projectors on offer can be a daunting task and can involve a very steep learning curve! To help those of you that are new to the projector market, I’ll be putting together a guide split into bitesize chunks over the next few weeks to help get you up to speed with all you need to know when buying a data projector for your business.

What do you need it for?
First off we can assume that you want to put this projector to business use only and so can forget about looking at the huge amount of Home Theatre projectors available. The first question you need to ask yourself is what you are hoping to use the new data projector for and therefore establish what you require the projector to do. Is ease of mobility the most important thing or is it to be fixed in the boardroom? Do you need it simply for presentations?

Business projectors available range from a mere £300 to a whopping £10,000 so there should be one in there somewhere to suit all types of budget.

Understanding some jargon…
Projectors, like any technology, often have strange jargon and acronyms associated with them that are very confusing to the newcomer. Here’s a brief look at some of the terms you’ll likely see in projector specifications.

LCD vs DLP – It won’t be long before you’ll discover that projectors are divided in to two main categories named LCD and DLP, and soon after this discovery you’ll be asking yourself which is better, LCD or DLP? The truth is that there are pros and cons to both of these and it all depends on what you intend to do with the projector.

LCD or liquid crystal display projectors use three separate glass panels (the primary colours red, green, and blue) through which light passes to create the image.  As light passes through the LCD panels pixels are either closed or opened in order to block or let through the light which changes the colour of that pixel and builds the image that you see projected on to the screen.

Benefits: Has superior colour saturation than DLP and a sharper image. A better technology when bright light levels are required such as in classrooms, boardrooms and offices where the rooms are not darkened.

Drawbacks: Not so good at reproducing video images

DLP or digital light processing projectors there are thousands of tiny mirrors, each one representing a single pixel. Light from the projector’s lamp is directed onto these mirrors and the mirrors move directing light into the lens path to turn the pixel on, or away from the lens path to turn it off. The colour wheel, made up of red, green and blue filters, spins between the light and the mirrors and alternates the colour of the light hitting the mirrors from red to green and to blue. The mirror then tilts depending on how much of each colour is required for that pixel at any given moment.

Benefits: Can be smaller in size than LCD and so are generally better for mobile applications. Higher contrast ratios and deeper blacks mean these types of projectors excel at showing video. Reduced pixelation of image versus LCD.

Drawbacks: Not so good colour saturation and the image can be not as sharp. Needs ambient light to be removed in order to achieve a good picture (i.e. a darkened room)

It can often take a long time for a patient to receive his medical report. Once the diagnosis has been made, the report still has to be dictated and then typed up.

Digital dictation technology aims to streamline this workflow, although there is a lot more to it than simply recording a dictation: digital dictation devices are specifically designed to meet the demands of the relevant working environment. They can read in the patient information, automatically assign the data to the relevant report and are even capable of interpreting human speech. Because analog cassette-based devices have been superseded by digital technology, patients are now receiving their reports much more quickly.

Philips Dictation Systems launched the world’s first analog dictation device in 1954, breaking new technical ground. For the first time, doctors were able to work independently of a secretary and simply dictate onto tapes, allowing the dictation to be later transcribed by typists. Because the process made life so much easier, it quickly became standard practice. To this day, half of the European medical profession continues to work in this way. However, in a hectic medical environment, cassettes fall somewhat short of the ideal data carrier: they are easily lost and once damaged are unusable.

Digital dictation devices solve many of the problems of their analog predecessors. Rather than dictating onto cassettes, the user dictates directly onto the PC or saves the dictations on an SD memory card. This means that each dictation is available digitally in audio file format.The audio file is thus available to the  typing pool for transcription immediately after recording. Because dictations recorded in crystal-clear, digital sound quality are much easier to understand, the number of errors and therefore the number of corrections the secretaries have to make are significantly reduced.

Digital dictation devices also offer a number of additional user benefits. The SpeechMike from Philips, for example, is a microphone, barcode scanner, speaker and mouse in one. It is connected directly to the computer via USB interface and allows the doctor to record and play back dictations, to navigate through PC applications and to read in patient data electronically.

Philips Lfh725 Dictation Kit

Author and administrator are united in this powerful machine that allows a smooth transfer of speech-totext. The lightweight 4-Position Switch microphone can be attached to either side of the unit, so you can control all of the major dictation functions with one hand. Plus, a Sensitivity Switch means that you can select the optimum recording level for the environment. Index Tone markers can prioritise documents, as well as carry special instructions.When transcribing, a large digit LCD shows all the information you need to manage your workload.

LFH725 Key Benefits

1. Fast return to the beginning of the tape with Auto Rewind
2. Quick access to the start of the next job with Search Forward and Skip functions
3. LCD Tape Counter shows information stored on cassette

The CLP-315 is one of the quietest printers available today when considering vibration and average noise emissions, respectively.

It’s compact
This powerful compact colour laser with refined modern style wasdesigned to fit into professional work spaces. Now even small professional businesses and home offices can upgrade to colour laser and enhance the impact of their printouts. At 384mm x 314mm x237mm this colour laser will fit on a desk or a shared work space.

It’s faster
Compared to most competitive print solutions the CLP-315 has a faster mono speed. Approximately 70% of colour laser printer users output black and white the majority of the time.

It’s constant
The CLP-315 produces consistent colour printouts which are waterresistant and long-lasting, while ink-jet printouts are susceptible to water and humidity exposure, and the images can fade over time.

It’s quieter
BLI has proved that the CLP-315 is the quietest printer when considering vibration and average noise emissions, respectively. It’s compact 384mm x 314mm x 237mm. The competitive footprint size gives you
more space on your desk.

Id Fraud Week 2009 – How much are you revealing?

Identity fraud is on the increase, 79% of businesses make no effort to destroy sensitive material before disposal.

How many times a day could you be risking your own or your company’s identity by leaving sensitive information lying around?

Key steps for preventing fraud identity and identity theft.

1. Don’t leave credit card and bank details lying around
2. Don’t throw sensitive information in the bin
3. Don’t make confidential documents clearly visible
4. Don’t leave documents lying around the printer
5. Don’t leave papers in meeting rooms
6. Don’t wait for a weekly collection of documents to shred

Download the identity fraud prevention guide
from stop-idfraud.co.uk.

Take a look at are shredder section for the best office equipment agaisnt id fraud.