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Yes, even geeks need to take a break sometimes.

Baltimore Maryland
October 28th – 29th 2008
at Town and Country Resort & Convention Center

This event is for travel agents who want to expand their knowledge in this relatively new market, being home based. The Home Based Agent Show is produced by Travel Industry Shows and is co-sponsored by OSSN, the largest and most credible organization of Home Based agents with over 7,000 members.

Beyond the Earn more, learn more focus, the trade show, gives travel agent delegates an unequaled opportunity to go one-on-one with more than 250 domestic and international suppliers.

Forums will Include:

• Technology Forum
• Tours Cruises
• Honeymoon & Romantic Getaways
• Family Travel

The Technology Forum will discussed building your business with websites and email marketing, managing your clients and marketing with customer relationship management systems(crms) online booking programs and keeping up with supplier specials.

For suppliers and attendees register at: HomeBasedAgentShow.com

For suppliers who wish to sign up now to ensure the best available location on the trade show floor, contact Jim Cloonan at 617.744.1671, or contact him via e-mail at jim@travelindustryshows.com.

The Home Based Agent Show is produced by Travel Industry Shows and is co-sponsored
by OSSN.

Managing you email

After a long weekend we all like to brag with our coworkers about how
many emails end up in our inbox. Yes spam is part of our online society.

After receiving 400+ emails after one weekend I decided it was time to
change things.

I started use Mozilla’s Suite and sometimes I would test Thunderbird
as my email program, and it’s not that much different than Mozilla Suite,
and both are great for:

• Organizing folders and files
• Managing (spam) junk email

Managing junk email

Mozilla Suites & Thunderbird offer easy to use junk email controls
with advanced security features.

From the main menu bar click on tools and click on Junk
Mail controls.

This image on the left is how I set my controls.

The controls are fairly simple:

• If the sender is in my address book then they will not be listed as
  junk.
• If the email is considered to be junk then it goes to the junk email
  folder and will be deleted after 14 days (Default).
• Thunderbird will also sanitize any html from any scripting included
  in the email.
• To mark or un-mark an email as junk: In the email list there will be
  an icon on the email row that can be turned on or off.

When you first start Mozilla or Thunderbird mail
expect about a 2 week learning curve. That’s right the junk mail controls
will learn what you consider junk by an algorithm that looks at the sender,
subject and the body of the message.

You may want to wait until you address book is a
certain size before you turn on the controls.

Managing folders

Mozilla & Thunderbird make it simple to add and direct incoming emails
to spicific folders. Why create folders? Simple: When dealing with groups
or subjects, it’s easier to follow and find information.

There is also a search feature that I use several times a week. This
saves lots of time.

Security features

Among the new security features in Thunderbird 1.5 are Kerberos
authentication and integration with server-side spam filtering. There
is also a built-in phishing detector to help protect you against e-mail
scams, providing an “extra line of defense” in preventing users from getting
caught up in e-mail identity-theft and information-theft scams.

Some of the new improvements in Thunderbird include automatic spelling
checking as the user types a message and auto saving as drafts. You can
also receive rss feeds as email messages.

June 11, 2006: Thunderbird is listed on PC World’s Best 100 Products
for 2006.

Know after a long (3 or 4 day) weekend there maybe 400+ emails coming
in, but there are only about 5 spam emails in my inbox.

Forget your passwords?

Think it’s time to use a different password?

Do you access the same accounts at work and at home?

With all the passwords we use it’s easy to forget the easy ones like our Yahoo or Hotmail passords.

Here is a secure password manager & generator that will create and store your passwords.

Lost Password ?

Don’t think you´re the only one. The last survey says we are over whelmed with the amount of passwords we need to know at work and at home.

Over 15% of managers say they have over 15 passwords they need in their day-to-day business. Some keep them on notepads, spreadsheets or palm pc and pocket pc (not a safe place to keep passwords).

As Americans we are required to change our passwords less than the rest of the world, and I would expect that to pick up with the higher rate of security business web sites will be taking.

Browsers

RoboForm runs on the toolbar of over 30 different browsers including IE, Foxfire, Mozilla Suites, and the newer Netscape’s. When I use 2 different browsers on the same machine: I will access the same account and login codes from the different browsers and the same information will be added to the forms.

Other installs:

• Palm pc and Pocket pc
• USB device (RoboForm2Go) or stick and will run without installing on a laptop or desktop computer. No files or password information will be saved on the pc.
• GoodSync synchronizes files between 2 computers and or a USB device.

Password Generator

This password generator creates hard to crack random
passwords.

• Specify password length, types of characters, and special characters.
• Measures the strength of the password.
• Best way to create random passwords.

Password Security

Defeats Keyloggers

When RoboForm enters the password into form fields, it does not type them through the keyboard, so if a keylogger is on the system, there are no key-clicks to record.

Best anti-phishing defense

As you know there are many emails received daily asking for account information.

RoboForm helps increase your online security by storing the URL with login information and will only use the right information on the right web site. This way you can not log into a fake site using this password manager.

If you start entering private information into a unknown form a popup warning will come up.

Password Encryption

RoboForm increases online security by protecting all identities and passwords by making them inaccessible to unauthorized users and unreadable by hackers even if they are stolen because of the strong encryption.

Password Manager Software

• Automatically add personal information like name & address information.
• Backup & restore and print options are available.

Password Manager

RoboForm is given a best rating for Password manager software by PC Magazine and is the editors choice at download.com.

Don’t lose your Yahoo or Hotmail password again.
Create new secure passwords with the password generator anytime.

Protect
your passwords and identity.

Why build my own computer?
Why not buy my next computer again? My next computer will be a work-horse computer. I'm in the process of doing more work from home and need a computer that can handle some large programs that eat up the memory and processor time. I also want to be able to exchange parts as they become out dated or go bad with out replacing the whole computer.

With a brand name upgrading would be limited to buying a new computer and parts may be limited to the brand and I want more choices. These are my main interests: price, warranties, support.Coming in January MicroCenter will have 2 workshops BYOPC Build your own PC January 5th, 12th and the 19th (Powers Ferry Atlanta).

This will be an all day event broken up into 2 sessions.

The first session will start at 11 am and will include the motherboard, CPU, memory and case.

The second session (afternoon) will cover the video card, hard drive and optical drive.

more info

rsvp at your local MicroCenter

Hope to see you there

Adrian Schjetnan
Director of Sales

Please contact me when you send a client to us. I will see that they receive a special gift from you.

Crowne Plaza
Blvd. SanJose s/n Seccion Hotelera 1 Fonatur
San Jose del Cobo, B.C.S, Mexico C.P. 23400

52 (624) 142 9292 /770 Office
52 (624) 142 9299 Fax

www.cploscabos.com/

One Ocean
One Ocean Blvd.
Atlantic Beach, Florida 32233

www.oneoceanresort.com

Not in order.

Alia Trickey
Resort Spa director
904 746-4679 Office
904 247-0308 Fax

Arlene Baldwin
Director of Catering
904 746-0305 Office
904 247-0308 Fax

Ted Peters
Executive Chef
904 746-0305 Office
904 247-0308 Fax

Betty Jones
Director of Sales & Marketing
972 370-9040 Office
972 370-9160 Fax
214 415-6872 Cell

Kristi Stovall
Sales Manager
904 685-4474 Office
904 247-0308 Fax

Julie Betts
Sales Manager
904 746-0305 Office
904 247-0308 Fax

Traci Meyer
Sales Manager
904 746-4679 Office
904 247-0308 Fax

Beth Graham
Public Relations-Marketing Event Planning

Clever Endeavors
Jacksonville-Orange Park Fl 32003

904 264-1369 office
904 214-6769 cell

Kevin Kelly
Owner

Houmas House
40136 Highway 942
River Road, Burnside
Darrow La, 70725

225 473-7841

www.HoumasHouse.com

Claudia Gonzalez
Corporate Manager

AeroMexico
2655 LeJeune Road
Suite 600
Carol Gables, Florida 33134
917 804-7307 Cell
305 529-0068 Fax
800 237-6639 Res
800 800-9999 Groups

Gabriel Parra
Regional Director East

AeroMexico
2655 LeJeune Road
Suite 600
Carol Gables, Florida 33134
305 441-0090 /14 Tel
305 529-0068 Fax
800 237-6639 Res

Gabriela Gonzalez
District Manager Atlanta

AeroMexico
PO Box 54352
Atlanta Georgia 30308
678 733-7770 Cell
404 580-8872 Tel
800 237-6639 Res

www.aeromexico.com