The Refresh Orlando Heirs

Tucson, AZ (August 27, 2004) – NextWest, Inc., Booth 339, a
leading manufacturer of IP-based business telecommunications and
contact center systems today announced the availability of its
next generation PCXi and NextContact Call Center Solutions at
ACCE 2004. NextWest’s rock-solid, fully-integrated, IP and
converged communications systems help small to mid-sized
businesses, government agencies and other institutions to meet
their growing telecommunications needs.

NextWest’s PCXi IP Communications platform brings together all
of the advanced PBX features with sound, reliable Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions. NextWest’s NextContact Call
/ Contact Center solution open’s the door for full feature
inbound / outbound calling while their predictive dialer &
Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) modules provide best of class
call blending.

”NextWest’s PCXi combined with NextContact creates the most
advanced fully integrated IP Communications platform available
on the market, said NextWest COO Matthew Morales. “ACCE 2004 is
the perfect venue for demonstrating our quality and reliability
to the marketplace.”

“We’re excited about NextWest’s announcement,” said Joy
Cerequas, ACCE 2004 Executive Director. “Their decision to
release this information here is an endorsement of ACCE 2004 as
a key industry event. That’s why we created it. It’s a showcase
for the very latest product and services innovations. That’s
what people come here to see and learn about… and buy.”

ACCE 2004 takes place at the Washington State Convention & Trade
Center in Seattle, WA, September 13-15, 2004.

Pricing & Availability For pricing and availability, go to
http://www.nextwest.com or call NextWest at: 1-877-I-GO-NEXT
(446-6398).

About NextWest, Inc. NextWest, Inc., headquartered in Tucson,
AZ., is a leading manufacturer of IP-based business
telecommunications and contact center systems. Our rock-solid,
fully-integrated, IP and converged communications systems help
small to mid-sized businesses, government agencies and other
institutions to meet their growing telecommunications needs.

With cost-effective solutions that are flexible, scalable,
reliable and easy to manage, NextWest delivers uncompromising
quality and features resulting in the some of the fastest ROI
times in the industry. NextWest’s award winning PCXi and
NextContact Call Center Solutions are backed by the world class
service and support of NextWest Certified Engineers.

For more information about NextWest Business Phone Systems, IP
Phone Systems, Advanced Voicemail, Conferencing Solutions, ACD,
Reliable VoIP ( Voice over IP ), Advanced IP Predictive Dialers,
IP Telephony, Blended Call Center Solutions, VoIP Call Center
Systems, VoIP Phone Systems, IVR, Auto Attendants, CTI, Advanced
PBX Features, NextWest PCXi, NextContact or any of our industry
specific solutions call 1-877-I-GO-NEXT (446-6398), or visit our
website at http://www.nextwest.com .

About ACCE CMP Media’s Converging Communications Group (CCG)
produces five trade events each year covering the hottest topics
driving the telecommunications industry. These events, including
Call Center Demo & Conference, cover the convergence and
broadening application of CTI technologies, the Internet Telecom
revolution, customer relationship management, the evolution of
traditional call centers into web-based, multimedia contact
centers, and the use of old economy customer service standards
in online transactions. CCG Expos take a leadership role in
defining and redefining the future of telecommunications.
http://www.CMPevents.com

For information on the CMP Media, Converging Communications
Group events and related properties, visit
http://www.CallCenterDemo.com, http://www.CCDemoWest.com ,
http://www.CCDemo.com, or http://www.CMPevents.com. Press and
analysts interested in attending the events should contact Marci
Silverman (212) 600-3326, msilverman@CMP.com.

There are times when you’ll share “the stage” with a business or personal partner. Perhaps one of you has a better grasp of technical or other aspects of your subject. Perhaps you are quite good at facilitating questions from the audience, or recording input on a flip chart for later use. However you choose to share presenting duties, resist the temptation to “just wing it.” While sometimes these situations are impromptu, even five minutes to prepare will aid both your presentation and the audience. Here are some steps to insure that all members of a presentation group get the chance to show their best work.

1. Pinpoint why you’re sharing the presentation duties. This should include a brief summation of the specific talents and knowledge that each presenter adds to make for a better audience experience.

2. Agree on how much time you’ll need for the entire presentation.

3. Specify who will be doing what, and the time allotted for each segment. This sounds simple but skipping this step can sink the whole ship! You will want to know who is responsible for the introduction of your topic, introduction of speakers, body of the presentation, Q&A, summary and wrap-up. If you have supporting data, slides or handouts assign a person to manage distribution of that information.

Record your task and segment assignments and keep them handy as a reference during the presentation. Make sure you have a back-up plan in case you need to make changes at the last minute. Years ago, I presented a leadership development class to a group of 20 professionals. The final video case study was a real tearjerker, a plant manager who poured his heart and soul into his work and his employees. He literally cried on camera as he spoke of his devotion to his work force. With a riveting introduction, I popped the videotape into the machine…and saw a blank screen! It turned out that last video segment had been deleted from the presentation! My back-up plan was not well prepared, and I ended up acting out the final video as though I were on stage. My audience was amused, though probably not impressed or educated! Since that “surprise”, I’ve made a habit of double-checking my resources and material beforehand, and outlining for myself what I’ll do in the event that things don’t go according to plan. In the case of my missing video, I should have had a brief summary of the video’s key message handy, so that I could encourage group discussion to bring out the learning points.

About the Author

Mike Faber is a professional coach, helping people improve their sales and public-speaking skills. Mike has 25 years of experience as a television and radio broadcaster, and spent the last 17 years in financial services sales. At the end of 2004, Mike left a large San Francisco-based investment firm, to start his own coaching practice.

You can save money by purchasing a pre-paid cellular phone.

Pre-paid and pay-as-you-go cellular phone plans allow you to buy time as you need it. Minutes are usually purchased via a voucher card that is worth so many minutes. You simply activate the minutes when you need them.

You may have already looked at a pre-paid plan. You will notice that you aren’t saving per minute. In fact, pay-as-you-go plans cost you more per minute. The plans are ideal for emergency use, for those who don’t make hardly any calls per months and for teenagers and children.

With a pre-paid plan, you aren’t locked into a typical cell phone contract that lasts two years. You are free to stop purchasing minutes at any time. The main advantage to pre-paid cells is that you can’t go over your minutes and run up several hundred of dollars without knowing it. Your phone won’t use more minutes than you have dollars.

In general, this is what makes pre-paid cell phones ideal for teens and pre-teens. It seems as if you are old enough to talk on a phone, you have your own cell phone. With a pre-paid plan, you know exactly how many minutes your children are using. Some cell phone companies offer phones for children that only dial three or four numbers that you preset. This also helps to eliminate a large cellular phone bill out of the blue.

Most pre-paid plans will cost you from $10 for 30 minutes to $80 for 400 minutes, depending on the company. Minutes often expire after one month to a year, so make sure you know how long your minutes are good before you start saving them up.

Pre-paid plans usually come with the basics of call waiting, voice mail and national long distance. There may be restrictions to calling within certain areas or other restrictions. Make sure you read the fine print thoroughly.

You know, with pre-paid cell phone plans, no one should have to ask you to put them on your account. They are a great option for your children, or for those who rarely ever use a cell phone.

Compare the price of the pre-paid service minutes with a regular cell phone package. You might find that one is absolutely cheaper than the other. But make sure you look at all the details before you make your decision.

Yes, a pre-paid plan costs you more per minute. But it keeps you from going over your plan and having $.40 a minute tacked onto your calls. For example, if you pay $80 for 400 minutes, you are basically paying twenty cents per minute. You could purchase a cellular contract plan for around $39.99 for 400 minutes. That equals around ten cents per minute.

But if you were to go over your contract minutes, you will most likely have to start paying $.40 per minute on all calls over your plan. You would only have to go over by 100 minutes to break even with the pre-paid plan. With the pre-paid plan, you can’t go over.

With a pre-paid phone, you may be paying more per minute, but you have a control set in place that prevents you from spending more than you budget for your cellular phone.

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Introduction

Mac OS X is the most technologically advanced operating system by Apple. The use of soft edges, translucent colors and pinstripes (similar to the hardware of the first iMacs) brought more color and texture to the windows and controls on the desktop which is what windows lack.. Thats the reason why many windows user have a great desire to emulate Mac OS X on the windows. There is a large portion in Desktop Customization community that focus on how to emulate Mac OS X. This community is call Aqua Community. This guide will help you change your Windows XP to Mac OS X.

Chapter 1: The Appearances - In this chapter, I will show you how you can change the default Windows XP appearance to Mac OS X appearance using few software

Chapter 2: The Menu Bar - In this chapter, I will show you how can you put the menu bar on top of your windows desktop, like the one in Mac OS X

Chapter 3: The Finder - In this chapter, you can learn about a core element in Mac OS X, finder and how you can have the finder on your windows.

Chapter 4: The Icons - In this chapter, I will show you how to change the default Windows XP icons to Mac OS X icons.

Chapter 5: The Dock - The emulation is not complete without a dock, so in this chapter, I can show you a few docks for windows that realy looks similar to Mac OS X dock

Chapter 6: The Dashboard - Dashboard is a new feature in Mac OS X, but we already have lots of them for windows. So, don’t forget to check this chapter to get dashboard widgets for windows.

Chapter 7: The Skins - There is a few applications in windows that you can change the looks to Mac OS X applications by just changing its skins.

Chapter 8: The Applications - A few developers in Mac emulation community have come out with a decent clone of Mac OS X applications. Some of them are fully working beta but some of them is really working and you can’t tell the different from the real applications in Mac OS X.

Chapter 9: The Installer - A variety of tools and applications are available online from one source or another that promise to rid you of your GUI woes with just one click. But while you may be able to change the icons on Explorer’s toolbar, or get rid of that annoying Windows throbber, no single utility can do it all. None, that is, until now with the release of Flyakite OSX 2.0.

Chapter 10: The Utilities - After you had make a lot of changes to your windows desktop to make it looks like Mac OS X, there is a few applications/utilties that you still really need to make it more accurate.

Please visit http://www.osx-e.com/articles/emulation_manuals.html to read the full 10 pages guides.

Samsul Zamzuri Abu Bakar a.k.a alang is a founder/owner of osx-e.com, a site dedicated to windows to mac emulation, that being around for 2 years.