Why backup your PC?

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your PC has just suffered a hard-drive failure. you’ve spent several hours on a tech-support call and your data is still irrecoverable. clean-room data-recovery facilities have quoted you several thousand dollars to ‘attempt’ to recover your data. their fee is due and payable regardless of the outcome.

now… use your time-machine to turn the clock back 1 day. you have the opportunity to conduct your own backups for a fraction of the cost. would you consider it?

what next?
contact us (sales@readytoview.com or 213-438-0600 x501) regarding our managed backup service starting @ $39 per mo. / Workstation and $150 per mo. / Server

You can now assign a single note to multiple manufacturers

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We have made a change to the “notes” section of showroom exchange that now lets you refer the note to multiple manufacturer’s at the same time. Â This will help users add notes more quickly as they do not have to add a common note for every manufacturer.

See the screen-shot below to show the multiple selection options for the mfrs.

Fundamental change to the searching function in showroom exchange

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In an effort to make searching simpler and more intuitive, we have made a change to the search function on view pages. This change does not apply to report filters.

You will no longer be required to use an asterisk (*) when doing a wildcard searches in any of the columns on the view pages, e.g., customers, orders, etc. We have changed Showroom Exchange so that all you need to do is type out the criteria you are looking for.

“fred” will yield the same result as “*fred*”

“fred*” and “*fred” will still behave as they did before

If it is your preference to continuing using the old logic, we can switch your showroom back. Just email help@readytoview.com with the following subject, “switch back the search function”

Please click on the link below to view a video that shows these changes.

Click here to view the changes to customer and order search

– the showroom exchange team

FASTEST method for getting i.t./technical help

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We have just completed the implementation of a more responsive support structure. We are now able to centrally monitor and manage all support requests.

There are now a couple of options for requesting help:
1. Emailing help@showroomexchange.com or
2. Visiting http://support.readytoview.com and entering your request there. Please email us if you do not have a login for the http://support.readytoview.com website and we will reply with your credentials.

An advantage to using this new support-system is that you will be able to log into the support site and check the status of your request in real-time. You will also be able to update your request and access past issues for reference or to address billing related Qs from your accounting department.
For a short tutorial on how the support site works, please click on this link to view a brief 1 minute demo:
http://www.readytoview.com/tutorials/help/

Call us if you are interested in our IT services:
213 438 0600 x22

How to resize images for Showroom Exchange quickly and easily

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One common question is, “How do I re-size this picture for Showroom Exchange”

While there are many ways to do this, we have decided to write about two popular options.

For users who only need to re-size one or two pictures or who work on Apple computers, the easiest way is to visit http://www.picresize.com/
Once there, you can upload your image and select the size you want it to be. We recommend a custom size of 640×480 or smaller for pictures or 800×600 for flyer-type pictures. The supported format for Showroom Exchange is either JPG or GIF.

If you are a Windows user and find that you have to resize pictures frequently, you may want to download ‘Powertoy Image Resizer’ from http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=30247

Once this program is downloaded and installed, you can select one or multiple pictures, right click on your mouse and select ‘resize picture’ Our recommended settings are the same, either 640×480 or 800×600.

* Review picresize.com privacy/terms
* Always check with your i.t. contact before installing a new application.

use a FREE converter to include your PDFs in personalized bulk emails

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showrooms often receive line-sheets in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Personalized Bulk Email (PBE) feature accepts image formats (e.g., JPG) only. There are many free resources that can help with the conversion to JPEG.

here is one example:
http://www.pictureresize.org/online-images-converter.html

ref: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-ways-to-convert-a-pdf-file-to-a-jpg-image/