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We hope your new year has started well and the holiday break has refreshed you for an exciting 2011.

In this issue we introduce you to our range of NeoHost online services and share some useful IT tips from Aunty June. We also have a special New Year’s competition and a jargon buster to help you get your head around some of the often confusing world of IT jargon.

• Managed Outlook: allows you to work where you want, when you want, and share more information with colleagues. It provides real-time information including email, calendars, contacts and tasks to your computer and mobile phone.
• Email Cleaning: protects you from viruses and spam, while also providing a backup email service.
• Domain Name Services: makes it simple to register your domain name, host it and obtain SSL Certificates.
• File Hosting: allows you to increase productivity by sharing documents quickly and securely over the internet.
• POP/IMAP Email: provides a basic email service including your own email address ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), webmail login and virus and spam protection.
• Website Hosting: is made easy with our low-cost, high-service hosting options, starting from as little as $5 a month.

This month, Aunty June provides you with some great tips on how to make the most of your laptop’s battery life.

Getting the most out of your laptop battery on the road

There is nothing worse than running out of battery life while working on the road. They always seem to run out while you are in a meeting with a client, or when you have that last urgent email to send. Here are some tips to maximise the life of your laptop battery.

The display and hard disk on your laptop are the two biggest consumers of battery power. By choosing a power plan (called a power scheme in Windows XP) you can easily extend your battery life. 
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that control how your laptop manages power, and most settings are able to be customised to your specific needs.

 - Adjust screen brightness
 - Turn off wireless
 - Turn off scheduled tasks
 - Keep the use of tools in the notification bar to a minimum
 - Limit power-intensive activities
 - Add memory
 - Carry at least one spare battery
 - Charge your battery often

For more information about these power-saving schemes read more here.

What better way to start off the new year than by winning a bundle of accessories for your home or business computer!
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Question: What does DNS stand for?

Entries close 31st January 2011

Let’s face it, the big wide world of computers can often be confusing for most people. Combine that with geeky jargon and acronyms and you’ve got a recipe for a headache.
Luckily here at NEOS we are a bunch of geeks who live for computers. So as well as sharing our passion for everything IT, we’d like to make things a little bit easier for you by providing a jargon buster to help you decipher just what we’re saying when we’re throwing around three-letter acronyms!

SIP: The Session Initiation Protocol is a protocol used for establishing sessions in an IP network. A session ranges from a simple two-way phone call right on up to multi-media conferences. When you make a phone call using NeoTalk (VoIP), SIP is used to establish the phone call.

DNS: The Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system used by every device connected to the internet. It translates the domain names we read, eg www.neos.co.nz, into numbers that computers recognise, allowing them to locate and visit devices worldwide. A DNS is a kind of  phonebook for the internet, with domain names and their IP addresses stored on it.

SMTP: Simple Mail Protocol Transfer is an internet standard for sending emails across IP networks. First developed in 1982, there have been changes to the SMTP over the years and now we have ‘extended SMTP’, or ESMTP. The main thing you need to know is that if you’re sending an email you must have SMTP.