Hands On: The Dell XPS One

The hardest thing with any review is being objective and impartial; usually I find myself emotionally attached – either positive or negative – and wanting to either rave or berate a product based on how I feel about it…and the Dell XPS One makes it very difficult for me to don a Mr. Spock-like attitude for this report.
The 20” XPS One , an All-in-One computer system, is the newest in the Dell XPS lineup, and debuted in November 2007, alongside another first, The Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC. (More on that when I can get my hands on one!)

The Techie’s Techie Guy blog up and running

Diamond Dave, a long time friend, listener and contributor to Tech Talk Radio, has finally decided to ‘go public’ with his reviews on tech related tools, toys and more. To this end “The Techie’s Tech Guy” blog was born and DD is looking for as many people to review and comment on his findings as care to add their two-techie-cents! Check it out and feel free to send suggestions of stuff that you’d like to see reviewed to DD as well.

free RoboForm

During today’s show we had a conversation about software that will fill in forms and such, and RoboForm was mentioned.

In the March edition of PC World, on page 60, I found an advertisement that states: “…free to download for PC World Readers“. The website to go to is http://www.roboform.com/pcw

I say a big “thank you” to RoboForm and PC World for providing this opportunity for us to try and use this product.

resume recommendations

Chuck, a “headhunter”, called the show to remind us all that resumes need to be scannable (so they can be entered into a database). Here’s some information I found:

Name ONLY on the top line. Address and phone numbers must be below your name.

No italics, bolding, underlining, etcetera (these tend to give the scanner gibberish).

Use standard 10 to 14 point fonts like Times, Palatino, and Helvetica.

It has been suggested to use a sans serif font, such as Arial or Tahoma. These are fonts that do not have the small markings on the edge of each letter (serifs).

Do not use a newspaper-style two column format.

Left justify all text.

Send your resume on 8.5″ x 11″, white paper only.

Fax on “high resolution” setting.

Avoid tabs (use the space bar instead).

Avoid parentheses, brackets, and compressed lines of print.

Resumes must make use of industry “buzz” words which will match what the computer has been trained to look for.

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A couple of webpages I viewed were…

http://vault.com/nr/main_article_detail.jsp?article_id=21153&cat_id=0&ht_type=8

and…

http://www.uwrf.edu/ccs/scannable-resume.htm

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Note to Chuck: Have you found a job for us, yet?…