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Turn up your viewing experience with Integrated Digital Tuner. With this TV you can now enjoy the benefits of digital TV, Electronic Program Guide and digital quality content. At the same time, you can also watch superb pictures with Pixel Plus HD clarity and details on a Full HD 1080p LCD panel.

Highlights of the Philips 47" LCD TV

• Compact and slim design that fits in every room
• HD ready for the highest quality display of HDTV signals
• 3D combfilter separates colours for a razor-sharp image
• Integrated Digital Tuner for DVB-T reception
• 2 HDMI inputs for full digital HD connection in one cable
• Incredible Surround for enhanced audio enjoyment
• Full HD LCD display, 1920x1080p
• 1000 page Hypertext for instant fast access to teletext
• Pixel Plus HD for better details, depth and clarity

Kingston is the world's largest independent memory manufacturer. In today's performance-driven environment, memory upgrades provide an easy, economical alternative to increase system performance. Every memory product Kingston offers is designed to help you get maximum performance at the best price to you.

This memory is designed for Apple Power Mac G5 1.6GHz.

Information technology professionals rely on HP quality to ensure maximum productivity. As the power of applications, processors, memory adapters and storage devices increase, high-end computer users are seeking ways to optimize their system performance. HP provides leading solutions, adding new levels of performance, availability, flexibility, and management.

HP provides a variety of networking solutions to keep your home or business connected. There's a networking choice for every budget, setting and level of expertise.

The HP StorageWorks DAT 72x10 Tape Autoloader is an ideal industrial standard backup solution for the small to medium size company with limited IT support or a remote site of larger organizations. By reducing administrative tasks, the DAT 72x10 Tape Autoloader not only simplifies the backup process but reduces the risk of error as well. The autoloader includes a single tape drive inside a 1U rack-mount enclosure that holds up to ten data cartridges in two removable magazines, HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Single Server Edition backup software, one data and cleaning cartridges, and all the cabling and hardware typically required for installation. With the ability to store up to 72 GB per DAT 72 data cartridge, the DAT 72x10 Tape Autoloader provides a quick, efficient means for reducing workload. Simply load the magazines with the data cartridges and the autoloader takes care of the backup for weeks. The backup schedule can be customized by the backup application to suit the organizations requirements.

Microsoft Windows Server R2 Enterprise Edition is the premier platform for business-critical applications. Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition builds on the standard features found in the Windows Server 2003 R2 family by adding features designed to increase the reliability scalability, security, and manageability of enterprise applications.

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 is a collection of updates and security enhancements to the current Windows Server 2003 operating system. Service Pack 2 (SP2) tightens security of your Windows Server and improves its performance and reliability.

The Cisco 2800 Series provides significant additional value compared to prior generations of Cisco routers at similar price points by offering up to a fivefold performance improvement, up to a tenfold increase in security and voice performance, new embedded service options, and dramatically increased slot performance and density while maintaining support for most of the more than 90 existing modules that are available today for the Cisco 1700, Cisco 2600, and Cisco 3700 Series.

The Cisco 2800 Series features the ability to deliver multiple high-quality simultaneous services at wire speed up to multiple T1/E1/xDSL connections. The routers offer embedded encryption acceleration and on the motherboard voice digital-signal-processor (DSP) slots; intrusion prevention system (IPS) and firewall functions; optional integrated call processing and voice mail support; high-density interfaces for a wide range of connectivity requirements; and sufficient performance and slot density for future network expansion requirements and advanced applications.

The Electronic HP Care Pack Services (e-Care Pack) capability allows you to order, receive, update, and activate a wide range of valuable HP Care Pack Services over the Internet. Administered through the HP Services Network (CSN), it is a fast and simple process that enables immediate registration and service activation.

Choose 4-hour same business day hardware support when you need to: extend your hardware warranty coverage with prompt service for key systems and devices; obtain easy-to-buy, easy-to-use onsite services; improve hardware performance and uptime; increase the return on your HP and multivendor hardware investments; enjoy consistent service coverage across geographically dispersed sites.

This high-performance lens was designed with portability and handling ease in mind. One super UD-glass element, whose characteristics are similar to fluorite, and one UD-glass element result in sharp pictures from corner-to corner. The lens also has a built-in hood and a detachable tripod mount.

The SoMo 650 makes small- to mid-sized deployments possible and affordable for a wide range of mobile business applications, including sales force automation, inventory management, patient care, merchandising, asset management, mobile POS and hospitality. This durable, customizable handheld computer includes Socket's enterprise class implementation of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to keep you connected.

The Cisco 1841 router features secure, fast, and high-quality delivery of multiple, concurrent services for small-to-medium-sized businesses and small enterprise branch offices. The Cisco 1841 router offers embedded hardware-based encryption enabled by an optional Cisco IOS Software security image; further enhancement of VPN performance with an optional VPN acceleration module; an intrusion prevention system (IPS) and firewall functions; interfaces for a wide range of connectivity requirements, including support for optional integrated switch ports; plus sufficient performance and slot density for future network expansion and advanced applications as well as an integrated real-time clock.

The most advanced 24" large format colour and black & white printer. The Epson Stylus Pro 7880 sets new standards for your large format photographic and fine art printing and proofing. Printing up to A1+, it enables you to make a big impression with lasting results in monochrome and vibrant colour.

Unique Epson UltraChrome K3 Vivid Magenta ink offers the finest quality results. The 8-colour ink set includes three black inks with automatic switching photo and matte black cartridges. With three paper paths, it supports a wide range of roll and cut media, up to 1.5mm thick, for superb edge-to-edge photo quality prints.

Featuring permanent Micro Piezo print head, Variable-sized Droplet Technology and Epson's 3.5pl Ultra Micro Dot for superior detail. Superb reproduction is offered with perfectly neutral grey scale prints, very wide colour gamut and smooth tonal graduations. High capacity individual ink cartridges offer low cost per print and ensure a high level of productivity, with reliable overnight printing.

Highlights of the Epson Stylus Pro 7880 - 24" (A1+)

With a high brightness of 7,000 ANSI lumens, the CP-SX12000 is a high performance model that combines outstanding SXGA+ resolution with the wide array of Hitachi projector functions. Designed for simple installation and easy maintenance, this projector offers beautiful picture quality and Hitachi's industry-best reliability. The CP-SX12000 will provide large screen images for venues such as auditoriums and conventions halls, bringing Hitachi performance to a wide spectrum of possible new uses.

Autodesk Inventor Essentials

This course covers the fundamental principles of 3D parametric part design, assembly design, and creating production-ready part and assembly drawings using Autodesk Inventor. Delegates learn how to capture design intent by using the proper techniques and recommended workflows for creating intelligent 3D parametric parts; creating, placing, and constraining custom and standard components in an assembly; and simulating mechanisms, animating assembly designs, and checking for interferences. Delegates also learn how to document their designs using base, projected, section, detail, and isometric drawing views; document assemblies using standard and exploded drawing views; and follow drafting standards while dimensioning and annotating drawing views with automated balloons and parts lists. Hands-on exercises representing real-world, industry-specific design scenarios are included.

Course Duration: 4 days

Objectives

The primary objective of this course is to provide delegates with a thorough understanding of the principal 3D design, validation, and documentation processes that they will use to develop products using Autodesk Inventor. Upon completion of the course, delegates will be proficient in 3D part and assembly design, and in documenting those designs using part and assembly drawing creation and annotation techniques.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for new Autodesk Inventor users.

Prerequisites

No previous CAD experience is necessary. However, drafting, design, or mechanical engineering experience is a plus. It is essential that delegates have a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows 2000.

Course Outline

Getting Started

• Autodesk Inventor User Interface
• Online Help and Tutorials

Parametric Part Design and Basic Sketching

• Designing Parametric Parts
• Using Project Files for Part Design

Basic Sketching Techniques

• Creating 2D Sketches
• Geometric Constraints
• Dimensioning Sketches

Basic Shape Design

• Creating Basic Sketched Features
• Intermediate Sketching
• Editing Parametric Parts
• Creating Work Features
• Creating Basic Swept Shapes

Detailed Shape Design

• Creating Chamfers and Fillets
• Creating Holes and Threads
• Patterning and Mirroring Features
• Creating Thin-Walled Parts

Assembly Design Overview

• Designing Assemblies
• Using Project Files for Assembly Design

Placing, Creating, and Constraining Components

• Placing Existing Components in an Assembly
• Constraining Components
• Placing Standard Components Using the Content Centre
• Basic Part Design in an Assembly

Basic Assembly Tools

• Identifying Parts in an Assembly
• Analysis and Motion Tools
• Presenting Your Assembly

Basic View Creation

• Drawing Creation Environment
• Base and Projected Views
• Section Views
• Detail Views
• Managing Views

Dimensions, Annotations and Tables

• Automated Dimensioning Techniques
• Manual Dimensioning Techniques
• Annotating Holes and Threads
• Creating Centrelines, Symbols, and Leaders
• Creating Tables

Annotating Assembly Drawings

• Bill of Materials
• Creating and Customizing Parts Lists
• Creating Balloons

Drawing Standards and Resources

• Setting Drawing Standards
• Drawing Resources

The more delegates that take the course the lower price is

1st Delegate, £270.00 per day

2nd Delegate, £245.00 per day 3rd Delegate, £220.00 per day 4th Delegate, £195.00 per day

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The fi-5530C2 is a workgroup A3 capable scanner equipped with a 100-sheet capacity ADF that has a foldaway output tray, thereby keeping the footprint size to a minimum. The ADF is ideal for unattended scanning of multipage documents and batches and can scan any paper size from A8 to A3.

The fi-5530C2 offers high speed scanning at 35ppm simplex and 70ppm duplex (200dpi) in both color and mono. The duplex facility allows the contents of both sides of a document to be captured in one pass. High-speed color images at up to 600 dpi can be scanned using the built in JPEG compression.

Bundled with the scanner is Adobe Acrobat 8.0 allowing users to easily convert documents to PDF files, the de-facto standard for electronic distribution.

The scanner has both a SCSI-2 and USB 2 interface providing true plug and play flexibility and it can reliably detect double feed documents using its ultrasonic detectors. It also offers automatic de-skewing and auto-cropping.

Highlights of the Fujitsu FI-5530C2 A3 Colour Scanner

• A3 100 page ADF
• 35 ppm (A4) simplex
• 50 ppm (A4L) simplex
• 24 ppm (A3) simplex
• Advanced DTC mode
• Duplex
• Ultrasonic double feed detection
• SCSI & USB-2
• Auto de-skewing and auto-cropping
• Selectable black background
• Card scanning
• ScandAll Pro

The Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 1600 Series is a hardware-based Layer 3 Routing Switch that provides resiliency, performance and security for converged applications in a 1U high design. The Ethernet Routing Switch 1600 Series provides connections for gigabit Ethernet aggregation as well as 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connectivity.

The Toshiba TDP-EX20 with "extreme short projection" offers incredible power and flexibility from a lightweight projector. It projects text and images with an impressive 2,300 ANSI lumens, and a rich and vibrant DLP display. A full-featured performer, the projector offers password-protection, to prevent unauthorized usage and instant power shut down capability which allows the user to turn off and disconnect the projector from the power outlet instantly without any cool-down time required. The projector also offers an XGA 1024 x 768 native resolution, razor sharp contrast ratio of 2000:1 and "extreme short projection" capabilities that produce a 60-inch image from just three feet away. The TDP-EX20 produces superior image quality and versatile performance for presentations, video gaming, weekend sporting events and DVD movies in virtually any setting, including well-lit rooms, family rooms or larger settings from the boardroom to the lecture hall.

The new HP ProLiant DL380 G5 High Performance model includes the latest performance technologies and enterprise class availability features pre-installed for convenience and value.

The EF400mm f/4 DO IS USM is the world's first super telephoto lens incorporating the exclusive Canon-developed multi-layer diffractive optical element for camera lenses. The optical element, which incorporates light diffraction, is a major technological breakthrough, and it features an exceeding ability to correct chromatic and spherical aberrations and render high-quality images. By including this optical element in the lens design, the lens has achieved tremendous savings of 26% in overall length and 36% in weight compared to comparable lenses incorporating only conventional refractive optical elements. Moreover, the size and weight advantage comes at no cost to image quality, with the EF400mm f/4 DO IS USM delivering performance equivalent to conventional models in its class.

Cisco Systems is redefining best-in-class routing with a new line of integrated services routers that are optimized for the secure delivery of concurrent data, voice, and video services. Founded on 20 years of leadership and innovation, the modular Cisco 2800 integrated services routers ship with the industry's most comprehensive security services, intelligently embedding data, security, and voice into a single, resilient system for fast, scalable delivery of mission-critical business applications. The Cisco 2800 are ideal for small businesses and enterprise branch offices, delivering a rich, integrated solution for connecting remote offices, mobile users, and partner extranets or service provider-managed customer premises equipment (CPE).

A key component of the Cisco Self-Defending Network, Cisco integrated services routers allow customers to synchronize routing and security policies and reduce their operational costs while raising the level of security throughout the network. With Cisco IOS Software-based VPN, firewall, and IPS, as well as optional enhanced VPN acceleration, intrusion detection system (IDS), and content-engine network modules Cisco offers the industry's most robust and adaptable security solution for branch-office routers.

Cisco 2800 routers support a wide range of security features as part of the Cisco Self-Defending Network, a strategy to allow organizations to identify, prevent, and adapt to security threats.

This product is Cisco 2821 voice bundle with PVDM2-32 32-channel packet fax/voice DSP module, 64 MB Flash/256 MB DRAM, and Cisco IOS SP services.

The LaCie 4big Quadra is the most complete 4-bay RAID solution for professionals who demand exceptional performance from a storage device. Offering amazing bandwidth speeds through eSATA 3Gbits and FireWire 800, it also features FireWire 400 and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 ports for maximum compatibility with any Mac or PC. Featuring seven RAID modes to customize performance and data protection levels, the 4big Quadra fits most speed-demanding applications and backup needs for today's workstations and small servers.

Taking advantage of a native RAID controller that preserves computer resources, the 4big Quadra offers superior support for the most demanding applications. Alternative RAID modes - such as RAID 5 - can be configured in seconds on startup to manage speed, security, and available capacity.

With the capacity to store hours of A/V streams, the 4big Quadra has been developed to suit the demands of digital content creators, such as editors who work with Apple Final Cut Pro. When used in RAID 0 or RAID 5, the 4big Quadra supports multiple audio, DV, SD, and HD streams, and up to one stream of uncompressed 10-bit NTSC video in playback. Greater performance can even be achieved when connecting several units together to a multilane eSATA four-port host adapter, in order to support multi-stream uncompressed 10-bit 1080i HD post-production.

Configured in secured RAID mode, the 4big Quadra can archive and protect hundreds of thousand of raw photos with comfortable speed for imaging experts, such as Apple Aperture and Adobe Creative Suite specialists. This makes it a fantastic tool to produce and manage professional projects and artwork. The LaCie Shortcut Button on the front of the 4big makes it even easier to open or back up your favorite libraries with a push of a button.

Highlights of the LaCie 6TB 4big Quadra RAID USB/FW800/eSATA

• Speed and security for audio, video, and photo professionals
• Huge capacity for backing up all of your data
• Quadruple interface for universal connectivity
• Four hot-swappable, lockable disks for non-stop data access
• Ultra-quiet cooling system for greater reliability
• RAID power adds terabytes on your desk
• Designed to complement and enhance your working environment

A BladeSystem c7000 enclosure holds the server and/or storage blades plus redundant network and storage switches. It includes a shared, multi-terabit high-speed mid-plane for wire-once connectivity of server blades to network and shared storage. Power is delivered through a pooled power backplane that ensures the full capacity of the power supplies is available to all blades.

The HP ProLiant DL320s Storage Server is a high-density Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution that enables customers with small and medium office environments to consolidate multiple direct-attached storage (DAS) installations and management interfaces to a single centralized Windows-based file and print solution. While DAS can be fractured and difficult to track and maintain, NAS lowers your total cost of storage ownership since management and protection are performed from one interface in one location. It supports multiple file sharing protocols and Windows storage-specific tools that make file share maintenance both easy and powerful. And with optional Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, you can upgrade to host block-based storage for Exchange, SQL or other applications. The NAS solution not only aids in consolidation and cost reduction, but also helps you spend less time and effort deploying and managing file and print services.

The HP ProLiant DL380 delivers on its proven history of design excellence with enterprise-class uptime and manageability, proven 2-way Intel Xeon performance, and 2U density for a variety of rack deployments and applications.

Consolidation strategies for corporate applications in data center server farms with central deployment and control face a number of requirements. Even more important than the best performance per unit of height is ease of management for ongoing cost optimization and operational efficiency in the data center. And since the best things to manage are those that hardly ever fail. Therefore the Quad-Core Xeon RX200 with its integrated fail-safe standards provides you with enhanced quality of service for the management of your business applications.

Highlights of the Fujitsu Siemens RX200S4 Xeon DP E5405 2GB DVDRW

• High overall productivity
• Computing power on compact space
• Minimum management overhead for reliable operation
• Top-speed communications link via LAN as standard will assure continuity in failover mode

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended software delivers all the features in Photoshop CS4, plus new features for working with 3D imagery, motion-based content, and advanced image analysis.

Easily access every tool for nondestructive adjustment of color and tone. Quickly adjust specific image areas with easier access to all the tools for creating and editing nondestructive masks.

Now paint directly on 3D models; wrap 2D images around common 3D shapes; convert gradient maps to 3D objects; and add depth to pixel layers, text, 2D shapes, and DICOM frames with volume rendering.

Paint, add text, and clone over multiple frames of an imported video sequence with ease using single-key shortcuts.

Create or modify images with a wide assortment of professional, fully customizable drawing tools, paint settings, and artistic brushes. Simply drag to resize brushes and adjust for hardness as you paint and preview brush strokes.

Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.

Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.

Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point - with options to preserve tones and colors - into a single color-corrected image.

Extract quantitative information from images with powerful tools that calculate distance, perimeter, area, and other measurements. Record and export data for further quantitative analysis. Even set measurements to the scale in DICOM file headers.

Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.

Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.

Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details. Make precise adjustments with Brightness/Contrast and Curves controls, the histogram, color channel lines, and a clipping preview.

The family of HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drives is HP's premier line of backup devices. Based on the LTO Ultrium format, an open standard with a well-defined six-generation roadmap, HP Ultrium tape drives offer customers the best choice for investment protection. With ultimate reliability and ease of use in mind, even at 100% duty cycles, HP's rugged design builds on superior LTO technology and adds advanced features like hardware data encryption to create a new level of data protection. The tape drives employ dynamic data rate matching to adjust to the speed of the host, reducing wear and tear on both drive and media and increasing performance, even on slower hosts. HP's ultra-durable soft-load feature automatically positions the data cartridge, and the highly reliable HP leader-capture mechanism virtually eliminates lost leaders, increasing the success of your backup and restore operations. Support for HP One-Button Disaster Recovery provides the easiest way to restore data in the event of a disaster. The StorageWorks family of tape drives also features support for HP Library and Tape Tools, which provides a single application for drive management, diagnostics, and performance optimization. If data is critical to your business, protect it with an HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drive.

HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 Tape Drive sets new standards for capacity, performance and security. The Ultrium 1840 represents HP's fourth-generation of LTO tape drive technology capable of storing up to 1.6TB per cartridge while providing hardware-based data encryption to enable greater levels of security and unprecedented performance. AES 256-bit hardware data encryption provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. By using Ultrium 1840 hardware data encryption, not only is data fully capable of being compressed therefore maximizing capacity, encrypted backups are completed without a loss in performance. Capable of data transfer rates up to 240MB/sec, HP's exclusive Data Rate Matching feature further optimizes performance by matching speed of host to keep drives streaming and enabling the fastest performance of any tape drive in the industry. The Ultrium 1840 provides investment protection with full read and write support with LTO-3 media, and the ability to read LTO-2 cartridge. By doubling the capacity of previous generation Ultrium drives, HP customers now require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing their IT costs and increasing their ROI.

SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft's Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time. It enables you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents, such as images and music, directly within the database. SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze. Your data can be stored and accessed in your largest servers within the data center all the way down to desktops and mobile devices, enabling you to have control over your data no matter where it is stored.

SQL Server 2008 enables you to consume your data within custom applications developed using Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio and within your service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process through Microsoft BizTalk Server while information workers can access data directly in the tools they use every day. SQL Server 2008 delivers a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs.

Building on a tradition of excellence, the HP ProLiant family introduces the fifth generation HP ProLiant ML350 server. The HP ProLiant ML350 G5 server provides Dual-Core performance, enterprise level management, and highly available redundant options in a modular server form factor.

Maximize workgroup productivity and increase efficiency at a breakthrough price/performance combination with the HP Color LaserJet CM4730 multifunction printer (MFP) series. Featuring an integrated design that includes the award-winning HP EasySelect control panel, the HP Color LaserJet CM4730 MFP series provides a complete office solution with print, copy, scan-to-location, analog fax and document finishing capabilities in one easy-to-use device. With HP ColorSphere toner, produce professional results - and brilliant color - with every print. Built on the same award-winning platform as the HP Color LaserJet 4730 MFP, the HP Color LaserJet CM4730 MFP is the ideal workgroupclass MFP for enterprises, public sector and medium-sized businesses.

Intel Xeon processors give your enterprise the power to evolve in manageable ways. Now with dual-core technology, servers based on Intel Xeon processors provide the built-in standards, stability, and scalability your infrastructure needs to move your business forward.

Intel Dual-Core Xeon processors help protect investment in existing applications and infrastructure through increased performance headroom and scalability to the most widely deployed 64-bit server platforms.