Summer Fun!

The weather cooperated as Bryley’s summer outing on Sunset Lake in Ashburnham was sunny, warm, and dry. The menu included standard-issue, summer-cookout fare with hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers, salads, and desserts; plenty of desserts. Bryley also hosted SwiftecIT and other friends; daylight fishing and pontoon-boat rides (pictured) gave way to roasting marshmallows around the evening campfire.

Boating at the Bryley Summer Outing

We Have A Winner!

Congratulations to Geary at USI!  You’ve won the drawing for “Roy’s Almost 20th!”

For those who may have missed the news, Roy Pacitto, our Director of Sales, has been an employee at Bryley Systems for nearly 20 years!  Since we tend to get excited about this sort of thing, we decided to have a little celebration in honor of his many years of service, only to realize that Roy hadn’t actually finished his 20th year yet.  By this point, however, the drinks were already open, the cake was already out, and we were already assembled, so we decided to go ahead and celebrate Roy’s (almost) 20th anyway.

It was about this time that we made another realization.  Over the past (almost) 20 years, Roy has come to know a lot of people, and we wanted to get all of you in on the celebration as well.  As a result, we put together a little contest in which we hid an image of Roy’s (almost) 20th cake somewhere on our website, and those who found it were entered in a chance to win a $35.00 gift card.

To make a long story short, the contest is over and Geary is our lucky winner!  We hope that you will all join us in congratulating Geary and Roy in their respective achievements.

Roy Pacitto works almost 20 years at Bryley Systems

Bryley employees were recently celebrating Roy’s 20th anniversary when someone pointed out that it was a year early.  Since we already had a 20th-year cake, we ate it anyway.

Roy, a key member of the management team, started as service manager in 1995. He moved to the sales team in 1997; in the mid-2000s he became Director of Sales.  For his biography, visit https://www.bryley.com/about/management-team/.

Now that the cake is gone, we will continue the celebration by having a random drawing with a chance to win a $30 VISA gift-card.  To be entered into the drawing:

  • Find Roy with his 20th-year cake at Bryley.com.
  • Click on the photo and fill-out the drawing-submission form completely.

On August 12th, 2014, we will randomly select one winner from all of the entrants that complete and submit the form and will send that person a $30 VISA gift-card.

Note:  Bryley employees and their relations are excluded from this drawing.

 

Bryley Basics: More of Anna’s Windows 8 tips

Those of you running Windows 8 have probably experienced the new Photosapp, which opens the image in the full-screen, hiding everything else on the screen. It is really inconvenient for me, and I am guessing I am not the only one.  Here’s how to change from the default photo-views application in Windows 8, Photos, back to the Windows 7 version, Photo Viewer:

  1. Once in Desktop Mode go to the Windows Icon winIcon, right-click, and then select Search.
  1. A search bar will open; type Default Programs and then select.

 

  1. Select Set your default programs.

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  1. Select Windows Photo Viewer, select Set this program as default, and then click OK.

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You can use the same procedure to change other default programs.  If there is some type of Windows 8 default application that you are not happy with, this is the place to make those changes.

Gavin Livingstone interviewed by CEO-CFO Magazine

Gavin Livingstone, President at Bryley Systems, was interviewed by Lynne Fosse of CEO-CFO Magazine, which was published in the 4/28/2014 web-edition.

 

 

Jim Livingstone’s Retirement Party

Recently,  after 22 years of outstanding service, Jim Livingstone decided to retire from Bryley Systems, so we decided to throw him a surprise party.    We had such a good time that we wanted to share some of the footage from the party with all of you.

YouTube video