Technology
How I Used Outlook 2010 Quick Steps to Eliminate Custom Macros
In 2008 I wrote a blog post entitled “Outlook Macro: Flag and Move Message to Follow-up Folder” which has become one of my more popular posts. Nearly two years later this method has, fortunately, become obsolete because of the additions in Quick Step features in Outlook 2010. As part of my Getting Things Gone process [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 Initial Impressions
Last week I finally decided to try Office 2010 and while this isn’t a complete review I thought I would provide my initial impressions. I installed the software on my primary computer with an expectation of seeing how difficult it would be to transition from Microsoft Office 2007 to Microsoft Office 2010—this is a working [...]
Customizing the Outlook Toolbar
Many people don’t realize they can change the standard toolbars in Microsoft Outlook, or other Microsoft Office products for that matter. After accidentally printing a sensitive e-mail by clicking on the “Print” button in Outlook I decided to reduce the risk by removing it from the toolbar since it is already in a convenient place [...]
E-Mail Managment Best Practices
Regular blog readers will notice that e-mail and task managment are a common theme this blog. As I catch up on my blog feeds this weekend I found a great post on the Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog entitled “Best Practices for Outlook 2007″ that reenforces many of the Getting Things Done concepts with tactical [...]
Unbuntu 9.10 Upgrade User Experience
A couple weeks ago I upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10. This was my third time using the automated upgrade available through the built in upgrade manager. As usual my experience was that Ubuntu made the upgrade simple and I only had one minor issue related to my sound device not working following [...]
Improve GMail Search Result by Mastering Advance Search
Like many on the Internet I have been a devote GMail user for a number of years and have grown to love the fact that it allows me to store gigabytes of e-mail on-line. Of course with this much content it becomes unwieldy to find just the right e-mail without mastering a couple of search [...]
How I Turned A Netbook into a Media Player for Less Than $60
A couple months ago I explained how I installed Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One, unfortunately following that post the screen got damaged so I hadn’t been using the system. Recently I was talking with a co-worker who wanted to use watch MLB.com on his television to catch his hometown team when they were not [...]
Migrating to a Netbook and Ubuntu 9.04
Last week my wife’s Acer Aspire One came back from repair and since we bought her a new laptop I inherited it for my one use. Since I have been tossing around the idea of finally migrating to Linux for personal use I took this opportunity to do so. I was pleasantly surprised with how [...]
Microsoft Released Office 2007 Service Pack 2 This Week
Microsoft released Office Service Pack 2 this week (download here) which provides some much needed performance improvements in Outlook, Excel charting, and interoperability. Among the most significant features users may find is the ability to save documents to PDF, XPS, and Open Document format without additional add-ons. While much of the world is running Office [...]
Using Twitter and Other Social Media Tools to Engage B2B Consumers
Image by lawtonchiles via Flickr I recently asked my Twitter community how to make the tool relevant in a business to business exchange since business purchasers don’t always have the same passion for your service as a consumer may. Among the great responses I received were a couple stand outs. First @MarkBonham pointed out that [...]
