The majority of users today hop online primarily to visit social networks and stay connected with friends and family. As such, developers are gearing more and more towards stitching together all of those social media experiences into the clients and applications we use most. Microsoft is no different. The Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta saw the [...]
I used to have this really cushy job as the CTO of a hipster Web 2.0 social sustainable eco-fashion startup in Portland. One fateful day it suddenly became a lot less comfortable after one simple mistake with the Reply All button in Outlook. But, thanks to a new Outlook plugin, Reply All mistakes are truly [...]
“Join Scruff as he fights Spam and…” err wait a second, the real story today involves Microsoft! Ok.. OH YEAH! Just a few days ago Microsoft released their new Junk E-mail Reporting Add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 32-bit and 64-bit. That’s right, Microsoft is arming its Outlook users around the globe with [...]
Microsoft just released a new tool for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 that integrates their email clients with Bing to help plan your travel more efficiently. The Bing Travel Planner is currently in beta, but you can still download it and give it a try. You can pick it up from the Official Microsoft site [...]
The outlook To-Do bar is packed into Outlook as an outstanding time organization tool. Personally It keeps me from being late to meetings, finishing deadlines on time, and remembering that it’s time to buy new groceries. Like good assistant, it keeps track of every task that you ever put into it. But one of the [...]
In Outlook 2007 you can quickly and easily map out directions to your contacts address with just a click of a button. This can be pretty handy if you need to rush out and meet someone for a business call. I’ll keep this Outlook tutorial short and sweet since it really is as easy as [...]
Google keeps rolling out new applications and features, if combined with Outlook you have pretty much every tool you’ll need for keeping track of things. A great feature from Google is the Google Calendar, but a great feature from Outlook is also the calendar. Thanks to Google, we can combine the too and have everything [...]
Previously we covered how to use Gmail in Outlook via IMAP and today were going to review the process of configuring Outlook 2010 to download the entire email rather than just the Subject and header information. It’s actually an intricate process to force Outlook to download entire emails however once you know where to look, [...]
Have you ever received an email at work, but when you go to reply to it the “reply” is sent to someone else other than the person who sent the email? This happened to me recently. I replied to my managers email and it was sent to his administrative assistant instead. Turns out, this is [...]
When you use Outlook for several hours each day at work but prefer to use Google Reader over the Outlook RSS reader, I have the perfect tip for ya! I especially like this because I can keep all my feeds in 1 place for both home and work yet, I don’t need to have an [...]
With all the attention I’ve given Drop.IO in the past, it’s probably no surprise when I tell you I just love this service! Well, today I’m going to share one more reason why all you groovyReaders out there should also love this free online service, drop.io! Share Available for download now, Drop.io has built [...]
Every year when the calendar flips to January, I like to create a new Outlook PST file and move all my email into it. I then compress the new PST file and burn it to DVD for archival purposes. It’s probably a mental thing but I just really like starting the year off with a [...]
Sending someone a really large file (5 megs or larger) can really be a pain sometimes for both home and corporate users. Most email servers cap attachment size at 5 megs so that leaves the options fairly limited for the “non-techy”. And no… FTP is not an option for most as it’s both complex and [...]
When browsing through your Outlook emails, it’s easy to accidently open the wrong emails resulting them in being marked as read. By default Outlook will mark any email you open as read, even if its only open for a fraction of a second. Now, unless you’re the almighty master of speed reading, chances are you [...]
