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Top 10 Windows Live features/mini-services that most people aren’t currently using but should be…
- Windows Live Mail desktop has a “View by Conversation” option that groups an email and its replies together, something which Gmail users love. You can try this out for yourself in the most recent Windows Live Mail desktop beta by selecting the following option: View – Current View – View by Conversation
- Live Feed Search is a great way to find blogs on niche topics, or if you want the majority of your search results to be from blogs. Power users will probably want to stick to Technorati however. Try it out at http://search.live.com/feeds. Read More»
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Everybody loves Gmail, but some people use a desktop client, especially in corporate environments where Outlook is king. Adding your Gmail account to Outlook 2007 couldn’t be easier.
First we need to make sure your gmail account is set up to enable POP (Post Office Protocol). In Gmail just go to mail settings and choose the Forwarding and POP tab. Click on one of the options to enable POP.
Now open up Outlook 2007 and go to Tools \ Account Settings… Read More»
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Some things in life should be free. Easy WiFi Radar helps you find and connect to open wireless access points with a single mouseclick. It’s WiFi for Dummies. And we’re giving it away.
If you have ever tried to use Windows XP’s built-in connection manager, you know what a hassle it can be to quickly check your mail or browse the web on the go. You need to browse through a list of access points, find one that you can connect to, manually try to connect to it, confirm the connection and then wait. Even if it says that’s it connected, often it doesn’t open a webpage or you mail will stall. Read More»
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Here’s another handy little facility you might not have come across in Windows Vista. If, like me, you get a fair number of Spam messages each day written in Chinese, Japanese, Latvian or even German, and you know they can’t possibly be from anyone that you know, then you can tell Vista’s email program Windows Mail Read More»
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I must admit that I have a MySpace profile. I use it to stay in touch with my friends and family and I heard something the other day about a MySpace tracking system. Do you know anything about that? If you have any information, please share it with us!
First, I want to say that I hope you’re enjoying your MySpace experience. I know there has been a lot of controversy in the past over this social networking Web site, but all in all, it is a really good way to stay in contact with old friends and relatives who may live far away, etc. Read More»
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Have you ever tried to copy something simple from a web page into Outlook or MS Word only to see it mess up your formatting? The Windows clipboard helps you by copying the formatting information from the website. Sometimes thats exactly what you want, but more often its incompatible with the formatting of the document or e-mail you are pasting it into. So how do you stop that helpfulness? You cant turn off the rich format feature, but there are ways around it. Here are two simple workarounds:
The First Way
Copy your text as you normally would. Then in your document select Edit | Paste Special You will get the following dialog box: Read More»
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Microsoft Corp. is taking tough measures to find out who leaked a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The Hotfix.net blog after the software preview was posted on the site by a user named “Richard” soon after it was released to a small group of testers.
In an e-mail to testers obtained by the IDG News Service, Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, wrote to Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) whose name contain “Richard” that they will not have access to the beta until he finds out who leaked the software to The Hotfix.net site. Read More»
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Office 2007’s ribbon might make life simpler for those who have never used a computer before, but this big-button approach leaves some more experienced users with a touch of agita. The UI makes some features less visible and functional than before (for example, Styles in Microsoft Word), puts others several clicks farther away (such as E-mail), and makes certain features hard to use simultaneously even though they’re likely to be used together (such as Formatting and Reviewing).
Fortunately, the Quick Access Toolbar is insanely easy to customize. It starts with a click on the Down arrow at the right end of the Quick Access Toolbar itself. Read More»
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Microsoft said Sunday night that it is planning to make available this week a patch for a Windows flaw that has already been used in an attack.
Microsoft issued an advisory on the animated cursor flaw on Thursday. By Friday, malicious code was circulating that took advantage of the hole.
In an e-mail, Microsoft said it had originally planned to patch the flaw on April 10 as part of its regular Read More»
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Regular readers will know I’m a big fan of MailWasher, which does a bang-up job of filtering the hundreds of Spam messages I receive every day, but here’s a lightweight alternative, called POP3 Preview, a simple little freeware application that lets you examine the contents of you mailbox, and delete the rubbish, before you download anything onto your PC. It’s incredibly easy to configure and use, just create an account – you’ll need your username, password and POP3 Server address, and it’s good to go. Read More»
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