Aug 30, 2020 | Box, Dropbox, Microsoft, Office 365, OneDrive, search, Windows10
Windows Search has a problem with my OneDrive files. It can’t find them. It’s supposed to be able to find them. There’s a tempting new option in Windows Settings / Search that gives the impression that I’ll be able to search my OneDrive files just like I search files...
Jul 15, 2020 | Apple, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, updates, Windows10
If you’re an Outlook user, there’s a good chance that the program crashed when you tried to start it yesterday (Wednesday, July 15, 2020). Microsoft uses the word “Outlook” to describe many different things, so let’s be precise. This was...
Jun 25, 2020 | Dropbox, Google Drive, mail, Microsoft, Office 365, security
Be careful when you read your email! I’ve noticed an increase in phishing messages in the last few months. The bad guys continue to improve their grammar and the presentation of their fake messages, to make it more likely that you’ll be fooled into giving them a...
Jun 22, 2020 | Microsoft, Office, Office 365, software, web_services
How do you manage your household finances? Until a few years ago, there’s a good chance you used Quicken, the venerable Windows and Mac finance program. Quicken was released in 1983 for MS-DOS and Apple II, at the birth of personal computing. It started to...
May 31, 2020 | mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, Windows10
At some point, possibly during our lifetimes, the Outlook desktop program for Windows will begin syncing email signatures through the cloud from one computer to another. This will be a wonderful thing that will alleviate one small pain point in setting up new...
May 3, 2020 | mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Outlook, search, Windows10
If you use the Outlook desktop program for Windows, the search bar is going to change and move around and grow and grow and grow like a mutant chicken heart from an old horror movie. And just like the monster, you can’t stop it. (Cue spooky soundtrack music.)...
