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Our Complicated Relationship With Outlook
We have a complicated relationship with Microsoft Outlook, built on almost twenty-five years of daily togetherness. There are stretches where we work together happily but they're punctuated by frequent disagreements - shaking our fist at the computer, cursing when...
QUICK TO ANGER
Quicktime has been an annoying bit of software for ten years now. My experience tonight was the final straw. I've spent the better part of an hour cleaning it off my system and I...
SHUTDOWN MYSTERIES
I bet you don't know how to turn off your computer. Lots of people ask me why their computer doesn't turn off when they hit the power button on the front of the case after the...
BLACKBERRY MANIA
Blackberry smartphones are mindbogglingly popular. I'm being asked about them more often than iPhones. That shouldn't be a surprise - almost half the smartphones sold in the...
WINDOWS LIVE NAMING CONFUSION
Microsoft has done a terrible job of branding things in the last few years. "Microsoft Network" morphed into "MSN," which has at various times been a software package, a...
ACROBAT ONLINE
Adobe has launched an online suite of software and services, along with announcing the July release of Acrobat 9. It's all interesting but I have a sense of overload already, and...
Vista Feature: Explorer Favorites
When you open a file folder on your computer with Vista - Documents, say, or Computer - the left hand column displays a short list of "Favorite Links." That Favorites list is...
NOTEBOOK MARKET
The market for notebook computers is growing fast. Notebooks already outsell desktop computers in the US and will outsell desktops globally by next year, according to the New...
RIPPING DVDS
I've tried to figure out how video works on computers, really I have. Maybe you've tried Vista's Windows Movie Maker, or burned a DVD with Windows Photo Gallery, or found a way...
OUTLOOK 2007 TROUBLESHOOTING
Microsoft has a support document that was updated recently with helpful information to troubleshoot performance issues in Outlook 2007. For my clients Outlook 2007 has been...
IE HOME PAGE
The battle for your home page has been raging for years, and it shows no sign of dying down. The home page is the first page that's displayed when you open Internet Explorer. Big...
FIREFOX 3
Mozilla released the Firefox 3 Internet browser on Tuesday and is working on setting a Guinness record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. There are a lot of people who...
APPLE iPHONE UPGRADE
The upgraded iPhone has a tremendous list of features! I'm looking forward to the integration with Exchange Server, which ought to let my clients with Small Business Server have...
A TOOL FOR UPGRADE OVERLOAD
I wrote a few months ago about the difficulty of dealing with the endless flood of software updates that is slowly draining our will to live. Microsoft's system of delivering...
WINDOWS SEARCH 4.0 – FINAL
Microsoft released Windows Search 4.0 today in final form. It is a free upgrade to the search features built into Windows Vista. It adds indexed searching to Windows XP; this...
GETTING RID OF AN IE ANNOYANCE
When I'm online with Internet Explorer, I frequently see this warning before a page is displayed: Some security measures - like Vista's UAC - are momentary pauses for a second...