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  • Free Outlook add-in PocketKnife Peek reveals hidden info

    Posted May 23, 2011 - 9:53 am

    Worried that dangers may be lurking in an HTML e-mail you've received in Microsoft Outlook? The free PocketKnife Peek lets you see that e-mail in plain text, without any potential HTML dangers such as malicious scripts. And you can use the program to examine other parts of the e-mail as well.
  • Outlook alternatives: Free open source applications

    Posted March 23, 2011 - 10:07 am

    For many, Microsoft Outlook reigns supreme when it comes to email, scheduling and contact management. However, Outlook can be a pricey way to accomplish mundane, but critical office tasks, and alternatives are available, all at a price anyone could love – free!
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    Take control of Outlook e-mail with NEO Pro

    Posted December 7, 2010 - 10:15 pm

    E-mail is supposed to increase our productivity, but all too often, managing e-mail becomes a job in itself. NEO Pro, now available in version 5, can help. This handy Outlook add-on cuts down on the time you spend dealing with your inbox, though it takes a bit of time to get fully up to speed with it yourself.
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    Review: Advanced Outlook Repair

    Posted December 2, 2010 - 10:48 pm

    With many business users reliant upon Outlook for all their e-mail, calendaring, and contact needs, it can be quite traumatic when Outlook's .pst file goes south. Outlook 2007 and 2010 are quite robust in this regard, but stuff happens. If hard drive sectors fail, Office's scanpst.exe may not be able to fix the file. Advanced Outlook Repair ($250, free feature-limited demo) professes to be able to recover more items from damaged .pst files than anyone--or your money back.
  • Fix iPhone Outlook Calendar Problems

    Posted September 15, 2010 - 8:54 pm

    Like many of you, I've had trouble syncing Outlook calendars and contacts with my iPhone. After more than a year of syncing without much trouble, it suddenly stopped working. I've spent a lot of frustrating time tweaking this and that and talking with Apple support, but to no avail.
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    Outlook Social Connector a worthwhile add-on

    Posted February 22, 2010 - 1:42 pm

    Microsoft's just-released beta of the Outlook Social Connector aims to solve a formidable problem: How to retain Outlook's centrality when social networking sites and services such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have become increasingly important. It largely succeeds.
  • How To Create a New Print Style for Outlook

    Posted January 26, 2010 - 1:55 pm

    This tip comes from Jen Darr of PC Helps Support and will make sure you know what you're getting when you hit Print inside Outlook. Jen offers great advice on how to create a new print style with a different page size for your Outlook printouts. While I discourage printing e-mail as a matter of course, many times you do need to print something, so you may as well create the output that works best for you.
  • Outlook tip: Stop fighting PST fires

    Posted November 11, 2009 - 9:35 am

    Do you struggle with PST files? You're not alone. Robert Sparnaaij, author of the popular HowTo-Outlook Web site calls managing PST files "true hell." You break roaming if you store them on local drives, but you shouldn't store them on network drives. Investing in a proper server-side archiving solution that allows you to disable the use of PST files will earn back the investment quite quickly.
  • Microsoft opens Outlook format, gives programs access to mail, calendar, contacts

    Posted October 26, 2009 - 9:36 pm

    Microsoft plans to make publicly available details of its .pst format so developers can get programmatic access to e-mail, calendar, contact and other data stored in on desktops.
  • 13 Productivity-boosting Outlook utilities

    Posted October 16, 2009 - 8:45 am

    Efficiently enter information into your Contact database and Calendar with Anagram. Plus utilities for updating your Facebook status, managing your Tweets, and detaching files with ease.
  • Phishing attacks with Zeus Trojan targeting Outlook Webmail shops

    Posted October 15, 2009 - 8:22 pm

    Targeted phishing attacks aimed at getting Outlook Web Access users within enterprise organizations to download a Trojan designed to steal financial and account information is spreading fast.
  • Add Social Media Contacts to Outlook

    Posted September 18, 2009 - 10:39 pm

    While I like Outlook, its old-school design can be a bit frustrating to me. Enter Xobni, an Outlook plug-in, which vastly extends the functionality of Outlook.
  • Google fixes search problem in Outlook sync tool for Apps

    Posted June 30, 2009 - 8:28 pm

    Google has fixed an issue with the Outlook synchronization tool it released recently for its Apps hosted communications and collaboration suite, Google said Tuesday.

  • Google warns of issues with its Outlook sync tool for Apps

    Posted June 17, 2009 - 8:26 pm

    After promising that people can use Outlook "seamlessly" with the Gmail component of its Apps suite, Google is toning down those expectations.
  • Google's Outlook interface a weak nod to corporate reality

    Posted June 11, 2009 - 3:55 pm

    While Google is in hot pursuit of an enterprise e-mail business, the announced support this week for Outlook as a client interface for Gmail does little to distinguish the vendor from other players chasing top-dog Microsoft.
  • Outlook tips - How to keep a tidy mailbox

    Posted May 4, 2009 - 5:24 pm

    By far, the most common Outlook question we get at my company is how to free the application from the shackles of a full mailbox. If it has reached its max size, the ability to send e-mails is the first to go. For any corporate worker, that’s akin to not having a computer at all.
  • Xobni Meets Facebook, Right Inside Outlook

    Posted April 28, 2009 - 5:13 pm

    Xobni, the company that's making it easier for users to integrate their lives with Microsoft Outlook, has just broadened its Facebook add-on to include live streaming buddy updates. Xobni users will be able to see their contacts' recent Facebook activity directly from their Outlook e-mail client.
  • Hate Microsoft Outlook Mail? Try Windows Live Mail instead.

    Posted March 9, 2009 - 4:01 am

    Although Microsoft Outlook is a great product in the enterprise where it's safely tethered to the ubiquitous Exchange Server, the product leaves a lot to be desired in the non-Exchange world. From PST corruption to outright weirdness, I don't want to spend more time managing my mail client than I spend managing my actual mail. In the hunt for a new client for home, I found and fell in love with Windows Live Mail.
  • How to Transfer Blackberry Contacts to an iPhone

    Posted February 3, 2009 - 10:36 pm

    Here's how to transfer contacts from a Blackberry to an iPhone.
  • Keep Outlook from triggering new mail alerts

    Posted December 30, 2008 - 11:36 am

    Here's how to turn off Outlook's email alerts for new messages. Plus, you can set up custom rules to generate alerts only when important people send messages.
  • Gartner tells us what’s wrong with this picture

    Posted October 14, 2008 - 9:36 am

    As if the current economic climate wasn’t bad enough, research firm Gartner is out with its Top Ten list of “most contentious IT issues for the next two years.” It should be required reading for every solutions provider.
  • ACT revamp focuses on Outlook integration

    Posted August 12, 2008 - 3:49 pm

    Sage Software Tuesday shipped the 11th edition of its customer contact management software, ACT, tightening the product's integration with Microsoft Outlook.
  • Customizing your default Outlook template

    Posted April 14, 2008 - 12:54 pm

    Outlook gurus at Microsoft offer steps to solve this problem - anytime you create a new message, the body of the message is centered instead of left-aligned.
  • Windows Tip: Creating template emails for Outlook 2007

    Posted March 31, 2008 - 11:50 am

    Here's how to create an email template in Outlook 2007 for emails that you commonly send out.
  • Windows Tip: Copying email messages using Outlook rules

    Posted March 6, 2008 - 9:23 pm

    I was messing around with my Outlook rules the other day and discovered something interesting, namely that if you don't watch what you're doing, you might end up with multiple copies of some of your emails! Here's a simple example of how this can happen...
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