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The End: this blog leaps over to Windows Live Spaces

Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 8:00 AM by Allister_Frost
I've decided to move my blog to a new home on Windows Live Spaces. I hope you'll move with me. My new blog URL is http://usefultechnologyblog.spaces.live.com/ . To subscribe to the new RSS feed, simply click this link: http://usefultechnologyblog.spaces.live.com/feed.rss Read More...
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My Blogcasts on Soapbox

Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 3:36 PM by Allister_Frost
I've been playing with the new Soapbox on MSN Video service. It's pretty cool. I never really got into YouTube but I can see how useful it will be to be able to restrict access to my videos on Soapbox based on my existing Windows Live Messenger contact Read More...
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The Joy of Finding Big Things (in Outlook 2007)

Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 8:42 PM by Allister_Frost
My former boss, Bruce Lynn , asked me this weekend how he could locate all the large (>200kb) entries in his Outlook calendar so he could delete them to free up some space in his mailstore. He couldn't figure out how to do this but knew it must be Read More...
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Add some hyperlink action to your emails

Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 12:14 AM by Allister_Frost
Bloggers know how important it is to include relevant hyperlinks in their posts ;-) They can come in pretty handy in emails too. Instead of pasting a lengthy and ugly URL into an email you can add a hyperlink to any part of your email text. So, instead Read More...
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From Zero to Hero with Outlook

Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:30 AM by Allister_Frost
I have my annual performance review in half an hour. This reminds me of a great little non-technical tip that may help you get even more value out of Microsoft Outlook. Every time you receive an email thanking or praising you for some work that you have Read More...
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Known Issues in Outlook 2007 Beta 2

Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:01 AM by Allister_Frost
Slipstick features a comprehensive article detailing the latest known issues that people encounter while testing Outlook 2007 Beta 2. The most common problems I hear about are caused by incompatible add-ins which can be disabled in the new Tools > Read More...
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The Mysterious World of Extend Mode in Word and Outlook

Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 2:11 PM by Allister_Frost
The Extend Mode in Microsoft Word is an artefact of the early computing era before the mouse was invented (and the natural evolution of that gunky stuff that builds up on your mouse's bottom ). Few computer users make use of this feature today because Read More...
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Changing Meeting Attendees' Type

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:15 AM by Allister_Frost
That is, without doubt, the most boring and uninspiring title that I've ever come up with for a blog entry. Sorry. I just couldn't think of a better way of describing this fairly ordinary, but still rather useful, tip. As you may know, when inviting people Read More...
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Publishing Your Calendar for the World to See

Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:03 AM by Allister_Frost
Earlier this week I blogged about Outlook 2007's new 'Send a Calendar via Email' feature. An even more powerful calendar feature allows you to Publish your Calendar to the Microsoft Office Online Beta* service. After you first use this feature Outlook Read More...
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The Best Microsoft Outlook Tip in the World... ever!

Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 1:00 PM by Allister_Frost
In this, my final posting as Exchange/Outlook Product Manager for the UK, I would like to share with you the most powerful productivity tool in Outlook: the delete key . I'll also share a simple workflow you can use right away to help maintain an empty Read More...
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New job? Start afresh!

Posted Friday, June 23, 2006 10:11 AM by Allister_Frost
I'm moving to a new role at Microsoft on Monday. Which, of course, means new things to learn, new tasks to work on and new people to get to know. Because I'll no longer need to email many of my existing contacts, now is a great time to spring clean my Read More...
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Do you often send the same emails?

Posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:10 PM by Allister_Frost
If you routinely send similar emails to the same people (like a sales report every morning) you can speed up the process by adding a button to one of your toolbars that creates a new email message and pre-populates the address field and subject line. Read More...
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Getting Outlook help from Newsgroups

Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:50 AM by Allister_Frost
While Outlook 2007 will provide some fantastic new features that enable you to view RSS feeds directly inside Outlook, Outlook 2003 provides no such capability without an additional add-on like the free RSS Popper . Another source of great information Read More...
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Sample Add-Ins for Outlook 2007 Beta 2

Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:11 PM by Allister_Frost
There are some nice new sample add-ins for Outlook 2007 Beta 2 from MSDN at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ms778811(office.12).aspx which demonstrate the additional power available to developers in the new product. If you're running the Beta 2 version Read More...
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Adding contact pictures to Outlook

Posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:22 AM by Allister_Frost
Anyone with a Windows Mobile 5 device (SmartPhone or PDA) will have seen how incredibly useful Contact pictures become. Each time you receive an email from someone on your contact list for whom you have a contact picture, a thumbnail of their photo will Read More...
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