Okay, so I like the new Gmail design – cleaner and more whitespace – just looks much more modern that the existing one. But it’s still bloody annoying ! The thing is, I hate having to go across to the little ‘back arrow’ reply icon, click the dropdown next to it, just to get to [...]
Archive for the ‘Outlook’ Category
Exchange 2010 Store Compression
August 14th, 2009
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One of the things I (for I read we) have been working on recently (at my day job) is looking at the ‘Store Compression’ feature in Exchange 2010. Store Compression is a new feature in Exchange 2010 whereby some of the content of an email object is compressed as it is inserted into the Exchange [...]
Subclassing Windows in C#
January 16th, 2009
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I’ve been toying around with creating an Outlook addin recently that adds a new panel to the main Outlook inspector window. Actually it is going to be a ‘folding’ or ‘collapsing’ windows similar to the docked ToolWindows in Visual Studio. Anyway, the stuff around getting the correct window handle for the Outlook inspector window [...]
SMS Gateway follow up
January 9th, 2009
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I’ve had a lot of interest in my SMS Gateway app since this post. SMS gateway consist of two components : SMS Gateway AddinThis is an Outlook addin that adds a new toolbar to your Outlook instance. The toolbar allow the user to choose a mobile / cellphone number (from their contacts) and enter a [...]
SMS Gateway using WM6 and ActiveSync
October 2nd, 2008
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Recently I have wanted to be able to send SMS messages to my contacts without having to pick up my phone and mess around with the mini keyboard (I wanted to do it directly from PC, but have the message still send by the phone… There are solutions around that allow you to send [...]
Outlook IMAP
June 25th, 2008
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Now that I have moved us over to Google Apps For Your Domain (GAFYD) completely, I have been fighting with Outlook to get a decent user / email experience. It just doesn’t seem to flow well – I got the SMTP/IMAP send/receive stuff all set up and working correctly, but it’s clunky. I have all [...]
Google mail IMAP not working on WM6
May 26th, 2008
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Just changed all my email / calendar stuff to Google Apps for Your Domain (GAYD). It was a breeze to do, took around an hour all in and now all email access is IMAP and Web. The reason I chose this setup was so that all email and calendar data is stored by google, which [...]
Outlook RSS and downloading podcasts
February 21st, 2007
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Today, I wanted to configure an Outlook 2007 rule to process RSS items as they are received. By process I mean I wanted to check for attachments/enclosures, if it had any MP3s attached/enclosed then save them to a folder on my desktop (that way I simply sync my Creative Zen Vision: M with the desktop [...]
Outlook RSS and why I deleted TechNet Radio
February 19th, 2007
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I have been using the new RSS feed feature in Outlook 2007 for some time now and absolutely love it – I’m in Outlook ALL day, it’s the centre of my communication universe and having it collate my RSS feeds just makes sense. I’m a regular listener to a few podcasts : Hanselminutes Dot Net [...]
A good week
February 1st, 2007
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This week (so far) has been good – in terms of completing things, productivity and new products. First off, Microsoft finally released PowerShell for Vista. No more having to ‘play’ on my old lab machine to get to grips with this stuff. There seem to be a number of people reporting failed installs(due to EFS [...]
