Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
Isn’t Santa a nice guy. For no other reason that I had been ‘good’ all year, he brought me a shiny new black Creative Zen Vision:M 30GB. Thank You !! So far I have loaded it up with : 200 CD’s of music Just shy of 3000 photos Star Wars…
With the move to Office 2007, I am relearning a lot of the UI – where things are etc. which is a real pain – not that I’m against change, just that it’s lowering my productivity whilst I push all the Office 2007 into my head and let the Office…
I was really excited by the Blogging feature Word 2007 – It looked really good, easy to use and some of the formats you can do to a picture are pretty cool. As soon as I found it I tried to set it up with this dasBlog account – Word 2007 is…
Having just blogged about my filing system for email, I’m considering changing it completely. I have spent a few minutes ‘playing’ with Outlook 2007’s Instant Search feature – it rocks !! The technical bit are that you must have some of the Windows Search modules installed (this comes as standard…
I always try to keep my Inbox at a manageable level (for me that is less than 50 items). Everything that I have dealt with (or I need for reference) I file in a specific reference folder ASIDE: I know Getting Things Done, GTD, advocates just deleting it but I’m…
OK I know that Powershell V1.0 is not supported on Vista (yet) and that Powershell RC2 is only supported for Vista RC1 – at least that’s what it looks like from the Powershell Website. I thought I’d give installing Powershell R2 a bash just to see how far I’d get…
I’m not 100% sure about this but, from this status bar text, captured whilst Word 2007 was opening (slowly) it looks as though it is trying to check / connect to a printer when the application opens. Not what I want when I’m working in a remote office and…
I’ve had Vista Ultimate on my Acer TravelMate 3012 laptop for about a week now. The experience is OK, but I’m not wowed. I’m not really getting any benefits from Vista :- I had to turn off User Account Control (UAC) as it was just too annoying. My built in…
Windows Live Writer is currently being a real pain for me. I have my ‘My Documents’ redirected to a network drive in our UK office (where I usually work), but I am currently in our Westboro, MA office so my ‘My Documents’ is now effectively on the end of an…
I am/was a big fan of RSS Popper – when using Outlook 2003 it allowed me to pull blog posts into a selected folder in my mailbox (I used cached mode, so it was also available offline). It is currently at version 0.36 and has support for downloading enclosures (great for…