Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
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…
One of the first apps I loaded onto my laptop (after paving it and installing Vista Ultimate) was Windows Live Writer (which I’m using to compose this post – on a plane at 38,000 ft on my way to Boston). So it all installed OK, I ran it and it launches…
I’m very impressed with the improvements in Outlook 2007. The ToDo bar is proving a real godsend – it can (optionally) display a calendar (one or more months), appointments (fill the remaining space in the ToDo Bar or a only a fixed number of appointments, and Tasks. Left is a…
Last weekend I upgraded my work laptop to Windows Vista (Ultimate edition) and Office 2007 Professional (I believe these are actually released ‘officially’ to business customers tomorrow (30th Nov), but I got the RTM copy fro MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Anyway, the Vista install went very well – nice and easy,…