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Friday, May 02, 2008 5:58 PM

How To: Fix Outlook Data Corruption

So I had a weird morning today. My computer woke up from sleep a little grumpy, definitely not the typical experience which is usually smooth as a baby’s bottom. Anyway, I fire up outlook and I’m greeted with an error that says Outlook can’t launch because
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Monday, April 07, 2008 4:29 PM

Did You Know: You Can Tab “Backwards” with Shift+Tab?

This is a very useful tip that most people who use Windows don’t know about.  In fact this tip is also useful on other operating systems.  I’ve found in my travels that only the 733|- keyboard users out there regularly use this shortcut. 
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 6:05 PM

Create Hollywood Quality Music Videos Cheap

It's been a really hectic month for me this last March, hence the utter lack of regular blog posts. For this I apologize. Even though I'm was on vacation at my home in Dallas, Texas, I wanted to let everyone know about a really cool site called Animoto
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 7:24 PM

How To: Create a Vista SP1 Image Using ImageX.exe and WIM Files

My colleague James O'Neill has a really simple step by step blog post on how to use the new deployment tools that come with Vista to create an SP1 Vista image.  He makes it sound so easy!  * it actually is*  The coolest part of the entire
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:29 PM

How To: Use Google Calendar With Outlook

Before joining the workforce, I never ever used calendaring software.  I didn't have a smartphone, and PDAs without internet access were a horrible value proposition for me.  I think life would have been a little different if I had Google Calendar
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Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:40 PM

Did You Know: Vista Also Has A 'Run' Command?

While I continue to write part 2 of " Death to the Start Menu ," I wanted to give a few more tips around Vista because with the holiday shopping season, I couldn't tell you how many corrections and demos I had to give around Vista.  I never
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Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:00 PM

Did You Know: Live Photo Gallery Does Panoramic Auto-Stitching?

My cousin decided to get a new place and needed to post pictures of their apartment on Craigslist.  I suggested they try panoramic pics of their place to show the size of the apartment.  Being a lazy person, he didn't care, so I did it for him,
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Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:38 PM

Christmas Webcasts: Clearing Your Inbox of Unread Junk - Step 2

This tip covers how to discover what is eating up all of your inbox quota/disk space via "folder size" window. Also the webcast will show you how to clean out hidden folders that may not show up in Outlook due to sync corruption. Finally, learn about
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:20 PM

Christmas Webcast Bugs

I just wanted everyone to know that I've recently become aware of some audio glitches in my first two Christmas webcasts and I am trying to debug/resolve them.  If you try to get through some of the glitches, it eventually disappears.  The message
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:03 PM

Christmas Webcasts: Clearing Your Inbox of Unread Junk - Step 1

We all do it. We all let email pile up in our inbox until we have unread emails in the triple digits. Whether it is Hotmail, GMail, or Outlook, it happens to the best of us. We are all in a continuous state of information overload cause us to ignore or
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 6:46 PM

Death to the Start Menu – Part I

So I have been playing around with Vista SP1 RC and so far it has been a much more enjoyable experience from a usability perspective. The number UAC prompts are down, network performance regarding file sharing is now what it should have been at release
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007 9:41 PM

Christmas Webcasts:Adding Content to Search Server

Here is the a quick blogcast showing how to index web sites, network file shares, Sharepoint sites, and Exchange Public Folders. This is very basic but will hopefully show you how easy the interface is. The parts will get increasingly complex in the coming
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007 7:50 PM

Christmas Webcasts: Working Across Different Timezones in Outlook

Merry Christamas! Here is a webcast tip that will quickly show you how you can add a second timezone view to your Outlook 'Day' calendar. Hope this tip helps you out.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:53 PM

HOW TO: Removing Hidden Data From Office Documents

Metadata is information within a document that provides indexing intelligence to other applications and subsystems. Metadata is what makes search engines and filters effective and almost every modern media file from a photo to an excel sheet has some.
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