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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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You Need to Get Out More

Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 5:22 PM by Allister_Frost
It's Friday. And Steve Clayton writes today about how his Out of Office message has taken on a personality all of its own. Mine has too. We all get so many "OOFs" that the very least you can do is inject a little life into your own message. In the spirit Read More...
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Still using paper and pen and Outlook??

Posted Monday, June 19, 2006 8:09 AM by Allister_Frost
I come across this so often when meeting with customers and friends. Some people continue to use both a paper-based personal information manager (or a 'little black book' as some like to call it) and Outlook even though this is clearly highly inefficient. Read More...
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Hallelujah! At last: an intelligent spell checker

Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:31 AM by Allister_Frost
Great news for fast-fingered slow-brained writers everywhere: the 2007 Microsoft Office System features a new contextual spelling feature that detects many of the glaring errors that traditional spell checkers miss. This could be the cure I've been looking Read More...
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The Power of Icons

Posted Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:07 AM by Allister_Frost
At a recent TechNet evening that I hosted with my pal Darren Strange one member of the audience pointed out the absurdity of Microsoft using a floppy disk as the icon for 'Save'. That got a big laugh and he's right; it is pretty daft that we still associate Read More...
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Exchange Tour Unplugged - starts next week

Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 1:41 PM by Allister_Frost
We're looking forward to hitting the road over the next few weeks to help some of the few remaining Exchange 5.5 organisations understand how best to upgrade their infrastructure to the Windows Server System 2003. Many of the events are now fully booked Read More...
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You know you're out of control when...

Posted Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:02 AM by Allister_Frost
...you discover a 'Tasks in Archive Folders' link suddenly appears because Outlook has auto-archived some of your tasks which are now more than 90 days overdue! Heck! I need longer days to stay on top of my ever-growing workload. Or perhaps a shorter Read More...
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Inbox/Outbox 2005 - London, UK

Posted Monday, June 20, 2005 6:25 AM by Allister_Frost
I'll be speaking at the Inbox/Outbox 2005 event this week (on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd June), delivering Microsoft's keynote presentation in the morning and talking to customers and partners on the Microsoft stand in the afternoon. If you're in Read More...
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The Monday before the first Wednesday of every month

Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 12:51 PM by Allister_Frost
Today I received a series of 12 new calendar appointments for 'the Monday before the first Wednesday of every month' from a colleague. It turns out they are just reminders to make sure I complete a task by a certain date. My first thought was "Whoah! Read More...
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