The UsefulTechnology Blog : Blogcasts

The End: this blog leaps over to Windows Live Spaces

Allister_Frost — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:00:00 GMT

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.

Thanks for being with me on TechNet. See you on the other side.

My Blogcasts on Soapbox

Allister_Frost — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:36:00 GMT

I've been playing with the new Soapbox on MSN Video service. It's pretty cool. I never really got into YouTube but I can see how useful it will be to be able to restrict access to my videos on Soapbox based on my existing Windows Live Messenger contact lists. I've uploaded 5 of my Outlook 2003 blogcasts as a test. You can find them by searching on Soapbox for "UsefulTechnology". Or by clicking any of the links that follow:

I've also embedded a player for the first blogcast below to make life easy. Let me know what you think.

Video: Outlook 2003 General Tips

Figuring out what you've done and who you did it to in Outlook

Allister_Frost — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 05:45:00 GMT

So here I am at last. My very own Technet blog. Crumbs, what a responsibility.

My regular reader (thanks dad) will know that this is my new blog landing site. After exactly 444 thoroughly enjoyable days residing on TheSpoke, my chum Eileen Brown has finally managed to convince me to relocate to a different part of cyber town. The view from here looks kind of familiar but this Technet interface gives me even more buttons to play with. I wonder what that one does...

I've recently recorded a bunch of short blogcasts [Email], [Calendar 1], [Calendar 2], [Tasks 1], [Tasks 2] on Productivity Tips for Microsoft Outlook. That's my passion. Helping people get the most of out their technology. This will be the new home for those tips and tricks.

Let's start with a really easy but greatly under-utilised one:

Microsoft Outlook does a great job of linking pieces of information. Next time you're wondering when you next have a meeting appointment with a contact, just open that contact, click the Activities tab and change the Show drop down box to Upcoming Tasks/Appointments. In just a few seconds Outlook will report back all future Task and Appointment items which involve that contact. Check out the other options in the Show drop down box too. This is a great feature for tracking what you've done or are planning to do with a contact.

So now there's no excuse for those embarrassing phone calls that start "Hey, I haven't seen you since, er, when was it, ooh a long time ago..."