In our recent article – USB charging – check the adapter AND the cable we tested some USB cables to see how much power they supplied from the same AC adapter. The results showed that a poor quality cable would only transmit a fraction of the available power and that
We’ve been digging and found something interesting – when charging a device from a USB socket, the CABLE can make a big difference to charging speed. I’ve been having trouble with slow charging of my phone … sometimes the charge can only keep up with use and there’s little improvement
Office Watch dug into Outlook after yesterday’s story about passport details of the G20 Leaders being leaked accidentally. It’s quite possible that there’s a copy of the G20 leaders passport info still on a computer in the Asian Cup Local Organising Committee’s offices, based on the information provided in the
An amazing story of failed email security in the UK, not sure if it’s funny or tragic. We are sure it’s another example of failed email security and how Microsoft, among many, could prevent it. A prisoner managed to get a smartphone into his cell. He then created a fake
Recently we mentioned a report about consistent failures of Windows Indexing that was finally solved by disabling Hyper-V. We’re now confident that there’s a conflict, because we’ve had two more reports from readers of the same problem and solution. ” Thanks for the coverage of Windows indexing problems. I spent
Yet one more for the list of things you’d never thought you’d see from Microsoft. They now have a deal with major Android phone and tablet makers to include Office software in some of their products. That’s right, Microsoft is paying companies to put their software on non-Windows devices. At
After a preview period, Microsoft Delve has gone public for Office 365 Business users. More links into Delve have also been announced. Delve is a new form of search tool which bring in relevant data from a selection of sources. Some are private like a Sharepoint site, corporate address book
More than a few people have problems with the Outlook ‘instant’ search feature. It’s great when it works but too often you get the dreaded “Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed”. Sometimes all you need to do is wait until indexing is complete. Depending on
According to a report at CNN Money … Microsoft has bought both Office.porn and Office.adult ! It’s not likely they’ll be used. Microsoft is probably preempting any attempt to hijack those names when .porn and .adult Top Level Domains go online from 1 June 2015. They aren’t the only brand
If you have an unbound form, and need a quick and convenient way to write values from its controls to the appropriate fields, instead of listing every field by name, you can use this procedure, based on the assumption that each control that contains a value to be written to
Here is a procedure that will close all open Outlook email messages without saving – very handy if you have just created hundreds of emails testing email creation with the Emailing Order Lists to Customers database: Public Function CloseAllEmailMessages() On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Dim appOutlook As Outlook.Application
With the March 2015 Preview of Office 2016 comes more news of upcoming features. Some are interesting while others are in the ‘what took you so long’ category or even the ‘you mean it didn’t already do that?’ department. This isn’t a full list, it’s just what Microsoft is disclosing
If you have an Office 365 ProPlus, Business Premium or Enterprise E3 licence (that means business users) you can now try out an early version of Office 2016 for Windows. It’s officially called the “Office 2016 IT Pro and Developer Preview”. You can go to Microsoft Connect for details and
It might seem strange for a long-standing Microsoft Office web site to say, but we’re not OneNote’s biggest fan. We liked version 1 a lot, the development team was very enthusiastic and responsive. But OneNote suffers from offering too much and being originally designed for the desktop. Containers can get
There’s plenty of other OneNote tricks hiding away. Make tables by typing Press Tab to start a table. Each tab key makes a new cell, press Enter to start a new row. Calculator Type a formula then the equals sign and a space, the result is automatically inserted. This only
You can select almost anything in Windows to paste into OneNote or paste a link to the original content. Clipper You can select web page content, copy then paste it into OneNote. If you do that, OneNote will automatically add a link to the original page. Or install the OneNote
OneNote has been around since 2003 and is available to many Office users as part of their Office suite or subscription. Why not try OneNote, it’s worth a look since it can be very useful. What is OneNote We’ll skip past the Microsoft hype and tell you that OneNote is
Microsoft has released v2 of the OneNote Clipper, a browser add-in to copy content from a web page to OneNote. It has some nice new features but still has a fundamental flaw or at least a strange behavior. New in version 2 There’s a different interface with more options. The
If you think that civilization is coming to an end, here’s confirmation. There’s now a book of Word porn, strictly speaking Clippy Porn. Now available on Kindle is Conquered by Clippy: An Erotic Short Story It’s a 4,000 word short story featuring a giant living paperclip. As the blurb explains
There was not surprising news this week that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and contractors are hard at work trying to hack into iPhones and iPads. What didn’t get as much attention was the same hackers at work on Windows. It’s no surprise that security agencies are working on
Microsoft has released their April pile of fixes for the never-ending list of security holes in their products, mostly Windows and Office. Some are interesting, but not for good reasons. Thought: with all the hype and promises for Windows 10, there’s no mention of improved security. It would be nice
Managing your Deleted Items folder You might think that when you delete something in Outlook, it’s gone. Nope, Outlook has a safety net, just like Windows does for files. In fact Outlook can have multiple safety nets to let you recover accidentally deleted files. That’s a good thing because sometimes
The big political story in the USA is that Hilary Clinton used a private email service while Secretary of State instead of the State Departments own email system. We don’t care much about politics, as Office geeks we’re interested in what Hilary Clinton’s staff used for her email hosting. She
Press Release: 4 March 2015 VoIPstudio is releasing a Softphone that integrates with Microsoft’s Outlook email client. This new service can be used as a direct replacement for Microsoft’s Lync client and allows users to integrate contacts and make calls straight from the Outlook interface. Due to the high demand
