Read Jeb Bush’s emails in Outlook
The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting has released the emails of Governor Jeb Bush during his tenure as Florida’s governor. That’s of interest to us since the information is available in its original Outlook data file form. Before anyone gets angry with us … we are not making any political comment here nor any statement […]
FedEx email that isn’t
A friend is expecting a parcel via Fedex and got the email shown below, so they wondered if it was really from the courier company or not. This particular email got past both the Gmail and Outlook spam filters. We thought it was a good example to use of the tell-tale signs to look for […]
New Outlook for Mac
Microsoft has released a new version of Outlook for Macintosh computers with new features but it’s not available to everyone. This Outlook is separate from Outlook 2011 that comes with Office 2011 for Mac. It’s called Outlook for Mac version 15 and is only available to Office 365 subscription/rental customers. Office 365 Personal, Home, University […]
More Outlook Category tips
These days, Outlook Categories are saved within the PST data file. If you move the PST to a new computer, the categories will move too. Exchange Server saves categories with each user mailbox and they show up automatically when you login (even with Outlook Web Access). Backup and Restore Even so, there’s occasions when it’s […]
Compare your SSD with an endurance test
Is your solid state drive getting near the end of its life? Here’s how to find out. Solid State Drives (SSD’s) are a great option for anyone looking to speed up the computer, especially Outlook. Starting up Windows and major programs like Outlook is noticeably faster. Either get an SSD with a new computer or […]
Outlook annoyance with Exchange Server
More than a few Outlook users have seen this error message “The Microsoft Exchange administrator has made a change that requires you quit and restart Outlook” Problem is, the Microsoft message is lying! All too often Outlook users restart Outlook, even restart the computer, but the same message keeps appearing. Grrrrrr. Happily you can click […]
Creative Outlook alarms
The famous American ‘Can Do’ spirit takes on a new meaning at Detroit Fire Stations. Callouts to emergencies are sent to the fire stations by fax … yes, you read that right … fax. And it gets worse … When the fax arrives, paper comes out of the printer, hits a soda can with metal […]
Where is Microsoft on email encryption?
Microsoft needs to play ‘catch up’ with email encryption. Yahoo is going to join Google is supporting not just email encryption but the same type of email encryption. Sadly we’ll have to wait until sometime in 2015 for Yahoo to release their version of OpenPGP. That’s good news … but where is Microsoft? For all […]
More characters for Unicode
Unicode adds more characters to an already large list. Unicode has added another 2,834 new characters in the Unicode 7.0 specification, mostly support for 23 new scripts. That takes the total to a whopping 113,021 characters! But we’ll have to wait for these new characters to appear automatically in Office, Windows and mobile devices. The […]
More Microsoft encryption promises
Do the latest Microsoft data encryption promises mean much? Microsoft has announced more encryption services for customers but it’s more ‘papering over the cracks’ than a real effort to protect customer’s data. Microsoft has made some vague changes to protect the transmission of your emails and documents, but nothing to protect that information on their […]
Touch features in Office 2013
Office 2013 has some clever tricks when you touch the screen. Tony G writes: ” … there are some subtle features in Office 2013. I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 and I have observed that the right click menus and some other features are different when called up by the touch screen and using the […]
Office 365 outage mystery
Email services for Office 365 and Exchange Online should now be resumed but Microsoft handled it really badly. In Microsoft’s world, damage to sales is far worse than any failure to meet customers service needs. So on that score, Microsoft has done well for itself in the last day or so. They had a major […]
World Cup scores in Outlook
You can get match results automatically in Outlook Once great thing about Outlook’s Internet Calendar feature is that it can be updated automatically. The 2014 World Cup (football/soccer) is a good example. As we’ve already explained, you can make a separate Outlook calendar with the match schedule for your time zone then overlay that with […]
Get the World Cup into Outlook
How to get the World Cup schedule into Outlook automatically. The football/soccer World Cup is about to start with 64 matches being played over the next month. Here’s how to get a reliable schedule into your Outlook calendar quickly and easily. Outlook lets you import an Internet feed of calendar items. This is better than […]
Better email encryption for Outlook
Gpg4Win is one way to improve and expand Outlook’s poor encryption support. Google’s End-to-End got us thinking about how to improve Outlooks lame email encryption and make it ready for End-to-End. The End-To-End addin uses OpenPGP, an email encryption system not directly supported by Outlook but you can do it via Gpg4Win. Gpg4Win is a […]
Google’s secure email system coming soon
Google’s End-to-End secure email tool is a great idea – will it force Microsoft to improve Outlook? Google has announced an upcoming tool ‘End to End‘ which promises a way to send and receive encrypted emails from within a Chrome browser using web-based email systems (apparently not just Gmail). That is a great move which […]
