Outlook’s alternative to Gmail’s Priority Inbox
Some options for making a Gmail like ‘Priority Inbox’ in Outlook.Google’s Gmail service continues to innovate with the addition of a Priority Inbox feature. This feature (being gradually deployed to all Gmail users) puts ‘important’ emails into a special view above the standard Inbox. What is deemed ‘important’ changes over time as Gmail watches your […]
Frustration with Windows Mobile
Frustration at trying to link a Window Mobile device to a Windows computer Jo J. writes with frustration at trying to link a Window Mobile device to a Windows computer: “I go buy three products and I real love using office 2010, a breath of fresh air. But I cannot get it to work(sync) with […]
‘Summary of Payments’ infected ‘Excel’ email
A new spam email, ignored by Outlook’s spam filter, is supposed to have a spreadsheet file for Excel. A new spam email is arriving in Inboxes, trying to trick Excel users into opening it. This email isn’t detected by the Outlook 2007/2010 spam filter (latest update and configured to ‘High’) so it sits in an […]
Travel time add-in for Outlook
Instyler’s Travel add-in for Outlook lets you block the travel time around an appointment in Outlook calendar. One long-standing problem with Outlook is the lack of a ‘travel time’ option. You can make an appointment but there’s no direct way to include the time it takes to get to and from the location. Instyler’s Travel […]
Outlook Social Connector configuration options
Some registry/policy options to control the Outlook Social Connector. Buried on the Microsoft Support site is KB2010103 “How to manage the Outlook Social Connector by using Group Policy” it provides some options for managing the OSC but mostly for network administrators. These options can apply to Outlook 2010 as well as Outlook 2007 and Outlook […]
New features for all Outlook 2007 & Outlook 2003 customers
How to get useful extras for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 without ‘social’ connections. Microsoft’s Outlook Social Connector adds useful features to Outlook, even if you have no interest in the links to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger etc. The social connector adds the Outlook 2010 People Pane to two earlier versions of Outlook. While we […]
Facebook for Outlook
See what Facebook friends are doing while using Outlook. Microsoft has released another ‘social connector’ that lets you see Facebook details inside Outlook. It is available for Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003. Simply download it from Microsoft and install. Outlook 2010 users should choose the 32-bit or 64-bit version depending on what you […]
Social connections for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007
Microsoft extends the social connections in Outlook 2010 to earlier versions of Outlook. Microsoft has released an add-in for Outlook 2007 and 2003 that lets you link to social networking sites like Facebook in a similar way to the People Pane in Outlook 2010. It’s not perfect but it’s a start. You can tell when […]
Windows Live ID confirmation – bogus!
A cleverly written phishing email looks like a request from Microsoft. On the back of many fake Amazon emails comes another message not caught by a fully updated Outlook Junk Email filter on the ‘High’ setting. Instead of being safely parked in the Junk E-mail folder, Outlook leaves the message in your Inbox. This one […]
Outlook 2010 64-bit and Windows Mobile – forget it
Microsoft leaves Outlook 2010 64-bit customers with no hope of Windows Mobile support. Sometimes you have to wonder how serious Microsoft is about their mobile product offerings. Sure they have all the marketing hoopla but the integration with Windows and Outlook is astonishingly poor – you’ve be forgiven for thinking they come from different, rival, […]
Put the World Cup calendar into Outlook
Looking for 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar calendar info? … click here Outlook’s Internet Calendar feature can be used to follow the round ball game or interesting things. I don’t know about you, but my football/soccer gene was removed at birth. The whole World Cup event is a mystery to me. But it is a […]
Fake emails missed by Outlook
There has been a rush of fake emails that are being missed by Outlook Junk email filters even in Outlook 2010 with the latest updates. All of the messages look very like real messages and appear to come from legitimate companies. Often the only way to quickly pick the fake is to look at the […]
Places to find missing emails
Emails can disappear in many different ways before they reach you. Michael writes: “You and others say to check your ‘Junk e-mail’ folder. … You should mention to check the ‘Junk e-mail’ folder on your ISP’s webmail and your local e-mail program in your articles. This is easy to overlook by someone who is not […]
Peek inside the PST
Microsoft releases programmer tools to look at the Outlook PST data file. Microsoft has released two tools for developers to read Outlook PST files without needing Outlook to run or even be present on that computer. PST Data Structure View The .pst Data Structure View Tool is program to browse the internal data structures of […]
Suggested Contacts in Outlook 2010
What the new Suggested Contacts folder does – and does not do. One of the new features introduced in MS Outlook 2010 is Suggested Contacts folder. It will appear in your folder list when you install Office 2010 with no immediate explanation of what it is or what it does. Once the email setting is […]
Delaying email in Outlook
How to write an email now and send it later. For many versions of Outlook you’ve been able to write an email now but delay sending it until a later time. Like many things with Outlook, there are several catches to the supposedly simple feature. Why delay sending a message? One example is a birthday […]
