How NASA Runs Microsoft Outlook From Space — and Why It Works
When the Space Shuttle Atlantis orbits Earth, its crew checks email using something you probably have on your own desk right now: Microsoft Outlook. NASA runs a stripped-down version of Outlook 2003 on standard laptops in orbit, powered by Exchange Server, but with a twist that no office on Earth would recognize. Instead of a […]
Clever Outlook Contacts on Kindle
Our popular Outlook guide is now available for Kindle device and Windows software. We’re delighted to announce the release of our Clever Outlook Contacts book on Amazon for worldwide distribution on your PC or Kindle device. It’s the same ebook as we’ve sold to thousands of people over the years, complete with full color images […]
Outlook support spam
A ‘support’ message you should definitely ignore. Going the rounds at the moment is a fake support message with an infected attachment. The only thing you should do with such a message is DELETE IT since Outlook’s own protection doesn’t catch it. Microsoft never distributes updates or patches via email and you should only download […]
Separate FROM addresses in Outlook
How Outlook manages different FROM addresses. John L has done a great job merging all his email accounts into a single Gmail storage but still has a problem: ” A puzzling Outlook-Gmail question: With the newly added SMTP functionality to Gmail, I can now use the Gmail website to consolidate all my accounts, so now […]
Outlook Notes sync to iTouch / iPhone now available
You can now sync your Outlook notes to iTouch or iPhone. You can now sync your Outlook notes to iTouch or iPhone Sometime recently Apple sneaked in the ability to synchronize your Outlook Notes folder with your iPod Touch (aka iTouch) or iPhone. When this happened we’re not entirely sure. Apple’s list of ‘What’s New’ in […]
iPod Nano’s alarm
The 5th Gen Nano has an alarm feature that’s useful for sleepy travellers. The new iPod Nano has an effective little alarm clock. In the iPod Nano 5th generation models is a little speaker, which means the Alarm feature will work even if you don’t have earphones or speakers plugged in. Go to Extras | […]
Outlook to iTunes problems
Linking your iPod to Outlook is possible but not always. One thing that Apple’s iPod range can do, at least in theory, is copy your latest Contact and Calendar information from Outlook to your portable device. This is a handy way to find a phone number or remember appointment details using the same source that […]
An email renovation project
How to renovate your email to make it better, faster and generally gorgeous. Following on from Ray’s message about sharing an email account, we have some suggestions for a better way to share email and generally renovate your all important email access. Ray has found a system that works for him and it’s typical of […]
Sharing email accounts in Outlook
One readers solution to sharing email accounts across several copies of Outlook. Office Watch reader, Ray T tells us how he manages to run Outlook on several computers working from the same email account plus some problems in doing that. This is the first part, in a follow up article we have some suggestions on […]
Gmail ‘fails’ again – but not if you’re prepared
How to get your Gmail even when it’s down. The headlines were ominous – Google’s Gmail service has crashed leaving people without their email. But it wasn’t a problem for anyone who was prepared for an outage. While it’s true that Gmail had problems last week, but not everyone was affected, a point that most […]
IMAP in Outlook – extra notes
Sundry notes to round out our coverage of IMAP in Outlook. Flags With Outlook you can only set flags on IMAP messages that are in the Inbox or any other folder but you cannot send or receive messages which are flagged. The Quick click flag option where you can customize the date for the flag […]
Gmail stars and Outlook
Working with Gmail ‘starred’ messages in Outlook If you have used Gmail then you must be aware of the “Starred folder” (shown within the red circle in the below screenshot). In Gmail Stars are meant to give messages a special status to make them find easier when you search for particular mails. In Outlook instead […]
Fix IMAP message downloading in Outlook
Speeding up the message sync between Outlook and your email host. Outlook’s default action for IMAP accounts is to download the message header only; you have to mark the message for full download. That was probably a good idea when dial-up modems ruled the earth but is more of a nuisance now. Most people will […]
Using IMAP with other accounts in Outlook
Tricks for handling more than one email account in Outlook It’s NOT a good idea to have both POP and IMAP connections running to the same email host. That’s because the POP connection will usually delete messages on the host when they are moved to Outlook, once deleted they’ll be removed from any IMAP replicated […]
IMAP Subscribed Folders in Outlook
With IMAP you can choose which folders on the email host to copy to Outlook. With IMAP you can choose which folders on the email host to copy to a local device. With Outlook you’ll probably want to replicate all folders so you can view anything you need when offline. It also makes backups more […]
Activating IMAP in Gmail
How to turn on IMAP on Google’s Gmail service. In order to make your email host connect with IMAP it may need to be configured in the host settings. This isn’t always necessary, in fact usually IMAP is turned on at the email host already. However Gmail requires you to turn on IMAP (or POP) […]
