An interactive version of the famous album cover lets you discover more about the famous faces. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has a nifty feature on the famous Beatles album cover for Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart’s Club Band. Go here and move your mouse over the cover. A tooltip will
A reader is having a problem with some sluggish machines running Outlook – we suggest some possible cures. Al C. writes with a question about Outlook, he gave some details and had covered some obvious bases (virus infection, checked the Microsoft Knowledge Base), in summary: “I have 4 machines that
This Office security tool from Microsoft is a method to stop users from opening certain types of documents – for example .doc or .xls files. The second part of the Office security tools from Microsoft is a method to stop users from opening certain types of documents – for example
The Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment – MOICE – is an addition to the Office 2007 or the Office 2007 Document Compatibility Pack. The Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment – MOICE – is an addition to Office 2007 or the Office 2007 Document Compatibility Pack. It is a method to
The new security features, announced by Microsoft might work OK — but who can tell? Microsoft has announced two ‘new’ security features for Office 2007 and Office 2003 users. They are claimed to help protect against ‘zero-day’ exploits in Office documents – in other words new security holes that Microsoft
From: Microsoft Here’s the official line on Microsoft’s new security tools for Office — we’ll look at them in detail soon but for the moment we DON’T recommend using them. “ Today we are announcing the availability of the Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment (MOICE) feature and more widely notifying
Sometimes Outlook appears to shut down but is still running, we explain why and what to do about it. Jenny N writes: ” I have Outlook 2007 with multiple profiles (one personal, one for business). Sometimes I shut-down Outlook (from File | Exit) and it appears to close. But when
Even after all these years, people still give money to email scammers. The so-called ‘Nigerian’ scams have been going on for years and pre-date email. Some of you might remember getting letters and then faxes offering a commission on some large sum in exchange for helping get the money offshore.
Gmail has a good spam filter, you can use it for your own email accounts. In Email Essentials we often talk about spam filters that go too far, stopping you from seeing messages that you want to see. Many spam filters are either hidden from view or not configurable leaving
If you’re not allowed to hear Steve Ballmer speak, just stand outside the door. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO had something to say about the future of Microsoft Office at the ‘Business Intelligence’ conference over the weekend. None of it is a real surprise to anyone who reads Office Watch: Office
The Office 2007 Document Compatibility Pack has a security patch in the May 2007 release. Even if you don’t have Office 2007 you should have the Office 2007 document compatibility pack. This lets users of Office 2003 and Office XP open and save documents in the new Office 2007 formats
Despite conflicting Microsoft documentation, there IS a security patch for the successor to Frontpage. Expression Web is the successor to Frontpage and buried in the May 2007 patch details is a security update for that too – or maybe not. It depends on which Microsoft documentation you read. Even though
Codenamed ‘Tahiti’ – Microsoft SharedView is now available as a public beta. Last time I was in Tahiti, we tied up next to Paul Allen’s boat (well, one of the floating apartments for the Microsoft co-founder) though in a considerably less impressive vessel. ‘Tahiti’ is also the code name for
From: Microsoft Office for Mac users can get a beta converter for .docx and .docm files Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.1b (Beta) With the Office Open XML Converter, you can convert Office Open XML files to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004
An easy reference list of May 2007 security patches To help our readers we’ve grouped the May 2007 security patches according to the software to be patched instead of the problem to be fixed. All you need to do is look up your version of Office or other product from
Spam filters can only give a guess about whether a message is spam or not … Last week we talked about messages disappearing before you receive them and the problem of over-zealous spam filters. In this issue we’ll look inside spam filters to see why they are not perfect. You
How can I get spam emails when my address isn’t listed as a receiver? Often spam arrives with email addresses in TO: or CC: that are similar but not the same as your address. You can’t find your address in the message – so how did it get to you?
From: CompanionLink Software, Inc. Access and edit Google Calendar information directly from your mobile device or Outlook! Access and edit Google Calendar information directly from your mobile device or Outlook! CompanionLink for Google Calendar is a two-way synchronization solution for people that want to access and modify their Google Calendar
While security patches come out each month, there’s a backlog of unpatched problems. Microsoft might be more aggressive about security problems but there are still things in the ‘too hard’ basket. The list of ‘Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerabilities’ from the French Security Incident Response Team makes sobering reading. According to that
An add-in lets you relive the Office 2003 experience on Office 2007. It had to happen, someone has filled the gap left by Microsoft. Addintools has produced an additional ribbon for Word 2007, Excel 2007 or Powerpoint 2007 which mimics the Office 2003 menus. The download is under 3MB with
The possible ‘road-blocks’ between you and an email message. There’s a very real possibility that a message you send won’t reach the intended destination. Email delivery isn’t guaranteed and these days there are plenty of blocks between sender and recipient. Every week we hear from readers who are either sending
The British Library is collecting emails this month. The British Library, in conjunction with Microsoft’s Windows Live is collecting a snapshot of email from UK residents all through May 2007. Email Britain is collecting messages from people to be preserved for future generations to get a glimpse of daily, virtual,
How to move your Powerpoint presentation to another computer to display. Another move by Google into Microsoft Office territory was recently announced with their purchase of Tonic. Later this year we can expect an online presentation system (a la Powerpoint) to join Google Docs and Spreadsheets as rivals to Microsoft
An all-too-common story from New Zealand where someone’s name causes their email to be refused. A somewhat funny email story from New Zealand this weekend shows how email filters have to be configured very carefully. Gay Hamilton sent an innocent customer enquiry to NZ Telecom (the major telco) and was
