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June 30th, 2008

Xobni Now Faster and Integrates with LinkedIn

I’ve written about Xobni, the 3rd party Outlook search plug-in, a few different times on the this here website (here, here, and here). They’ve now released version 1.4 and have addressed some speed issues that a number of people mentioned in comments on my post.
The other nice thing they’ve added is the ability to […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 9th, 2008

Problems Assigning Category Colors in Outlook

Why in the world can I not assign custom colors to categories? Perhaps more importantly why in the world can I not select the core primary and secondary colors? I know some of them are close but there’s not a YELLOW.
Why can’t I assign a completely solid color as well. All of these have […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

April 14th, 2008

Outlook Contact Photos

Since I’ve been playing with Xobni more one question I’ve come across is why doesn’t Xobni use Outlook’s own contact photo information?
That was somewhat of a rhetorical question because I didn’t really need an answer and it wasn’t worth completely pursuing for an answer.
What it did do though was make me wonder where Outlook […]

By Jason Bean -- 4 comments

April 14th, 2008

Outlook Very Unstable This Morning

For some reason Outlook continues to crash on me this morning. Not sure what it is that’s causing it, trying to pay attention now to what actions I’m taking each time leading up to the crash.
I also can’t get my Printers folder to open up and display my printers today. Wondering if the two items […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 13th, 2007

Adding Safe Senders Automatically in Outlook

Scanning through some recent Lifehacker posts reminded me of a little tip I’ve been using for quite awhile now. When you first start using Outlook, it doesn’t trust anyone for e-mail to you if you’ve got your security settings set to fairly high.
Wendy shares a link on Lifehacker to a post on Tech-Recipes that goes […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

November 2nd, 2006

Microsoft Offers Free Sender ID

Something absolutely needs to start changing about e-mail and spam. Hopefully this type of thing will be the spark that ignites more and more development in this arena.
Microsoft Corp. has made its Sender ID framework for email authentication license free.
As of Monday, the technology is available through the software maker’s Open Specification Promise, which […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

October 31st, 2006

Windows Mail Replaces Outlook Express

An area that hasn’t gotten much press with all the talk about Vista, IE7 and the new Office 2007, is lowly Outlook Express.
The Lifehacker site has a great gallery of screen shots and details about the application. Gina Trapani wasn’t too impressed with the developments although she did state it was still a nice upgrade […]

By Jason Bean -- 7 comments

October 20th, 2006

Crossbow Coming 2007

How many PocketPC users do we have out there? Are you hoping for some drastic improvements in the Windows Mobile OS? Rumor has it that we’ll be getting many needed improvements, at least that’s what the beta testers are saying that have gotten a little early Mobile OS love happening for themselves.
More important, Crossbow […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 25th, 2006

Microsoft Live Mail

I’ve been beta testing Microsoft Live mail although now it’s pretty much publicly available. The interface is a little improvement over the old Hotmail, but it’s still nowhere near enough for me to even think about switching away from my Gmail or Yahoo! account.
Right now I’m really only using my Live mail account as my […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment