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May 5th, 2008

Xobni Goes Public and New Design

I’ve been using Xobni for awhile now ever since I found it and downloaded it initially. I wrote about my experiences with the application. I’ve found that it’s really helpful in a variety of instances when looking for information in e-mail that’s in context with the task you’re trying to accomplish at the […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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 -- 2 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

April 7th, 2008

Possibly the Best 3rd Party Office App on the Planet - Xobni Review

It’s been a few weeks now since I got the invite to download, install and begin using Xobni. I’ve got to tell you folks, this very well may be one of the most ingenious applications ever added into a member of the Microsoft Office family.
In a quick summary; Xobni incorporates itself into Outlook […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

June 1st, 2007

Outlook: Grab Addresses Out of Your Auto-Complete History

How many addresses do you have in your auto-complete history? How many of those are for people you e-mail regularly but aren’t added into your address book? If you wanted to send an e-mail to everyone you e-mail regularly, in and out of your address book, how would you do it?
If you didn’t know, and […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

May 23rd, 2007

Outlook Mismanagement of Archive Folders

Can someone please tell me why Microsoft developers think the formatting over there to the left is the best way to manage archived mail folders?
Why do they all have to show as soon as the first archive happens? I know I can close them all individually, but I thought the purpose of archiving your old […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

March 29th, 2007

Is Office 2007 Too Slow For You?

Reading through another old article at Forever Geek about Office 2007’s problems being sluggish, it makes me wonder if everyone is experiencing this type of bottleneck on speed when using the latest version of the Microsoft product.
Anytime there’s a question I’m curious about, one of the great things about this blog is that I can […]

By Jason Bean -- 56 comments

March 28th, 2007

Office 2007 Good… and slow

I’ve been using Office 2007 now just about exclusively since the initial beta versions have been available for use. I will say that I love the new versions of each application. Similarly to other users, I still find myself searching through some options to find the task that I’ve done before, but am only doing […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

April 21st, 2006

Speaking of Calendars

Since calendaring is all the big talk lately. Does anyone know of a FREE way to link Outlook calendars for coworkers across a network? So, someone could see my actually Outlook calendar entries.
This could be used across families that all use Outlook, and/or business partners (my need) to share calendar information. We’ve been trying to […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

April 20th, 2006

What day is it?

If you have been disconnected for the past couple of weeks, you’re probably not aware that Google released a new calendar tool. I’ve been quite impressed with the Google Calendar. I like the layout, it’s simple to use and the look and feel is great. The standard “user friendly” Google stuff is there too.
What I […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

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