I came across a feature of Windows XP file explorer that I hadn’t seen before today. Normally when I want to sent files to someone I don’t browse to the file and use the "Send To Mail Recipient" option. I’m not following my own advice still of reversing my email composition.

Today I was doing some work and my brother wanted me to email him the social media icon graphics I’d created for a website client. Since I was sending a large group of files I just opened the folder and clicked on all of the files he requested.
I then selected …read more

I’m not sure how many people were probably aware but you could use Outlook to send and receive SMS notifications right to your computer. The service was provided by a feature called SMS Link. It worked fairly well, although I had some general user functionality issues I think could have been improved.

Microsoft has announced via email that they will be discontinuing this service on August 26, 2009.
Microsoft’s SMS Link service will be discontinued effective August 26th, 2009.  Once this service is discontinued, current users will no longer be able to send SMS messages through Office Outlook 2007 using SMS …read more

Not sure if you’ve noticed it or not, but Outlook isn’t the most reliable engine for rendering accurate HTML display in your emails. Microsoft Outlook uses the Microsoft Word rendering engine to both create and display HTML in your emails. It’s for this reason that many people believe that Outlook is seriously broken and they’ve started a campaign to fix it.

If you’ve ever done any web development, you’ve probably realized that HTML that’s created by Microsoft Word and the old Microsoft Frontpage application was loaded with a lot of junk.
The folks behind fixoutlook.org are hoping that Microsoft will take the …read more

The ability to minimize programs to the system tray has been made possible for a reason. There are always programs which we don’t intend to exit but do not use as frequently.
During work, e.g., we open a web browser – because we are so used to it – but more importanly have several other programs opened simultaneously. While navigating from Microsoft Outlook to Eclipse to the work folders using Alt + Tab, it is irritating to find Mozilla Firefox in between. Also, the task bar has only this much place.
Still, most of the web browsers like the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox …read more