Elizabeth Charnock, of Cataphora, listed 10 inappropriate things you should not put in emails. The premise is that if you are going to write these phrases, then you are most likely writing something that shouldn’t be in an email. Statements like “I really shouldn’t put this in writing but…”, or “Is this actually legal?” should […]
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VCard Limitations
The common standard for moving contacts from computer to computer, or even application to application, has been the VCard. A Vcard consists of lines of text containing data field with attributes and the value of that field. These lines make up the properties of a specific contact. Vcard’s are stored as VCF files. Most vcard […]
Email Overload
One of the areas that interests me as a developer of tools that attempt to increase productivity are other blogs from individuals and companies doing the same.Deva Hazarika, CEO of ClearContext, wrote a blog about a new organization forming to help deal with the onslaught of email. This new organization, the Information Overload Research Group […]
Send Individually from Microsoft Publisher
When creating a newsletter or some other form of mass mail, a lot of users prefer to use Microsoft Publisher as the editor. To send the emails to the intended recipients, users prefer to use the Send Individually add-in from Sperry Software. This add-in allows the user to create one email and easily send that […]
Trusting Outlook Add-ins
Microsoft Outlook has some security built in to help prevent external applications from accessing its internal data. This data consists of your contacts, email addresses on emails, and others. This is meant to help prevent a virus from harvesting information to then spread itself to other potential victims. Where does this leave the legit companies […]
Sperry Buttons Don’t Appear in Word Editor
Have you installed one of Sperry Software add-ins but all of the buttons do not appear correctly? You can see the "Sperry Software Add-ins" button, but the "Send Individually" or "BCC ON" buttons do not appear when you create a new mail message. I will attempt to provide the reason for this and a solution. […]
Distribution List Limitations and Workarounds
Distribution Lists were created to make it simple to send email to a group of people without having to search through the contacts folder to add each contact. Although this adds a convenience factor to sending mass email, it has some limitations. I will describe these Outlook distribution list limitations and provide some workarounds. Limitation […]
Outlook 2007 Hyperlink Security Warning
Microsoft made a lot of improvements when they released Office 2007. A lot of those improvements deal with security to protect the user. With a lot of phishing scams and other attacks that are carried out through email, this is a really nice enhancement. Unfortunately, for power users, some of these enhancements hinder the functionality […]