Consolidate Multiple Accounts in Outlook 2010
Outlook 2010 allows adding multiple Exchange accounts. But what if you want to save all mail in a primary account, but still send mail from secondary accounts? With some help …
Prevent Outside Parties from Scheduling Your Calendar
Ever receive an email with an Outlook calendar item attached, then find that the item appeared in your calendar without your permission? It turns out that by default, Outlook lets …
Web-Enable Your Custom Software Application
Are you using custom software to run your business? Perhaps an older Access or FoxPro application? Or maybe some Excel spreadsheets with custom macros? Ever wonder about converting that to …
Identifying and Avoiding Fake Anti-Virus Programs
One of the biggest threats to your computer comes when you land on a web site containing a fake anti-virus warning. These sites try to trick you into installing a …
Got Backup?
Computer backup is an insurance plan for your data. Like any other insurance, it’s hard to think about when everything is going great, but you sure are glad it’s there …
Help! My Yahoo / Hotmail / Facebook Was Hacked!
In the last few weeks the personal accounts of at least four of my acquaintances have been hacked. As you may have experienced, when your friend’s account is hacked, you …
Web Site Grader Rates Your Web Site
A colleague referred me to this cool tool for rating web sites: www.websitegrader.com. The tool evaluates your site on the basis of of several criteria: blog, links, metadata, domain age, …
Free MCB GoldPop Program Loads GoldMine Record from 3CX CallerID
I’ve recently changed my in-house PBX from Linux-based PBX in a Flash to Windows-based 3CX. One of the cool things about 3CX is the included 3CX Assistant, a call manager …
A RARe Virus Delivery Method
Yesterday I received the following email from someone I don’t know: The unusual thing is the attachment of type .rar. RAR is an archive format not as common as .zip …
Change Background of a Single PowerPoint 2007 Slide
It’s infuriating when something you’ve done for years in Office 2003 suddenly seems impossible in Office 2007. Case in point: changing the background of a single PowerPoint slide. It seems …