There are a few people that I’m doing some business with and they seem to have absolutely no clue how to make a subject for a message. One lady consistently emails me the exact same subject for every message. If you’re sending out a message about something, make your subject as narrow as possible. Don’t call it “Microsoft Windows” when you’re talking about a problem on...
Had a nice scare this morning. I went to turn on my laptop to send and email and there was nothing. The power button did nothing. It was like I was pressing it and the battery and the power (which were both connected) weren’t. I unhooked the battery and the power and then left it for about 20 minutes, then I put the battery back in and it still didn’t work. That’s when I started to get a...
I heard on the news today that there may be an end to spam. According to the newscaster; Microsoft, Earthlink, AOL, Yahoo and some other companies are launching a lawsuit against spammers. If you ask me it’s pretty stupid. They’re launching the suit under the anti-spam law in the states, which technically doesn’t apply to anywhere outside the states. So really, these guys can spam, they...
See that flat line there? That’s what happened when a tractor-trailer drove into a hydro pole yesterday afternoon and busted my internet connection. The crews worked all afternoon and most of the night and then they didn’t properly splice one of the fibres that my internet connection depends on. Some kinda crap that I can’t do anything about. Sucks to be...
Howto Make Outlook work quickly with IMAP mail services. It took me a lot of time to figure this one out, but when you think about, it it’s pretty simple. Keep your inbox small. By keeping your inbox small (try to keep only new and un-acted upon messages in there) and using folders to store older messages, your access time on your inbox is very quick. Unsubscribe from all folders. Outlook will check...
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