I recently decided to sign up for Plaxo (still don’t know if that was a good idea). Plaxo is yet another social networking site that will take you away from doing real work :). After signing up, you can then sync your Outlook address book with the on-line Plaxo address book to have ‘in-the-cloud’ access anywhere. So I chose to do this and then when…
Last week, I blogged about moving my email to Gmail with the intent to do this follow-up on how I did the same for a client of mine. This client lives in her Outlook email and travels frequently. Earlier this year she went from a Blackberry to iPhone. She loves her iPhone. She expressed her need for me to have access to her email and…
I’d been an Outlook user for many years – both corporately (using Exchange), and currently in my VA Practice. When you’re in the corporate world, Outlook is the client to use. But, during the past two years, a whole new world of education and exploration opened up while I went through my VA Training and the launch of my VA practice. Class training emphasized collaboration…
I use Outlook 2007 and really like the upgraded look and what it can do for me. It can be a powerful allay in getting and keeping me organized. I have a huge book on my desk I refer to called, “Outlook 2007 Inside Out” by Jim Boyce, Beth Sheresh & Doug Sheresh. It seems a week doesn’t go by that I need to refer…
How many of us have folders of photos on our hard drives with cryptic letters and numbers that mean nothing to us! The Windows XP OS has a nifty little tool in it that will help you rename batches of your pictures. It does it folder by folder. So first… 1. Open a folder of images you want to rename. Highlight all the images in…
Has your computer been sluggish and you find yourself catching some z’s between pulling apps up on your computer? If you’ve had your computer more than 2-3 years, you may have bloated computer syndrome. This is when your computer becomes weighted down with downloads you thought would be great to have, but then rarely accessed. Who knows what is lurking in the deep recesses of…