Outlook 2007: How To Put Your Calendar into a Message
Trying to set up a meeting with someone who doesn’t have access to your shared calendar can be challenging. Outlook 2007 makes it much easier by allowing you to easily include your calendar in your email message. You can show availability only, availability and subjects of calendar items, or availability and full details of calendar items. You can even choose whether to include the details of items marked private. To do this . . .
Vista: Add Additional Clocks to Taskbar
Keeping track of time zones can be a bit of a pain, especially if you are collaborating with others in foreign countries. Vista gives you a convenient fix for this by allowing you to have up to two additional time zones that display whenever you hover your mouse over the clock. Here’s how . . .
Blackberry Error: transaction error – decryption error
Today i had a user who i had recreated their BES account and resetup their Pearl. However, after trying to reply to a few emails the user kept getting an error: transaction error – decryption error and the reply would have a red X next to it. This recipe will tell you how to fix this.
Outlook 2007: Use Google Reader for RSS Feeds link
Ever since Johnny got me into Google Reader, i’ve been addicted. Just upgraded to Office 2007 tonight and realized I didn’t want the silly MS RSS Feeds in Outlook, so i thought i’d share my quick recipe on changing this link to your Google Reader.
XP batch files: Create variable for current user account and find current user
this is a quick batch file recipe that is more of an appetizer than a full meal. this recipe is just a quick batch file that lets you find the user who is currently logged in when the batch file is ran by using a FOR statement and the %USERPROFILE% variable in XP.
Outlook 2007: Enable Contact Linking
By default, Outlook 2007 has contact linking disabled. In previous versions, it was enabled by default giving you a field on most forms that you could use to link a contact to an item which would then show up on the Activities tab.
XP Batch Files: Copy images from camera to pc and organize by date
This is a quickie recipe on how to create a batch file that will copy all of your photos/videos from a memory stick or camera onto your pc’s my pictures folder (c:\documents and settings\userid\my documents\my pictures). this batch file will show you how to setup a prompt and using a basic if/then statement.
TiVo: Fixing Multi-room Viewing Error: Reason: 0xffff
TiVo has changed the way many of us watch TV (oh how I hate to stay in a hotel room now!). If you have two or more TiVos (Series 2 at least) connected to your home network, you can watch programs recorded on one TiVo from the other TiVo. Unless you get an error with the helpful message
Reason: 0xffff
Here are some tips to solve this problem.