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Small productivity tip for Outlook
I often find myself sending attachments in email, and I very rarely choose the method in which you click on the “Add Attachment” button in Outlook simply because I find it too slow to find attachments...
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Deleting a dialup connection on Windows 7
Some time ago, I had the need to setup a dialup connection on my computer running Windows 7 to connect to the Internet. Well, the need was for a couple of days. However, ever since then, I have been...
View ArticleInstalling PyDev on Eclipse on Windows 7
I recently got the bug to tinker around with Google App Engine (last night, actually) and then decided that I want to do this in Python (instead of Java which is also supported – maybe I like snakes...
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Selectively disabling spell and grammar check in Word
While I have faced this problem many times, it was only recently that I got ticked off by it a bit too much. The problem? If you are writing a document, and you have non-English things such as Code...
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Selective animation of words in PowerPoint
Very recently, I saw a presentation where there were certain slides which were left for the audience to scan through, with little or no voice from the presenter. These slides had simple text which you...
View ArticleMicrosoft Surface doesn’t connect to iPhone Hotspot
Are you having trouble connecting your Surface to your iPhone’s hotspot? Well it does connect. But you need to make some changes to your iPhone. By default, your iPhone names your phone your_name’s...
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Manage wireless networks in Windows 8
So, the other day, I wanted to delete some wifi networks that my computer had remembered and went to control panel to find the familiar “Manage wireless networks” screen (as I was used to doing in my...
View ArticleKeep your goals to yourself
Here is a most interesting concept I came across today. it talks about how you should never share your goals with someone because if you do, you are more likely to not achieve them as compared to if...
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How to avoid mistakes in emails that you have sent
If you send more than a few emails in a day, then like me you have definitely had the moments where you: either after hitting the send button you realize you forgot the attachment or you realize you...
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My iPhone 5s is not visible in Windows Explorer
This one was a bit frustrating and I feel like hitting someone after the solution presented itself. So, I recently upgraded to the iPhone 5s from my iPhone 4s. Now, I wanted to move all my pictures and...
View ArticleGetting Chomecast to work on Netgear R6300
I bought a Chromecast – and I didn’t look at the list of routers that are incompatible with Chromecast. Mine is one of them – the Netgear R6300. I only found out when the simple sounding steps from...
View ArticleInbox Zero, revisited – how to handle large amounts of incoming email
Years ago, I wrote about how I had created a plan to achieve Inbox Zero. For some months, that did work for me. However, as time went by, I was receiving evermore emails and soon my system failed, with...
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The flipboard mode of Internet Explorer 11
A large part of content I consume these days is through Flipboard. I like how I am able to read through the articles with minimum noise around the content itself (menus, ads, widgets, etc.). The...
View ArticleSetting the location of a room mailbox in Exchange using Powershell
This little thing took quite a bit to find out, so here it is for the sake of helping anyone else who runs into the same problem. I was trying to write Powershell scripts to automate creation of...
View ArticleShowing more than just free/busy information on your Exchange room mailboxes...
By default, when you create a room mailbox (to represent a meeting room) in Exchange Online, it sets a bunch of permissions and properties by default. A few months ago, we moved our meeting room...
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