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I took the Microsoft MPG Challenge at work today. The basic idea was to learn how to drive a car more fuel efficiently and see how much of an improvement I could make to my MPG (miles per gallon) score. On my first drive around the residential mile-long course in a tinny little Seat car…

If you’ve installed an add-in to Outlook 2007 that you now suspect to be causing Outlook to misbehave, you can disable it quite simply using the Trust Center. However, if you’re also using Windows Vista, or some another OS, you may encounter a curious error message telling you “The connected state of Office Add-Ins registered…

What a curiously attractive bunch you are. Get your twitter mosaic here.

Drat! I have to compère (that’s French for ‘make a fool of oneself’) an event at work on Friday so it’s time to dust off the lame jokes collection. The brief is, well, loose to say the least, but I think I’ll be in charge of introducing each presenter, making semi-coherent connections between topics, and…

A top tip from My Digital Life just saved my bacon. If you run add-ins in Outlook, Word, or Excel that you are unable to disable in Tools > Trust Center with this cryptic error message: “The Connected State of Office Add-Ins Registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Cannot Be Changed” then you simply need to restart the…

I’ve toyed with Twitter in the past but I never really got into it. There just weren’t enough people that I knew on there, and I didn’t much fancy hanging out with some of the Tweeting pioneers. But things are different now. There are just so many people using Twitter that it’s nearly impossible to…

Have three months really flown by since my last blog post? So it would seem. And for that I apologise. I’ve been rather busy creating this and some TV ads and much more. But the pace of useful technology developments never slows. If only I’d known about http://www.getmooh.com/ sooner; I could have pre-booked interruptions to excuse me…

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Hot off the press this month, two new must have add-ons for Outlook: Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta (with added ooomph!)With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail…

Following on from yesterday’s post about shutting down (or rather not shutting down) Outlook, I’m reminded of these performance enhancing tips. If, when you look at the outlook.exe process in Task Manager (SHIFT+CTRL+Escape, then Processes tab), you see that the memory in use is very high (say, greater than 100,000KB) there may be things you can do…