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Following on from yesterday’s very popular invitation to get a complimentary Xobni account (thanks to everyone who emailed me, and well done Mike and Blake!), another area where analytical data can be very helpful is in tracking traffic to your website or blog. My old mucker Mark Deakin recently pointed me in the direction of…

As an email addict, I think Xobni Insights for Outlook (Beta) is an amazing tool. I’ve been playing with it for a while now and I really like the fact that I can instantly read threaded conversations and zip around between senders and recipients. Even better though are the analytics which let me instantly see…

Keeping a blog is a wonderful thing—a little time-draining on occasions, but a wonderful thing nonetheless. Even better is getting comments from readers. After all, blogging is about conversations, not just talking to yourself. But I don’t get many comments. This could be because the stuff I write about is so straightforward that you feel…

This looks interesting. Xobni (that’s inbox backwards—geddit?!) is a new add-on for Microsoft Outlook that can help you manage your email. It features a new email search engine (especially handy if you’re not yet using Outlook 2007 which has it’s own built-in Search feature), a clever threaded conversation feature, phone number extraction, and some email…

As if dragging ourselves out of our warm beds on Mondays wasn’t tough enough already, UK psychologist Dr Cliff Arnall has "officially designated" today as Blue Monday—the most depressing day of the year. His pseudo-mathematical study has shown that people are most likely to get the blues this week; and the miserable weather, broken New…

If you work or communicate across time zones, here’s a useful tip that could quite easily have passed you by. In Windows Vista you can add up to two extra clocks to the taskbar for different time zones. You may already know that you can do this in your Outlook calendar, but here’s how you…

I’m sure you’ve seen this by now. Office Max has re-released its popular Elf Yourself microsite where you can upload photos of up to four people to generate a personalised dancing elves online message. Give it a try, it’s great fun. For the more miserable amongst you, also from Office Max is the Scrooge Yourself…

With the festive season fast approaching now is a great time to let your work colleagues know when you’ll be out of the office (OOF) over the holiday period. Like most things in life, there’s a right and a wrong way of doing this. Lots of people I know do it the wrong way. Here’s…

This has nothing to do with useful technology, but I’m so thrilled I just have to share this story. Yesterday I had the massive honour to play football at Wembley Stadium. Just 24 hours after England crashed out of the Euro 2008 qualifications after losing 2-3 to Croatia at Wembley, I found myself in the…

Yesterday the UK Government admitted that it has lost two computer discs containing personal information about almost half of the UK population. This is Britain’s worst ever data protection breach, and around 25 million people are now wondering if their identities are safe and what they should do. I’m wondering how that much data could…