Guy Bjerke: Tech Notes

Thu, 06 May 2004 17:52:51 GMT

Display a custom alert when you receive new mail.

Outlook has had a 'new mail alert' dialog for years, but until the new mail desktop alert in Outlook 2003, it was, well, sucky. There's another way you can create a custom alert for new mail as well that is not immediately obvious, so I wanted to mention it:

1. Tools | Rules Wizard
2. Create a rule and make the action “Display a specific message in the new item alert window”
3. Choose your custom text and save the rule

Then when new mail arrives that matches your conditions, you'll get a dialog like this:

(guess which string was the 'specific message' I chose?)

Why would you want to do this? I think it's mostly useful when you only use it for certain types of mail that you choose with the rules criteria. You may turn off the overall desktop alert (tools options email options advanced email options) and only want to get an alert for messages that match certain criteria - maybe they're from your boss, are sent to you specifically rather than a distribution list, etc. And of course, you're not just limited to boring ol ASCII:

[KC on Exchange and Outlook]

Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:09:14 GMT

TabTag. TabTag turns Outlook into a flexible SQL database solution, adding a range of features to classify, link and edit data as required. Easy to install, use and manage, TabTag saves valuable resources and improves productivity. Free single user version now available. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News]

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 03:08:02 GMT

Where's the ShortCut symbol on the Treo 600?. PalmOne needs to update the documentation for the Handspring Treo 600. The user guide shipped with the product and found on the Handspring website makes no reference to where the text shortcut symbol is hidden. On a graffiti-based Palm you... [Guy Bjerke]

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 04:18:05 GMT

New Radio User Guide. You can now find a new organization for Radio UserLand documentation in the Radio UserLand User Guide. Scott Shuda announces the new Guide. [UserLand Product News]

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 05:49:25 GMT

AT&T Office Online Doesn't Like Vindigo. To retrieve my office e-mail on my Treo 600 I signed up for AT&T's Office Online service. It worked fine for several weeks. Then, right when I was about to go out of town - and actually needed to get... [Guy Bjerke]

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 02:15:53 GMT

Wink. No, I am not getting flirty here. In reviewing Wink for Lockergnome, I decided to create a FeedDemon tutorial and had fun doing it. Thanks to Nick for FeedDemon and... [meryl's notes]

Sun, 01 Feb 2004 03:52:51 GMT

Outlook Shutdown Addin. If you have problems with Outlook remaining in memory when you exit it, Outlook Shutdown Addin is for you. This is a COM add-in which enables Outlook to shutdown completely when a user exits from the application, eliminating the need to open Task Manager to end OUTLOOK.EXE. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News]

Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:57:57 GMT

Blogging to Radio UserLand from FeedDemon.

Chris Brody shared the following tip in our newsgroups about posting to Radio UserLand from FeedDemon:

RadioExpress allows you to post content from any web page to your blog:
http://www.newsisfree.com/blog/archives/000430.html

Once installed and configured as you want, add the following command line to
FeedDemon's blog publishing tools:

http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/radioExpress?t=$ITEM_DESCRIPTION$&;u=$ITE M_LINK$&n=$ITEM_TITLE$

Note that I don't use Radio UserLand, so I haven't tried this myself.

[Nick Bradbury]

Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:04:29 GMT

Easy Survey. A Microsoft Office add-in designed for creating and conducting survey, uses MS Access for survey form creation. When survey is created, the special Outlook add-in creates an HTML email with the questionnaire. The respondent fills the form and clicks the form button to send it back. The Outlook add-in processes incoming messages, select ones with the survey results and inputs the data in the Access table. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News]

Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:18:20 GMT

Microsoft Exchange Tips. Lists over 100 Microsoft Exchange Tips for Exchange 5.5 and 2000, collected by Travis Hamiltion. [Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News]