Archive for December, 2004
Do Not Deliver Before
My buddy Reeves just pointed me to a sweet
Outlook feature that I never knew about called Do not deliver before.
In a recent
post I commented on how I’m trying to get in the habit of not doing work email
on weekends, vacations etc. Well one problem with this is I could be on a plane or
a train and I want to hammer out some mails from my inbox (but don’t want to send
them, because that sets a bad example). Additionally, if people are on vacation, I
know that my email will just sit in their inbox and drift down to the bottom and possibly
get lost. Worse, if they check their email over their vacation, I don’t want to create
work for them and stress them out.
Here is a good example. It’s 1 am, and I just thought of something I want to tell
my manager and our admin. Well they are both on vacation till Monday. So what is the
point of sending this to them now? It could get lost, or read and left in the inbox.
Instead I have scheduled to have it delivered Monday afternoon.
So, using “Do not deliver before”, you can just tell Outlook not to send the message
before a specific date and time. To do this simply:
-
In a new mail message select Options from the Toolbar (if you are
using Word Mail) - Click the Do not deliver before checkbox and enter a date and time.
- Hit send
Viola!
Update: Thanks to Chris Graham for
letting me know that if you have an Outlook
Deferred Deliver Rule this will override the per message option and deliver the
mail according to those settings.
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Loading ...Windows XP File Association Fixes
The other day I was unable to open a .cab file on my PC. I had no idea how the file
association got messed up. At the same time my .zip file associates were bad. I stumbled
onto this great site that has
some registry entries you can download to fix some of these common problems.
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Microsoft DigitalPersona (Biometric Fingerprint Reader)
Who ever said Microsoft doesn’t innovate is just full of it. I just picked up the Microsoft
Fingerprint Reader. This thing is so utterly cool. The software it comes with
is awesome.
Basically it works like this. You install some software, reboot, plug in the reader
and train it on any of your fingers. Now if you have a PC at home that is configured
to use Fast User Switching, you just place your finger on the device and it automatically
logs you in. It even knows which user to select.
But it gets better. On any web page, or Application, you can configure the device
to enter your credentials. The UI is super cool, and it does an amazing job at guessing
where the right text boxes are, and places this nice halo around the box to make the
selection explicit. You can also point it to things if it cannot figure out what the
username, password or signin buttons are. Finally you can configure it to select “Remember
my password” and such. Below is a screen shot of what this looks like for logging
into my blog.
I have also configured the device to enter my Microsoft Money Password, which is super
cool.
Kudos to the Microsoft Hardware folks. This thing rocks. I wish my laptop had a biometric
reader.
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