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Outlook fixit

If you depend on Microsoft's Outlook, a good recovery tool can save the day if things go wrong. DataNumen's Advanced Outlook Repair 3.0 can recover email, folders, appointments, tasks, and anything else that holds your critical data in Outlook's Personal files (PST). AOR supports recovery of attachments, embedded objects, encrypted and password-protected PST files, and deleted Outlook items. It can handle immense files, which protects against obsolescence.

To use AOR, you must have Outlook installed as your default e-mail client. AOR's dialog-based interface is so intuitive that the fully indexed Help file seems almost superfluous. … Read more

5 time-saving Outlook add-ons

Your Microsoft Outlook 2007 in-box is one of those apps that's underappreciated and easily overlooked, yet for business professionals and home users alike, it often bears the brunt of most e-mail exchange.

It's time to give Outlook--and yourself--a hand with some free, and free-to-try, add-ons that could very well smooth out your workflow. We've rounded up five time-saving Outlook add-ons for you to take on a spin. Just don't get too add-on-happy, since, as with browser extensions, a surplus of running Outlook extras can drag down the pace.

Buzz Report: The fudging iPad fudging comes out

I have the pleasure of filling in for Molly Wood on the Buzz Report this week, and I have to say I really enjoyed it. Of course we talk about the iPad. There's no avoiding it. But we also touch on a video game vest that lets you feel bullets and stabbings, a t-shirt for your email, and children put on a presentation of Scarface. Oh and new iPhone rumours!

Are Microsoft Office and OpenOffice irrelevant?

Boy Genius Report has posted screenshots of the new Microsoft Office 11 for Mac, suggesting that it looks "absolutely delicious."

Do you care?

I don't mean that in any anti-Microsoft fashion. I'm just asking, "Do you still care about an office productivity suite?" I mean, in the traditional sense of that product category?

I don't, and I'm not exactly sure when my concern for Microsoft Office (or OpenOffice, for that matter) dissipated. At some point in the last few years, e-mail became my office productivity suite, with a sip here and there … Read more

Report: Tens of millions still opening junk e-mail

In this day and age of technological advancement and digital lifestyles, it's incredible to me that nearly half of a recently surveyed audience opened junk e-mail (aka spam), intentionally.

According to an Ipsos Public Affairs Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) survey report (PDF), tens of millions of users continue to respond to spam in ways that could leave them vulnerable to a malware infection or bot network.

The results of the survey show that nearly half of the users have opened spam, clicked on a link in spam, opened a spam attachment, replied, or forwarded it--all activities that leave consumers susceptible to fraud, phishing, identity theft, and infection.

Of those who intentionally opened spam, they did so to unsubscribe or complain to the sender or to see what would happen. Fifteen percent clicked to learn more about the products or services being offered.

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Direct eMailer

E-mail clients use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send messages to mail servers, which use SMTP to talk to each other. Babu's eMailer is an easy-to-use SMTP e-mail client that works with your preferred email program. It lets you send email to any recipient over any network directly from your computer. It supports password and user name logons for outbound connections, Send/Error acknowledgement, and remote and local server connections. It can even retrieve e-mail addresses from various sources, including text files, SQL databases, and Microsoft Outlook.

A Windows-style installer simplifies eMailer's setup, and a Wizard-based … Read more

Share huge files on the Net for free

More devices do video these days, which means more people shoot video, which means more people want to share video. But have you attempted to e-mail a huge video file? Anything longer than a couple of minutes becomes massive. And most e-mail won't allow large files.

In this how-to I'll show you a few services that let you share files over the Internet that are larger than 1GB. Some even do it for free!

My favorite is Dropbox. You can store up to 2GB of data for free, or upgrade to 50GB or 100GB for $10 or $20 … Read more

Hollywood scripting getting a multimedia rewrite

In Hollywood, everyone knows that movies are king. Television makes money, and video games are a fantastic way to extend a franchise, but movies get the prestige. Vanity Fair doesn't have an annual Emmys party.

That's been the way it is for years, but the fault lines under the entertainment industry are shifting rapidly in favor of a more cohesive and multimedia approach to storytelling, and those who refuse to adapt may well be victims of a major shake-up in the way things work.

The protagonist in this story? A relatively new and increasingly popular concept called transmedia … Read more

Eliminate Google from your life

As Google gets bigger and bigger, so do our privacy concerns. If you use Google search, Gmail, Google Docs, and YouTube, Google collects a staggering amount of data about you. And we only named a handful of the Google products.

But you can live life without Google. Here's how. Let's start with search.

You may think you can't find anything on the Web without Google, but you can. In fact, you have several worthwhile options to choose from. Bing is the next most popular search engine and it will soon power Yahoo search. You can also try … Read more