После инсталляции Firewall Kerio 6.x возникла проблема блокировки Kerio исходящей почты Outlook Express.

Как известно почта отправялется через SMTP 25. Однако по видимому этот порт блокирует firewall.

Решить проблему можно изменив порт отправки SMTP в Outlook Express с 25 на 587.

Думается это подойдет не только для Outlook Express, но и для других почтовиков.

The simple answer is “There isn’t one”. XP had ‘Outlook express’, Vista had ‘Windows Mail client’ and now Microsoft have decided that their latest OS can do without. I’m not quite sure why Microsoft would decide that the ability to email people isn’t a core requirement in a modern operating system but with their ongoing anti-trust issues I wouldn’t be surprised if they just wanted to avoid more legal headaches.

That said, Microsoft haven’t left us totally in the lurch and they do provide an email client (Windows Live Mail) as part of the ‘Windows Live Essentials’ suite. This is available as a free download and also includes :

• Windows Live call
• Windows Live messenger
• Windows Live Movie Maker
• Windows Live Photo Gallery
• Windows Live Writer

You can find this download by going to the Start Menu and typing essentials in the search field. It will then give you the option ‘Go online to get Windows Live Essentials’.

Just follow the instructions and select the items you would like to download an install.

When you launch the program you will be asked for your email account credentials. Once these have been entered just sit back and watch Live Mail go off and retrieve all your email.

So in summary, it’s slightly odd that Microsoft wouldn’t include it in the OS but at least they have made the solution simple and painless.

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Resolva seus problemas em questão de dias

Baseado no post do Blog do Alvin, disponível em: http://blog.alvin.com.br/index.php/10/2009/brigando-com-o-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-63

Você está revoltado com seus e-mails? Recebe mais spam do que mensagens que te interessam? Desconfia que todo mundo acha que você é gordo ou tem impotência sexual, ou ambos?

SEUS PROBLEMAS ESTÃO BEM LONGE DE ACABAR!!!

Mas, não se desespere! Há maneiras fáceis de começar a resolve-los gradativamente. Basta seguir as dicas abaixo e mudar um pouco seus hábitos com relação à internet. Vamos lá:

Como se proteger do spam?

Existem diversos tipos de SPAM, saiba identificá-los:

1. SPAM através de e-mail coletado

Este é o tipo mais comum de SPAM, o spammer usa um computador com um programa robô (bot) que navega em páginas e páginas da internet coletando tudo que envolve o caracter ‘@’, tem @ ele sabe que é e-mail, então esse e-mail é salvo numa base de dados e está pronto para receber spam.

Mas como saber se seu e-mail pode ser achado em algum website?
Simples, apele para o São Google e pesquise pelo seu e-mail, se você achar algum resultado já comece a ficar muito triste porque se você achou, spammers acharão. Esse é o pior dos casos.

A solução: é simples e radical, delete seu e-mail atual e crie um novo por mais que dê trabalho informar o novo e-mail para seus contatos. Os spammers nunca o deixarão quieto e nenhum filtro bayesiano será capaz de filtrar as mensagens que você receberá. Crie um e-mail novo e caso você tenha um site NÃO publique seu e-mail nele, gere um formulário para que usuários que acessam o site entrem em contato com você ou sua empresa.

Erro tosco de solução: veja bem quem vai desenvolver o formulário do seu site, muitos pseudoprogramadores costumam colocar o e-mail num campo oculto do formulário (hidden) de envio de e-mail, lembro que há bots que lêem os códigos das páginas e não somente o resultado gerado na tela. O e-mail deve ir dentro do arquivo de processamento do formulário, não nele.

2. SPAM executado por vírus

É o segundo tipo mais recebido de SPAM, ocupam grande parte do tráfego da rede e é facilmente filtrado, ocorre da seguinte forma:

1- O computador de alguém (não o seu) é infectado por um vírus;
2- No computador desse seu querido amigo tem seu endereço no catálogo de endereços do programa de e-mail;
3- O vírus manda mensagens para cada pessoa da lista com intuito de se propagar ou outro qualquer;
4- O vírus manda a mensagem para as pessoas utilizando nome de outras pessoas do catálogo de endereços, não necessariamente chegará com o nome de um amigo seu;

Pelo fato acima não precisa mandar e-mail xingando quem te mandou o e-mail, porque nem sempre ela tem o vírus na máquina e sim outro bonitão que também a tem no catálogo de endereço.

A solução: esteja sempre com um anti-vírus atualizado para o caso de vírus que se propagam, veja se seu provedor tem anti-vírus no servidor, com regras evitando links para arquivos considerados suspeitos. Infelizmente muitos e-mails chegarão, portanto tenha paciência e espere que o bonitão com vírus veja que está infectado e remova a peste da máquina dele.

Erro tosco de solução: antigamente muita gente falava: “Ahhh, cadastra um e-mail inválido na primeira posição do seu catálogo de endereços, assim se você estiver com algum vírus que se propaga para o catálogo, ele pegará este e-mail primeiro, dará erro e não enviará para os outros” – Bicho… o cara fez um vírus que se propaga por e-mail, totalmente otimizado, que carrega junto com o seu Windows, que você nem sabe como pega… não acha que ele não consegue fazer um código que não perceba que determinado contato possui e-mail inválido e pule para o outro? Esqueça essa.

3. SPAM por domínio

Se você possui um domínio na Internet realmente recebe esse tipo de SPAM. O que os spammers fazem é pesquisar por nomes de domínios na internet, ex: alvin.com.br e mandam mensagens para e-mails comuns a todos os domínios e que se tornaram padrão por muito tempo na Internet, são chamados paradigmas da era do e-mail, caixas como:

postmaster@
webmaster@
support@
suporte@
sales@
vendas@
administrator@
administrador@
info@
contact@
contato@
root@
abuse@

A solução: não tenha e-mails com nomes padrões no seu domínio, como vendas@, comercial@ etc, apague também os e-mails padrões criados pelo seu provedor, normalmente postmaster@ e root@, caso não possa apagá-los não encaminhe seu conteúdo para nenhuma caixa-postal que você realmente utilize. Deixe para olhar essas caixas de vez em quando.

Erro tosco de solução: apagar a caixa abuse é pecado, porque é onde você recebe mensagens sobre uso abusivo do nome do seu domínio, como por exemplo e-mails passados por vírus ou quando algum spammer “personifica” seu e-mail em mensagens. Portanto mantenha-a apesar do SPAM, mas vale a dica de não encaminhar para nenhuma caixa-postal que você utilize com frequência.

Coisa tosca de se fazer: criar um e-mail catch all para receber mensagens na sua caixa-postal de uso frequente, isso é pedir para receber milhares de spams diariamente, desista disso se não for kamikaze ou sadomasoquista.

4. SPAM usando dicionário

O cara pega um domínio e utiliza um arquivo texto com milhões de nomes para enviar SPAMS, alguém vai ter que se ferrar, claro, funciona assim, sei que existe o domínio alvin.com.br e tenho uma lista com milhões de nomes, tipo:

joao
pedro
maria
fernanda
alvin
mario
cardoso
calvin
fatima
william
willian
josue
eduardo

Normalmente esses ataques são contra grandes provedores, que tem milhões de usuários e as chances de spammers receberem mensagens são muito grandes, é a forma mais burra de se mandar SPAM, mas fazem.

A solução: crie e-mails com nome.sobrenome@dominio, ou a primeira letra do primeiro nome e sobrenome, exemplo ahenrique@dominio, dessa maneira será mais difícil receber esse tipo de mensagem.

Erro tosco de solução: seu provedor não notar que tem um engraçadinho mandando centenas de milhares de mensagens para *@dominio.com.br e não barrar o engraçadinho. Mude de provedor de serviços nesse caso.

5. SPAM para e-mails coletados em correntes de boatos * HOAX

Boatos com gente que engoliu os dedos do pé direito, pessoas com câncer, etc são passados normalmente por seus amigos que receberam de outros amigos, então vão sendo encaminhados e dentro da mensagem podemos ver uma incrível lista de quem já recebeu a mensagem. Prato cheio para spammers, uma hora ou outra a mensagem parará na caixa de algum spammer que coletará os e-mails e infernizará sua vida com mensagens como “Exames de próstata sem dor”, “Emagreça dormindo”, “Filmes pornôs de vampiras lésbicas e kickboxers gratuitos” etc.

A solução: não repasse para a frente, muito simples.

A melhor solução: fale para seu querido amigo que adora enviar correntes de e-mail que você não deseja receber mais mensagens desse tipo.

Mais dicas para se prevenir de SPAM:

» Utilize um excelente programinha como o MailWasher para limpar sua caixa antes de baixar;
» Nunca encaminhe mensagens a um grupo de pessoas usando Cópia Carbono (CC), utilize o Cópia Carbono Oculta (BCC), assim não há risco de alguém “doar” sem querer a lista a algum spammer;
» Nunca adicione o e-mail de algum amigo seu em sites promocionais, listas de e-mail e pergunte-o antes qual e-mail dele deve cadastrar em qualquer site que vá enviar algo para ele, ex: cartão virtual, lembretes de aniversário, convite para participar de comunidades, indicação de sites, etc;
» Crie um e-mail somente para se inscrever em sites de comércio eletrônico, cartões virtuais, comunidades virtuais, discos virtuais, listas de discussão, sites de relacionamentos e chats iRC.

Conhecendo como os spammers agem podemos lutar contra eles.

O gmail.com oferece uma conta com excelente filtro antispam, mesmo assim ainda recebo em média de 10~15 e-mails que não são classificados por dia, resolvo o problema marcando a mensagem como spam e na próxima vez ela entrará direto na pastinha de spam.

Eu acrescentaria mais algumas sugestões:

1 – Se a maior parte dos spams são gerados por máquinas de pessoas comuns infectadas por vírus que agem como “servidores de spams”, sem que o usuário saiba, cortar o mal pela raíz seria a solução mais lógica. Considere, então, utilizar sistemas imunes a esse tipo de vírus, como Linux.

2 – Se você usa Windows, pare de usar o Outlook Express e comece a acessar seus e-mails pelo navegador (webmail). Assim, suas mensagens não serão baixadas para o computador e a possibilidade de infecção é muito menor. Outra vantagem é que você não fica dependendo de uma única máquina para acessar seus e-mails. Você pode usar qualquer uma com acesso à internet (mas cuidado ao utilizar máquinas que são compartilhadas por muitas pessoas como lan houses e laboratórios de informática de escolas, ambos com estações Windows). Esse problema também desaparece usando Linux.

3 – Pare de usar o navegador Internet Explorer e comece a utilizar alternativas como o Mozilla Firefox, o Opera ou o Google Chrome. O Internet Explorer é conhecido por ser o mais visado e o mais cheio de falhas, portanto, se quiser diminuir os riscos, escolha um com menos buracos. Esse problema também desaparece usando Linux.

4 – Nunca clique em links recebidos em e-mails, a menos que você tenha certeza absoluta do destino desses links. Se você apenas passar o cursor do mouse sobre o link, sem clicar, o endereço de destino aparece no canto inferior esquerdo do seu navegador, seja qual ele for. Assim, você pode identificar o destino do link e se ele leva a uma página que você não conhece e não sabe a quem pertence. Mas cuidado: links aparentemente legítimos podem ser utilizados, como, www.bb.net (que não tem absolutamente nada a ver com o Banco do Brasil). Portanto, se você não tem absoluta certeza do link, então não clique. Esse problema também desaparece usando Linux.

5 – Fique atento à velocidade da sua internet. É muito provável que se você está achando que sua internet está lenta, sua máquina esteja sendo usada por crackers ou para envio de spam. Sim, pode ser problemas com provedor ou com seu Windows, mas, se você procura a causa e não encontra, é possível que ela esteja se escondendo de você, como os vírus.

6 – O Alvin aconselha a manter seu antivirus atualizado. Politicamente, não posso ser contra essa atitude, apesar de saber que ela é um tanto quanto ineficiente. O antivírus não vai te salvar se você não mudar hábitos. Além disso, existem maneiras corretas de se usar os programas antivírus que a maioria das pessoas não conhecem. Ingenuamente, acham que o fato de ter um antivírus instalado torna a máquina inexpugnável. Nada mais longe da realidade por alguns motivos simples:

• Os antivírus precisam ser instalados e configurados por pessoas que saibam como fazê-lo. Instalados por leigos são completamente ineficientes.
• Os antivíirus não trabalham sozinhos. Eles precisam de ajuda de três outros fatores: um antispyware, um firewall bem configurados e um usuário consciente. Sem qualquer um desses fatores, são inúteis.
• Os antivírus estão sempre um passo atrás dos crackers. Ou seja, se um vírus é descoberto e incluído na lista de vírus do programa, é porque alguém o criou antes e já o espalhou. Resumindo: não se trata de uma “vacina”, como a indústria de software insiste em “informar”, mas de um tratamento para uma doença que já foi contraída. Ou seja, o estrago já pode ter sido feito antes mesmo de você atualizar seu antivírus.

Abaixo, alguns links para sites que podem ajudá-lo a se proteger e ajudar a reduzi-los:

• Site do CERT (Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil) exclusivo sobre o tema spam – http://www.antispam.br/
• Cartilha do CERT sobre segurança na internet, capítulo sobre spam – http://cartilha.cert.br/spam/
• Página da RNP (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa) sobre spam – http://www.rnp.br/newsgen/0101/spam.html
• Página inicial da cartilha sobre spam do site Quatro Cantos – http://www.quatrocantos.com/antispam/index.htm

Agora, um pequeno depoimento:

Eu uso exclusivamente webmail e Linux há cerca de 5 anos. Tenho uma conta de e-mail que uso para preencher formulários, digamos, de pretensões duvidosas e outra para meu e-mails do dia a dia. A conta que uso para acessar o messenger também é diferente. Recebo, em média umas 50 mensagens por dia e, dessas, apenas umas 10 são spam e caem direto na caixa de spam, sem poluir minha caixa de entrada. Raríssimas vezes recebo spam em minha caixa de entrada e, quando isso acontece basta eu clicar um botão para marcá-la como spam e não mais receber mensagens daquele remetente ou assunto de novo. Não repasso mensagens de tipo nenhum e, se alguma me parece séria e de interesse para outras pessoas, primeiro pesquiso a origem e, só depois de ter certeza de que é séria, encaminho para alguns dos meus contatos com cópia oculta. Não parei de receber spams, devido a hábitos errados com relação à internet que tive no passado. Mas a quantidade desses e-mails indesejados diminuiu significativamente, a ponto de não me incomodar mais.

Minha máquina não tem Windows, não tem antivírus, não tem anti-spyware, não tem firewall, e eu não tenho medo. Acredito que isso seja uma confirmação de que mudar pequenos hábitos e ser mais cuidadoso não custa nada e pode melhorar muito a qualidade da internet em particular, e da vida como um todo.

Windows 7 x Ubuntu 9.10

Uma matéria da PC World, com o título acima, me chamou a atenção hoje. Todas as razões apresentadas são amplamente conhecidas pelos adeptos do Linux, mas ainda são (incorretamente) contestadas pelos usuários de Windows.

Vale a pena ler a matéria e começar a se convencer de que, para qualquer “usuário comum” (termo amplamente utilizado para se referir a um ser humano que necessita de um computador para fazer tarefas simples) o Ubuntu 9.10 é totalmente eficiente.

Vejam a matéria neste link: http://pcworld.uol.com.br/dicas/2009/11/05/cinco-razoes-que-fazem-o-ubuntu-9-10-melhor-que-o-windows-7/

Hanya Untuk Outlook Express (Start Menu->allprogram->Outlook Express) bukan MS Outlook.

- Caranya kita harus masuk dulu ke email kita misal dengan Provider Yahoo (yahoo.co.id) . lalu cari menu “opsi” di kanan atas webpage, pastikan anda di submenu surat ( di kiri ) kemudian klik di kolom kanan “akses dan penerusan POP”, isi point “akses web&pop” kemudian simpan.

- Langkah berikutnya masuk ke outlook express dan klik menu tools -> account, pada menu dialog internet account kita pilih tab Mail lalu klik Add-Mail pada sebelah kanan kemudian isi nama anda klik next isi account email address anda Isi incoming mail pop3 : pop.mail.yahoo.co.id dan outgoing mail smtp : smtp.mail.yahoo.co.id Isi Account name anda (biasanya tanpa @yahoo.co.id) dan password (Email password), jangan anda contengkan login SPA (secure password Authentication) kemudian klik next atau finish

- Kembali kita masuk ke menu tools -> account pada tab Mail lalu klik properties, Pada menu tab “general” dapat kita adjust nama mail account nya, jangan lupa conteng “Include this account when recieving mail or syncronizing” – Kemudian pada tab menu ”server” contengkan “my server requires authentication” lalu setting –> “use the same setting as my incoming mail server” lalu klilk ok – Di Tab “connection” isi jenis koneksi kita (sudah tertera Lan maupun dial-up modem) bila ada lebih dari satu jenis connection maka lebih baik tidak dicontengkan.

- Lanjut ke menu advanced isi port outgoing smtp : 465 dan incoming Pop3 : 995, berikut pula dicontengkan SSL nya (ke dua-duanya outgoing dan incoming) klik Apply dan Ok lalu close. – Apabila anda mau menambahkan address book Email anda maka panduanya adalah : Buka Alamat surat yahoo anda pada web browser dan buka menu Opsi di pojok kanan atas lalu di submenu kiri klik ”Buku alamat” kemudian Klik “Impor/Ekspor” di bagian kanan atas halaman. Di bagian “Ekspor” (di paling bawah), klik tombol “Ekspor Sekarang” disamping “vCard, Zip dari file .vcf”. Pada jendela yang terbuka, Anda bisa memilih untuk menyimpan Buku Alamat Yahoo! Anda ke komputer sebagai file .zip. Simpan file .zip ini ke lokasi yang mudah Anda ingat di komputer Anda. File .zip tersebut berisi setiap kontak Anda dalam file .vcf masing-masing. Sekarang, buka file .zip Buku Alamat Yahoo! Anda tersebut dengan mengklik ganda file. Pada jendela yang terbuka akan terlihat semua kontak ditampilkan berdasarkan abjad. Setiap kontak memiliki file .vcf-nya masing-masing. Drag file .vcf yang akan ditambahkan ke Outlook ke desktop. Atau, simpan ke tempat lain yang Anda inginkan. OK – ! Sejauh ini tidak ada masalah. Sekarang, buka Outlook Express dan Pilih “Import and Export” di menu File Kemudian, pilih “Import a VCARD file (.vcf)” dan klik “Next”, di jendela yang terbuka, pilih file .vcf yang telah Anda letakkan di desktop atau tempat lain di komputer Anda. Klik ganda file tersebut atau klik sekali dan klik “Open.” OK – selesai! Sekarang kontak ini sudah ada di daftar kontak Outlook Anda. Ulangi langkah 7-9 untuk file .vcf lainnya yang akan ditambahkan ke Outlook.

Cara pengaturan email Gmail di Outlook Express:

1. Buka program Outlook Express Anda, dari menu Tools, kemudian pilih Accounts, pada jendela Internet Accounts pilih tombol Add, kemudian Mail, pada jendela Internet Connection Wizard pada bagian Display name: masukkan nama Anda atau nama yang akan muncul di email orang lain nantinya. Contohnya: Heryan Tony.
2. Kemudian tekan Enter, pada bagian E-mail address:  masukkan alamat email anda yang lengkap, contohnya: tony.gratis@gmail.com, tekan Enter
3. Pada bagian My incoming mail server is a: pilih POP3, kemudian pada incoming mail server: isi dengan pop.gmail.com sedangkan pada bagian outgoing mail server: isi dengan smtp.gmail.com kemudian tekan Enter atau Next.
4. Pada bagian Account name: isi dengan nama akun email anda atau yahoo id anda, misalnya tonyhcl dan pada bagian Password: masukkan password email Anda. Tekan Enter atau Next selanjutnya tekan Finish.
5. Selanjutnya silakan dibuka lagi  ”Tools”, “Accounts”, pada jendela Internet Accounts pilih email yang anda buat tadi, kemudian tekan tombol “Properties” dan pilih tab “Advance”.
6. Pada bagian Server Port Number yaitu “Outgoing mail (SMTP)” diisi dengan 465 sedangkan “Incoming mail (POP3)”: isi dengan 995. Tekan tombol OK.
7. Berikutnya silakan dicek email anda apakah ada surat masuk dengan cara menekan tombol “Send and Receive All” pada toolbar.

Knowledge Base Article: 17190-2-107

 Symptoms:

 While migrating the Lotus Notes mailbox using SysTools Export Notes some folders hierarchy may not migrated properly to Microsoft Outlook.

 Cause:

 Lotus Notes NSF file may be corrupted for the particular folder hierarchy.    

 Workaround:

 Follow the below steps

1.  Open the NSF file in Lotus Notes Client.
2. Rename the folder which is not getting migrated.
3. Close the NSF file.
4. Close the Lotus Notes Client.
5. Launch SysTools Export Notes and perform the conversion.

Applies To:

•  SysTools Notes Address Book Converter
• SysTools Lotus Notes To Outlook Express

Just wanted to share I used Outlook Express for a long time, and Windows Live mail is pretty good. I installed it over 9 months ago and never had any problems with it. Great for multiple email accounts. The only “issue” I ever had was that “subject” line in read messages is not that visible (light gray colored text on white background) but pretty soon I got used to it. Windows Live Mail – Recommended.

A mi esto me jodió bastante.
Resulta que al pasar de 2Gigas de memoria en alguno de los dbx’s de Outlook Express este se puede corromper (de hecho lo hace).
La solución… pues pongo algunos links por si algo de esto le sirviera a alguien pero a mi solo me sirvió descargar alguna aplicacioncilla de lectura de dbx’s y exportarlos como “.eml” para no perderlos.

El error que produce (lo pongo en inglés) es algo como lo siguiente:

“An unknown error has occurred. Account: ‘Example’, Server: ‘example.mail.domain.com’, Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure (SSL): No, Error Number: 0×800C0133 “

Y no permite abrir la base de datos en cuestión. Nota: al hablar de base de datos, para aquellos que no estén muy puestos, me refiero al archivo que guarda outlook express con cada una de las carpetas de emails que se crean en dicho programa.

Links útiles e informativos:

• http://techsupportpeople.blogspot.com/2008/05/error-number-0×800c0133-outlook-express.html
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903095/es
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918069
  

Espero que os sirva..

You’re not falling for this email, are you?

I have received at least six copies of this bogus email message so far today.

The email message claims to be a Microsoft announcement notifying you of a new update to the Outlook or Outlook Express email programs. Prominent in the message is a link you’re suppose to click on to download the patch from Microsoft.

The link displays as “http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftofficeupdate/KB910737/default.aspx?ln=en-us&email=galen@xxxxxx.com&id=950469769888131599309836639492603233….7986“. It sure looks like that if you click on the link you’ll be going to Microsoft for a download.

Don’t do it!  The link is a phony!

How do I know?

First, Microsoft doesn’t send emails announcing updates. Their Windows Update program runs and, depending upon your preferences, installs updates or tells you do get them when you have time.

Second, when I read the email and place my cursor over the link, a pop-up tool tip appears showing the real location I’d be taken to. The real location doesn’t end with “microsoft.com”. The real location in the latest email I received ends with “ij1tli.com”. That domain is registered to:
Personal use
3-59-10 Izumi, Suginami-ku
Tokyo, Tokyo 1680063
JP

You could track this domain further, but all we really care about is that it’s not Microsoft!

If you click on the phony link to download the “patch”, you’ll download something. But, it won’t be a patch to your email problem. Instead it will be an evil program. One that maybe tracks your keystrokes when you log into your bank account and then sends your banking username and password to thieves. Or, a program that runs malicious software on your PC that will attack a website or send millions of spam messages.

Don’t fall for this attempt to fake you out. Just delete the emails… and make sure that your anti-virus software is up-to-date!

This week, through an article in DMNews titled “Inside the inbox: What are your customers really seeing?,” we revealed some preliminary results from a study we’re conducting with thousands of email users.

One of the areas we covered was the use of preview panes, which has always been a blind spot for email marketers. Yet it’s important to understand since it dramatically impacts the user’s email experience (do they see the message in a full window or just a snippet along the top or side?).

There are two ways to quantify use of preview panes – by % of users that utilize them or by % of messages read that way. The numbers in the DMNews article are based on % of messages read in the preview pane for each email client. It’s useful (and maybe more important) to understand the % of users that utilize the feature. So, here’s a side-by-side comparison of the two –

Note that Earthlink, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail Classic do not support a preview pane.

While some of the email clients (AOL, Yahoo! Mail) have similar preview ratios for both users and messages, note the moderate difference (1.1X) for Outlook and Outlook Express users and the huge difference (2.5X) for Windows Live Hotmail users. There is a common thread – for all clients, the % of users who read messages in the preview pane is higher than the % of messages read that way.

What’s the takeaway? Don’t waste effort and potential impact by ignoring one of the primary ways consumers interact with email – designing for digestion in the preview pane is critical.

So I needed a new modem.  Go figure!  My DSL provider only took a couple of days to come to my rescue and then my connection was up and running again like new. 

You’d think that would have been it.

But nope – I’ve been having issues with my computer ever since.  After cleaning the drives, defragging them, running a full system virus scan, running a spyware system scan and checking every possible area for problems, I’m convinced that Outlook Express has been the culprit.

For the past three days, I’ve been reading and responding to all my email accounts online, rather than downloading them to Outlook, and voila – no freezing.

I’m still going to get someone to look at my lifeline to the internet and see what can be done, but I’m just glad I’m finally able to get online and stay there.

How do you all handle your internet issues and interruptions?

Commands:

1. Accessibility Controls – access.cpl
2. Accessibility Wizard – accwiz
3. Add Hardware Wizard – hdwwiz.cpl
4. Add/Remove Programs – appwiz.cpl
5. Administrative Tools – control admintools
6. Automatic Updates – wuaucpl.cpl
7. Bluetooth Transfer Wizard – fsquirt
8. Calculator – calc
9. Certificate Manager – certmgr.msc
10. Character Map – charmap
11. Check Disk Utility – chkdsk
12. Clipboard Viewer – clipbrd
13. Command Prompt – cmd
14. Component Services – dcomcnfg
15. Computer Management – compmgmt.msc
16. Control Panel – control
17. Date and Time Properties – timedate.cpl
18. DDE Shares – ddeshare
19. Device Manager – devmgmt.msc
20. Direct X Troubleshooter – dxdiag
21. Disk Cleanup Utility – cleanmgr
22. Disk Defragment – dfrg.msc
23. Disk Management – diskmgmt.msc
24. Disk Partition Manager – diskpart
25. Display Properties – control desktop
26. Display Properties – desk.cpl
27. Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility – drwtsn32
28. Driver Verifier Utility – verifier
29. Event Viewer – eventvwr.msc
30. Files and Settings Transfer Tool – migwiz
31. File Signature Verification Tool – sigverif
32. Findfast – findfast.cpl
33. Firefox – firefox
34. Folders Properties – control folders
35. Fonts – control fonts
36. Fonts Folder – fonts
37. Free Cell Card Game – freecell
38. Game Controllers – joy.cpl
39. Group Policy Editor (for xp professional) – gpedit.msc
40. Hearts Card Game – mshearts
41. Help and Support – helpctr
42. HyperTerminal – hypertrm
43. Iexpress Wizard – iexpress
44. Indexing Service – ciadv.msc
45. Internet Connection Wizard – icwconn1
46. Internet Explorer – iexplore
47. Internet Properties – inetcpl.cpl
48. Keyboard Properties – control keyboard
49. Local Security Settings – secpol.msc
50. Local Users and Groups – lusrmgr.msc
51. Logs You Out Of Windows – logoff
52. Malicious Software Removal Tool – mrt
53. Microsoft Chat – winchat
54. Microsoft Movie Maker – moviemk
55. Microsoft Paint – mspaint
56. Microsoft Syncronization Tool – mobsync
57. Minesweeper Game – winmine
58. Mouse Properties – control mouse
59. Mouse Properties – main.cpl
60. Netmeeting – conf
61. Network Connections – control netconnections
62. Network Connections – ncpa.cpl
63. Network Setup Wizard – netsetup.cpl
64. Notepad – notepad
65. Object Packager – packager
66. ODBC Data Source Administrator – odbccp32.cpl
67. On Screen Keyboard – osk
68. Outlook Express – msimn
69. Paint – pbrush
70. Password Properties – password.cpl
71. Performance Monitor – perfmon.msc
72. Performance Monitor – perfmon
73. Phone and Modem Options – telephon.cpl
74. Phone Dialer – dialer
75. Pinball Game – pinball
76. Power Configuration – powercfg.cpl
77. Printers and Faxes – control printers
78. Printers Folder – printers
79. Regional Settings – intl.cpl
80. Registry Editor – regedit
81. Registry Editor – regedit32
82. Remote Access Phonebook – rasphone
83. Remote Desktop – mstsc
84. Removable Storage – ntmsmgr.msc
85. Removable Storage Operator Requests – ntmsoprq.msc
86. Resultant Set of Policy (for xp professional) – rsop.msc
87. Scanners and Cameras – sticpl.cpl
88. Scheduled Tasks – control schedtasks
89. Security Center – wscui.cpl
90. Services – services.msc
91. Shared Folders – fsmgmt.msc
92. Shuts Down Windows – shutdown
93. Sounds and Audio – mmsys.cpl
94. Spider Solitare Card Game – spider
95. SQL Client Configuration – cliconfg
96. System Configuration Editor – sysedit
97. System Configuration Utility – msconfig
98. System Information – msinfo32
99. System Properties – sysdm.cpl
100. Task Manager – taskmgr
101. TCP Tester – tcptest
102. Telnet Client – telnet
103. User Account Management – nusrmgr.cpl
104. Utility Manager – utilman
105. Windows Address Book – wab
106. Windows Address Book Import Utility – wabmig
107. Windows Explorer – explorer
108. Windows Firewall – firewall.cpl
109. Windows Magnifier – magnify
110. Windows Management Infrastructure – wmimgmt.msc
111. Windows Media Player – wmplayer
112. Windows Messenger – msmsgs
113. Windows System Security Tool – syskey
114. Windows Update Launches – wupdmgr
115. Windows Version – winver
116. Wordpad – write

Many have gone through the agony of attempting to setup “Out of Office” functionality for Outlook Express. Microsoft quietly answers the call with their procedures.

Mimicking Out of Office using Message Rules (New Window)

Why did Gmail Stumble ??

Google’s email service GMAIL seems to have stumbled again within weeks. As reported earlier, this time it happened on Thursday, September 24, a little more than three weeks after Google’s email product went down for hours – stranding businesses individuals who rely on its service.

Experts said this outage once again brought to fourth the unreliable nature of cloud computing. This is especially scary for corporate accounts which are starting to reply more and more on cloud computing for their core business needs. One wonders in such cases, if we are really ready for the cloud yet ?

Thursday’s problems began when users stopped being able to access their contacts, blocking them from their contact manager, the chat application and auto – filling of email addresses.

Gmail was unavailable on some mobile browsers, and some folders would not open. Those who bypass Gmail’s web interface by using IMAP protocol to sync with external mail clients such as Outlook were unaffected (this was the case earlier).

This post details the steps needed to successfully backup and restore Outlook Express Data

How to back up Outlook Express items

Step 1: Copy message files to a backup folder

Step A: Locate the Store folder

1. Start Outlook Express.
2. Click Tools, and then click Options.
3. On the Maintenance tab, click Store Folder.
4. In the Store Location dialog box, copy the store location.To do this, follow these steps:
   1. Put the mouse pointer at one end of the box under the Your personal message store is located in the following folder box.
   2. Press and hold the left mouse button, and then drag the mouse pointer across the Your personal message store is located in the following folder box.
   3. Press CTRL+C to copy the location. 5. Click Cancel, and then click Cancel again to close the dialog box.

Step B: Copy the contents of the Store folder

1. Click Start, click Run, press CTRL+V, and then click OK.
2. On the Edit menu, click Select All.
3. On the Edit menu, click Copy, and then close the window.

Step C: Create a backup folder

1. Right-click any empty area on your desktop, click New, and then click Folder.
2. Type Mail Backup for the folder name, and then press ENTER.

Step D: Paste the contents of the Store folder into the backup folder

1. Double-click the Mail Backup folder to open it.
2. Right-click inside the Mail Backup folder window, and then click Paste.

Step 2: Export the Address Book to a .csv file

Important Make sure that you follow this step if you use multiple identities in Outlook Express.

Microsoft Outlook Express 5.x and Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 use a Windows Address Book (.wab) file to store Address Book data. The individual data for each identity is stored in a folder by user name within the .wab file that is used.

The only way to separate the Address Book data for different identities is to export the data to a .csv file while you are logged in as a specific identity. If the .wab file becomes dissociated from the user identities, the data can be exported only as one total. In this case, the data cannot be exported folder by folder.

There is another reason to export the .wab file to a .csv file. If the .wab file not exported to a .csv file, but the .wab file is shared with Microsoft Outlook, the addresses are stored in the personal folders (.pst) file in Outlook. When you export the file to a .csv file by using the File menu in Outlook Express, the correct contacts are exported. However, if the Address Book is shared with Outlook, you cannot use the File menu option to export from the Address Book. This option is unavailable.

To export the Address Book to a .csv file, follow these steps:

1. On the File menu, click Export, and then click Address Book.
2. Click Text File (Comma Separated Values), and then click Export.
3. Click Browse.
4. Select the Mail Backup folder that you created.
5. In the File Name box, type address book backup, and then click Save.
6. Click Next.
7. Click to select the check boxes for the fields that you want to export, and then click Finish.
8. Click OK, and then click Close.

Step 3: Export the mail account to a file

1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. On the Mail tab, click the mail account that you want to export, and then click Export.
3. In the Save In box, select the Mail Backup folder, and then click Save.
4. Repeat these steps for each mail account that you want to export.
5. Click Close.

Step 4: Export the newsgroup account to a file

1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. On the News tab, click the news account that you want to export, and then click Export.
3. In the Save In box, select the Mail Backup folder, and then click Save.
4. Repeat these steps for each news account that you want to export.
5. Click Close.

How to restore Outlook Express items

Note To restore items when you use multiple identities in Outlook Express, you may have to re-create the identities before you follow these steps. Repeat each step as needed for each identity.

Step 1: Import messages from the backup folder

1. On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Messages.
2. In the Select an e-mail program to import from box, click Microsoft Outlook Express 5 or Microsoft Outlook Express 6, and then click Next.
3. Click Import mail from an OE5 store directory or Import mail from an OE6 store directory, and then click OK.
4. Click Browse, and then click the Mail Backup folder.
5. Click OK, and then click Next.
6. Click All folders, click Next, and then click Finish.

Step 2: Import the Address Book file

1. On the File menu, click Import, and then click Other Address Book.
2. Click Text File (Comma Separated Values), and then click Import.
3. Click Browse.
4. Select the Mail Backup folder, click the address book backup.csv file, and then click Open.
5. Click Next, and then click Finish.
6. Click OK, and then click Close.

Step 3: Import the mail account file

1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. On the Mail tab, click Import.
3. In the Look In box, select the Mail Backup folder.
4. Click the mail account that you want to import, and then click Open.
5. Repeat these steps for each mail account that you want to import.
6. Click Close.

Step 4: Import the newsgroup account file

1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. On the News tab, click Import.
3. In the Look In box, select the Mail Backup folder.
4. Click the news account that you want to import, and then click Open.
5. Repeat these steps for each news account that you want to import.
6. Click Close.

For a few years now I have had my Hotmail email account linked to my Outlook client. Like many people out there I use Microsoft Outlook 2007 and this has worked perfectly for some time, and my email has downloaded automatically when opening the program. If I am waiting for an email, a simple ’send/receive’ will pull my new mail down without any issues.

All this changed recently and without warning, one day my mails were being downloaded and the next day Outlook could not access the Hotmail servers.

Folder: Inbox Synchronizing headers: reported error (0×800CCC33) : ‘Access to the account was denied. Verify that your username and password are correct. The server responded ‘Forbidden’.’

The good news is that after a bit of googling I came across a forum with lots of people having the same issue. Luckily someone had done abit more digging and had found an explanation :

In June 2009, Microsoft announced a change to the way Outlook, Outlook Express, and Entourage programs access Hotmail which may require customers to take action.
To continue to receive e-mail from your Hotmail account, please select one of the alternative solutions …... Full details here

As I have Outlook 2007 the solution involved downloading and installing ‘Office Outlook connector‘. This was a simple install and a quick restart of Outlook had my email downloading within no time.

A suprisingly painless fix from Microsoft but I have to agree with the people in the forums that an automatic prompt to install the connector and a less cryptic message from ‘Send/Receive’ would have been preferable.

For a few years now I have had my Hotmail email account linked to my Outlook client. Like many people out there I use Microsoft Outlook 2007 and this has worked perfectly for some time, and my email has downloaded automatically when opening the program. If I am waiting for an email, a simple ’send/receive’ will pull my new mail down without any issues.

All this changed recently and without warning, one day my mails were being downloaded and the next day Outlook could not access the Hotmail servers.

Folder: Inbox Synchronizing headers: reported error (0×800CCC33) : ‘Access to the account was denied. Verify that your username and password are correct. The server responded ‘Forbidden’.’

The good news is that after a bit of googling I came across a forum with lots of people having the same issue. Luckily someone had done abit more digging and had found an explanation :

In June 2009, Microsoft announced a change to the way Outlook, Outlook Express, and Entourage programs access Hotmail which may require customers to take action.
To continue to receive e-mail from your Hotmail account, please select one of the alternative solutions …... Full details here

As I have Outlook 2007 the solution involved downloading and installing ‘Office Outlook connector‘. This was a simple install and a quick restart of Outlook had my email downloading within no time.

A suprisingly painless fix from Microsoft but I have to agree with the people in the forums that an automatic prompt to install the connector and a less cryptic message from ‘Send/Receive’ would have been preferable.

There’s been some pushing and pulling today and, regretably, some downtime to our service but we finally managed to push out WeCanDoCRM Social CRM — the free Customer Relationship Management system that keeps itself updated!

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• Yahoo! Mail contacts
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• Outlook, Outlook Express and Exchange contacts
• AOL contacts
• Other webmail contacts
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By Jim Shimabukuro
Editor

Steve Cooper is founder of Tech University of America (TechUofA) and a former Army education trainer. The following interview was conducted via email from September 8 to 12.

JS: How did you come up with the idea of offering college courses for a flat monthly fee (e.g., $99 for all the classes a student wants to take) and how long have you been doing this?

SC: All of the courses that we are developing will be free and open to everyone. However, only when students want to begin a transcript and earn an academic certificate or degree is there  a $99/month that allows them to take ten courses per year. We only use free etextbooks/resources so there aren’t any other major fees associated with earning a degree.

While building several online university programs I watched as they artificially raised tuition to the student loan cap. I was one of the few for-profit CEOs who didn’t have an MBA or wasn’t a banker so I looked at things much differently. In 2007 when I took over as CEO of a for-profit university, I decided to lower tuition in order to make higher education accessible to more people. We immediately began to enroll students from Africa and several other countries. I found that if you have the same quality of faculty as other well established schools and run a transparent program then people will attend your school if you lower your tuition. At the same time I started to see the popularity of social networking sites explode while the economy started to weaken. I then realized that three things were hot: social networking sites, online learning, and lower or zero-tuition.

Early in 2008, I used to drive over to University of Phoenix Online and sit in the parking lot in search of inspiration. I would sit there for hours watching the sunset, hoping to soak up some of their creative energies, while asking myself, “What would Dr. John Sperling, the founder of University of Phoenix, do today if he were to do it all over again?” I concluded that the first thing he would do is take education to the masses as he did years ago by bringing education from the ivory tower to the community in office buildings then eventually via distance learning. I think one of his greatest keys to success was leveraging existing resources rather than trying to force people to change. For example, he didn’t try to make the corporate offices where they held classes look “academic” nor did he develop some goofy learning management system to deliver their distance learning courses. Rather, they used the existing business offices and Outlook Express. People were familiar with regular office buildings (not intimidating like a college campus) and it was convenient. Also, most adults have used Outlook or Outlook Express so they lessened the learning curve by using systems students would be familiar with — and if they weren’t, chances were that someone they knew could help them — as opposed to building some esoteric and irrelevant elearning system that wasn’t intuitive to adult learners.

So, I eventually thought that if Dr. Sperling were to start over he would bring higher education to the masses. However, today the masses are in social networking sites. At this point I still had not seen a social networking site but realized that if they were generating that much buzz there had to be a reason. I logged into one and instantly said to myself that this is the ideal online classroom! A week later I directed one of my staff members to teach a course in a social networking site, PerfSpot.com, since I knew their leadership and found them to be dedicated to a global reach — and it was absolutely amazing! Social networking sites allow the faculty and students to control their online learning environment (end-user innovation) and can do all the things that conventional learning management systems can’t or won’t allow such as video, audio, showing photos of the users, widgets, etc.

Moreover, using social networking sites to deliver college courses greatly reduces our cost of delivering education since we pay neither learning management fees, which can be as high as $120 per student per course, nor technical staff for support. In essence, it’s a win-win-win because the social networking sites benefit from having more users (our students), we as a college gain by not having any learning management fees, and our faculty and students win because they get to control their learning environment.

JS: Are TechUofA courses accredited? If yes, by whom? If not, is lack of accreditation a problem?

SC: No. Tech University of America is not accredited. We must be operating for two years before we are eligible to apply for accreditation, and we intend to apply as soon as we are eligible in 2011. Since we are a start-up school we have a lot of R&D, yet, at the same time, we are a business so we have to actively seek ways to grow our student body. In order to better serve new schools as well as their prospective students, I believe that accrediting bodies should have a provision that allows for new schools to be conditionally accredited before they start offering courses and then heavily monitor them until they are accredited. In the meantime, we have to operate for two years prior to seeking accreditation, which does offer us time to improve our academic processes while fine tuning the operations of our university.

JS: Are TechUofA classes completely online? Or are students required to participate in F2F (face-to-face) activities at some point during a course? If not, is this lack of F2F contact a problem?

SC: All of our courses and programs are delivered 100% online, and we do not plan on any residency requirements. Recent studies have shown that online learners can attain the same, if not higher, learning outcomes than their F2F counterparts. Having said that, I do think that F2F interaction is obviously valuable. To this end we are exploring several ways that we can integrate various optional study programs that will bring some of our students who live around the world together for meaningful experiential and F2F learning.

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Steve Cooper: While I fully agree with Chris Anderson, author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price . . . that anything that becomes digital inevitably becomes free, I do think that we will see a hierarchy emerge within online learning: we will have free or very low priced schools, then more expensive programs, and finally exclusive online programs for the very wealthy . . . .

______________________________

JS: Is it possible for a student to complete a degree or certificate at TechUofA? Would this be a TechUofA degree or a degree offered by a college that relies on TechUofA courses?

SC: We will be offering certificate programs as well as associate, bachelor, and master degree programs in business management with several concentrations in fields such as criminal justice, sustainability, construction management, computer science, and sports management. However, we are beginning to partner with several colleges that are interested in using our courses — in these cases students who are enrolled in a partner school and complete our courses would receive credit/degrees from their school, not Tech University of America. In this case we will serve as a blackboard, if you will, with our courses hosted in Facebook, and partner schools will use them at their discretion.

JS: What is the instructor-to-student ratio for your classes? If the ratio is far greater than for F2F classes, how do TechUofA instructors manage the large number of students?

SC: Our student-to-faculty ratio is 1:20 for most courses, and 1:25 for the rest, which is about the average for most online schools, and considerably less than large research universities where ratios of 1:500 are not uncommon.

JS: If students enter a course at any time and exit at any time, I’d imagine that record keeping may be a major problem. Does the instructor monitor all of her/his students? Or is this managed by someone else?

SC: Non-degree seeking students, those who are just using the course materials, may come and go as they please. For our degree-seeking students we have definite start and end dates for each course, and each course is eight weeks in length. Since our courses have less than 25 students, our faculty are able to manage each course.

JS: Are TechUofA instructor salaries comparable to that of F2F institutions? Do you have full- and part-time instructors?

SC: We engage adjunct faculty members to teach our courses. They must have a graduate degree from an accredited school, with practical work experience in their field of study. We also require that our faculty have teaching experience at a regionally accredited school. This allows us to demonstrate that the quality of our faculty is comparable to that of accredited schools.

We use a variable pay model, with each faculty member earning $50-$75 per student. This incentivizes faculty to teach more students per course and is fair because the more they work, the more they earn. At the same time it helps us contain our costs since we are not paying faculty $2,000 when there are only four students in a course. The fact that we do not cap the amount faculty can earn means that they can do quite well. Also, our model encourages faculty to use their own videos in YouTube, social networking sites, etc., which can increase the likelihood that they will be able to secure a textbook contract because faculty who can demonstrate a substantial following these days are highly sought after by publishers. Finally, given that we charge $99 per month, you can see that 50-75% of our revenues go to faculty pay as they are the most critical part of our team.

JS: Does TechUofA rely on staff from countries where salaries and wages are much lower? If yes, is there a problem in quality?

SC: No. However, as we grow our international student body, we will explore hiring staff who reside in countries where we have a large student base so that our staff can relate well to our students, thus serving them better than we can here in Phoenix, Arizona. I must add that I personally am not convinced that outsourcing labor to other countries always saves a considerable amount of money, especially when you consider the inevitable travel, loss of business from language barriers, rising costs associated with outsourcing, etc.

JS: Is TechUofA international? In other words, do students come from many different nations? In U.S. TechUofA classes, are international students charged a higher fee?

SC: We are proud that we have had many inquiries from international students, and in our model everyone pays the same fees. However, we are working on raising money so that we can offer scholarships to people in developing countries so they do not have pay anything to earn a degree from Tech University of America. Also, we are working on building a networking system that allows more fortunate students to sponsor (pay for tuition) for students who cannot afford the $99 a month to earn a degree. We believe this will lead to several meaningful relationships between our students.

JS: Are services such as TechUofA growing in numbers and popularity? Do you foresee a time when the TechUofA way of providing classes will be the dominant means of earning a diploma, degree, or certificate? Will this be at the K-12 or college level? Or both?

SC: Absolutely. Click here for the best overview of this movement which refers to us as EduPunks. Yes, I do see a day when the Tech University of America model will be the prevailing way of providing online courses, and by this I mean using social networking sites as the learning management system rather than Blackboard, using free etextbooks rather than traditional textbooks, etc., but I do not think all schools will have all their courses offered for free and only charge $99 a month for degree seeking students. While I fully agree with Chris Anderson, author of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, and his assertion that anything that becomes digital inevitably becomes free, I do think that we will see a hierarchy emerge within online learning: we will have free or very low priced schools, then more expensive programs, and finally exclusive online programs for the very wealthy that are as expensive as, if not moreso, than Harvard. At the same time I predict that we will only have 50 state schools – one for each state – that has football teams, fraternities, etc., and the rest of the students will attend private, for profit schools, either onground or online, especially given the rise of online high schools. I have been told there are more than one million online high schools students in America.

JS: Is student cheating a problem in TechUofA classes? If not, how is it handled?

SC: Student cheating, plagiarism, program integrity and student authentication are all serious challenges for all schools. The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008 requires that a school that offers online courses have procedures in place to ensure that that students who enroll in a course are the same students who take the course and ultimately receive credits. While the HEOA doesn’t apply to us since we will not utilize Title IV funds (federal student loans), we are fully committed to ensuring program integrity. In addition to having a required assignment on personal accountability and plagiarism in our introductory course, have engaged CSIdentity’s Voice Verified product to ensure that the student who enrolls in Tech University of America is the same student who is in a particular course, completes course assisgnments, and ultimately receives academic credit. This is done by randomly verifying the biometrics of their voice throughout their entire course of studies, and the Voice Verified solution is more accurate than a fingerprint.

JS: Is there anything else you’d like to add?

SC: Sure, I think it is important to point out that Facebook, which is central to our model at Tech University of Ameirca, was created by students, for students, and it is fitting that Facebook is finally becoming the leading learning management system. I predict that within 2-5 years, Facebook will buy Blackboard and move all of its users into Facebook..

Yeah, yeah I’ve known for a while that IE and Outlook Express are about the worst programs to use for surfing the web and reading e-mail. I have resisted using anything else, because I haven’t found anything that worked as easy. My spouse is somewhat ‘technologically challenged’ and I need a browser that is easy for her to use and work with. A good friend of mine pointed out that the newest version of FireFox is very IE like, so I downloaded it and am putting it through my own trials before I put it on the other-half’s computer. Figured I would also try-out Thunderbird, Mozilla’s email/newsgroup program. Like it too, plus I checked, these 2 programs use less than a third of the computer resources as Microsoft’s programs. I’m not going to completely get rid of IE and OE, but I don’t think I will be using them like I was and will be using Mozilla’s programs. I can already hear several friends saying “B.F.T.” Once I figure out just what tweeks and adjustments need to be made, I can get it installed on our other computers.

   A quiet day today. R*** had a lie-in until 07:30 which was nice. No jobs to do today, except making the dinner. I pegged out a few more strawberry plants. That will make about 8 new plants all together. I don’t really know how we will over winter them. I think, I’ll leave them out doors until it starts to get frosty, and maybe put them in the shed, with some fleece over them. I don’t think they will keep very well in my little greenhouse.

   S**** was online with Mrs H tonight. He doesn’t seem to be that well. His back is getting  so bad, that he says he is having difficulty walking!! Mind you, it does not seem to stop him spending all night watching DVDs. He says he was up all last night, until 10:00am this morning, watching ‘24’. Now that surely cannot help !!

   It seems funny seeing Mrs H on messenger. I’ve also got her checking her email. Now that I’ve got Outlook, I’ve moved my accounts from Outlook Express, so that there is only her account on there. What with that, and her searching online and Googling, there will be no stopping her.

   All my bluetooth kit seem to be working okay now (hurriedly looks for wood to touch.) I had to uninstall the bluetooth software and drivers, before I could get my PDA to synchronise. For some reason, the software was only opening two COM ports, when there should have been about 4 or 5. Odd thing is though, that while ever the Nokia PC Suite is open, both my phones are connected to the PC. I’m not sure if that is a good thing or not. What it does mean though, is that I can have all my contacts and calendar details on both my phone, PDA and the PC. I think I’ll give up with the Tiscali email. It is not that good, and apart from getting a monthly email from OpenOffice.Org (which I no longer use), the rest is spam. Now I know I get a lot of spam with the Gmail address, but Google seems to have a very good spam filter, something that Tiscali could do with.

   I think that will do for today.

Tal como se había anunciado, Microsoft Live Hotmail dejó de utilizar el protocolo DAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning) para acceder al correo desde Outlook, Outlook Express y Entourage.

 
DAV se ha dejado de usar para dar paso a DeltaSync que es más eficiente para manejar grandes volúmenes de correo.  Este cambio no afectará a los usuarios web, sino a los que usan los clientes de correo de Microsoft, lo que deberían percibir los usuarios es una mejora en rapidez y eficiencia en comparación al uso de DAV.

Los usuarios de Hotmail que se conecten con Microsoft Office Outlook deberan usar el Office Outlook Connector, y los que aún usen Outlook 2002 necesitan cambiar su configuración para usar el protocolo POP3.  Se recomienda a los usuarios de Outlook Express que se cambien a Windows Live Mail o que también cambien su configuración a POP3.  Outlook Express se incluyó por última vez en Windows XP, mientras que Vista incluye Windows Mail.  Windows 7 no incluye cliente de correo.  Finalmente, a los usuarios de Entourage se les recomienda también migrar a POP3.

El fin del protocolo DAV se viene proponiendo desde abril del 2008 para realizarse a fines de junio del 2008, pero a petición de los usuarios se postergó este cambio.  Más tarde, en marzo del 2009, se terminó de implementar el soporte para POP3, dejando todo listo para el cierre definitivo de DAV ahora en Septiembre.
Fuente:FayerWayer

update shield

A few months ago, I suddenly cannot open Pagemaker files in my InDesign. I thought I had to reinstall InDesign until I came across an article in the internet about a Windows update that disables InDesign’s Pagemaker conversion capability. I figured it’s okay if the update messed up InDesign considering that they are of different software companies.

Anyway, these past weeks I cannot print my emails in Outlook Express. After searching the web for troubleshooting tips, I found out that this is a common problem once you update your Internet Explorer 6 to 7. After following the tips I found on the internet (which is to uninstall IE7 so it could rollback to IE6), I was finally able to print my emails in Outlook.

Now, I can see the update notification in my taskbar and I am ignoring it. Later, when I turn off my pc, I’ll get to choose to either click or not click the turn off button if I want to install these updates or not.

Who knows what other pc problems these updates will give me…what is up with this update thing, anyway?