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Archive Your Text Messages With txtForward
As text messages become more popular and a more prevalent method of communication, it’s becoming necessary to hang on to some of them. Unfortunately, with a limited amount of storage on most phones along with the fact that you’re continuously acquiring new phones, its a bit difficult to find a...
Make Your Favorite (Or Your Own) Silverlight Apps Portable with Desklighter
Blendables, a company that provides tools and components for both designers and developers, recently launched “Desklighter” into its labs program. The program essentially creates a portable application from an online Silverlight app. There are a number of reasons one might want to do so. Perhaps you’ve discovered a Silverlight game...
GoDaddy Now Offering Hosted Exchange E-Mail Plans
Beginning today, GoDaddy (you most likely have – or someone you know has – a domain parked at GoDaddy) is offering hosted Microsoft Exchange plans. There are two plans currently available: individual access (dubbed “Outlook with Mobile”) with 2GB of storage for $9.99/mo and group access (dubbed “Group Outlook with...
Taglocity Debuts New Beta; Borrows a Page from Xobni
Taglocity, the company behind the Outlook organizational add-in of the same name (which we’ve covered before) just debuted a new beta of Taglocity for Outlook. This time, they’ve drawn a little bit of inspiration from Xobni. Taglocity, for those of you that don’t know, is a simple add-in designed to allow...
Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for Hotmail: Better than IMAP
So, Google’s been offering IMAP access to Gmail for quite some time now. What about Windows Live Hotmail users…all eight of them? Are they just left hangin’ with *scoff* POP3? (Okay, I kid…there are literally hundreds* of Hotmail users still in existence.) Well, if you’re a Hotmail user that also has...
Big Software+Services Announcements Expected at PDC2008
Mike Swanson, the PDC2008 Content Owner, over at Microsoft’s Channel 9 site described the upcoming Professional Developer’s Conference to be primarily aimed at presenting Microsoft’s goals for Software+Services. “I’ve read alot of speculation on the blogs, I’ve read what some of the reporters are writing up and, while it’s awesome stuff...
Microsoft to Offer Much-Needed Updates to Paint, WordPad in Windows 7
Not every new feature in the next release of the Windows operating system will be behind-the-scenes (like those much-needed performance enhancements that are in the works.) Stephen over at UX Evangelist has been fortunate enough to get his hands on the M3 (Milestone 3) release of the forthcoming Windows release...
Use “Incognito” and “InPrivate” Browsing to Manage Multiple Online Sessions
The Google-centric blog, “Google Operating System,” today points out a unique aspect of the new “private browsing” functionality built into the newly-released Google Chrome browser as well as the newest beta-release of Internet Explorer 8: the ability to manage multiple online personalities, i.e., different user profiles, in a single browser...
Microsoft Drops Price of XBOX 360; Now Starting at $199
Hey, Microsoft couldn’t let Google steal all the headlines for an entire week, right? (See “Chrome.”) What better way to steal some than to drop the price of one of their most popular hardware releases ever? Effective September 5th, the Xbox 360 Arcade will be available for $199, the 360...
Microsoft’s Personal Folders Backup Utility for Outlook Has Been Updated; Now Compatible with 2007
If you’re a frequent user of Microsoft Outlook 2002 or 2003, you may have already stumbled upon and gotten used to having the Personal Folders Backup utility. The 2mb download installs as an add-in to Outlook and allows you to backup your Personal Folders File (.PST) with just a click...
