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Use Outlook data with Excel, determine your time billing from your email records

Published by Chris April 17th, 2006

Try this,

Highlight a range of emails that you have sent or received in Outlook – then click Edit / Copy.

Bring up Excel – click Edit / Paste

I had no idea you could do this.
Sometimes I need to carefully review and categorize a large amount of email from a prior date range and this trick has […]

Rollyo – Create your own personal search engine

Published by Ted March 25th, 2006

Many businesses rely on the internet for information every day. Travel agents look for trouble spots, discounts, and basic information to a destination. Accountants may need to check the specific language of a tax rule. Doctors may search an online database for medications and side-effects. For every business, […]

Passwords – the most important and probably lacking security aspect of your system

Published by Chris March 21st, 2006

BaysideNetworks risk management code: PWD - passwords
A client called me today, concerned about the privacy of an important email that had been sent to a few of their users. Our client was suspicious that an employee that should not have seen this private message had specific knowledge of it.
He asked me, “How […]

Don’t let your tape drive hold you hostage

Published by Ted October 23rd, 2005

Tape drives, especially tape libraries, are more likely to fail than any other component in your network system. Sometimes the failures are not hardware related, occasionally software issues or possibly a combination of issues are involved.
When there is a failure, it can take a long time to resolve the issue. This is especially true […]