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Mon
31
Jan
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'Microsoft Ribbon Hero' and 'Microsoft Forgotten Attachment Detector'

Microsoft Ribbon Hero Ribbon Hero is a game for Office 2007 and Office 2010 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and now OneNote) designed to help you boost your Office skills and knowledge. If you feel Office can do a lot more than you have time to figure out, ... then Ribbon Hero is for you. Play games (aka "challenges"), score points, and compete with your friends while improving your productivity with Office. http://www.officelabs.com Microsoft Forgotten Attachment Detector The Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD) is a Grassroots Project. Like other Forgotten Attachment Detectors on the web, ... (view more)

Fri
19
Mar
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Latest Malicious Facebook Email Steals Passwords

If you receive an email with the message "Facebook password reset confirmation customer support" in the subject line, don't click the link. Doing so would cause you to fall victim to the latest password-stealing virus targeting Facebook users. ... Facebook's estimated 400 million users are being targeted by hackers in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information. McAfee Warns of Malware in Attachment According to McAfee Inc., recipients of the email are told that their Facebook passwords have been reset. They're then urged to click on an attachment to obtain new ... (view more)

Mon
16
Mar
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'Outlook Attachment Enabler', and 'Usage Monitor'

Outlook Attachment Enabler With this program you can take control of attachments Microsoft Outlook deems unsafe, allowing you to open any attachment you like. Controlling the safe and blocked attachments has never been easier (and more potentially ... dangerous, for that matter). http://www.veign.com Usage Monitor Usage Monitor lets you set watch limits on processes to know when your process is using too much CPU. Watch limits can be placed on Memory Usage, GDI Objects, and User Objects. This is a great tool for any developer. http://www.veign.com Today's fresh software picks were provided ... (view more)

Tue
09
Jan
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Send Document as Email: MS Word

Whether your colleagues are in the next office or in another country, sharing files isn't very difficult with MS Word. You can turn a document into the body of an email message or you can send a file as an attachment to an email message. You don't ... even have to leave Word to send the message! When you send a document as the body of an email message, it doesn't lose it's formatting. It is sent in HTML (hypertext markup language) format, the same way web pages are formatted for universal viewing. What makes this particularly useful is that when you receive a document in HTML format, you can edit ... (view more)

Fri
15
Sep
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'System Safety Monitor', and 'Outlook Attachment Enabler'

System Safety Monitor System Safety Monitor (SSM) allows you to track down Microsoft Windows operating system activity in real-time and to prevent undesirable actions from various malware and Spyware programs. SSM's main goal is to discover and ... block malicious actions of any application. http://syssafety.com/product.html Outlook Attachment Enabler Control what attachments Outlook has deemed to be unsafe and be free to open any attachment you like. You can also add to the default list of blocked attachment types. http://www.veign.com/download_app.asp?app=109 (view more)

Fri
05
May
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Handle E-mail Attachments With Care

In my last column I talked about one very important thing you can do to help secure your e-mail . Though it could affect the appearance of some messages, turning off HTML in your e-mail program can go a long way toward protecting your computer. ... Having said that, one of the most useful features of e-mail is the ability to send and receive attachments. An attachment is simply a file that is appended to the e-mail message itself. This can be a data file, like a word processing document or spreadsheet, or can even be a full-blown application such as a disk cleanup tool, an icon changer, etc. ... (view more)

Fri
24
Mar
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'Windowless User Interface', and 'Outlook Attachment Enabler'

Windowless User Interface Traditionally, Windows applications are built upon the GDI windowing hierarchy, and thus restricted in several areas. While you can certainly generate a nice application quickly with the built-in control-set and get a ... standard clean look, you will soon enough stumble upon the limitations of the Windows controls - especially if you want to build something that looks a little more flashy. The native Win32 custom-draw/owner-draw technique is limited, next to no support for transparent windows, rigid control scaling/resizing and the Common Controls are merely remnants of ... (view more)

Wed
08
Jan
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Wrong File Type Association?

Douglas L. asks: " I recently re-loaded Windows ME. When I received an e-mail with an attachment I mistakenly used Media Player to open it. Now Windows assumes that every attachment of that type requires Media Player! How do I change it to the ... correct program for these files? " My Response:First, you need to identify the correct file type. This is done by viewing the file extension in the email attachment. Example: a .GIF email attachment would signify that it is a graphic file. You can use Internet Explorer to open a graphic file, or any third-party picture viewing utility for that ... (view more)

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