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LookOut for Outlook

So, I hate Outlook 2007's built-in Search.

Click in a folder, type into the Search box, and prepare to WAIT. Because leaving the folder halts & dumps the Search.

Stupid. Productivity killer. What was wrong with the old way with a dedicated Search window that could do it's thing while you did your thing?

So I went hunting for alternatives & found LookOut, a search plugin for Outlook. Here's the post I ran across from Bruce McCarthy. Down the article a bit he embeds a link to his downloads area, which might be one of the few places to find it these days. In the comments, you'll find the link to the needed 'hack' to make this work with OL 2007.


I'm letting it finish indexing my billion emails & will post later how well I find it performs.

CHS June 2009

Took just a few moments to look at the good ole Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda on our last trip to Charlotte County. I recognize the main building, but the rest is enourmous, and mostly all new. These are 10mp photos, hopefully you're able to see them in that res in this post.

Tell me I have a nice rack ...

The Acer Aspire One Death

Ok it didn't die, but now I know what did happen.

The loose chain of events was:

• Install OSX Leopard
• Use OSX Leopard
• Remember I had Windows XP, and needed something for some stupid reason
• Reboot some day later into XP, only to find I had a "Welcome" screen with no users to choose from to login, and no auto-login. Mouse worked, keyboard did something (?) but couldn't get further.
• Hold down power button to force-off & reboot, try something different
• Rinse
• Repeat
• On the _th Repeat, AAO powers up, fan spins up, HD spins up (?), and NOTHING else. Blank screen (of Death), unresponsive other than to cool itself a little more by ramping up the fan.

Then after some searching I find that it's not too uncommon to almost-brick these, and my BIOS probably needed to be re-flashed. Found it, stuck on a USB stick, stuck USB stick into Ethernet port, and couldn't understand after 5 tries why the BIOS update seemed to NOT work. Yes, I said I jacked the USB stick into the Ethernet port, which just happens to be millimeters from the USB port on the left side. "My bad." So, once I got that fun stuff sorted out and put a dent in my desk and my forehead, it updated painlessly.

http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html
"First format an USB stick with FAT.

Download the latest BIOS, and put both FLASHIT.EXE and the BIOS file in the root directory of the stick. Rename the BIOS file to ZG5IA32.FD, that's important. Do not remove the USB stick.

Turn the AA1 off, make sure both battery and AC adapter are connected. Press Fn+Esc, keep it pressed and press the power button to turn the AA1 on. Release Fn+Esc after a few seconds, the power button will be blinking. Press the power button once. The AA1 will now initiate the BIOS flash, do not interrupt it under any circumstances. After a while the power button will stop blinking, and the AA1 will reboot shortly after. Wait patiently.

The BIOS has been flashed and all settings reset to default."

Happiness

Having a good time at our favorite Mexican restaurant, Baja Cafe!

Tyson and his pal

There are several funny captions that could be written. Go ahead, try one :)

Highlight of the mid-day

Seasoned chx salad on a toasted pita bun.

Lanterns

The decorative shelf finally got something on it! And I'm using this pic to test PixelPipe

Fax Modems Are Fun

So I'm setting up my Toshiba Satellite MX-S329 laptop with fax software, which suddenly tells me it's not too sure my built-in modem supports Distinctive Rings. DR are the odd ring-tones you can get on a house line for a 2nd 'virtual' number, like a fax number in my case. It rings two short rings, pause, then again. Fax machines or software can detect this and other odd types, then choose to answer.

So after battling in my mind about which PC to do this 'function' on, I decided on the laptop, since it does the home automation tasks now (<20% resource usage avg) and not much else. Plugged line in, loaded fax receiving program which I painstakingly decided on after much research..... and it says "Your modem MIGHT have Distinctive Ring detection...."

Turns out all it needed was a cute little init string : AT+VDR=1,0

Thanks to http://www.modemsite.com/56K/dring.asp for saving an extra hour or ten from my life.

Convert from Outlook on life... to Gmail Life

I now know how to move email from a plain IMAP account in Outlook easily into Gmail:

- Change your Gmail settings to Allow IMAP
- Go into Outlook and set up the Gmail acct as an IMAP acct
- Drag n Drop your old IMAP emails from their folders to the Gmail folders!