XOBIN (Inbox spelled backwards) is a fantastic add-on for Microsoft Outlook. I have used it for many months and it has proven to be a valuable tool to deal with email. It indexes your email and allows you to easily search for text, file attachments and shows you information about your contacts not found in Outlook. Now XOBNI has added support for third party platforms such as Yahoo Mail, … [Read more...]
10 Ways To Motivate Your Mind On Monday
It is Monday morning and for whatever reason you can not seem to get going. Here are 10 techniques to spark your mind at work and get your day off to a positive start. 1. Commit to a quick win. Think of a task you know you can get done quickly and do it. You will jump start your brain and get satisfaction from getting a task out of the way. 2. Take a break. You've been at work for less … [Read more...]
15 Tips on Business Email Etiquette
Each day we send email to our co-workers, vendors and clients. Have you ever thought what how your message looks? I am not talking about the actual message, but the format and layout of the email. As often as you use email you should make sure that you are presenting your message in a clear and professional manner. Your email says a lot about yourself. Here are some areas you should pay … [Read more...]
To-Do Lists – Getting Started
Do often feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you have to do? Do you sometimes forget to do something important? If so you are not alone. Most of us work in an environment of information overload. One of the most useful tools to tackle this problem are To-Do lists. To-Do lists are organized and prioritized lists of everything you have to do. You can have as many to-do lists as you need. It is … [Read more...]
Five Ways to Control Interruptions
Your day is starting good. You feel energetic and you are getting work done. Then an email comes in that you must deal with that involves researching months of paperwork. Your phone rings with a low priority call that ties you up for 10 minutes. On the way to a meeting six people stop you to chatter or ask you to do something. So much for your good day! Interruptions are a part of a normal work … [Read more...]
Be More Productive in Outlook With Xobni
Overwhelmed by trying to organize your email? Xobni offers a new way to organize and search your Outlook email. It creates profiles for each person that emails you. These profiles contain relationship statistics, contact information, social connections, threaded conversations, and shared attachments. Xobni (inbox spelled backwards, pronounced zob-nee) is a free Outlook plug-in that adds some … [Read more...]
Get Connected TV and Radio Show
Get Connected TV takes a less nerdy look at understanding technology for home and business. They offer in-depth reviews, tips and how-to segments on the newest technology products. From their web site you can view the last 5 TV shows and listen to the Podcasts of their radio show. They also offer Podcasts and RSS feeds for both the TV and radio shows. The last TV shows topic was Security and … [Read more...]
Lab Rats TV Offers Free Technology Videos
Lab Rats TV hosted by Sean Carruthers and Andy Walker offer a source of free technology related videos. They cover a wide variety of topics, but seem to be aimed at hardware and software technology. Both instructional and sometimes entertaining, they offer some good how-to related videos. Here are some examples of interest to IT Service Depot managers and technicians. BIOS Basics Instant … [Read more...]