When I think of Microsoft Outlook, I think of a PIM, Email, tasks and calendar, but at the same time I think it’s bloated, not flexible enough a memory hog and the search functions are sorely lacking.

When you’re working with lots of information in one place you need to be able to get to that information fast. Having information at your finger tips is so valuable in a business relationship.

While Outlook does a good job, it’s not my choice. But recently XOBNI makes Outlook searches and information right where you need it.

But it’s not without sacrifice; the program/plug-in works in conjunction with Outlook typically drags down 200+mb [for me] and XOBNI is going to tack on and extra 20mb of memory as a separate ‘service’.

Examples:

XOBNI is really good plug-in for Outlook, but it’s a loner right now. Only focusing on Microsoft Outlook. The group doesn’t have any plans to move beyond Microsoft Outlook. Other packages were left to flounder about. So Eudora, Lotus Notes, Thunderbird, Entourage, or Outlook Express may never get this plug-in.

I personally use Thunderbird and if a alternate to XOBNI comes to Thunderbird… I’m there.

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As the race for the new HD model develops, the cool part is that it’s storage space. And as long as the developers can stick with the common file formats the different Operating System’s use then it should be fine.

The SSD’s are going to be the future, but the end model/standards going to be the question; I don’t think there’s going to be. The platform is too fluid.

The opening of Pandora’s box for HD replacement has occurred.  Finally hardware manufactures are going at the angle of anything goes; just stick with the file format.

SSD’s are just memory anyway, but who’s going to get the best performance and storage out of these devices… time will tell.

Stay tuned.

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Time Warner Cable is agreeably the worst Internet provider right now. They’re practicing old dial-up and metering services for Internet service. In the locations where TWC is ‘beta testing’ this new method of billing customer’s they have this online metering service that informs the customer how much surfing they have left before they start using their service.

By the way, you’ve to use your bandwidth to check your bandwidth, to see if you’re over your bandwidth limit. It’s like banks charging a NSF fee when they know you don’t have any money.

Now when your installed the tech says you’ll get a automated email to sign up; Don’t. Matter of fact, don’t even use their email.

Apparently, if you don’t sign up for the monitoring service, the boys at Time Warner Cable won’t know to bill you.

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OCZ has announced the introduction of its high-performance Z-Drive SSDs, a new line of PCI Express solid state drives which the company first showcased earlier this year at CeBIT. Available in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities, the new offering comprises of up to four 256GB drives set up in a RAID 0 array and housed inside a graphics-card like enclosure, which hooks up to the system via a PCIe x4 link.

The drives are based on MLC NAND flash memory and feature a built-in 256MB cache to help speed things along. For all three models, the sustained write speed is specified at 200MB/s but maximum read and write specs vary depending on their capacity. The 500GB version, for example, is the fastest of the bunch with max read and write speeds rated at 510MB/s and 480MB/s respectively. No prices have been officially announced, but according to listings from a French online retailer, they should cost around €1400, €2200 and €3400.

via OCZ intros Z-Drive SSDs with up to 510MB/s speeds – TechSpot News.

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A piss poor and half baked Vista released to a audience with less and fair reception. Microsoft offered the option to downgrade to back to XP, but with Vista almost out the door and Windows 7 coming up faster than anyone assumed; there’s a good chance Microsoft doesn’t want users to downgrade back to XP.

I base this off my experience with them over the last few systems we ordered.

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If you’re  logging in to the google website, which you probably are; 80% of the world does.

You’ll notice is your running INTERNET EXPLORER your getting a little nudge to move to a better browser;.a noticeably faster browser.

Google did this a few months ago with their GMAIL account; pushing users of INTERNET EXPLORER to use Chrome.

Chrome is still fairly new, but has had good penetration to the browser market. Last stats showed 8-15%.

This website reports 2% of visitors here are using Chrome as their browser, but until Chrome releases full support for plug-ins and a larger selection of them, people are not going to migrate in masses.

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Enjoy.

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I’m very disappointed in Nuance.

I saw on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Facebook {April 8th 2009} that Nuance has decided not to support or honor their earlier statements to support the ‘Essentials’ customers.

For months, Dragon NaturallySpeaking customers have been promised updates. Nuance is showing that they are not people of their word.

They have practiced deception and discrimination with their ‘Essentials’ customers. They knew- they knew they were not going to support those customers and said nothing; announced nothing.

They wait until there’s a release/update and then unload on those customers the bad news.

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Microsoft is offering several options for those who want to move from the beta version of Windows 7 to the release candidate when it comes out sometime in the following weeks. Unfortunately, none of them are as easy as a direct upgrade path from the beta build to the RC but rather require a fair amount of work. The recommended approach, according to them, is to go back to Windows Vista and upgrade from that.

The reason offered by the software giant is that they need to get more feedback on the experience that the typical user will have in going from Vista to Windows 7. Those who still want to upgrade directly from the beta will be able to do so, but only using a makeshift workaround of sorts that consists of seven steps to avoid version checking. The steps are listed in Microsoft’s blog here. However, the company cautions that going this route might result in "some oddities" after the upgrade so you should try this at your own risk.

Alternatively, users can perform a clean install onto a separate partition and use the Windows Easy Transfer feature to move accounts, files and settings – which is probably the best way to go anyway.

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