Showing posts with label microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label microsoft. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

I think I'm turning MAC'anese, if you please

Today is a new and glorious day! Oh glorious day! I just got an iPhone (3gs, 16mb)  last night and i feel soooo relieved to get out of Windows mobile 6 HELL!!
As a matter of fact, Dawnmarie and i both FINALLY got into our new iPhones and will soon be making the swith to MAC laptops... me thinks!
No problem for DM. She'll be at ease being back in the MAC world as a teacher... Windows was not friendly or helpful for her. Me though,  with my 3d and Autocad apps i am a bit worried about taking the plunge, but ive read many articles and forums lately where people discuss running AutoCad and 3ds Max using dual boot and bootcamp for windows apps.
Also, considering dumping Outlook right now, moving to Gmail and Google Calendar. We also use a great online shared calendar system called Airset that will work well with google and the iPhone.
So, any general comments, recommendations, etc. about the whole switch to MAC thing?

Monday, July 20, 2009

Backup Your Outlook! using "Personal Folders Backup" a FREE Addin from Microsoft

Backup Outlook PST Files Regularly with Personal Folders Backup

DOWNLOAD MS Install, pfback.exe HERE

The Personal Folders file (.pst) of Microsoft Outlook is one of the most important files on your computer that stores offline copies of all your email messages, calendar appointments, contacts, tasks and other Outlook items. [PST = Personal Storage Table]

outlook pst backup tool

Whether you download emails from Gmail Inbox to Outlook or sync Google Calendar with Outlook Calendar, everything gets saved in a PST file on your hard drive. It is therefore extremely important that you regularly backup your Outlook PST files so as not to lose any data in the event of a computer crash.

Though you can create a backup copy of your Outlook .pst files using the Import and Export wizard in Outlook, that’s slightly cumbersome and puts some pressure on your memory since it’s for you to remember the date when you have run the same backup process again.

personal-folders-backup

To save you from this backup stress, Microsoft has a free Outlook add-in called Personal Folders Backup that works with all versions of Outlook and weighs just 160 kb.

This tool can backup all your PST files in a single click and will automatically remind you to perform a backup after ‘x’ number of days. The same tools can also be used to restore Outlook data from previous backups.

The Personal Folders Backup tool has been available since long but the new version that’s released today includes support for Outlook 2007.

DOWNLOAD MS Install, pfback.exe HERE

ADDITIONAL INFO FROM MicroSoft: HERE

article copied from: http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/backup-outlook-pst-personal-folders-files-regularly/3214/