Thursday, January 14, 2010

Outlook GTD Macros

How can I create a macro that will take an outlook email, create a task and then attach the email to the task and move the email to an archive folder to help me with the Getting Things Done (GTD) workflow?

Here’s a real good article on that.

I have begun tweaking this a little bit. When I get a good system down, I’ll post it here. In the mean time, this is a really good start.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Outlook and “Macros are Disabled” error

Why am I suddenly getting the error “The macros for this project have been disabled” when I am editing macros in Outlook 2007?

Here’s a good article on how to fix this.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Graphical Looking Text Buttons

This is a nice article on employing CSS to make text looking buttons.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Capturing Music Streams

Is there a way that I can save down the music I'm listening too from an Internet stream?

If you use WinAmp, you can use a tool called Streamripper that will save the music down even when you're not listening.

I do this when I know I'm going to be traveling. I'll start this up the night before and stream some music to disk and transfer it to my iPod.

Once I've listened to the stream, I usually just delete the music to make room for more, random music.

Enjoy.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Force IE8 to IE7 Compatibility Mode

Is there a way that I can force IE8 users to enter IE7 compatibility mode when they hit my website so that I don’t have to change my working IE7 site?

Yes. There is. Details are on this Microsoft blog.

Essentially, there are two ways to implement this:

  • On a per-site basis, add a custom HTTP header

X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7

  • On a per-page basis, add a special HTML tag to each document, right after the <head> tag

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

I hope that works for you.  I understand from some that even with this setting, you might have to tweak a few things.

Enjoy!