I was finally able to solve the problem with new Outlook 2007 - new emails in plain text in UTF-8 format were not displayed.
The solution was simple - just had to create a new data file, and then import all information from old data file (.pst) to a new one. That’s it - all works fine for new emails.
Hint for users who are going to do that - don’t forget to save your processing rules first 
Dropped the lovely Colibri and switched to a faster, more flexible and powerful analog - Launchy. It is free opensource program, couldn’t notice any bugs during few days of testing. Indexation of all my shortcuts + extra programs takes now 1-2 secs instead of 30-40 in case of Colibri. A proper configuration and skins support allow me to say Colibri has no advantages over Launchy.
A service called BrowserShots that allows you to test any website in 3 browsers we have (IE6, IE7, FireFox) launched a new technology preview service here http://v03.browsershots.org/
In short - it allows you get quality screenshots taken with almost any browser possible - linux versions, mobile versions, pda and so on, very impressive list of browsers I haven’t even heard of. Feel free to check it out, really amazing.
This is not a holy war because nobody likes trackballs
(except me) and they are very unpopular, but anyway I think trackball is better. The one I have is Logitech® Cordless TrackMan® Wheel, previously owned the same thing but wired, not cordless, for 2 years. I am talking about thumb-driven trackball, as I do not understand how can anyone use a trackball that needs several fingers or hands just to rotate the ball - in everyday life.
Why is this ugly piece of plastics better than a mouse (for me) - simple, it has too many advantages against mice:
It is same precise as a mouse, can be cordless too.
The only disadvantage for me is that you have to work with clean washed hands only, otherwise you have to clean it twice a day - anyway cleaning is very easy and takes 10 secs only, maybe it is not a drawback at all 
About usability and ability to actually use it comfortly for everyday life as a replacement over a mouse - yes it is possible. You have to get used to it, and this period takes around 2 months after you can act same quickly as with a mouse.. But I think worth it.
A very unobvious feature for me, but I actually found it. The best browser ever (FireFox of course - homepage) has a nice feature of Bookmarks Toolbar Folder which is very useful for quick access to bookmarks.. You can easily manage links dragging pages onto toolbar, you can create folders (pop-down menus) and drag links within them. The problem was - I wasn’t able to drag folders of bookmarks with my mouse.. But it appeared to be very easy after reading documentation. You can drag folders pressing Shift or Alt when dragging, that’s it.
JFYI.
2.0 beta version of Pocket Skype was released a couple of days ago. Now it looks better, works better, many bugs fixed, and there are two versions - one for weak Pocket PCs and one for strong (>312Mhz)
Just a thought, what should be used when working with emails with MS Outlook? Built-in editor or Office Word? What’s better? What should be preferred by default? Let’s see what’s the difference.
Enough for getting rid of Word as email editor, but I’m using internal one and more than happy. Can’t even think about why use Word unless you are HTML-only guy who loves fancy emails..
I found the program launcher I am using more than a week and I’m very happy with it. No cheap ads, it is really useful. It’s name is Colibri.
Launching programs is not a big deal, but usually takes several mouseclicks and several priceless seconds (I often forget what application I want to start during that).. I’m was launching programs with:
Huge list. There was no alternative to this mess until Colibri appeared. It is type-ahead launcher.. So you press a hot key (Ctrl-Space by default), and then type the first letters of you application (like Fi for Firefox or Ou for Outlook), it offers choices and you can either expand it into actions by Tab or launch it with Enter. Seems pretty complicated but in real life that rocks.. Get rid of all shortcuts, and just press hot key and type first letters (Colibri gets smarter for “hot” applications - they are offered more often) and Enter. Takes a second - and the most important it doesn’t confuse your mind when offering a choice of all applications (like in Start Menu).
Must-have software. It’s free additionally. Recommended.
Following up with outlook is a vital problem, if you sent a email and didn’t get a reply, sometimes you want to send a ‘follow-up‘ to remind about your previous email. There is no similar tracking feature for this in Outlook, bu there are a few utilities that help managing reminders.
You can find a good and thorough comparison of 3 most popular follow-up tools for outlook - MAPILab’s E-mail Follow Up, Sperry Software’s Follow Up Reminder and NetCentric’s Getting Things Done Outlook Add-in here.
GTD Outlook addin is the most powerful but the most expensive. However, I will still be looking for other solutions for email management and increasing productivity for you work with email and Outlook.
Skype - The whole world can talk for free.
Skype 2.0 Branch is not beta anymore, it’s final version. Not many changes to go after latest beta, but many people are now going to start using it.
So groups, mood and videocalls should become more popular. Let’s see.
V4S – Free Web Voice Messaging
People are getting anxious to get more from skype, and new service appear like mushrooms after rain.
v4S is free Web Voice Messaging system. It’s beta, but still offers free voicemailing service, while skype charges for that.
Interesting!
There is a list of something new and interesting with Skype
let’s see:
ability, very cool and really crazy.Also a Skype Button Wordpress plugin was announced some time ago.. Pretty and nice but probably useless, but going to try it (later 
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P2P Email system is something I haven’t heard about yet. What is it? Serverless email software, secure and opensource system, sounds pretty cool.
P2P is more and more popular, and this project has some future. One only disadvantage - it’s build with java ;(
Gtalkr is web-interface (AJAX + Flash driven) to google talk IM.
Works well, pretty fast, very interesting website and tool. A “must” to know about it.
I didn’t expect this version of my favourite Mozilla FireFox browser so much as previous version, current 1.0.7 version is pretty comfortable to work with - fast, secure, stable. I will try 1.5 separately, and will probably switch only when it gets all necessary extensions I currently use. But looks like new 1.5 version is very good to get acquainted with this browser, try it if you haven’t already.
It’s not a secret gmail is very popular not only because they offer a lot of space, it’s also very fast, simple and flexible, and it indexes everything in it’s own style. It really rocks when you have a lot of email correspondence like me and have to search mail archives often.
ZOE (actually it’s ZOË) is a tool that offers same gmail-style indexation of all your mail - but locally on your computer. It’s actually a email client, but it also acts like a simple mail gateway or server, means you can easily use your favourite email client like Outlook easily with it.
It’s so flexible - wow, you can even read your mail accessing by FTP client, web client, imap, pop3 - any way you can imagine it. It’s also pretty quick, you can find details on it’s official site.
It is more flexible solution than Neo Pro, it only works with Outlook with it’s base, while ZOE is much more powerful, it’s like a gmail server on your computer. Please don’t hesitate trying it.
Wow I finally found this amazing software.. I spent months looking for something like that, but no luck. But suddenly I faced this tiny (~36kb with installer) program and tried it.
It is only useful for people who have several network interfaces and have to deal with routing all the time. I use WiFi and LAN, I use virtual network interfaces (VPN) and always wanted to make some programs work with one interface, some programs work with different one. Like - browsing with one, downloading with second, ICQ with different and all at the same time. Windows routing abilities (route program) helps but it is a pain to keep routing table updated.
ForceBindIP does exactly it has to, you can use it to launch using particular netword interface. It is fast, small, free and it works, really great who has to handle multiple NICs.
This is actually a “Hello World!” post for all users.
One of the most important questions - site’s idea, it’s main goal and questions it covers:
and Computer Productivity, Windows and Desktop easy and flexible. Promise to keep it interesting Comments are welcome, I’ll be happy if someone finds anything useful on this site. Tnx.
I finally was able to find a free, fast, amazingly quick, powerful email organizer for Outlook - that’s definitely my software of this month.
It’s name is Neo Pro
What’s so amazing in it and why does anyone need this type of software. It is very useful only if you are using outlook and you have a large email database with 10000’s of emails and 100’s of correspondents as I do, and you want to search them and organize them easily. I was previously using a small tool called LookOut (LookOut for OutLook) but it was too slow and it didn’t work correctly in some cases.
Neo Pro is pretty costly (~$70), but Free version is also powerful. Its actually main feature is indexing all emails and contacts in gmail-style, it sorts email, filteres it, and you can search it.
There are many other features you may want to be interested in, like hot folders, advanced categories, active mails and to-dos, saved searches and so on, but I leave it for your personal research But I ensure you will get excited with any feature you might want to try!
For example filters work like this
