Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Finally! I’ve been searching the Internet for some nifty plugins for Outlook 2010. Found something! If you are interested, you can find the outlook plugins here. After searching high and low for the “perfect” business email and organization software, I have finally come back to Outlook. I like the Outlook calendar and I like the [...]

I saw this excellent article by Paul Strassman (writing a guest post for Larry Dignan) at ZDNet. I admit, though- I did not know that government officials– in this case, the Department of Defense– use Gmail for their government correspondence. Holy cow! Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has been a consistent advocate of increasing [...]

I hope there is no one out there, still falling for this kind of spam. It came this morning, and gave me a good hearty laugh; it was THAT lame: Dear Windows user, We recently noticed that your computer is not updated against viruses. We invite you to update your computer as soon as possible: [...]

I work from home, and saving emails and other correspondence is extremely important, for filing purposes. Printer ink is SO expensive, the last thing I want to do is print all my emails and store them in my filing cabinets! :S I haven’t found a good and simple email backup program that would just SAVE [...]

I happened upon an interesting post by Staci at Just Bloggled, when she was confronted with a nasty surprise image after opening an email. Staci assumed the email was from a legitimate source, opened it, and got quite a shock. She was very glad the kids weren’t around at the time, either. I’m going to [...]

It’s a little hard to believe, but yes, there’s an actual prank service via the Internet! It’s not dangerous or anything– it’s actually kind of cute and silly. It’s the Cardfish Phone call service. Basically, you send an e-card to a friend, and at some time during the card viewing, a telephone service is activated, [...]