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Wired’s How-To Wiki points out that HTML emails rendered by Outlook are not only occasionally hard to format, they’ll look different (and broken) in many clients. They follow up with tips on turning some or all emails to plain text.
If you’re generally emailing inside a closed circle with Outlook users, HTML-formatted emails are probably fine. But reaching outside Outlook’s very specific HTML confines can cause broken graphics and strange formatting. Hit the link for the menu options and shortcuts that set Outlook 2003 and 2007 to send in …

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If you’re aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment.
While Chrome OS is far from ready for the regular user, lots of us are aching to play around a little with Google’s young operating system. This virtual machine-friendly build looks like a good way to do just that, and you can grab it via BitTorrent now. From The Pirate Bay page:
This is a …

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Microsoft’s Office 2010 has rolled out to trusted testers, and among the screenshots coming back, nothing seems so promising as the Quick Steps buttons. They’re like high-powered Send & Archive buttons that can be tweaked to do any multi-step action.
Sure, Office 2010 includes automatic SkyDrive document synchronization, native PDF creation, advanced video editing in PowerPoint, and a lot of other tweaks—detailed, in screenshots and text, by the Digital Inspiration blog.
But what’s really exciting to our email-handling reptile brains is the ability to create Quick Step buttons for any …

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Windows: Wanna give Office 2010’s online document syncing, Windows 7 taskbar integration, and killer quick steps a go? Microsoft has thrown open the doors on a free beta of Office 2010 Professional—for those who can wait out the download.
As with the Windows 7 beta and most Microsoft offerings, this one requires grabbing a license key, registering or signing in with a Windows Live/Passport account, and fighting it out with the many others trying to grab the download from the servers. The download is 684 MB, and Microsoft is …

Windows only: Have you ever told a little white lie about when you started working on a project, hoping nobody would notice that the file timestamps disagree? SKTimeStamp helps you lie more effectively.
Once you’ve installed the explorer add-on, all you have to do is right-click on a file, choose the TimeStamps tab, change the dates to anything you want, and then click the Touch button. The file will magically appear to have been created or modified whenever you specified—though depending on the type of file some of the other metadata …