Pin Outlook Templates to the Taskbar for Quick Access

The following is a tip I sent into the How To Geek website in 2009.

(Original Link - How To Geek Website)

"A time-saving Windows 7 tip: you can create Outlook templates for boilerplate emails and pin them to the Windows taskbar for easy access.

This technique is not limited to readers using Windows 7, since you can pin a folder to the taskbar in any version of Windows—but the new Jump lists in Windows 7 make it a lot simpler. To create your own set of Outlook templates, Stephen advises:

1. Create an Outlook template by composing a new email message with the text you want, and then using File -> Save As to save the message as an Outlook Template into a folder of your choice.
2. If you are using Windows 7, simply drag the template files onto the Outlook icon.
3. For previous versions of Windows, right-click the taskbar, choose Toolbars -> New Toolbar, and pick the folder that you saved the templates into.
4. Now you can quickly access your templates from the Jumplist by right-clicking on the Outlook icon. For previous versions of Windows, you can use the pop-up folder menu."

Constraints in Project Professional

Restrictive constraints are to be avoided, most of the time, because they limit the ability of project to schedule your work. Constraints can cause confusion when trying to determine why dates do not align to expectations. In some cases constraints are necessary or even recommended, what is important is that you know you are using them.

  

If you don't think that you add constraints to your project plans you could be doing so and not even realize it. Whenever you alter a planned date manually by changing the date instead of adding lag or lead time, altering predecessors or changing durations you are adding a constraint.

“If you manually enter a start date or a finish date for a task, Project changes the constraint type for that task to Start No Earlier Than (SNET) or Finish No Earlier Than (FNET). These semi-flexible constraint types force the task to start or end on the specified date regardless of subsequent changes that would otherwise affect the task's place in the overall project plan.”

–Microsoft Office Online Article

There are many different types of constraints in Microsoft Project. The table below details these:

Understanding what the constraints do to the scheduling engine you can now infer some circumstances where a restrictive constraint may be necessary. Listed below are some instances where having a restrictive constraint may be a good idea:

· When you have no choice in the matter and a specific task needs to occur on that date

· Although deadlines can also be used here, it is understood that some tasks such as onsite work need to occur on a specific date once scheduled with the customer

· When you are trying to schedule tasks differently than the default method project utilizes.

· Project schedules tasks as soon as possible by default.

· There may be instances where you want to schedule tasks as late as possible or using any of the other constraint types in specific situations.

If you already have constraints in your project schedule you can remove them with a bit of work. Here are some steps to remove constraints from your plan and allow the scheduling engine to work for you.

1. Look for the constraint symbol in the first column of your task
2. Double click on the task to go into task information
3. Click on the advanced tab
4. Change the constraint type to read as soon as possible
5. Now go into your plan and adjust the predecessors/lag/lead times to allow project to schedule your work how you expect it to be scheduled

Journalism Fail

http://www.wtsp.com/news/mostpop/story.aspx?storyid=173510&provider=top

Article Review:

OK Matthew Sin, you need to go back and write a new article, you did not do a good job on this one and your editors shouldn't be chasing headlines they should be approving your content. They fail at journalism also.

1- if you have to unplug from your xbox how is it a sexbox?
2- Kinect then gets plugged into your pc where you have to find drivers someone else made, you dont hack it yourself. The "hack" was done by those that wrote the drivers for PC since it was intended only for Xbox at this point in time
3 - This is just a camera and some motion tracking. PCs already have cameras and mice so the only real thing this adds to a "sex game" is omitting the mouse and keyboard
4 - at the end of the day this article should read "Porn industry is looking to utilize Xbox's Kinect for PC games/website interaction"

So if that is the story you are reporting on the internet having porn... groundbreaking stuff there. Glad we are not in a financial crisis and at war, glad there are no governments being overthrown or major legislation being debated in the us. Good thing you have time to write nonsense...

FAIL