ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
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Software

Mail Server Software Update

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Just an update here… I've looked at a few new mail server programs and have decided to give MailEnable Professional a try.. I am looking at it and SmarterMail Both Programs look Great! MailEnable does seem to require less system resources.. But other than that they seem to compare really closely. Except in Price.. But, I can deal with that … Read more

Mail Server Software

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I'm in the market for some new e-mail server software… Anyone out there have any suggestions. I'm currently using Capesoft E-mail server, which is great… Really in-expensive. It includes unlimited domains/users and is really easy to set-up. But lacks some other functions, Webmail for instance. I wrote a little Coldfusion webmail application but it is very basic.. Only letting the … Read more

Vista Keyboard Shortcuts

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I was doing some poking around on my keyboard to see what shortcuts where still working in Windows Vista. Thankfully all the ones I was used to were still there.. But, there had to be more? Newer… Groovier?? Well, here is a list of all the Windows Vista keyboard shortcuts. I don't know how Groovy these are… But they will … Read more

MS Office Alternative!

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I had a customer ask the other day if there was a “way” to get Microsoft Office without actually paying for it. Well, while there are “ways”, none of them are legal nor are things I am willing to do. They only really asked about this because of the extremely high price of the new version. So, I decided to … Read more

Outlook PST files

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I’ve had to deal with outlook “PST” files lately and thought I’d post some general info about them. For those of you who use Microsoft Outlook you might want to know where your data is actually saved. Outlook saves all of your data in a file called “Outlook.pst”.

The “pst” extension stands for “Personal STore” and this is a fairly complex database that contains all of your: Mail, contacts, calendar information, notes, and anything you save within outlook.
Should you ever need to transfer you Outlook contents to another computer you just need to copy this file to a disk/CD/DVD. This file is generally found in

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