ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Free Programs You Need

Free is good! And in this case Free is GREAT. Here are some of my favorite FREE programs that I use on a regular basis. Techie or not these programs will make a good addition to your arsenal. If you have a favorite useful program that is not listed please post it in the comments… (make sure it’s FREE 🙂 … Read more

Outlook error: 0x800CCC90

The other day a client called me reporting that he was unable to download his e-mail with Outlook 2003. He reported this error: Your incoming (POP3) mail server has reported an Internal Error. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet Service Provider (ISP). The server Reported: -ERR problem retrieving message. Now, this is a … Read more

Outlook PST files

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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Friday Funny – Just one More

I really do work… I just found this in an old e-mail and had to share… Enjoy!! Two Friday Funnies should make up for not having any last week….

This one may be considered “Bad-Taste” so….

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