Export contacts from outlook inbox

Sometimes people want to send an email to all the people who have ever emailed them , like a big company name change / email address etc. I was looking for some software to do this , but turns out you can do this via a Macro

 

• Open Outlook
• Press the ALT+F11 to open the Macro Editor
• Click on Tools , References and make sure Microsoft Scripting Runtime/Dictionary is ticket
• Press ok , then on the left hand side , choose the project 1 , microsoft outlook object and ThisOutlookSession
• Copy the following code from the raw paste data here
• Press the F5 Key to run the macro , and you should be ask to choose a folder
• Press the Ctrl G Key after the Macro has run ( Might take some time depending how big the inbox is ) to bring up the results below
• You can then copy this into a text file , or in a BCC to To filed to send off the email

would like to reference help from http://geekswithblogs.net/VROD/archive/2008/11/08/126878.aspx

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Setup Draytek or your own router for BeThere or O2

Setting up a Draytek or your own router with Bethere or 02 is different from usual ISP’s. If your draytek’s show time is up and synced but your router is stuck on “Starting PPP” then “PPP Shutdown” when pressing Dial PPPoa , then you might want to try this : Instead of PPPoe/PPPoa Authentication , choose MPoA (RFC1483/2684) and enter the settings here. 1483 Bridged LLC is the right option with VPI: O and VCI: 101 ( You won’t need a username and password ) Settings from O2′s site are here  : http://www.o2help.co.uk/broadband-settings/

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Choose which Screen RDP Session is Displayed

When an RDP session is opened from a shortcut it will be displayed on the last screen it was maximised and closed on. Sometimes you might want to change this and hard code it into the RDP File. If you create an RDP Configuration file ( Open up Remote Desktop and configure the settings and server address) Choose options and save the settings to a location. Open up the RDP file and depending on which screen ID you want it to open on add the following screen mode id:i:1  (Screen 1) screen mode id:i:1  (Screen 2) Save the file , and open it to run it on the select screen

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Changing How Many Emails Are Displayed on the IPAD

Out the box , when you sync up an email account to your Ipad , it will only download 50 Email Messages. For some people this isn’t even a days worth of email! You can of course tap the “Load More Messages” at the bottom of the email list, but there is an easier way. If you go to Settings then Mail , Contacts Calendar then Show Change the number of Emails to your preference – 25 , 50, 75, 100 or 200 This setting may not now show the e.g. 200 emails. This is due to the “Mail Days To Sync” settings If you go to Settings then Mail , Contacts Calendar then Choose your mail account at the top Change the “Mail Days To Sync” to a larger value to match the value of the “Show” email preference

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Remove Widget List Styles from WordPress Kubrick Theme

This is purely for my own future reference as I like to use this default wordpress theme as a base for all my custom made wordpress themes and I keep having to refind out the CSS works! How to Define the Titles for Widgets Add .widgettitle {color: #db1b1b;} How to remove all the bullets Delete .entry ul li:before, #sidebar ul ul li:before { content: “\00BB \0020″; } How to align the bullet points and remove standard hyperlink #sidebar ul ul, #sidebar ul ul a, #sidebar ul ol , #sidebar ul ol a { margin: 5px 0 0 0px; font-size: 1.2em; color: #000; }

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How to install a self signed certificate on Windows 7 through Internet Explorer

To setup an Outlook Over http from SBS 2003 box , the SBS self signed certificate needs to be installed manually on the clients computer Go to Start , All Programs and find your Internet Explorer Icon Right click on the internet explorer program and choose Run as administrator ( You can also right click on Internet Explorer if it is pinned to your taskbar ) This will open up internet explorer, go to the site where the server certificate is hosted e.g. https://mail.domain.com/remote it will warn you that the “site certificate is not from a trusted certificate authority”. Click on the link which says “Continue to this website (not recommended)” After the webpage is displayed , to the right of the address bar , there should be “Certificate Error” in red, if you single click this, then go to view certificates on the popup window Choose install certificate , choose next , choose the “Place All Certificates in the following store” Then choose the “Trusted Root Certification Authorities” Folder. choose Ok , Next and Finish. It will then pop up with a window , press OK It will then bring up a box about a warning about the certificate, click Yes For SBS 2008 Box’s follow this guide : http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2008/09/30/how-do-i-distribute-the-sbs-2008-self-signed-ssl-certificate-to-my-users.aspx

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How to Minimise an Remote Desktop Session on a MAC

If  you are using a Remote Desktop Connection on a MAC , and you want to minimise the session , so you can switch between your mac desktop and the RDP session the following commands will do this (Command key) and H = Hide/Minimise the Session (Command key) and Q = Quits the Session

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Muliple Page JPG’s infact TIF’s

Recently someone had sent an JPG Image over , however on opening the image from Outlook with Windows 7′s  Photo Viewer it was showing the image as a slide show of five seperate images.Initially confused ( as a TIF is the only mulipage image format ), I thought the slideshow program was being clever and scanning through my Temp Folder and displaying all the photos in that folder, however upon reopening the image from a new location this was not the case. I opened the image up with tools such as Microsoft Office Picture Manager and Paint , and only the first page showed. Upon dragging the image into Infran Viewer, it straight away told me the image was infact a TIF image and would I like to change the file extension! I was amazed Windows opened these fine without trying to decode these as jpg instead of TIFS. So you can fool windows into thinking there are multipage jpgs, could be useful for accountants scanner in and archiving documents!

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How to Find Out What Type and Version of Windows XP you are running

Its difficult to tell which version of Windows XP you or someone else is running … Home , Professional or Media Center and if it’s Retail ( Bought in a Box ) , OEM ( Bought with a new computer) or Volume License for large corporations , schools and Microsoft. Here’s a way to find out exactly which version and flavour! Click on Start, then Run Type sysdm.cpl and press enter Under the Registered To Section , there should be a 20 Digit Number The first Group of 5 Numbers Determines the Type of Windows XP , Match your code for your OS Type 55274 : XP Professional 55276 : XP Professional upgrade 55276 : XP Home 55277 : XP Home 55285 : XP Professional 76487 : XP Media Center Edition 2005 76487 : XP Pro Royalty OEM 76487 : XP Pro volume license (with ’640′ channel ID) The second group of numbers displaus your Version , Match your number for your version Second set: 007 : retail 011 : upgrade OEM : OEM 270 : Volume License 335 : Retail 640 : Volume License 648 : Academic

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Converting .WMV-ASF File To .FLV

After capturing a video on a standard straight to DVD video camera ,The file was encoded with ASF ( Advanced Streaming Format ) ,I wanted to stream this on the internet. The obvious format would be a FLV file streamed using a flash player. The main program I use to convert files to FLV is a free program called “Riva FLV Encoder 2.0” . This does not support WMV files . I needed to convert the WMV into an AVI , This can be done using a previous version of Virtual Dub (1.3 due to a Microsoft Legal Case in which WMV support for virtual Dub was stopped due to Microsoft owning the codec Error Message : ASF files are not supported) Download Virtual Dub 1.3 After importing the file into Virtual Dub 1.3 , It produced an Error “ASF: Illegal Object Fragment flags 0a in packet at 14c0 packing size = 1f40, pp =12,  send time: 0:00″ After more research someone has written a Virtual Dub Plugin for WMV support for the latest version of Virtual Dub ( 1.9.0 ). You can download this WMV plugin by fccHandler Here and follow the readme for installation.  However this still produced errors when trying to reencode to AVI To file the WMV (ASF File ) I used a tool called ASF Tools 3.1 I ran a Basic Repair on the WMV then Re-Encoded it. To do this you will need to download and install: Download and Install Windows Media Encoder 7.1 – wmencoder71.exe Install this MPEG4 codec : http://www.divx-digest.com/software/mpeg4codec.html I then open the fixed WMV with Virtual Dub , set : Audio : Direct Stream Copy Video : Direct Stream Copy Then File , Save As AVI. This can then be converted with Riva FLV Encoder 2.0

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