Twitter: @bhuwan: sep 13-14 is acc. to the bcb mailing list. Formal announcement sometime this week i expect. 2 days ago

Jul

17

HOWTO: Syncing Contacts and Calendar info between Nokia smartphone and Outlook

Filed Under Firefox, HowTos, IE, LotusNotes, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, PC | Leave a Comment

Your contact list and calendar events on your mobile phone have nothing to do with the contacts and calendar items on your Outlook, even though most of them are the same. For instance, you store contact numbers in your phone and email info in Outlook’s contacts. Shouldn’t they both be connected? Shouldn’t the reminders/events you set on your phone, or the meetings you enter in your Outlook calendar be available at your desk and while you’re on the go?

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Jun

23

What makes Xobni so popular?

Filed Under Analytics, Editorials, Email, Insights, Marketing, Microsoft, Outlook, Social, Xobni | 1 Comment

Xobni is an Outlook plugin that has proven remarkably useful in managing managing bloated inboxes. It’s generated its fair share of buzz lately, and most users seem to love it. Apart from a clutch of very well-implemented features, what it is about Xobni that make it such a inherently popular tool?

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Mar

2

Exit Outlook 2007, Enter Thunderbird 2

Filed Under Email, Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 4 Comments

So I moved from Outlook to Mozilla Thunderbird this weekend. Though I’d been looking for an Outlook replacement for a while, the Nokia Synchronizer app (which I use heavily) worked only with Outlook, so that kept me from moving.

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Jan

12

Syncing Nokia Phones - Alternatives to Outlook?

Filed Under Mobile, Nokia, Outlook, Thunderbird | 3 Comments

I am very close to dropping Outlook as my email client of choice for my institute mailbox. It is slow, incredibly disk-intensive and requires too much maintenance - the same problems I had with Lotus Notes during my time at IBM.

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Oct

4

HOWTO: Be more productive with the Nokia 6670

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The Nokia 6670 I bought recently has turned out to be a computer in itself. I’ve found myself using my ThinkPad less and less as the week’s gone by.

Email:
I’ve configured both my Gmail and RahulGaitonde.org POP3 accounts on the phone. The built-in email client does a very good job at retrieving, composing and displaying messages and their attachments. It’s also well integrated with the rest of the system, so I can click on most files and select “Send as email”. I’ve heard that Profimail’s the best email client out there, but i.) it isn’t nearly as integrated as the default mail client, and ii.) it isn’t free! After spending nearly Rs. 13000 for this beast, I’m not spending a paisa more :)

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