So I am looking at a better way to organize my email. Currently I am organizing my email into folders. It sucks for a number of reasons…
- it takes a while
- You can use nested folders but you are stuck in the heiarchy
- The email is stuck with just one folder
The solution is to organize emails using Outlook catagories and Saved Search Folders that pull out all of the emails with a praticular. All you have to do is catagorize the emails and then they appear in the Search Folder. Since you can have more than one catagory for an item, it can appear in more than one folder.
This post gives a good overview of the process:
http://www.timeatlas.com/mos/Email/Outlook/Organizing_with_Outlook_Categories/
I have decided to move back from Thunderbird to Outlook. I really like Thunderbird, but I need something with intergrated calander and todo list, I think this should fit a bit better. Plus I have a copy on each machine I use. Anyhow it took a little work to do it. It takes a while if you have your mail in lots of folders, you have to export and import each folder seperately. I did it using the IMAPsize program and following the instructions on there site:
Moving messages from Thunderbird to Outlook Express and Outlook
Even though Mozilla Thunderbird is a fantastic email client, there are people who (for one reason or another) need to switch back to Microsoft Outlook Express (OE) or Outlook. However, Thunderbird still doesn’t have an “Export” feature which would export mail archives in a format understandable by OE or Outlook. IMAPSize can be of great help in this process and this page explains how to perform the migration.
Mozilla Thunderbird stores emails in the mbox format. Outlook Express stores email messages in propriatory *.dbx files but understands *.eml, which are plain text files. MS Outlook stores messages in *.pst files which are binary propriatory (Microsoft) files. Here are the steps you have to take:
1. Compact your Thunderbird folders (optional)
Thunderbird keeps messages in mbox files even after they have been deleted. If you don’t want to include deleted messages in the conversion, you have to compact your folders in Thunderbird. Right click a folder and select “Compact This Folder”. This will completely remove deleted messages from the folders mbox file.
2. Locate mbox files in Thunderbird
Thunderbird stores messages in the Profile Folder, in the Mail and (if you use IMAP) ImapMail folders. Each mail folder (Inbox, Sent, etc.) is stored as two files — one with no extension (e.g. INBOX), which is the mail file itself (in “mbox” format), and one with an .msf extension (e.g. INBOX.msf), which is the index (Mail Summary File) to the mail file.
3. Convert mbox files to eml files
IMAPSize has a built-in mbox2eml tool that can seemlesly convert thousands and thousands of messages. Download, install and run IMAPSize (it’s free) and invoke the mbox2eml option from the Tools menu. Select the mbox file you wish to convert (you might need to set the “Files of type” option to “All Files” in the file selection dialog, since Thunderbird mbox files don’t have an extension) and select a location where generated eml files should be stored. Click “Convert” and IMAPSize will start converting the files.
All the attachments will also be converted and your original Thunderbird files will not be touched. Starting from version 0.2.0. you can convert multiple mbox files at once.
4. Import generated eml files into Outlook Express
Launch Outlook Express and select the local folder (or create a new one) into which you want to import your messages. Open Windows Explorer or your favourite file manager, locate the generated eml files, select them and drag and drop them into the OE application window. If Outlook Express is your email client of choice you don’t have to perform the next step.
5. Export files from OE to Outlook
Assuming you have Outlook installed on your system, open Outlook Express and from the File menu select Export/Messages. Once exported, the messages will appear in Outlook – if they were in your inbox in OE, they’ll be added to your Outlook inbox; if they were in a local subfolder in OE, a folder of the same name will be created under your Outlook inbox.
I have a the wireless Gyration mouse and keyboard. I love them, they work great… or at least used to. I started having trouble with connect between the keyboard, mouse and the reciever. I tried re-syncing them, but I couldn’t get it to work at all.
I called tech support, they walked me through resetting the keyboard and mouse…. didn’t. I was barely still under warranty but, I didn’t have the original receipt so I was out of luck. As a last ditch effort I took apart the reciever. Inside were a few adjustable potimeters. There were two tall silver things and a red micro potimeter. I tried giving the red one a quarter turn and that seemed to fix things.
The moral of the story is, try taking things apart before you give up and throw them away…
UPDATE: Now I have solved the problem. The tall silver things are actually tunable receivers… I think. Anyhow here is how to adjust your reciever and re-tune it. So first take it apart. Point the LEDs on top and have the cable coming out the back. The silver thing towards the left tunes the first device you try to tune. The right silver thing tune the second thing you try to tune.
1) Put the reciever into Learn mode.
2) Hit teach on the keyboard.
3) Adjust the Left silver thing until you can train the keyboard.
4) Once you can train the keyboard, hit the Learn button and exit the mode.
5) Now enter the training mode again, this time train the mouse first.
6) Now you are working on training the second device.
7) Adjust the right silver thing until you can train the Keyboard. 
Once that works exit the training mode, close everything up and you are good to go!
I have a crayfish in my aqurium. I was worried that I wasn’t feeding it the right stuff. May last two crayfish haven’t done too well. They usaully end up being fish food. Apparently crayfish will eat just about anything though:
“Your crayfish will eat just about anything. We typically feed ours large flake fish food and occasionally a small cut up potato or carrot. We have also heard of people feeding them Purina cat chow and occasionally egg shells (egg shells may help the crayfish out after the molting process by supplying needed calcium to help harden their exoskeleton).”
http://crayfish.byu.edu/faq.htm
I think they also like leafs alot… I am going to check more on this. I think they like the bacteria and fungi on decomposing leaves…
Have you ever wanted to drink coffee in the shower? Why should you waste all this time drinking coffee not in the shower! I have found a solution for this delema. It is a suction cup mounted drink holder. It is currently aimed at Boaters, but I think it would be much more useful for showerers:
http://www.shipstore.com/ss/html/AHED/AHEDDH2.html