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Respond to emails faster with (free) voice recognition
Image via Wikipedia When I need to write an e-mail where I need to get the content right (or want to start a blog post), I get very worried about making it come out
Read More »Defer Sending a Message in Outlook
Boomerang is great if you know you’re going to need to respond to a message later, and you aren’t sure what you want to say yet. Sometimes, though, you already know exactly what you
Read More »Track time on your computer with RescueTime
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. -Peter Drucker. Chris Sacca, a West Coast angel investor who I met at the Defrag conference, tweeted about a utility called RescueTime the other day.
Read More »Treat Email like SMS?
Image via Wikipedia Seth Godin blogged last week about a technique that he claims he’s been using for years to make a little bit easier for himself to respond to all of his e-mail.
Read More »Introducing Boomerang
Baydin quietly launched a new product today. We call it Boomerang, and it is a snooze button for your email. It lets you take a message out of your inbox for a period of
Read More »Finding out where Visual Studio stores your settings file
When you’re writing managed add-ins for Office, it can be tough to figure out where Visual Studio is storing your settings file (*.dll.config) or any of the other files that it is generating when
Read More »Top 5 Ways to Use Windows and Outlook Search More Effectively
Image by Kansir via Flickr As we continue to develop Baydin, I have been very surprised at how many people complain about “missing features” in Windows Search and the Outlook 2007 search bar, like
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TechStars: Just Do It
Techstars opened up applications for their 2010 classes a couple weeks back. If you’re thinking about quitting your job to start a company, or you’re already working on a company but haven’t got all
Read More »VirtualBox Image for Enron Email and Twitter Data Analysis
As I mentioned during my talk at Defrag 2009, the best corpus of sample email data we have is the email data dump that the federal government released after Enron’s collapse. The corpus includes
Read More »Why Email's Not Going Anywhere
I presented the following slides at Defrag 2009 last week in Denver. I wanted to take a quick look at the different use cases for email vs. microblogging and make some predictions about how
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