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Dark Themed Outlook Today

Black Outlook Today

Black Outlook Today

I’m not sure how helpful the screenshot is as I’ve had to blur out most of the writing but hopefully you’ll get the “gist”…. Yep it’s a screen shot of a black (dark themed) outlook today.

There’s a couple of good references….

If you want to create your own. Mine is basically the winter theme all blacked out, if you like it I’ve attached it; to use, unpack somewhere then go to Outlook and do the following:

  1. Right-click on your main Mailbox in the Navigation Bar.
  2. Select Properties.
  3. Select the Home Page tab in the resulting window.
  4. Make sure the Show home page by default for this folder checkbox is checked.
  5. Click the Browse button and browse to the location of the newly created HTML document.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Go back to the Navigation Bar and click on the main Mailbox so that it displays Outlook Today.

Enjoy!

Evolution in Gnome 2.26

I’ve just noticed this in the Gnome 2.26 Release Notes…

2.3. Evolution Evolves its Migration from Windows

GNOME’s e-mail and groupware suite, Evolution, has gained two important features for helping users who are migrating to GNOME from Microsoft Windows environments.

First is the ability to import Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders (PST files) directly in Evolution. E-mail, contacts, appointments, tasks and journal entries are supported. Previously, the files had to be imported via a third-party utility, such as Thunderbird on Windows.

Second is support for Microsoft Exchange’s MAPI protocol. This is the protocol that Microsoft Outlook uses to communicate with Exchange. Previously, Evolution only supported Exchange’s SOAP protocol, which is not available on all Exchange servers. This support significantly improves Evolution’s integration with Exchange servers.

All I can say is WOW!

Linux users will have known that MAPI support into gnome has been on the cards for a while, but .pst access is just brilliant!!