in-cell bar charts in Excel
and more here

Sometimes you want to send emails to a whole group of clients and are worried about spam filters blocking them.

There's a list of words and phrases which trigger spam filters here...
http://www.refreshedmedia.com/online-marketing/words-that-trigger-spam-filters.htm

...and a list of not-so-obvious words which also do this here...
http://www.directmag.com/disciplines/email/words_trigger_filters/

There's no way to guarantee an email will beat spam filters because they are customized to suit the user, and the better ones work by learning the kind of emails you want and don't want over time (Bayesian filters - http://email.about.com/cs/bayesianfilters/a/bayesian_filter.htm ), so there's an element of pot luck about it.

Best bet may be to just send them, requesting a read receipt, and mop up those that bounce or where you don't receive the read receipt later.

*Update 20/10/06*
Tips from PC Magazine:
Take These Steps to Avoid Spam Purgatory

SimpleOCR - royalty free OCR engine

Great value CD or DVD duplicators, also available in kit form for more savings. Excellent kit and very good aftersales support. Recommended.

http://www.starmount.co.uk/category/188.html

Mozilla Thunderbird Cheat Sheet

How To Connect a Computer To Your TV
Very good article at TechLore.com about variations on how to do this, depending on the connections you have to work with.

Please Fill Out This Form-Creating forms in Word
+ more tutorials on this, and exporting this form data here

Fixing IIS if installing the .net framework stopped it working properly.
I had this problem ages ago and removed .net as a consequence.

RSS Popper - Free RSS add-in for Outlook & Outlook Express
Outlook 12 will have RSS support built-in (as well as a todo list) but until then, if you want RSS in outlook you'll need some kind of plugin.

DNS Report
"This site will provide you with a DNS report for your domain. A very large percentage of domains have DNS problems; this site will help you find those problems and fix them. Also, the "Mail Test" tool will help find mail delivery problems for your domain."

Useful Windows XP DOS Commands


Pageviews are Obsolete
'reach' is the thing

Scheduling a regular file copy in windows:

1. Create a batch file in notepad like this...

xcopy c:\whatever\etc\file.doc g:\whatever\etc\file.doc /y

The /y part is a switch that will automatically overwrite the existing file without waiting for manual confirmation.
If there are spaces in any of the folder or file names then put the entire path in double quotes, like this...

xcopy "c:\what ever\etc\file.doc" "g:\what ever\etc\file.doc" /y

2. Save this file as whatever.bat

3. Go C:\Windows\Tasks
Double-click "Add Scheduled Task"
Browse to your batch file
Set the schedule
That's it

4. Right-click on your task and "run" to test it