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Outlook Rules - How to Work Around the 32kb Limit

It’s a problem that has hit many people I know, and until now there has not been a good solution for it. What I’m talking about is the fact that in Outlook you are limited to 32kb worth of rules if you are connected to an Exchange server, at which point you receive an unceremonious error message stating that there is no more room. For literally years, I assumed this was a misconfiguration of the Exchange server I was connected to, as I couldn’t fathom Outlook failing to save rules after a paltry 14 or 15. I was wrong. Luckily, there are a few solutions to consider.

The first is the one I’ve been using for over a year now, and loving. Clear Context Information Management System is an Outlook add-on that is not intended to be a fix to the problem I describe above, but a wonderful side effect of buying in to their system is that you become much less reliant on Outlook’s built-in rules system. Clear Context deserves an entire post of its own, which I will do here soon, but for now just keep in mind that if your Outlook rules are driving you crazy, Clear Context could be the answer (and then some).

If you’re not looking to completely reconsider your inbox and how you interact with it, consider Auto-Mate for Outlook, which is a separate rule system from the built-in Outlook one, with all the same flexibility and configurability and a whole host of added features, like scheduling rules to run periodically and filing mail automatically after the fact.

Auto-Mate is available in Standard and Pro versions, and Clear Context is currently running a public beta program for version 2 of their wonderful product.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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