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Preserving window sizes for individual message in Microsoft Outlook

Sat, 17/09/2022 - 09:08 -- James Oakley
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This is one of those posts where I stick something on here to help me find it again, and because I won't be the only person trying to solve this.

The Problem: Size and Position of Individual Messages

Microsoft Outlook (msoutlook) is an email client, part of the Microsoft Office suite, and available as part of the Office 365 subscription. Do not confuse this with their online Outlook email service, which is the successor of Hotmail.

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Technology

Consumer Warning: SodaPDF cannot be trusted

Thu, 15/09/2022 - 11:25 -- James Oakley
SodaPDF logo

I was a longtime customer of PDF software made by a company called Docudesk. After they got bought by SodaPDF, who in turn got bought by Avanquest, the software I'd paid for stopped working. This post details the problem, and how they eventually fixed it for me.

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Technology

Facebook: Hacked versus Cloned

Wed, 07/09/2022 - 10:32 -- James Oakley
Facebook login screen on a mobile phone

“I think my Facebook account has been hacked. Sorry everyone.”

Anyone who uses Facebook, and has a decent number of Facebook friends, will see this message from time to time.

People get confused about exactly what’s happened, and therefore how to prevent this from happening and how to fix this if it does.

The key thing to understand is that there are two distinct things that can happen to you: Hacked, and cloned.

Facebook Hacked

This is when someone else is able to log in to your Facebook account.

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Technology
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