I posted recently about how to view Internet Mail in Outlook 2007, and I didn’t want to leave out all of the people who have Office 2003.

This trick is handy if you want to see how a piece of email came to you, the exact servers that did the sending and receiving, along with their IP addresses, and what address it was sent to.

To get all of this great information, you just have to read through the Internet headers of the message. To do this in Microsoft Outlook 2003:

1. Double click the message so that it opens in its own window.

2. Then, in the toolbar, click on View > options.

3. You will be greeted with the “Message Options” dialog. There is a section near the bottom of the window titled “Internet Headers”. The section is highlighted in Red in the picture below.

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If you’re in the habit of downloading large files, like ISO images, and you happen to be a Windows User, you may want to take a look at WinWGet.

Use your Bandwidth later

Personally, when I’m surfing the web, writing posts, or playing some First Person Shooter, I want all the bandwidth I can muster. So I try to schedule my downloads for when I’m sleeping. This is why I first decided to look at WinWGet.

Don’t use up all of your Bandwidth

Another reason that I like WinWGet is that you can limit the rate at which you are downloading. This is pretty handy if you are downloading a large file from a web site, and you want to still be able to use your Internet connection.

Or, if you are downloading a large file from a big web site, and you don’t want to use up all of your company’s Internet connection.

Resume Broken Downloads

One other benefit to downloading large files with WinWGet is that if the download stops for some reason, and the server supports it, you don’t have to start from scratch. If you ever try to download a 5G file from a flaky server, you’ll thank me for this tip.

What is WinWGet

WGet is a powerful command line utility in Unix / Linux, which among other things, allows you to download files from the Internet in the command prompt or console window. Luckily, for the Windows users, WinWGet is a very powerful GUI utility and WGet port for Windows.

Download and Install

If you go to the Cybershade.us homepage for WinWGet, you can find the download page.

I don’t usually advise it, but in this case, I would get the .20 beta version, which is a single download you can get here. I haven’t had any problems with this beta, and it is a heck of a lot easier to do it this way.

After saving the installer to disk, and then running it, the install is pretty straightforward. Click on Next 7 times (feel free to change any defaults to whatever your heard desires), and then install and finally “finish”.

After installation, you’re ready to start creating your first download jobs.

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Imagine this, you’re talking to your friend, and you start telling them about this great post which you just read. “I’ll email you a link” is what you tell them, “I subscribe to the RSS feed“. Feeling a little superior, since you are now a purveyor of fine knowledge, you go along your merry way.

It isn’t until later, when you finally get to a computer, that you realize you didn’t star or bookmark that post. How will you ever find it? How will you ever know that it was a Port 16 article?

Now your friend’s life will remain a hollow shell of an existence. The light of knowledge and wisdom will never shine it’s humorous, witty style of illumination into his dark part of the universe.

No need to worry, there’s still hope for your poor, unfortunate friend. Google has introduced a search feature in Google Reader! Not only can you search your feeds, but you can search individual folders (tags). Now you can find that post in a matter of seconds. Your superior feeling doesn’t have to fade like the output of a cheap inkjet.

Google also increased the number of unread posts that Reader will report as being unread. Previously it reported up to 100 unread feed items, after which it would display “100+”. Was it 101 unread posts, 200? There was no way to know, but now it reports up to 1000!

That little feature wasn’t mentioned in the post, but I tend to subscribe to a whole lot more feeds than I have any reasonable expectation of reading. Is it 1001 unread posts, 2000? I don’t know. Maybe they can bump it up to 10,000. I would have a chance then.

References:

Find a needle in a feedstack with Google Reader - Official Google Blog

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Here are the instructions for Outlook 2003.

This seems really silly, but I end up forgetting how to do this, and then I have to go poking around for a good while before I find it again.

This trick is handy if you want to see how a piece of email came to you, the exact servers that did the sending and receiving, along with their IP addresses, and what address it was sent to.

To get all of this great information, you just have to read through the Internet headers of the message. To do this in Microsoft Outlook 2007:

1. Double click the message so that it opens in its own window.

2. Then, in the toolbar ribbon, click the little arrow on the bottom right of the options section. You can see its location in the picture below.

3. Once you click the arrow, you will be greeted with the “Message Options” dialog. There is a section near the bottom of the window titled “Internet Headers”. The section is highlighted in Red in the picture below.

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Way back in July, the Gmail team invited the world to submit clips for the Gmail Video. They provided a printable version of the GMail envelope, and the simple instructions that the clip must feature the envelope entering from the left of the screen, and exiting to right of the screen.

Well, on Tuesday, the Gmail team announced the finished product. They received more than 1,100 clips from 65 countries, and even included a handy dandy map of where the submissions came from.

The video actually turned out much better than I thought is was going to. You can see all of the submissions here on YouTube, and the final video is below.

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