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Office 2010

New sync solution for Palm

CompanionLink'll sync it.

EU wants guaranteed software

This is amusing.

Licensing should guarantee consumers the same basic rights as when they purchase a good: the right to get a product that works with fair commercial conditions.

Software generally works when installed on a clean machine with the configuration it was built to work with. If it crashes there's usually something on the machine that the software wasn't expecting. So when software ABC doesn't work, because software XYZ changed something about the machine (e.g. used up all the free disk space), who's fault is it? ABC's or XYZ's? The one with the deepest pockets? I'm sure this law will provide much work for lawyers.

BCM 2007 SP2

Descriptions of the Business Contact Manager problems that are fixed in the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2.

AKA KB957324. Download.

Disapearing tech

Salesforce.com's Director of Platform Research, Peter Coffee, explains how to make better tools.

Today, a Dell Adamo or a MacBook Air competes for the distinctions of being thin, light, and long-lived on battery power: in short, for making its technology as nearly invisible as the world's best technologists can manage.

As Martin Heidegger said in The Origin of the Work of Art, the proper tool is one that disappears into its function; as Alfredo Ruibal further observed, "The less one notices the tool, the better it fulfils its function as a tool."

I remember talking to Peter Coffee, at some CASE conference years ago, when he was reviving Aristotlian taxonomy as a basis for Object-Oriented Analysis.

BCM Contacts not in address book?

Add them. Here's how:

I went to Contacts, right-clicked on Business Contacts, clicked on Properties, clicked the Outlook Address Book tab and checked the Show this folder as a e-mail Address Book. I closed the BC Properties window and the BContacts were once again an option in the Address Book.

Can't connect to the database?

This article from Microsoft support has oodles of info on diagnosing connection issues: How to troubleshoot a shared database in Outlook with Business Contact Manager Update.