Katana Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Hey folks, well i just made some improvements to my current machine having installed (4) 1gb sticks of ram and installing windows 7 to it. much to my dismay i find a number of troubles with the new os. one of which is that win 7 no longer provides outlook express (which i miss terrably) so after i looked for a week for a sutable replacement for o.e. i found Dreammail (fantastic program.) but as most mail programs they will not breakup large mail files with attachments as outlook express did. current limitations are files exceeding 25mb will not be mailed by Comcast. now this problem was never a problem when i used o.e. because it would automatically breakup files larger than this global limitation imposed by comcast. so i guess i will have to do as many of you do and upload my large files to a file transfer service. now the big question is who provides these kinds of services ???? so i need some suggestions as who may be the best for this application. i have other issues that i will add to this post at a later time. any help will be appreciated. thanks, Katana Edited October 7, 2012 by Katana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 if you want i can get you Office 2007 and you can use Outlook. Better than Outlook Express and yes Express died. Why? because most people are moving to a web based email application. I love yahoo mail. No matter where you go and can access the net you can get your mail. Yes you have a 20mb or so limitation but what the fuck are you mailing that is so big? Sure there are better options for that IMO. but hit me up if you want office and I will put in my dropbox kind of like an Al Gore's famous Lockbox but something real. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiZiD Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Microsoft office is the Balls....Thats what I use but its 2003 ver. hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Microsoft office is the Balls....Thats what I use but its 2003 ver. i agree.. lol Anyone remember Word 2.0. hahahaha Edited October 7, 2012 by hxtr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiZiD Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Microsoft office is the Balls....Thats what I use but its 2003 ver. your the one that turned me on to dropbox wizid... i will send you the link if you want 2007. I have a volume license so every product like access and shit. I love 2007.... but 2003 was the shit as well. Anyone remember Word 2.0? lol I have that on floppy.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KaptCrunch Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 296 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4479 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3643 Achievement Points: 36581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 40 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 for big emails can use winzip Courier 4.0 hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Katana Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 hey again, yes i remember word 2.0, it was the best word ever produced (its too bad microsoft will not stick with their original formats for their programs) and wiz i still have my account for dropbox but as i remember it was extereamly complicated to use. if i use that service i have to make all my contacts to get an account with dropbox for them to download the files i share with them (they don't want to do that). what i am looking for is a service that i can simple upload my file to and send my contact a link and all they have to do in click the link and download the file. which services provide that option ??? thanks for the help, Katana p.s. i just downloaded sugarsync will their service work the way i would like??? hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) hey again, yes i remember word 2.0, it was the best word ever produced (its too bad microsoft will not stick with their original formats for their programs) and wiz i still have my account for dropbox but as i remember it was extereamly complicated to use. if i use that service i have to make all my contacts to get an account with dropbox for them to download the files i share with them (they don't want to do that). what i am looking for is a service that i can simple upload my file to and send my contact a link and all they have to do in click the link and download the file. which services provide that option ??? thanks for the help, Katana p.s. i just downloaded sugarsync will their service work the way i would like??? Not everyone need dorpbox... you can put the files in the public folder like I do and you just send them the web link. The other party does not need to have dropbox installed just the link to the files. Very fucking cool with a 2gb limit for the free account. All you do is install.. open the dropbox folder... place the files in public. Right click and go down the list to dropbox then click copy public link then past the link in your browser. Word 2.0 was the shit but it was buggy. They like windows has to change to get people to go buy the new one and they force the other ones out of service by doing so. All marketing. We can all go get a communist computer "MAC" but that would suck as they suck. lol Edited October 7, 2012 by hxtr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labob Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8276 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5994 Achievement Points: 53697 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 I have that on floppy.. I don't have anything floppy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Masterlixx Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 285 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 3 Topic Count: 69 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 290 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 20 Achievement Points: 2204 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 14 Birthday: 11/04/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 Yes MS Office has totbe the best package out there.. I know there are some copy cats.. Ive seen differnet freee office versions of course and for most users they do what they need.. a few letters and a resume now and then what ever works. But when you get down and dirty with the development and programming available in word.. or excel you can see the power in it.. Interesting tidbit.. as i read the autobiography of Steve Jobs. Apple actually commissioned Bill gates to write MS office for the Mac back in the 80's And had an agreement that they would not port it to pc for a number of years. So ms office was not initially for windows.. If anyone really wants to see how steve jobs and bill gates got things gogin and how they interacted back them Read Job's autobiography.. some of it is damn funny.. Like the first time The intitial windows was released and Steve Jobs called pissed at Bill Gates.. as he said you copied my idea.. Gates replied.. Stev its like this i went to steal a TV only you already were there first and stole it.. LOL Steve jobs got the mac OS or GUI interface ideas from Xerox when he had a tour at Xerox park . hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
hxtr Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) Yes MS Office has totbe the best package out there.. I know there are some copy cats.. Ive seen differnet freee office versions of course and for most users they do what they need.. a few letters and a resume now and then what ever works. But when you get down and dirty with the development and programming available in word.. or excel you can see the power in it.. Interesting tidbit.. as i read the autobiography of Steve Jobs. Apple actually commissioned Bill gates to write MS office for the Mac back in the 80's And had an agreement that they would not port it to pc for a number of years. So ms office was not initially for windows.. If anyone really wants to see how steve jobs and bill gates got things gogin and how they interacted back them Read Job's autobiography.. some of it is damn funny.. Like the first time The intitial windows was released and Steve Jobs called pissed at Bill Gates.. as he said you copied my idea.. Gates replied.. Stev its like this i went to steal a TV only you already were there first and stole it.. LOL Steve jobs got the mac OS or GUI interface ideas from Xerox when he had a tour at Xerox park . I thought Bill Gates bought the OS from Xerox. but all good history. Wordperfect was the shit but you had to know the key commands. MS made it so anyone can use a word processor. OK OK OK... my first word processor was Easy Wright on the Commodore 64. Anyone ever use that? Again another one you had to learn the commands which made it hard as shit when you had no internet to look shit up. I dont care what any fuck says... computers was way harder to learn back then than it is today. Way harder! Edited October 7, 2012 by hxtr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaptCrunch Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 45 Topic Count: 296 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4479 Content Per Day: 0.84 Reputation: 3643 Achievement Points: 36581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 40 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 Interesting tidbit.. as i read the autobiography of Steve Jobs. Apple actually commissioned Bill gates to write MS office for the Mac back in the 80's And had an agreement that they would not port it to pc for a number of years. So ms office was not initially for windows.. If anyone really wants to see how steve jobs and bill gates got things gogin and how they interacted back them Read Job's autobiography.. some of it is damn funny.. Like the first time The intitial windows was released and Steve Jobs called pissed at Bill Gates.. as he said you copied my idea.. Gates replied.. Stev its like this i went to steal a TV only you already were there first and stole it.. LOL Steve jobs got the mac OS or GUI interface ideas from Xerox when he had a tour at Xerox park . they both were commissioned to Xerox for GUI so who stole what hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Katana Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 hey again, i will look in to Dropbox again for that feature as i still have an account with them. on the other hand the winzip courier really looks like it takes your base mail program and lets it operate like outlook express used to work. BTW outlook suspended using the feature that allows it to break up large files you mail after outlook 2003 and later versions. microsoft just can't stand it unless they can fuck up a great program they made. i really wish they kept O.E. with their os. thanks, Katana hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katana Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 wow, we are realy starting to state our age with all the talk of these old programs and operating systems we are mentioning, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.16 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 wow, we are realy starting to state our age with all the talk of these old programs and operating systems we are mentioning, lol some of us are great at hijacking a post and having fun with it. Not sure this one will reflect that. hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter1948 Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 1850 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 98 Topic Count: 328 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 8620 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 4222 Achievement Points: 55994 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/29/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 06/19/1948 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 If you want to upload files and have your friends download them you may want to try this www.sendspace.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Merlin007 Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 69 Topic Count: 1076 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 8445 Content Per Day: 1.73 Reputation: 7326 Achievement Points: 75057 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 64 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Wednesday at 02:30 PM Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Share Posted October 7, 2012 (edited) If you liked Outlook Express, you can always try Windows Essentials which has mail. http://windows.micro...-other-programs This is like the new version of Express that does not have all the bells and whistles as does Outlook. Edited October 7, 2012 by Merlin007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Katana Posted October 7, 2012 Member ID: 2898 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 62 Achievement Points: 1272 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/15/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 23, 2014 Birthday: 09/02/1954 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Thank you all for your responses, i will look into every suggestion in earnest. Katana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3st3r Posted October 8, 2012 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5096 Content Per Day: 1.05 Reputation: 5012 Achievement Points: 44711 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 22 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 04:27 PM Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Share Posted October 8, 2012 I dont care what any fuck says... computers was way harder to learn back then than it is today. Way harder! OMG tell me about it.It took me 2 weeks to write the DOS game NINJA on my old Atari 130ST and another 2 days to save it all to 5 1/4 floppies. Have you tried Incredimail? http://www.incredimail.com/english/splash.aspx Not sure on the size limitations for files and what not but my mom has been using it for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
djMot Posted October 8, 2012 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 94 Topic Count: 355 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 5234 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 11106 Achievement Points: 48754 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 112 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 6 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted October 8, 2012 YouSendIt is one of the most popular and contemporary file sharing services. As for email programs, I use Thunderbird, from Mozilla - makers of Firefox. It, too, has an expiration date stamped on it, though. As I understand, one more major update is planned, then the Thunderbird project will be mothballed. They also site the preponderance of web-based email services as the final nail in the coffin of further development. Sad because Thunderbird is a BRILLIANT email client. I've used it for at least the past 7 years or so. Its evolved nicely. That said, and because I have a smartphone, I'm even using my gmail accounts more than ever before. But that's for personal emails. Business emails are another matter entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GMoney Posted October 8, 2012 Member ID: 1735 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 24 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 142 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 9, 2012 Birthday: 06/29/1963 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Hey, I do not see a need for any local email client, like was mentioned above web based is where it is at. I prefer Gmail. For the pesky Microsoft attachments google docs is ok, but I have been testing this for my people that need free and legal....seems to work pretty well so far. Kingsoft Office with AntiVirus. Free is good. http://www.kingsoftstore.com/download-office And for file compression amd management I think that Winzip is overrated, I like 7zip. http://www.7-zip.org/download.html Windows 7 x64 works well IMHO. Windows 8 is turning people off, but I do like the network enhancements. TechNet subscription got me the RTM a month ago. I like the pause feature on large fdile transfers...and a few other things. I do not like that Microsoft is making Media center a pay product. There's my nickel! G G djMot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djMot Posted October 8, 2012 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 94 Topic Count: 355 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 5234 Content Per Day: 1.17 Reputation: 11106 Achievement Points: 48754 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 112 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 6 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted October 8, 2012 I didn't know about Kingsoft Office. I'm test driving it now. Thanks for that tip, GMoney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GMoney Posted October 8, 2012 Member ID: 1735 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 24 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 142 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 9, 2012 Birthday: 06/29/1963 Share Posted October 8, 2012 no prob. It too is not the best, but does a better job with viewing M$ spreadsheets than google docs sheet reader. I have only used it for view/read stuff so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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