How do you get Outlook to download your hotmail/live mail emails and calendars?

I just wanted to download my live.co.uk emails in Outlook. Now I had managed to do this years ago using the Hotmail HTTP account type and thought easy, just repeat that account type of old and I would be away. You know guessed it, nope that didn't work. I did however find a solution....

Go to Microsoft and get the Outlook Connector - Outlook Connector

Now once this is installed it will automatically start up Outlook and request the account details that which to add:



So quite simply enter your email account, password and the name you wish to appear on your emails and bingo! Well nearly, whilst this now works on my machine I found that I had to close down Outlook a couple of time prior to the email working. Once over that hurdle it now works a treat!

How to clear the recent documents list in Word 2007

Just playing with Word 2007. Whilst I have to say I do like the new look and feel of the ribbon interfaces I still find myself looking for menus that don't exist, and occasionally not being able to do what I want! Undoubtedly the functionality will be there just not alway obviously I find.

Anyway, a minor be never the less annoying at the time feature I couldn't find was how can I clear the recent documents list. I now know how... Simply, click on the Office button, click on the Word Options button, select the Advanced button, scroll down to the Display section and set the number of Recent Documents to zero and press OK. Now if you repeat the process and then set the display number back up to what it was you will find the list is cleared and ready to be repopulated.

How to get something for nothing...

I have always been into self-help and personal development - mostly via piles of books or thanks to many people out there on the interweb. So recently my partner and I went to a T Harv Eker Millionaire Mindset seminar - which was utterly fantastic, as a Brit the clapping, high fiving and generally being social was difficult to begin with but I have to say I did learn a hell of a lot and improved as a person as well - so you can't knock it at all.

So swayed by the new energy found by this first seminar I booked to see Christopher Howard's Breakthrough to Success seminar, again in London. Again, what a great three days. While Harv was a very much a money focused event - looking at how to create and keep money. The Chris Howard event was less focused on the financial gain - which following all the training will still undoubtedly happen but more focus was given to the traits of successful people. He also used affirmations, NLP and hypnotic suggestions which for me were fantastic.

Now if you are a follower of either of these guys, or like me you are a self development addict. Chris Howard is running his next Breakthrough to Success in Dublin Ireland in September - 11 - 13th 2009. Also, if you visit www.selfhelpsupermarket.co.uk you can now get a free complimentary pair of tickets to the event - so if you are about then I recommend it.

Of course, I said get something for nothing - which with the complimentary tickets you are getting a lot but you need to put in a lot to get a lot out of it. Firstly, it runs Friday to Sunday - you need to take the Friday off and be happy to invest in your weekend. Also, it starts early and finishes late - roughly 8 in the morning to 11 at night - so this isn't for part timers. The T Harv seminar was similar and for me the commitment you get from Harv and Chris just make the training so much more attractive and worthwhile.

How do you get a DIV to centre in Internet Explorer?

I have had the problem a number of times and I can never for the life of me remember the solution! So I hope writing it up here will allow it to sink into to my brain, or at least I can come here to find out!

Ok so you have HTML DIV that you would like to be presented in the centre of your browser. First off you need to set the width and set the left and right margins to auto at the DIV level:

width:800px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;

Then, to get IE to play ball you need to include a text-align:center style to your HTML body so I''ve just added the following to my stylesheet:

body {text-align:center}

Hope this helps!