Psych Matters

Update (5/8/2012 ): Subtextual appears to be out of business.  A number of users are reporting that it no longer works with their system.  The website is still up, but no one is home. Update (11/3/2010 ): bccthis is now Subtextual. Their web address is still bccthis.com, however. As you know, bcc (blind carbon copy) allows you to add recipients to an email message without the other recipients being aware of it. Let’s say you reply to an email message, and you want your department chair to be aware of the exchange but you don’t necessarily want your recipient to know you’re making your departmentRead More →

If you’re like me, email is a huge part of your work life. Are you using these Outlook time-savers?   Managing attachments To add an attachment to an Outlook message, locate your document, left click and hold on the icon. Now drag it into the body of your email message. It’s attached! In this image, I’m dragging a Word document from my Desktop into the body of my email. This works the other way, too. If you receive a message that has an attachment, left click and hold on the attachment and drag the file icon onto your Desktop or into a folder.   Outlook-specificRead More →

Last month I wrote about electronic grading. With regard to saving the assignment files from students I said, “The papers themselves are saved to a ‘Student papers’ folder in ‘My Documents.’ Each file I save is renamed with standard nomenclature: Student last name, assignment, and whether the assignment was turned in late.” Of course what that means is saving each incoming file individually. I now have a better option. EZDetach, a TechHit product. With two mouse clicks, all of the files attached to email messages in a given folder are saved to a My Documents subfolder, and they even have helpful filenames. As I wroteRead More →