Three more Outlook add-ins (beta) available
Well, we tried to get a dozen, but but three more is better than zero! This week, we were able to add Quick Text Hotkeys (handy if you find yourself typing the same thing over and over, or for quick replies (as in click Reply, hit F5, click Send)), Insert Date/Time (useful for who's ...
Outlook 2010 versions
We're making great progress on our new Outlook 2010 versions - we now have a total of four add-ins available for testing, and we should get to about a dozen by the end of the week. This is due to the way Sperry Software add-ins all work - they depend on a framework (or ...
Three Things You Don’t Want To Do When Emailing
There are really more than three things that we can think of to not include in an email - but these three top the list in terms of frequency or severity. In no particular order they are... ...
In Defense of Email
From time to time, there's always an article that proclaims a new technology as the demise of email. Advances in cell phones, voice mail, instant messaging, RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Google Wave - they all have been proclaimed as email killers....
Mailtips in Outlook 2010
The Microsoft Outlook Office Team has been posting and previewing some of the changes that are coming with Outlook 2010. There's come pretty cool stuff coming down the pike! One in particular has us pretty excited - the feature called MailTips. Mailtips provides a ...
Worst Email Mistakes
Recently, The Creative Group published a list of some of the mistakes that managers admitted to making. Note that these are just the ones they admit to; we have a feeling that there are many more that never see the light of day. Nonetheless, in the bullet list of 13 descriptions of gaffes 9 of ...
More Reply To All Troubles…
Over at Roger Matus' Death By Email blog, he reports that Reply To All is undergoing another draconian suppression. This time instead of it being at the State Department it's something much more closer to home: Nielson. It turns out that Nielson has turned off the Reply To All button, suggesting that they can ...
Replying to everyone could be hazardous to your job
It happened again. It's not their fault. They were simply trying to do their job, and so when the email arrived, each person would simply hit reply to all, instead of just replying to the original sender. ...
Blog Overhaul
The addition of the blog to our site was a new experience for us. Finally, after a few months, we have updated the layout to match the main web site. We feel that the consistency of the look and feel is very important to both us and our customers. We are continuing ...
Reflection: 2008
A lot has happened over the past year. We, at Sperry Software, have been very busy. Many hours have been spent increasing our ability to provide service to our customers. We attended conferences for the first time and added support staff. The implementation of our knowledge base system is the most significant source ...


