Sometimes in Outlook 2003, a red X will appear in your signature if you have an inline jpg embedded there. You carefully re-insert the image in your signature and it seems to work for awhile, displaying your singature properly, and then eventually it stops working correctly and then the red X comes back. If this is happening to you, this fix may help.

In this situation Outlook 2003 is storing images in emails in a temporary security folder. If you have an image called, say, image.jpg, Outlook will store this image temporarily in a folder. When Outlook saves this image, a filename such as image01.jpg, image02.jpg, image03.jpg, is used. The bug happens after 99 repetitions, when Outlook goes past image99.jpg. It cannot save the file, so it displays a red X. This little autoit script will clear the folder so that Outlook can start displaying the inline images in your signature properly. I have had good success in placing this program in the startup folder so it runs each time the user logs on to their computer. This program should not be run while Outlook is running.

The source code can be found here. Compile it and enjoy!

The default location of the icons on a Blackberry are not to my liking. I prefer to change my Blackberry icons by relocating them so that the handful of functions I access most often are on the top row of the home screen. This puts them right at my fingertips. To see how easy this is, here is a walkthrough on a Blackberry Pearl in which we move the Address Book icon to the top row.

1. First, browsing around with the trackball, locate the Address Book icon. In this example it is one of the last icons. After you find it, the icon should appear highlighted.

2. Now, click on the menu button. On this Blackberry, it is the little “paw prints” button to the left of the trackball. This will bring up a context menu. With the trackball, scroll up or down to select the Move option and clik the trackball.

3. The context menu goes away and now we see that the Address Book icon is surrounded by a little box indicating it is under our control.

4. Use the trackball to slide the Address Book icon around until it is in the desired location. If you mess up, just hit the menu button and select Move again.

5. After you have the icon where you want it, click on the trackball and it will stop moving. In my case, I like putting the Address Book as the third icon on the top row.

You can now pre-order Mac OS X Snow Leopard online. The pre-order price is $29 for a single Mac, or $49 for a family five-pack. Many people expect the software to ship in September of 2009, but no official date has yet been announced.

This upgrade version is only available for Macs currently running Leopard. It will only install on Intel-based Macs.