Question: Donna asks, "I use Outlook Express for my email. My ISP also offers web email that I use sometimes. How can I get my contact addresses that are in Outlook Express into my web mail?"
Answer: Thanks for the question, Donna. All I can tell you right now is, "it depends". First, check to see if your web mail has an import feature for the address book. Some do, some don't. If it does, then you want to go into Outlook Express and Export your contacts to a form that can be used to import into your webmail. Usually, the "Comma Separated Value" type is going to work. If your webmail doesn't have an import option, one option is to use Outlook Express to send a quick email to all your contacts (be sure and put their addresses in the BCC box) telling them what's up and asking them simply to reply. When they do, add their addresses into the address book. This should be faster than entering the addresses manually, and it lets you make sure you have good addresses for all your contacts. The only other option you have is to either enter them one by one, or wait on them to just send you something naturally.
Eddie: How do you use your webmail?
David: Personally, I tend to use webmail only for replying to messages I've received, so having my contacts online also isn't that big of a deal. Something to keep in mind: if you do this, you'll need to remember to change your contacts in both places as they change. That's kind of a minus, but on the plus side, you'll have a backup of your contacts that's not contained on your computer. So if something happens to your computer, you won't have to worry about losing all your contacts. The second plus is just related to the whole webmail idea and that is that you can access your contacts and email from anywhere.
Cool Site: SPOGG.org: SPOGG is the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar. They get the cool site this week because I needed to find out about "in the aisle" vs "on the aisle". I sent them an email and they were pretty quick to respond. The site features a blog, with letters and funny stories about grammar goofs. The blog's writers run the gamut from newspaper editors to English professors. They have a cafepress store, and a book out called "Things that make us [sic]" and [sic] there is spelled S-I-C, like if you were intentionally misspelling a word, either because it was a quote where the word was misspelled, or you just "meant to do that".
Cool Gadget: Flexible Touch Screen: Touch screens are everywhere, but they're typically small like the one on the iPhone. The other thing about them is that they are made with glass. Researchers at Arizona State University have now designed a flexible touch screen. This has military applications, and those applications are the reason it was designed. But with a flexible touchscreen, we have the potential for a newspaper-sized eBook reader to read your news on, that you'd just fold up when you're done and wait until tomorrow.
It's All "Geek" To Me: Wiki: Our "All 'Geek' To Me" word this week comes from the Hawaiian word for super fast – wiki wiki. Wikipedia is the really big one, but a wiki is a website that anyone can edit. The wiki software running on the web server handles the editing process, letting multiple editors work on multiple articles at one time. With an almost unlimited number of writers working on the site, it can grow very fast. In Wikipedia, there isn't any editing that goes into the site's articles before they're posted, but they do seem to be reviewed after they're posted because some of them say things like "this article needs citations" to let you know as a reader that the article may not be finished or accurate.
