This is in continuation from the tech tips that appeared in our May 2002 edition (Vol. 5/4) about using Microsoft Outlook Express

 

Importing and Exporting messages and settings
 

Once your mail client is up and running, you might want to back up your e-mail or addresses or you might wish to port your settings over to another e-mail client or move it to a different computer.
Outlook Express has an Import/ Export feature that helps you do just this. If you need to import settings, click on ‘File > Import’ from the main window. Here, you will be presented with a list of tasks that you can do (import another address book or mail message or mail settings). Choose the correct source from where the import needs to take place in each of these cases and follow the steps.
Similarly, you can transfer (export) messages or your address book to a different computer or for backup. Click on ‘File > Export’ from the main window and choose to either export your address book or mail messages.
 

Working Offline
 

Reading newsgroups offline: You don’t have to stay connected to the Net while you read all the messages contained in the newsgroups you subscribe to. Save up on the phone bill by downloading the newsgroup messages and then read them offline. You can choose to download only specific messages and then read them offline. You can choose to download only specific messages by first downloading only the message headers and then choosing which messages you want to download. To read newsgroups offline, select a newsgroup from the folder list in Outlook Express. Go to ‘Properties’ in the File menu, and click on the ‘Download tab’.
Select the ‘When downloading this newsgroup retrieve’ checkbox, and the option you want. To download messages, click ‘Download All’ in the Tools menu. To download specific messages, click the message header that looks interesting. Click Mark for Retrieval in the Tools menu, and then click Mark Message. Repeat for other messages. Finally, in the Tools menu, click ‘ Download All’
Drafts folder: you can create a new message offline and save it in the Drafts folder for later modification and/ or a delayed delivery. To save a message in the drafts folder, select Save from the File menu. Selecting Send Later will put the message in your Outbox to be sent when you next get online.
 

Dr. Joe Antony

In addition to corporates and organizations, we have been profiling individuals too in this column. We have
a special reason to profile Dr. Joe Antony, for he is the oldest and a continuing user of HCL Beanstalk Computer in Kerala. He bought the Beanstalk in the year 1996, more than 6 years ago!
In the high tech market, customers are categorized as Innovators, Visionaries, Pragmatists, Conservatives etc. Dr. Joe Antony is very much of a visionary customer. He had been able to identify that use of the computer in his profession of being a Radiologist, he connected the computer to capture images from the Ultra sound scanner to it and put the printout of the images in the diagnostic reports. So while in those days, many of the contemporaries were writing the observations of the Ultrasound scanner in the report in the text form, Dr. Joe Antony had been printing out the images itself for the benefit of the consulting doctors. Besides, Dr. Joe Antony uses Internet effectively in consulting with other specialists. A fine value addition indeed!




Born in Idukki district but brought up mostly in Gujarat, where his father, a Chemical Engineer, worked for Indian Oil Corpn. as Production Manager. Joe Antony stood seventh in Gujarat State in HSC (Plus 2) examination. He did his MBBS and MD in the prestigious Baroda Medical College under MS University. He preferred Radiology as his specialization as it was a modern branch of medicine, a high tech field, full of innovations with newer and newer developments.
Another reason for choosing Radiology was that he felt that this field would give him faster opportunity to be an independent practitioner. Eventually that is what happened to him. After 2 year stint as Assistant Professor in Baroda Medical College, he moved over to Cochin, worked in Cochin Scan Centre and Pushpagiri Hospital, Thiruvalla, before opening up his own Ultrasound Centre in Alfia Building at Lissie Junction, Ernakulam in early 1996. As already mentioned, his centre was the first one to use video capture technology from an Ultrasound Scanner, using a PC and an inkjet printer.

His Ultrasound Centre facility has convex, electronic array probe of 3.5 MHz, for study of abdomen in obstetrics & gynaecology and for general abdominal studies such as Liver, Spleen, Pancreas and Gall bladder. The facility also include endocavity probe of 5 and 7.5 Mhz frequencies, which is used for scanning transvaginal, transrectal, prostrate, testicles, thyroid and seminal vesicles. Also he has now introduced Ultrasound guided biopsy facility in his centre.
Married to Maymol, a post graduate in Chemistry and now a home maker, the couple has 2 children, Jamie (5 years) and Tanya (3+). Both are enrolled in Bhavan’s Vidyamandir School. Dr. Joe Antony has a brother and 2 sisters. Elder sister, an M.Pharm from MS University, is working as a Hospital Superintendent in Ajmer, Rajastan. The younger sister, a paediatrician, died in USA in whose memory the doctors of Baroda has set up the Holycare foundation, which is renovating the Baroda College Hospital. His brother is a Computer Software Engineer working in Baltimore, USA. Settled in Giri Nagar Kadavanthra Cochin, Dr. Joe Antony enjoys his swimming in Regional Sports Centre and spends his free time in astronomy. He has an amateur telescope at home and he uses it extensively to view and observe stars and planets. His aim is to buy a CCD camera, which in combination with the telescope and PC will improve his star gazing.

       

In June 2002, HCL Infosystems Limited honoured Dr. Joe Antony by recognizing his effective and long-term usage of Bean stalk. A plaque to this effect was present- ed to him by Mr.Tom Cheeran, Manager, HCL Infosystems Ltd.
It is indeed gratifying to note that here is a technology enthusiast, that too a medical doctor, effectively identifying an opportunity with the PC in his profession. It is also gladdening news that the Beanstalk stood by him for all these years. Team Frontline joins HCL in congratulating Dr. Joe Antony and in wishing him more fruitful association with technology

The More Giga Offer: A Toshiba employee displays the hard disk audio player ‘Gigabeat’ equipped with a detachable 5GB hard disk drive which enables it to store 83 hours digital music contents with MP3 or WMA compression at the company’s head quarters in Tokyo on Thursday. The Gigabeat is now on sale here with an estimated price of 50,000 yen ($ 420) including 5GB hard disk drive.