Want to use your bike to commute to work and stay safe? The head over to Google Maps and use the new Bicycling option when looking for directions. Google has partnered up with Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and has included over 12,000 miles of trails in biking directions on Google Maps. They have also included a Report [...]
If you’re a frequent user of the Elevated Command Prompt then it might be a good idea to create a shortcut on your desktop, Start Menu, or Taskbar that can be accessed at any time with a click of button. Instead of following several steps to get to the Elevated Command Prompt you can create [...]
The Chrome team recently published a tip on their blog about recovering closed tabs in Google’s Chrome browser. As a Chrome user I felt that Google missed out on a potentially useful and sometimes more effective method of recovering closed tabs, the History tool. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I have over 10 [...]
How many times have you found a great scene from a video online that you wanted to show an audience in PowerPoint? Of those times how many of those desired scenes were located halfway between the video? Unless you know how to edit videos you probably sat your audience through 5 minutes of meaningless footage [...]
The Gmail team recently announced the addition of a much requested feature in Gmail. Refresh POP accounts allows you to manually fetch emails from your POP accounts from the Refresh link located in the Inbox. You no longer have to run to Accounts and Import in the Settings menu to manually fetch your POP accounts. [...]
I recently installed Project 2010 Beta along with the rest of the Office 2010 Beta suite and have been using it since. Just the other day I had a, "I should have saved the file more often moment." I assumed that Project’s default setting was to save files automatically, I was wrong. I lost about [...]
Outlook 2010 like previous versions of Outlook give users a great among of flexibility in customizing how the program looks and how it behaves. Among those items users can customize is the location of the Desktop Alerts that appear when new messages arrive to your Inbox. The default location of the Desktop Alerts is situated [...]
How many times have you been presenting to an audience and a new mail alert appears with a potentially embarrassing heading? Where to hide? Luckily Microsoft gives Outlook users the flexibility to disable these potentially career threatening notices from appearing on your desktop. The how-to below will walk you through the simple process of disabling [...]
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