This is one of the neatest add-ons to hit Microsoft Outlook. The add-on integrates Microsoft’s Live Maps into your Outlook appointments. When you create an appointment the ‘Location’ tab automatically pulls map information from the Live website, when you input a from/to address it will plot directions for printing or later viewing. I’m including some [...]

My girlfriends laptop crashed the other day and with it all of her music disappeared. The good thing is that she had all of her music saved on her Ipod, the bad thing is that Itunes does not let you copy the music from an Ipod onto a computer (it kinda goes against the buying [...]

Microsoft Word allows you to view the changes that took place between one version of a particular document and another. This tool is specifically useful when writing contracts which can vary from time to time or other documents whose format can be reused and changes tracked. I read about this feature on a recent [...]

Scrap files allow you to transfer selected data from on program to the other. Let’s say there is an address that I would like to save for later use in a Word document I’m currently working on. Instead of creating another word document, I can simply hihglight the text (in this case the address) [...]

"Preview the 2007 Microsoft Office system and gain first-hand experience with the new look and feel, features, and functionality of the 2007 Microsoft Office release. 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 is a public preview release designed to help you evaluate the Microsoft Office system. The beta is not final and should not be used [...]

I must admit that sometimes I can be rather lazy…lazy to the point that I wont go to the start menu to shut off my computer, I rather have a button on my desktop that is always accesible that allows me to turn of my computer the minute I double-click it. Below you will [...]

If you have a valid Windows XP installation you can download Microsoft’s shared Computer Toolkit. The toolkit allows you to control restrictions and other settings on your computer. The toolkit is aimed public computers (school computers, libraries, Internet Cafe’s, etc), but in my experience it can also be used at home. If you have [...]

If you would like to design your dream home, car, or anything that you can think of…without the complexity of AutoCAD, then you have got to try SketchUp. I’ve used it to design some furniture I have eventually built. It is very easy to use and can be incorporated with Google Earth. Now that Google [...]

At work all of our computers have designated network drives that are used by numerous applications that require connections to them. I found that whenever I plugged in my memory key, it used a drive letter which was already occupied by a network drive. The result was that the network key was unaccesible, but [...]