Archive for May, 2007

How to Help A Good Cause While Using MSN Messenger

May 31, 2007 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

If you’re like me, you want to have a positive impact on the people that surround you and the world you live in. Miscrosoft through its Live Messenger service allows each and everyone of us to do just that. Microsoft has commited to share a portion of the ad revenues generated via Windows Live Messenger, [...]

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How to Improve Your Laptop’s Battery Life Using Vista

May 17, 2007 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Tamir Khason recently released a neat little application when enabled manages when the Aero effects and the sidebar are activated on your Vista machine. Nick White from Microsoft has admitted to the fact that "…in our testing we’ve seen that turning on Aero consumes only about 1-4% more of battery life."
The program is designed to [...]

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Check Your Websites Popularity Using Popuri.us

May 17, 2007 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Popurio.us is a service that allows users to check the popularity of websites across the plethora of services and rankings available on the net. This is a great tool for webmasters who would like to quickly get a glance of their sites popularity in the web. A couple of popular rankings and bookmark sites are [...]

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How to Enable Checkboxes in Vista To Simplify Multiple File Selection

May 16, 2007 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Are you tired of holding CTRL down when making multiple selections? Vista has a neat little feature that when enabled allows you to select files within the explorer interface using checkboxes. This method simplifies the process and keeps you from accidently letting go of the CTRL during the selection process and starting all over again. [...]

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Palm Announces New Treo 755P for Sprint Customers

May 16, 2007 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Palm has announced the release of the Treo 755 available to Sprint customers. The phone which would eventually replace the 700p has been redesigned to a smaller form factor as which includes the removal of the attenna. The design on this phone is pretty much like Cingular’s 750 smartphone, but uses EVDO instead. The phone [...]

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Customize Your Outlook 2007 Calendars with Calendar Printing Assistant

May 16, 2007 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Microsoft just released a nifty add-on/program for us Outlook 2007 users. The new Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007 add-on allows Outlook users to print different styles of calendars previously unavailable in default Outlook installations.
The program expands on Outlooks current styles offered by allowing the user to design the calendar, add pictures, and expand on [...]

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Troubleshooting Adobe Acrobat Closing Automatically

May 10, 2007 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

It appears that some installations of Adobe Acrobat (not limited to suffer from cache file and file corruption issues that prevent the application from operating correctly. Most users notice that when Acrobat is started it shuts itself down within 10 seconds without warning, no errors, messages, nothing. 

I was plagued [...]

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