As a frequent user of the Gmail mobile application for my Blackberry I find myself constantly accessing the help menu to view the shortcut keys and try to skip the menus in Gmail. I was quickly annoyed with the back and forth and decided to create a credit card sized cheat sheet with all the…Continue Reading

This is the fourth part of a larger series that I will be publishing in the coming weeks covering my switch from Outlook to Google’s online services. The intent of this series is to help others who have found themselves wanting more out of their email and calendar applications. This guide specifically covers how to…Continue Reading

If you have ever wanted to access your Gmail account from an email client on your computer you might want to make sure that IMAP access is enabled in Gmail. IMAP or Internet Message Access Protocol allows users to download a cached copy of their email from their email servers. Unlike POP3 (another email protocol)…Continue Reading

Like I stated in my previous post, I was able to get a copy of Office 2010 and have been playing with it since. The videos below will show you the updated OneNote application and the Publisher application. As time permits I will be posting additional videos for the applications I have not covered yet….Continue Reading

This is the third part of a larger series that I will be publishing in the coming weeks covering my switch from Outlook to Google’s online services. The intent of this series is to help others who have found themselves wanting more out of their email and calendar applications. This guide specifically covers how to…Continue Reading

Like I stated in my previous post, I was able to get a copy of Office 2010 and have been playing with it since. The videos below are just a preview of each of the applications mentioned below, more will follow. Even though it is a technical preview I found it to be extremely stable…Continue Reading

I was able to get my hands on a copy of the Office 2010 technical preview. I was so excited about the features and the new look that I decided to post some videos of the technical preview. These first couple of videos are just peeks of the new interface and some features as I…Continue Reading

This is the second part of a larger series that I will be publishing in the coming weeks covering my switch from Outlook to Google’s online services. The intent of this series is to help others who have found themselves wanting more out of their email and calendar applications. This guide specifically covers the transfer…Continue Reading

As someone who uses their computer for work, school, and play I find myself with a desktop full of icons. I tend to be extremely organized and a cluttered desktop just doesn’t do it for me. Luckily Microsoft introduced the concept of easily pinning program shortcuts to the the Start menu. The guide below will…Continue Reading

Whenever I write school papers or other written work that specifies a set number of words as a requirement, I use the Quick Parts Field option to add a counter to the top of the document that keeps track of the words typed. This is a supplement to the word counter located at the bottom…Continue Reading

This how-to is part of a larger series that I will be publishing in the coming weeks covering my switch from Outlook to Google’s online services. The intent of this series is to help others who have found themselves wanting more out of their email and calendar applications. This guide specifically covers the transfer of…Continue Reading

I use VirtualPC for a lot of the guides you see on this website. The beauty of this application is that changes made on the virtual computers are transparent to the host PC, which means I don’t need to format my computer every six months because it has all the junk that has been left…Continue Reading