If you have ever been interested in the readability level of your writing then you are going to love a hidden feature in Word 2010. Why would you care about the readability of your writing? Depending on your audience, the level at which you write needs to be adjusted accordingly, for example, if you write [...]

How many of you have more than one Gmail account? Like me, you probably got a silly Gmail email address when Gmail was first launched years ago, and you later got a more serious email account as Gmail matured. Yet you are still receiving messages on both email accounts and switching between them requires that [...]

If you’ve ever tried making sense of a lot of trend data in Excel you’ve usually found that plotting the data using a line chart or bar graph helps you make sense of it all. However what happens when you have more than one data set and all you need is a quick preview? Rather [...]

If you’v ever tried locating a file on Google Docs or Google Sites you know that in order to search the document you must visit the Docs page or the Site’s page. To alleviate this back and forth Google has made available a new Labs feature in Gmail that allows you to search these two [...]

Facebook recently launched a location based service by the name of Places which gives Facebook’s 500 million users the ability to check in to places (businesses, schools, cities, etc) via their Facebook app on the iPhone or the Facebook touch site for other mobile devices. Although Places is defaulted to only share check-ins with your [...]

Have you ever clicked on the Send button in Gmail and regretted it? You could have forgotten to include an attachment, complete a sentence, or were so inebriated you wrote what was on your mind and sent it to the wrong person. If this is the case or similar a new Google Labs feature can [...]

I recently received multiple emails from readers asking about how to save photos from emails on the iPad. I’ve already replied to them with instructions and thought it would be a good idea to post it as a guide to help others who may have a similar question. The guide below will show you how [...]

Does the default font size and style used throughout Outlook’s program interface bug you because it’s too small or the font isn’t your favorite? Have you ever wanted to change the font size used for Outlook’s folders? If you’ve ever found yourself wanting to change how text looked in Outlook 2010, you’ve come to the [...]

In a recent acquisition, Google bought online photo editing company Picnik. With this acquisition Google has been quickly incorporating Picnik’s cool photo editing features in Picasa Web Albums and just this past week to the latest version of Picasa. In Picasa 3.8 you will be able to edit photos using Picnik’s online tools within the Picasa window, [...]

One of the newest features introduced in the latest version of Picasa is the ability to create a movie from a face that has been tagged in an album. With this feature you can click on a face that has been tagged and create a slideshow of all the images that have been tagged with [...]