Have you ever had the need to send an email, but were slowed down because Outlook wasn’t open? I sure have and I’m all about productivity. The how-to below will show you how to create an email message without ever opening Outlook. We’ll create a shortcut on your desktop that when activated will open a…Continue Reading
This little guide will show you how-to disable the Windows XP Welcome Screen. Follow this link to view screenshots.
This little guide will show you how-to change the icon on any drive on your computer from the default icon. There are two ways to change the icon of any given item in Windows XP, for the sake ofsimplicity, we’ll cover the easy route. You essentially be creating an .inf file that will have information…Continue Reading
This little guide will show you how-to disable/enable the file extension on any file from being displayed. This is useful when you rename files and you sometimes forget to include the file extension and you recieve an error…hope this helps! Follow this link to view the screenshots.
If you find yourself in this predicament there are tools available to help you. Visit Login Recovery, the author of this site offers a tool to recover lost Windows XP password. It works for administrator and user accounts. The tool doesn’t change the password or anything it just tells you what the password is. It…Continue Reading
In this step by step guide I will show you how to increase your wireless networks security. This guide was created using a Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Point. I will cover other routers and access points as soon as I get my hands on them. For the time being you will learn the following: Change…Continue Reading
Have you ever tried to join a school’s wireless network and were asked to provide your laptop’s MAC address for validation? If so, this easy to follow guide will show where you can find your computer’s MAC address in Windows XP. So why a MAC address? MAC addresses are like ‘serial’ numbers that are unique…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
