Finding photos of a business are always good sources of data about a business, but pictures can only tell a thousand words. A couple of pictures doesn’t really give you the whole ambiance of a business, but a 360 degree view does. Now with Google Places you’ll be able to see 360 degree views of…Continue Reading
Using a Hotmail account within Outlook is a much needed service for many users of the web. There have been some problems in the past and now Microsoft is releasing a much needed update to the Outlook Hotmail Connector, which is now available. This mandatory update fixes a lot of bugs that have been a…Continue Reading
Technology has been widely adopted by many, but computers and the Internet have been adopted by a younger crowd. Baby Boomers and seniors are less likely to learn about computers and the Internet on their own and often have a hard time understanding how to use them. Over the past 25 years, SeniorNet has been…Continue Reading
Graduating from college doesn’t mean that you have to graduate from Google Apps. If you’ve used Google Apps in college, I’m sure you know how beneficial it can be to get work done, but what happens when you get a new job that’s still using old, antiqued work methodologies? You Go Google! Google is giving…Continue Reading
With online office programs, such as Google Apps, becoming more popular, it’s getting harder and harder for Microsoft to compete. On June 7, 2010 Microsoft entered the online office program playing field with their new set of apps, called Web Apps which included Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. A few months ago they made Web…Continue Reading
In today’s society, everything is on the web, from word processors to photo albums. Google understands this and is looking into the future with a new type of notebook called the Chromebook. Chromebook doesn’t require an operating system, nor does it ever need manually updated. Chromebook is just a computer built for a browser. Chromebooks…Continue Reading
In the past few months we’ve seen a ton of cloud music services popup like Amazon Cloud Storage and AVG LiveKive, but now even Google is joining the competition. Google’s new music service, dubbed “Music Beta” is still obviously in beta, but is still a step above other services. Right now you have to request…Continue Reading
If you use Google Calendar a lot, you’ll probably have a pretty full calendar. That calendar can become hard to read or even comprehend if you’re in a hurry. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a way where you could quickly distinguish what you have to do and when? Now you can with the simple…Continue Reading
You can find countless forums across the web with people discussing and helping others out on all sorts of topics. Now Microsoft is trying to get more involved within the forum community with its new Windows Expert Community. Windows Expert Community is designed to gather well knowledged computer enthusiasts for a variety of topics. Forums…Continue Reading
YouTube, the personal video giant is now expanding its array from free videos, to free independent films and now to paid movie rentals. You can now watch the latest movies right from your computer at YouTube Movies. Categories include New Releases, Collections, Free Movies, Action & Adventure, Animation & Cartoons, Classics, Comedy, Crime, Documentary &…Continue Reading
Getting paid just for taking pictures seems like it’s too good to be true, but in reality it’s not with the new company Gigwalk. Gigwalk will pay you anywhere from $3 and up to $50 or more just to take a picture or video using your iPhone. How can they pay you for such a…Continue Reading
Today we are launching a brand new website designed to help technology users like you with the everyday problems you encounter while using gadgets and your computer. The new Answers website is a community driven question and answer website where users can submit questions that will be answered by other users and me. You can…Continue Reading
Today’s Google I/O keynote brought a few surprises along with a couple expected announcements. Here’s a summary of the announcements made in today’s keynote. Google Music Beta Rumors were correct. Google today announced the launch of their own cloud music service similar to Amazon’s launched a couple of weeks ago. The new service launches today…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
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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