I am happy to announce the following from the Microsoft MVP Program; Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Windows Desktop Experience technical…Continue Reading

Although elementary as a security measure, disabling the routers ability to broadcast its SSID is still used by many and I feel it is an added layer that will keep snoopers away. If you have this feature enabled you will find that adding a network device requires additional steps that you may not be familiar…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

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

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

Microsoft just released a nifty add-on for Outlook 2007 users. The new Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007 add-on, allows Outlook users to print different calendar styles previously unavailable in default Outlook installations. The program expands on Outlook’s current styles offered by allowing the user to design the calendar, add pictures, and expand on the…Continue Reading

I ran into this excellent post by Road to Know Where that lists all of Microsoft’s free software on one page. 150 Free Programs! Below I’ll list some of my favorites from the post. If you need any help with any of these please let me know. Note: Some of the programs require that you…Continue Reading

I started using this tool from Microsoft a couple of days ago. I find it very useful in that it allows me to synchronize my files (specifically directories) from my laptop to my external hard disk. The neat thing about it is that it keeps track of changes made to files and synchronizes based on…Continue Reading

There are several ways in which your computer’s performance can be improved. A number of them involve easy tweaks, while others involve a little more effort from the user. I will cover all the diferent methods of optimization based on level of ease. Hopefuly once you have completed all the steps listed below you will…Continue Reading