How to Customize Your Work Hours in Outlook 2010

by Apr 23, 2010

If you use Outlook 2010 to manage your time, you have to make sure that you customize it to your work schedule. Outlook 2010 allows you to designate what your work schedule is (time and days), what day you consider to be the first day of the week, and which day is the first of…Continue Reading

How to Determine the Size of Your Outlook 2010 Mailbox

by Apr 23, 2010

If you use Outlook 2010 in a corporate environment, chances are that you email storage quota will be exceeded with just a couple days of unread emails. To help you stay out of your IT department’s black list, you can keep track of how much space your mailboxes are consuming. When you follow the instructions…Continue Reading

How to Improve Your Music with the iPad’s Equalizer

by Apr 23, 2010

Does your music library on your iPad contain more than one genre? If so, you can customize the equalizer settings on your iPad to match the kind of music played on the iPod app. This will help your music sound better and please audiophiles that own the iPad. Unfortunately there is no way to change…Continue Reading

Use Windows 7 in Another Language

by Apr 22, 2010

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to use your Windows 7 computer in your native language? If you have a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, you can. The how-to below will show you how to download, install, and enable additional language packs for Windows 7. These language packs apply to the Windows 7 operating…Continue Reading

How to Use Remember the Milk Without a Browser

by Apr 20, 2010

If you are an avid Remember the Milk user, you are going to love this program. If you don’t know what Remember the Milk is, then you’ve been missing out on one of the simplest and most effective task management tools on the web. The App for the Milk program is an Adobe Air application…Continue Reading

Support is Ending for Windows Vista RTM and XP Service Pack 2

by Apr 16, 2010

If you are using Windows XP or Vista, you need to be aware of the following information. Microsoft recently announced that it will no longer support Windows Vista RTM after April 13th, 2010 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 after July 13th, 2010. What does this mean? All this means is that your computer will…Continue Reading

Use Incarnate to Find Your Avatars Online

by Apr 15, 2010

Are you trying to find and consolidate all of your avatars into one picture? If you’re like me and spend a lot of time online, chances are that you have several profiles with different avatars spread throughout the web. Incarnate, a tool from Mix Online allows you to locate all of your Avatars online so…Continue Reading

Quickly Save PDF’s from the Web to Your iPad

by Apr 13, 2010

I recently published a somewhat cumbersome how-to that will help you download PDF’s from the internet without realizing that there is an easier way. When installed, GoodReader will automatically download a PDF from Safari when you insert a g in the address field in Safari. Follow the instructions below so that you too can quickly…Continue Reading

2 Programs to Help You Watch DVD’s On Your iPad

by Apr 13, 2010

Wouldn’t it be nice to use your iPad to watch DVD’s on your next flight? If you have a ton of DVD’s with family videos, compilations, and other films, you can use Handbrake or DVD to iPad Converter to rip and convert your DVD’s to the appropriate iPad format so that you may enjoy your…Continue Reading

How to Change the Default Email Format in Outlook 2010

by Apr 09, 2010

How many times have you started writing a new email message in Outlook and tried to insert a link and couldn’t? Chances are that your default email format is Rich Text or Plain Text. In either case HTML code cannot be used when composing your message. If you wish to use HTML code in your…Continue Reading

How to Modify the Default Outlook 2010 Start Folder

by Apr 09, 2010

If you use IMAP email accounts in Outlook you will soon find that all of your messages will be stored in a separate folder (see example below) and accessing the IMAP Inbox will require that you find and select the folder in order to view the emails within. This can be remedied by using the…Continue Reading

How to Create a New Office File Using SkyDrive

by Apr 09, 2010

Pretty soon everyone with a SkyDrive account will be able to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, Word Documents, PowerPoint Presentations, and even their OneNote notes online. So…how exactly do you create these files using SkyDrive? Well, follow the instructions below. Before we get started, you first need to have a SkyDrive account, which you can…Continue Reading

How to Quickly Add Contacts from Emails in Outlook 2010

by Apr 09, 2010

How many times have you gone back and forth between an email message and your contact list to add a new contact? Fortunately there’s an easier way to add contacts from an email message. Outlook allows users to create new contacts from an open email message by right-clicking on the users name in the From:…Continue Reading