With the summer travel season coming up and the growing world of Facebook, you would think that someone would have come up with a clever way to share travel wishes. Everybody has their “dream” vacation, so it would be nice to share this with others, right? Now you can with the Bing Travel Wish List….Continue Reading
Shopping online can be a daunting task, but Bing is trying to make it simpler and better. Bing shopping is seeing some new updates to a lot of its interface. The first major update is the new homepage of Bing shopping. Here you’ll now find lots more content including popular items, what people are searching…Continue Reading
With most businesses still stuck on XP Windows is still trying to get users to switch to Windows 7. A lot of people don’t understand the benefits of Windows 7 as compared to XP, but now Microsoft is trying to point out some new interesting features that Windows 7 users have over XP. They’ve created…Continue Reading
Windows XP has been a reliable operating system for many businesses and people worldwide, but support for this 10 year old operating system is going to expire in a little less than 3 years; April 8, 2014 to be precise. Microsoft has done their best to help people make the switch from the old lackluster…Continue Reading
The Kinect, less than a year released has already surpassed the 10 million unit mark, giving users a controller free interface for the Xbox 360. While consoles have their limitations people have already started using the Kinect for things it wasn’t intended to do. Microsoft announced that they’re going to be releasing a Software Development…Continue Reading
Device Stage is a new feature that was introduced in Windows 7 which provides users with a way to view information about computer peripherals like digital cameras, MP3 players, printers and more. Microsoft partnered with hardware vendors so that manufacturers can include a host of useful information about their hardware on a branded page in…Continue Reading
How many times have you taken a family picture and later discover that half the group was looking at the other camera while the remaining half was looking at yours? This can be extremely frustrating because there’s always someone who looks away, closes their eyes, or does something in the picture that ruins the entire…Continue Reading
I am a huge fan of face detection on photo management apps like Windows Live Photo Gallery and Picasa, but the biggest problem with this feature is the resources it consumes if you added a ton of photos to the library. To remedy this you can leave the application running overnight so that all faces…Continue Reading
Did you know that Windows Live Photo Gallery has the capability to recognize faces from photos stored in your computer? This feature makes it real easy to identify people in your pictures so that they can be found at a later time. This differs from tagging the image with identifiable keywords in that Photo Gallery…Continue Reading
Do you have thousands of pictures with random names and no real organization? If so, you are not alone, I myself have fallen victim to this problem. To help with this issue you can tag images as you import them to Windows Live Photo Gallery or you can passively tag them (as I do) when…Continue Reading
Shopping online is becoming more and more popular and search engines are providing helpful features to make a smoother shopping experience. Bing has now added a feature which will understand what you’re looking for in terms of price. Say you wanted to find a computer case for under $100, then you just simply type it…Continue Reading
Are you looking for a way to create a panoramic photograph in three easy steps? If you are running Windows 7, the first thing you need to do is download and install Windows Live Photo Gallery (if you haven’t done so already) and follow the instructions below to creat your first panorama in three simple…Continue Reading
Are you looking for a way to delete all of your browsing activities from your computer? In Internet Explorer users are provided with a ton of options to help you delete any evidence of your browsing activities. In this guide I will show you how to delete your browsing history, this includes, cookies, history list,…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