Are you looking for an easy way to share your pictures, videos, documents, and printers with other Windows 7 computers on your home or office network? In this guide, I will show you how to use one HomeGroup in Windows 7 so that you can share all of your files with other Windows 7 computers…Continue Reading
Last week we commemorated the world’s most expensive cars, starting with this week we will begin a trip around the world that will begin in one of my favorite cities, Paris. I scoured Flickr for some of the most interesting photographs of this French city and listed six of my favorites. Each photograph has a…Continue Reading
How many times have you encountered someone seeking help over a particular computer error, but the individual had a hard time describing what he or she was doing that caused the error? Thanks to Problem Step Recorder introduced in Windows 7 this is no longer an issue. Problem Step Recorder allows users to automatically capture…Continue Reading
You installed XP Mode for Windows 7, but have no idea how to launch Windows XP applications in Windows 7. Don’t worry in this guide I will show you how to add applications running on the Windows XP virtual machine to Windows 7 so that you can run XP Mode applications from Windows 7. The…Continue Reading
Your microphone is ready and you’ve trained Windows 7 to understand your speech, now what? You can start dictating or you can simplify dictation and speaking commands by using one of the tables that contain common commands when using speech recognition. These commands are what really allow you to give up a mouse and keyboard…Continue Reading
Do you dislike having to open multiple files to find what you are looking for? You can quit wasting your time and use one of Windows 7’s new features that allows you to preview files just by clicking on them in a Windows Explorer window. The quick how-to below will show you the simple steps…Continue Reading
One of coolest features introduced in Windows 7 is the ability to create a virtual folder (in this case a library) that referenced various directories in your computer and network within one folder. Windows 7 ships with four default directories, Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures. You might say that those four pretty much cover all…Continue Reading
Does Windows have a hard time understanding you? It could be a heavy accent or lack of clarity and articulation when you speak, but it could also be that Windows does not know how you speak. The training option that is part of the Windows 7 speech recognition engine does just that. It records how…Continue Reading
Do you hate jumping through folders on a server to find a file you frequently work on? Sure you can create a shortcut to the file on your desktop, but that would only work with several files otherwise your desktop will end up like a mess. If you work with a ton of files that…Continue Reading
Have you ever wanted to speak to your computer so that you do not have to type? If you run Windows 7 and have a microphone lying around somewhere you might be able to forgo the keyboard for a while. When configured the built-in speech recognition engine in Windows 7 will allow you to dictate…Continue Reading
If you are a football fan, especially college football, you are going to love this week’s collection of desktop wallpapers. Rather than list one wallpaper which is my goal (a wallpaper a week), I’ve decided to pay homage to the start of the 2010 college football season with a collection of six football related photographs…Continue Reading
Shutdown Timer is a utility which allows you to schedule when your computer shuts down, restarts, logs off, other perform other actions listed below. You might wonder why you would need a utility like this, I don’t blame you. Say you wanted to have your computer shutdown after a long process like burning a DVD…Continue Reading
If you’re like me and you’ve got computers all over your house, then Remote Desktop is probably your best friend. If you have ever tried to burn a CD/DVD or decrypt a DVD you may find that you will receive an error each time the application tries to access the DVD. You can confirm this…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
