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Personalize Your Wallpaper and Save Custom Themes in Windows 7

Gil — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:30:38 +0000

If you have tons of family pictures or great photographs you are proud of and you use Windows 7, then you need to read this. Windows 7 allows users to customize the default themes that it shipped with as well as allowing users to download themes created by others. Part of the customization is modifying [...]

Share Your Custom Windows 7 Themes with Friends and Family

Gil — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:30:51 +0000

If you use Windows 7 and love to share pictures with family and friends, why not create a theme pack of your family’s pictures or of your newborn to send to relatives so they too can enjoy the family pictures right on their desktop. The new themes interface in Windows 7 not only allows you [...]

Looking for a Safe Bike Trail this Weekend? Try Google Maps Biking Directions

Gil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:55 +0000

Want to use your bike to commute to work and stay safe? The head over to Google Maps and use the new Bicycling option when looking for directions. Google has partnered up with Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and has included over 12,000 miles of trails in biking directions on Google Maps. They have also included a Report [...]

Create a Shortcut to the Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7

Gil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:30:23 +0000

If you’re a frequent user of the Elevated Command Prompt then it might be a good idea to create a shortcut on your desktop, Start Menu, or Taskbar that can be accessed at any time with a click of button. Instead of following several steps to get to the Elevated Command Prompt you can create [...]

4 Ways to Recover Closed Chrome Tabs and Windows

Gil — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:55:41 +0000

The Chrome team recently published a tip on their blog about recovering closed tabs in Google’s Chrome browser. As a Chrome user I felt that Google missed out on a potentially useful and sometimes more effective method of recovering closed tabs, the History tool. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I have over 10 [...]

Trim Videos Within PowerPoint 2010 and Keep Your Audiences Focused

Gil — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:11 +0000

How many times have you found a great scene from a video online that you wanted to show an audience in PowerPoint? Of those times how many of those desired scenes were located halfway between the video? Unless you know how to edit videos you probably sat your audience through 5 minutes of meaningless footage [...]

Use Gmail Lab’s New Refresh Feature to Download POP Messages on Demand

Gil — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:10 +0000

The Gmail team recently announced the addition of a much requested feature in Gmail. Refresh POP accounts allows you to manually fetch emails from your POP accounts from the Refresh link located in the Inbox. You no longer have to run to Accounts and Import in the Settings menu to manually fetch your POP accounts. [...]

Prevent Disasters and Enable Auto Saving in Project 2010

Gil — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:30:39 +0000

I recently installed Project 2010 Beta along with the rest of the Office 2010 Beta suite and have been using it since. Just the other day I had a, "I should have saved the file more often moment." I assumed that Project’s default setting was to save files automatically, I was wrong. I lost about [...]

How to Change the Location of the Outlook 2010 Desktop Alerts

Gil — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:30:24 +0000

Outlook 2010 like previous versions of Outlook give users a great among of flexibility in customizing how the program looks and how it behaves. Among those items users can customize is the location of the Desktop Alerts that appear when new messages arrive to your Inbox. The default location of the Desktop Alerts is situated [...]

How to Disable and Customize Outlook 2010 Desktop Alerts

Gil — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:30:23 +0000

How many times have you been presenting to an audience and a new mail alert appears with a potentially embarrassing heading? Where to hide? Luckily Microsoft gives Outlook users the flexibility to disable these potentially career threatening notices from appearing on your desktop. The how-to below will walk you through the simple process of disabling [...]