The tech heads amongst us would be aware of the rumours of cloud music services from Apple and Google making the rounds at the moment especially after Amazon fired the first shot in the last couple of weeks (and may have upset the record companies in the process over licensing agreements). Apple already has the …
Category: Microsoft
Apr 22 2011
Keep Track of Multiple Timezones in Windows Vista and Windows 7
Here’s a quick tip for those of you who regularly interact with people in other timezones. If you want to get a quick glance at one or two timezones other than the one you’re in then you can add this fairly easily to the “Date and Time” section in Windows. Just click on the time …
Apr 09 2011
Easily Resize Your Windows with Sizer
Particularly for the web designers there comes a time when you need to view your content in a variety of different resolutions. This often needs to be done to ensure that a webpage displays and works correctly in lower resolutions where screen real estate can often be at a premium. Otherwise, capturing video of a …
Apr 06 2011
Adjust the Maximum Size of the Recycle Bin in Windows
Leading on from yesterday’s blog entry regarding the practice of emptying the Recycle Bin (or Trash in Mac OS X) I thought it was worth covering how to set the maximum size of the Recycle Bin in Windows to prevent it from growing too large. This is of particular importance on smaller drives in netbooks or more …
Apr 01 2011
Calibrate Your Screen with the Display Colour Configuration Wizard
Here’s a quick tip for this evening. A lesser known feature of Windows 7 is an included wizard that will help you adjust the settings on your screen to obtain the most accurate colour reproduction possible. Not all screens are made identically and there are differences between display technologies which means that images can look …
Mar 29 2011
Diagnose Dataflow Problems: The Traceroute
Leading on from yesterday’s post about how to do a ping test we move on to another test which might uncover more information about where dataflow problems may be occurring. In a nutshell, a traceroute shows you all of the various entities (also known as “hops”) on the Internet that sit between you and a …
Mar 27 2011
Use the Character Map to Find Unusual & Lesser Used Symbols
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Sometimes we need to get a hold of certain symbols like the copyright symbol (i.e. ©) when we don’t know the keyboard shortcut (Alt + 0169) or we want to preview a whole stack of characters at the same time for unusual fonts like Wingdings and Webdings. Sure, for …
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