Nov 13 2011
Quick tip for tonight. If your screen has become rather cluttered and want to quick minimise all windows bar a specific one under Windows 7 there is a simple solution. Just hover your mouse on the title bar of the window, hold down the left mouse button and then shake the mouse left and right. …
Nov 09 2011
Here’s another quick tip for the security conscious people out there. Windows 7 supports a security protocol called TLS (Transport Layer Security) which superseded SSL as the security protocol of choice. Specifically, Windows 7 supports up to TLS 1.1 but the support for this version is disabled by default which forces compatibility back down to …
Nov 05 2011
Here’s a tip that has me a bit excited particularly as it will help me enrich my Windows Phone 7 entries with native screenshots! Thanks to Jerry Jiang over at XDA Developers there is a side loadable app called Screen Capturer to enable screenshots on a Windows Phone 7 device by half pressing the camera …
Nov 03 2011
Ever since Windows 7 came out I have been a huge fan of the Superbar however it can get a bit cluttered with icons for several browsers, Microsoft Office Apps and a stack of other things that I need from time to time. Sure, I have real estate to spare but the Superbar does start …
Oct 29 2011
I don’t know how I missed this but I am really excited that Microsoft is releasing its Zune Music Pass in Australia for $11.99 a month starting on Wednesday 16th November, 2011. At long last, this missing piece of the Windows Phone ecosystem is enabled for us users down under so that we can have …
Oct 09 2011
In what might seem a blow to Google, Microsoft and its Bing search engine will get a leg up with Facebook integration in the form of post and comment translation abilities. In a nutshell, if you come across a comment that is in a language other than your selected Facebook language then a “translate” button …
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