Apr 16
Windows 7 search is already a great feature for finding things on your computer, but, with a few changes, it can become an ever greater go-to tool in your computing arsenal. So, if you feel like you’re up for making a few tweaks, read on. Read more
In regard to communications tools, Google offers a boatload of options. You can chat, instant message, make traditional voice/video calls, and even attend video conferences with Hangouts. Yet, these tools are, to an extent, tied to an individual web page (i.e., Gmail) and don’t operate independently of the browser tab.
If you refresh the page or accidentally close the tab, all associated tools and conversations will end, abruptly. Now, Google has addressed this weakness, and made an extension that enables these key products to operate similarly to any other application you have installed on your computer. Read more
One of the most useful, but perhaps mundane, features of the latest iteration of OS X is the ability to select a group of files, right-click, and choose New Folder with Selection. It might not sound very sexy, but it is one of those things that is sorely missed when I jump back over to a Windows machine.
Getting this functionality in Windows is possible with the assistance of a third-party application called Files 2 Folder. Read more
Although some may consider the use of symbols or special characters in digital documents a rarefied activity, the increasingly interconnected nature of how we work provides a cogent counterpoint. Whether you are brokering a multinational financial transaction or composing a technical, scientific paper, you may need to utilize non-traditional characters in your docs.
Luckily, Windows has built-in functionality to easily accomplish this task. Read more
By default, when you either double-click or press Enter after selecting a folder in the right pane of Windows Explorer, the folder tree in the left pane (i.e., the navigation pane) does not automatically expand to help you see where you are in the directory hierarchy. Instead, the navigation pane remains at the top level.
To expand the navigation pane tree, you’d have to do so manually. Prior to Windows 7, expansion was automatic. If this change irks you, there is a way to revert to the automatic expansion behavior. Read more
Windows only: Managing a plethora of open windows is an important aspect of computing, especially if you like to multitask. There are a variety of ways of doing this in the Windows operating system, but I often find that keyboard shortcuts are the optimal solution.
Luckily, Windows puts several great commands at your disposal. Read more
Slight Geekery Required: If you use Windows, you have almost certainly experienced the frustration of printing a document or presentation, and having it get stuck in the print queue. You try to cancel the individual job and even clear out the entire queue, but your attempts are futile.
If you’d like to know the effective, but not quite obvious, solution to this conundrum, read on. Read more
Even though the iPad is an extremely useful and entertaining device, you may find that there are times when it is nothing more than an aesthetically pleasing paperweight. If you want to get more utility out of your expensive investment, you could use it as a second monitor for your Mac or PC. Read more
Cloud services, such as Facebook, Flickr and Google Docs, are great for their convenience and rapid development cycles, but many of us are uncomfortable with leaving the master copies of our data on someone else’s computers.
If you’d like an easy way to keep local copies of your online pictures and documents, you should try Social Folders. Read more
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