Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Office Mobile 6.1 has been released for Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC and Windows Mobile 6 devices. The upgrade is a free download and will allow you to open and edit Office 2007 documents from Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) and Powerpoint 2007 (pptx).
Posted in Office, Windows Mobile | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
This article could also be called "an introduction to Google Gadgets for OS X", as that's exactly what it is. At some point in the last few hours, Google Gadgets has become available to OS X users by way of the Google Updater (the software that comes with Google Desktop, ...
Posted in Mac | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
This brief tutorial will guide you in turning off some of the (possibly) unnecessary features in Windows Vista.
Posted in Windows | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Using Extras from Abitbol software, you can change the default 'blue' scroll bars in OS X to the new gray scroll bars as seen/used in the latest iTunes.
boring old blue scroll-bars
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Posted in Mac | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Using the small and free program NOMu, your OpenOffice.org documents are just a click or two away.
Posted in Mac, Office | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
This brief guide will walk you through the steps to make any of your programs transparent in Windows 2000 or XP. Transparency levels can be set on a per program basis, turned off and on again, and more.
Posted in Windows | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 26th, 2007
This tutorial will show you how to view the size of a folder, and all of its contents, in Windows Explorer.
Posted in Windows | No Comments »
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Thanks to the good folks over at xdd software, you can now install a small plugin for Quick Look that lets you view the contents of a zip file, without opening it.
Posted in Mac | No Comments »
Monday, November 26th, 2007
This tutorial will guide you in using HandBrake, an open-source DVD to MPEG-4 converter, to encode a DVD to a file format playable on your iPod.
Posted in Mac, iPod/iPhone | 4 Comments »
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Shock Aero 3D is a task switching (alt-tab) utility that brings some of the Aero graphics ("Windows Flip 3D") of Vista to Windows 2000 and XP. And though it requires a registration, it is free software.
Posted in Windows | 4 Comments »
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
This tutorial will guide you in using free software for Windows to resize a group of files all at once (batch resizing). The input pictures can be JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG or HD Photo (.wdp, .hdp) format. The resized output files will be JPG.
Posted in Windows | 3 Comments »
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
This tutorial will guide you through setting up Mail 3.1 - the email program included with OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Posted in Email, Mac | 4 Comments »
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Using the package ies4osx combined with Darwine 0.9.49, you can install and use IE 5, 5.5, 6 and even 7 (though it's in beta) while running OS X. This tutorial assumes you have X11 installed on your Mac - if you're using Leopard, it's installed by default. If you're using ...
Posted in Internet Explorer, Mac | 7 Comments »
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
This article will take you through the steps to set up and sync your Windows Mobile device with a PC running Windows Vista.
Posted in Office, Windows, Windows Mobile | 20 Comments »
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
This guide will take you every single step of the way through making sure you have the right iPod software installed, "jailbreaking" your iPod Touch, and then installing 3rd party software on it.
Check your iPod Touch Software Version
Restore to Software Version 1.1.1 (if needed)
Jailbreak your iPod ...
Posted in iPod/iPhone | 9 Comments »
