Have you ever written an email, but needed it to go out at a time that the office is closed, or don’t want to risk not being at your desk? If so, you will be glad to hear you can schedule when you an email to go out! Firstly, type the email, add recipients, get [...]

If you have been using Windows 7 for more than  a couple of months, you will have found many things different, hopefully most of them beneficial. Today we are going to cover some areas that will hopefully save you time when using Windows 7. To that end, we will keep it brief! Window Management. You [...]

Windows 7 comes with some very attractive new wallpapers, and it’s not always easy to decide which one you like the best. So why not choose a few, and let Windows display them all in a desktop slideshow? Right-click an empty part of the desktop, select Personalise > Desktop Background, then hold down Ctrl as [...]

Did you know that Google is a calculator and a converter? If you need to perform quick calculations you can put them into a Google search and Google will provide you with the answer. Some examples of how to use Google as a calculator and a converter: 43 / 6 returns “43 / 6 = [...]

Win + Home Pressing this key combination will minimise everything except the window that is currently active.   Win + D If you have a whole lot of windows open and need to get to the desktop quickly, you don’t have to clock through and minimise every window. Just use Windows + D on your [...]

If you’re up with IT news, you’ll probably know that a group going by the name of Lulzsec recently published a list of 62,000 email addresses and passwords gleaned from security breaches. This most recent publication brings the total of stolen login credentials to 800,000 lifted from some 13 compromised databases. Are you exposed? It’s [...]

We see an ever rising need to have access to your data from multiple locations. In business this is often solved with Citrix, Terminal Services, and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). These all have in common the need to transport the data as you need it, or transport your screen session when you want access. The [...]

Used to seeing IPv4 addresses of the form 192.168.1.123? Well, if you thought that was difficult to remember, hold on to your hat! IPv6 addresses are going to be a bit more difficult. As mentioned in the article above, IPv4 addresses are 32 bits in length, and commonly presented as four decimal numbers in the [...]

Windows 7 introduces several new keyboard shortcuts that make performing simple tasks even simpler. Windows Logo+G – Display gadgets in front of other windows Windows Logo+Up – Maximize the current window Windows Logo+Down – Minimize the current window Alt+P – Display/ hide the Explorer preview pane Windows Logo++ (plus key) – Zoom in, where appropriate [...]

Now here’s a nifty little tool that I bet you didn’t know was included within Microsoft’s Windows 7; PSR.exe or “Problem Steps Recorder”. This utility essentially enables you to record a series of steps you take on your pc and packages into a neat little self contained HTML full of screenshots and step by step [...]