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Practicing What I Preach: What It’s Like To Use Microsoft Web Apps
I haven’t used the desktop versions of Outlook or Word in six months. I did it for you. I’ve been telling you about how swell it is to store your files in OneDrive and use Microsoft’s web apps instead of the desktop versions of Word and Excel and I was pretty sure...
WINDOWS 7 TASKBAR
Windows 95 introduced the Start menu. Windows 7 represents a big step away from it. Probably the most noticeable change in Windows 7 will be in front of you all the time, down at...
More About Windows 7 Computer Shopping
There are an overwhelming number of new computers on the market! It will be impossible to stay up to date on the brands and models – and almost impossible to get hands-on...
Windows 7 Computer Shopping
There’s good news about shopping for a new desktop or notebook computer running Windows 7: they’re all good enough. It’s such a relief! One of the important reasons that Vista...
MORE ABOUT WINDOWS 7 UPGRADES
Run Microsoft’s Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor before making any decisions about upgrading your computer! Here’s a good summary from ZDNET writer Ed Bott: Who should upgrade?...
WINDOWS 7 LAUNCH
Windows 7 is available today in the stores and on new computers. It is faster than Vista and does not rely as heavily on state of the art video cards. It benefits from three...
MORE ABOUT WINDOWS 7 SEARCH
Windows 7 brings two subtle improvements to searches. As always, search results in Windows Explorer can be displayed as thumbnail images (useful for photos), as a list with or...
WINDOWS 7 SEARCH
Many of you will buy Windows 7 computers to replace aging Windows XP systems. There will be many things to get used to, big and small, but the best change is easy to miss –...
WINDOWS 7 SNAP
It’s Windows 7 week! Engadget and Gizmodo are working overtime to keep up with new product announcements, advertisements are starting to appear, bloggers and pundits are weighing...
GOOGLE’S ABANDONED LIBRARY
The Google Book initiative is a huge undertaking. Google is digitizing tens of millions of books and promising to make them available to the world forever. Sergey Brin, the...
VIEW PDFS IN GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS
Google has been introducing new features and services at a rapid pace for the last couple of months, presumably to stave off any defections to Microsoft’s search site Bing....
DANGEROUS SEARCHES
McAfee released a study a few months ago that illustrates the importance of being careful online. Most malware is installed now when you visit a rigged web site that takes...
SPEAKING OF UPDATES
Your computer should restart tonight after installing this month’s critical updates for Windows and Office. It’s a particularly large batch of updates and some of them are for...
SPECIAL OFFER – PC TUNEUPS
I’m happy to announce a new service available to anyone looking for some help maintaining a Windows XP or Vista PC – office users, home users, my clients, your parents, anyone...
EMBEDDING GOOGLE READER IN OUTLOOK
If the idea of following blogs in an RSS feed reader is tempting and your life is spent in Outlook, you might want to consider combining the two. Outlook has an RSS reader built...
WALTER MOSSBERG ON WINDOWS 7
Influential (and frequently cranky) tech columnist Walter Mossberg weighed in on Windows 7 today in the Wall Street Journal. His article is typical of the media blitz that you...