Install WordPress on Your Own Server With Softaculous

Would you like to install WordPress on your own server the easy way? Note: Not all webhosts use cPanel, and even some cPanel hosts dont offer Softaculous. Otherwise, you could install WordPress manually via FTP. Well cover how to do that in an upcoming article. Getting Started Login to your websites admin panel to get started installing WordPress on your site. This is often located at yourdomain.com/cpanel, though this may vary depending on your hosting provider....

June 21, 2010 · 2 min · 401 words · Patrick Scott

Intel AppUp Center is an App Store for Netbooks

Today we look at Intel AppUp Center which allows you to quickly find and install Netbook apps. Its still in Beta, so expect some quirks and perhaps not as many apps as youd expect. Intel AppUp Center Installation is pretty straight-forward. It will indicate if theyre free or if you’re gonna wanna purchase them. The app will automatically install with no further action on your part. Under My Apps you might see a list of all the ones you currently have....

June 21, 2010 · 1 min · 157 words · Marc Garcia

Screenshot Tour: Take a Look at the New Office Web Apps

One of the most talked about new features of Office 2010 is Web Apps. Here we bring you a tour of the Web Apps service and what you might expect. We cover the highlights and some areas that could use improving. Office Web Apps are a great counterpart to the Office desktop apps. They render docs very well, and let you quickly edit and collaborate on important documents with familiar tools....

June 21, 2010 · 3 min · 619 words · Daniel Flores

Access and Edit Your Documents Online with Zoho

Having software like Microsoft Office is nice, but what if you are away from your regular computer? What You Get With Zoho You get access to a wonderful set of productivity/collaboration apps and the business apps. With a free account there is a limitation on numbers (users, etc.) for the business apps but for the regular everyday person this can still be very useful. once you nail finished signing up for your new account you will be presented with the following message....

June 18, 2010 · 1 min · 209 words · Leslie Martinez

Get Information to Your Blog with Microsoft Broadcaster

Broadcaster will also notify you when new resources are available about the topics that interest you. Sign in with your Windows Live ID, or create a new account if you dont already have one. Click Add when youre done entering information. you’ve got the option to enter as many sites or groups as you wish. When youve entered all of your information, smack the Apply button at the bottom of the page....

June 18, 2010 · 2 min · 336 words · Dave Baker

Quickly Hide Menu Strips in Windows Media Center

Are there certain menu strips in Windows 7 Media Center that you just never use? Simply download it and double-poke the .exe file to run it. Only Movies, TV , and Extras will be visible. Now Playing will also be visible while media is being played. Then, click Save and Exit. It’s that easy. To change any tweaks on the All Users tab, Hide Menu Strips must be run as administrator....

June 18, 2010 · 1 min · 106 words · Robert Wise

How to Manage Your Movies in Boxee

Boxee is a free cross platform HTPC app that plays media locally and via the Internet. Today we’ll take a look at how to manage your local movie collection in Boxee. Note: We are using the most recent version of Boxee running on Windows 7. Your experience on an earlier version or a Mac or Linux build may vary slightly. The latest update features significant improvements in file and media identification....

June 17, 2010 · 3 min · 455 words · Justin Smith

Integrate Google Wave With Your Windows Workflow

Have you given Google Wave a try, only to find it difficult to keep up with? Heres how you could integrate Google Wave with your desktop and workflow with some free and simple apps. By making it into a native utility, of course! Click Open, and then install as normal. Once the installation is finished, put in your Google Account info in the window. After a few moments, youll see your Wave account in miniature, running directly in Waver....

June 17, 2010 · 2 min · 230 words · Cassandra Bradford

Stop Office 2010 Upload Center Icon from Displaying in the Taskbar

One of the new features in Office 2010 is the ability to upload your files to Office Web Apps. When you do, an Upload Center icon appears in the Taskbar and helps manage documents. Here’s how to stop it from showing up. It will stay there even after you’re done uploading the document and closed out of all Office apps. you’re free to use this to monitor and control the documents you’re uploading to the web....

June 17, 2010 · 1 min · 115 words · Ryan Scott

View HTML Tags and Webpage Combined in Firefox

you could use either the context menu or the tools menu to pull up the X-Ray command. Here is the same webpage section shown in the first screenshot above. It may look a little odd at first until you get used to seeing both together. The code for part of the sidebar on the same webpage… Looking at another example suppose you are interested in how part of the main feed is set up....

June 17, 2010 · 1 min · 74 words · James Lin

Disable the Splash Screen in Portable Firefox (and Other Portable Apps)

Portable applications are cool because you could run them on any machine from your thumb drive. What isnt cool is the annoying splash screens that appear when launching the apps. Heres how to suspend the annoyance. Now browse to the following location… PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Other\Source In this directory youll find the file FirefoxPortable.ini. Open this file with Notepad… This ini file should look similar to the shot below. By default, the line DisableSplashScreen=False … we just need to change False to True....

June 16, 2010 · 1 min · 142 words · Kim Richardson

Manage Sending 2010 Documents to the Web with Office Upload Center

Its a way to see what is being uploaded or what might have failed to reach the servers. It lets you know if a document failed to upload for some reason. In this case it looks like the incorrect credentials were entered when signing into Windows Live. press the Resolve button to get a list of actions you could take to get things corrected. you might pull up the Upload Center from the icon which appears on the System Tray when uploading documents....

June 16, 2010 · 1 min · 95 words · Raymond Walters

Monitor your Hard Drive’s Health with Acronis Drive Monitor

Are you worried that your computers hard drive could die without any warning? Hard drive failures are one of the most common ways people lose important data from their computers. It monitors many indicators, including heat, read/write errors, total lifespan, and more. It then notifies you via a taskbar popup or email that problems have been detected. If you wish to simply implement the Drive Monitor utility, click Continue without adding....

June 16, 2010 · 2 min · 378 words · Kara Morris