The other day my boss showed off a new Outlook trick that he learned: you’re able to increase or decrease the text size in Outlook on the fly using the same technique that works in your web client. Since everybody else seemed interested, I figured this qualifies as a stupid geek trick that I’ll share with you today. If you are unfamiliar with how the web app trick works: it’s possible for you to use Ctrl and the mouse wheel in your web app to quickly zoom in, which increases the size of the text and images on the screen....

They are all disabled by default after installation. The Copy Filename extension allows you to easily copy names of files to the clipboard, as mentioned above. This comes in very handy when troubleshooting a nasty virus or spyware app. The CopyURL extension lets you copy a URL, link, or name from Internet shortcuts.

Have you ever wanted to get your webmail on your desktop? Today we will look at the Zimbra desktop email client and see how well it works. I am running the Beta Version .91 (build 1344) on Vista Ultimate (64-bit). Did I mention there is a version for Linux and Mac as well? After installing Zimbra you are greeted with an easy to follow Wizard to help get everything set up....

If you right-select this shortcut and choose Properties, you could add in a shortcut key as well. Now I can just use Ctrl+Alt+6 whenever I want to send an email to myself. character in front of it, and the next ones requiring a & character. Once I’ve added that first parameter with the ? character, maybe I want to add in a line into the body of the message as well....

If you’ve used a computer on a corporate web connection you’ve likely had to add a website to your trusted sites list because it just wouldn’t work otherwise. After a while, you end up with a mess of sites in your Trusted sites list… so how do you transfer those to a new computer without retyping them? Like most everything else in Windows, there’s a quick way you’ve got the option to do so in the registry by backing up a single key, which we’ll cover for you today....

Now all you have to do is smack the Toggle Flash icon and then reload the page. This can be a very useful tool, especially on an older computer or over low bandwidth connections. Download Toggle Flash from flash.melameth.com

Have you ever noticed that there are only two fonts to choose from in the Command prompt properties window? If you want to set the defaults for all command prompt windows you could choose the Defaults option instead. You’ll see here that I enabled the Consolas font by using that as the value. Some fonts don’t work, however… Still, a rather fun trick… anybody remember vfont from the DOS days?

Have you ever needed to repeatedly access a folder that is nested deep inside a giant hierarchy of folders? Today we’ll show you how to do this. At this point you should see the drive letter show up in the list. I just reassigned the D: drive letter to point to C: and copied all the data over. That way the utility shortcuts still worked without having to reinstall the utility....

In Explorer, go to Tools, then Folder Options and choose the View tab. see to it to first delete the THUMBS.DB file if one existed already. end the Registry and reboot your setup for the changes to take effect.

For a more geeky method we can use the Command Line. Just enter CMD into the search box in Vista and hit Enter. For Vista there are also severalgadgets on Microsofts Sitethat will allow you to monitor the uptime of your system. Track Uptime In XPTo easily find the uptime in Windows XP go toStart \ Runtype in CMD then clickOK. It will take a couple of moments for the analysis to complete and get the results....

Today we’ll show you how it works. The Add button will pop up a dialog letting you quickly choose what to add to the menu. The Default Mail Recipient tab was very promising, but that feature didn’t work for me. The idea is that you’re able to specify a single mail recipient to send a file to… But whenever I tried to use the feature I got this message… your mileage may vary....

The following window will appear. Accept the License by clicking OK. when you land clicked OK the installation window will open. Enter the desired installation path and click Begin Install to start the installation. After a few seconds crossover professional will be installed on your machine. Registering CrossOver Professional Click Applications and select “Register and unlock this demo” under the CrossOver menu. You will be presented with the Product Registration Window....

The best part is that it works just like your desktop program and saves all your controls and preferences. execute the applications once the download is complete. Installation path isF:/Data/. This is what it will look like. I will be installing the Portable Version of Firefox, which can be downloaded here. Do notice the extension “.paf.exe” as applications only with this extension can be installed using PortableApps. Clickto see a list of PortableApps compatible applications....