Use Hotmail from Microsoft Outlook

Installation see to it that Outlook is closed, and then download and install theMicrosoft Office Outlook Connector. Open Outlook and you’ll immediately be prompted with the tweaks dialog. Enter in your account details into this screen, and then exit the dialog. You’ll be prompted to restart Outlook again. Hopefully this will save you some of the pain of the slow-loading hotmail website. Download Microsoft Office Outlook Connector from Microsoft.com

September 7, 2007 · 1 min · 69 words · Natalie Cross

Weekend Fun: Easter Egg in Spybot Search & Destroy

It’s nice when you find an easter egg in a piece of software and it’s actually useful. Each time you check a square, the tan squares move to a different location surrounding the selected square. The Spybot Search and Destroy Game - Mysticgeek’s Realm

September 7, 2007 · 1 min · 44 words · Billy Black

Clean Up Ubuntu Grub Boot Menu After Upgrades

To remove these entries, we’ll need to edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst. you’re able to just select and delete the ones you don’t want.

September 6, 2007 · 1 min · 23 words · David Cohen

Customize the OS X Menu Bar with Butler

The Butler configuration screen lets you assign new items to different sections. Notice the Google search box is selected, and the default shortcut is ctrl+opt+G to focus the search box. There’s too much to show you everything, but read further for my current favorite features. For example, I decided to assign a hotkey to the iTunes Start/Stop item. I decided to automate the task of filling in comment fields on Wordpress blogs....

September 5, 2007 · 1 min · 84 words · Jack David

Dock Quick Launch or Address Toolbar to Desktop in Vista

Most people used this for an auto-hiding quick launch or address toolbar, or both. In this example we’ll choose the Quick Launch toolbar. You could also choose to Auto Hide it if you want. The address toolbar works much better if you dock the toolbar to the top of the screen.

September 5, 2007 · 1 min · 51 words · Michele Brady

Spice Up that Boring about:blank Page in Firefox

The blank tab page in Firefox is just a plain white boring nothing - until now. Give your style a description, and then paste in the text I’ve provided below.

September 5, 2007 · 1 min · 30 words · Dawn Cunningham

Vista Breadcrumbs for Windows XP

grab the Install option, and then tap the Next button to register the component with Windows. you’re free to grab the File \ New Task option once you kill the process.

September 5, 2007 · 1 min · 31 words · Cindy Parker

Fun at Work: Microsoft Word "Easter Egg"

This isn’t exactly an easter egg, because it’s actuallydocumentedin Microsoft’s knowledge base, but it’s one of those features that you just weren’t expecting so it still qualifies. This should work in any version of Microsoft Word… Just open up a new document, and then jot down in =rand() into the document: And then hit enter… voila! Three paragraphs of text will be instantly added… you’ve got the option to add more than 3 paragraphs or more than 5 sentences per paragraph by using the following syntax =rand(paragraphs,sentences) For instance, for 6 paragraphs of 20 sentences each, you would use: =rand(6,20)...

September 4, 2007 · 1 min · 111 words · Mr. John Ellis DDS

Resolving "Setup did not find any hard disk drives" during Windows XP Installation

First you’ll be prompted for the “Windows installation”, which really means your XP install CD. Next you’ll be prompted on where you want to save the temporary files used during the slip-streaming process. I just recommend to use a new directory. nLite will copy all the necessary files off the XP installation and into the temporary folder. When it’s done, you’ll see all the information on which version it is....

September 3, 2007 · 2 min · 249 words · Carolyn Yang

Tabbed Explorer Add-on for Windows Vista (and an Up Button too!)

Click Next and then continue. I’ll assume you are back from restarting explorer. The first thing you’ll notice is… nothing. That’s because the toolbar hasn’t been turned on yet. Now you’ll want to go to View \ Toolbars \ QT TabBar and select it. Now you might choose your button options. Here’s where you’ll find that Up button you’ve been hankering for. Tabbed UI GoodnessNow check out my nicely configured explorer, tabs and all....

September 3, 2007 · 1 min · 92 words · George Austin

Add Search Forms to the Firefox Search Bar

And there we go, now I can search the How-To Geek from Firefox.

September 1, 2007 · 1 min · 13 words · Mrs. Lori Donaldson

Disable Windows Calendar in Windows Vista

you’re free to also use the TurnOn registry hack to put things back to normal.

August 31, 2007 · 1 min · 15 words · Stephanie Smith

Scan Files for Viruses Before You Download With Dr.Web

Let’s take it for a test drive… I decided to scan the Dr.Web Firefox plugin with Dr.Web, just to see what it would say. Looks like it’s clean! You should also still be careful where you download files from. This plugin will also not work for webmail attachments. Firefox Download Dr.Web Anti-Virus Link Checker from Mozilla Add-ons Internet Explorer Download Registry Hack for Dr. Web Anti-Virus Link Checker Opera Instructions for adding a context menu item to the Opera web app....

August 31, 2007 · 1 min · 81 words · Edward Davis