Are you like me you in that you really miss some of the natural ability of MS Outlook to keep you organized throughout your day but you are on the go or you don’t have a MS Exchange server at your small business or at home? You can make yourself a nice portable office suite for email and productivity. I have used the following: 1. Portable Firefox 3 beta 3 from Portableapps.com 2. Gmail and Google Calendar. 3. Account with Remember the Milk (RTM) 4. Remember the Milk Firefox Gmail extension 5. Remember the Milk for Google Calendar 6. Firefox [ Read More ]
If you do not know what Windows Services are please be careful in trying anything described below. It has long been the opinion of most savvy Windows XP users that when Windows starts up there are a lot of services running in the background that are just not necessary. The trick is in knowing which ones you can completely disable or simply change from their “Automatic” setting to “Manual”. I am only going to touch on the idea of trying these changes in this quick article. For more in depth choices and advice concerning which services are expendable so to [ Read More ]
Today’s download of the day is one that I have been looking for a long time. I like to keep my icons on the taskbar in a certain order especially when I am at work. I know this sounds silly but it keeps my workflow smoother if I have them setup from left to right in the order that I would open them first thing in the morning and do my daily work. I do from time to time have windows close unexpectedly or I close them and then my flow is all messed up. Well not anymore, by downloading [ Read More ]
This Web Wednesday I am going to write about an option that I was not even aware existed until yesterday. Even though I have registered my domain name “Tech-Weekly” and run a simple tech web page currently I still rely on Google’s Blogger to host my site. And one of the biggest gripes that I have had for awhile is that you cannot do any type of future posting via Blogger. I had to resort to using a service called Lettermelater.com which is a pre-email service. And by using this service and the option to post to your Blogger page [ Read More ]
Welcome to Mobile Monday’s here at Tech-Weekly. As more and more folks are starting to do the bulk of there computing either via laptop, handheld or by taking what they need with them loaded on their thumb drives. You are see less and less set one computer to a person. The application that I am going to talk about today is Foldershare. Up until last week I had not ever heard of this application. Nor did I know that this was something that is owned by Microsoft. Even though when you go to their webpage it says that this is [ Read More ]
Windows Vista SP1 is almost out but there will be some problems. Some security programs such as Zone Alarm Suite 7.1, Trend Micro Internet Security 2008 and BitDefender 1.0 will be blocked from even starting up once you install Windows Vista SP1. There is also at this point a problem with Windows Vista machines going into an endless cycle of boots and reboots. The fix is to remove a previous update #KB937287 prior to installing the Vista SP1. Another problem that we are seeing is that if your PC has drivers that are having conflicts with Vista then once you [ Read More ]
