Archive for January, 2011
Add 1GB to your Dropbox Account with the Dropquest Scavenger Hunt
If you want to add an extra GB of storage to your Dropbox account pay attention. Dropbox is holding a Scavenger hunt called Dropquest which will reward those who complete it with 1GB of additional Dropbox storage and syncing capacity. The Dropquest contest kicks off at the Dropbox scavenger hunt home page and for users who [...]
How to Set an Out of Office Reply in Outlook 2010 and Organize your Email
Say you are out in the field or off on vacation with your family wouldn’t you like your contacts to at least be aware of why you are not able to respond to them? If you connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server (which is Microsoft’s Enterprise Mail and Collaboration Server), then you can setup an [...]
MacBook Air is a Great Travel Notebook
When we did our review of the new MacBook Air, we had not yet taken it on a long journey. Over the holidays we had that chance on a trip from North Carolina to Wisconsin and back. And we found that the MacBook Air is a delight to use on the road in many situations. [...]
iPad 2, iPhone 5 and Apple TV Rumors Point Towards New Processors from Qualcomm
Engadget is reporting that an inside source that has a history of being very accurate shared with them some information about the next generations of the iPad, iPhone and Apple TV. According to this source the next iPad and iPhone will have Qualcomm chipsets featuring CDMA, GSM and UMTS capabilities meaning they will work with [...]
How To Tweet in Mac OS X Using Right Click and Twitter for Mac
The new Twitter for Mac app that debuted with the Mac App Store has a great feature that allows the user to Tweet almost anything with just a right click in many OS X apps. We first discovered this feature thanks to a post at MacStories. The way it works, once installed, Twitter inserts the [...]
Steve Jobs Taking Second Medical Leave, Causes Apple Stock to Dip
Steve Jobs sent a message to Apple employees announcing that he was taking another medical leave of absence on Monday, January 17. This is the second such medical leave of absence, the first being related to a kidney transplant. The email does not specify the reason for this one. During his time away he will still [...]
Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta Arrives with Sync, App Tabs and More
Mozilla has released a new beta version of Firefox 4, the company’s next iteration of the popular Firefox browser. The latest beta version of Firefox 4 includes improvements to startup speed, bookmarking and animation smoothing as well as delivering many new features that you won’t find in the existing Firefox 3 versions. In the Firefox 4 beta the tabs [...]
HP webOS Netbooks On the Way According to Training Manuals
HP is gearing up to make a big webOS announcement on February 9th, which could include the addition of a webOS netbook. The new information comes from HP training manuals which leaked to PreCentral.net. The training documents discuss doing things in webOS on phones, slates (tablets) and netbooks, with an answer of all of the above being highlighted as [...]
MSI FX700, FX603 and FX400 Laptops Arrive Stateside with 2nd Gen Intel Processors
MSI has announced a collection of new F Series laptops running the new 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 processor which was unveiled at CES 2011. These new laptops, the MSI FX700, FX603 and FX400 models are new and were not included in the MSI announcements made at CES in early January. In all four new laptop models are now available [...]
How to Upgrade to Office 2010
Today we are going to take a look at upgrading to Microsoft Office 2010. Upgrading to new versions of Microsoft Office is a fairly mundane task, but there are some things you should know before installing the new version. If you are running versions of Office as far back as 2000, you should be able [...]
