Archive for January, 2011
How To Fix ‘User Profile Service Failed to Start’ In Windows 7 (Quick Tip)
Say you boot up your Windows PC one morning and happen to see the User Profile Service Failed to Start error message when you try to log in? The User Profile Service service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded First of all, this is not a good sign, it means your user account is [...]
How To Organize the Mac OS X Dock Like iOS Folders
Many people have a slew of icons for the many applications used on their Mac OS X computers. Instead of having a huge row of tiny icons, it might be advisable to organize them a lot like one would an iOS device, in folders. Adam Dachis has a great post at Lifehacker about how to [...]
mBrace Plans to Put a Handle On Your Mac
Remember the iBook? Apple’s original iBook was one of the first notebooks for the mass market to feature a handle for toting the device from room to room. Well, if you miss the handle on your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air you should pay attention to mBrace. mBrace is a Kickstarter project that aims to [...]
Kids May be Tech Experts, But They Can’t Tie Their Own Shoes
Go ahead and marvel at how fast kids pick up on the iPad and can whiz around the computer, but if you’re from the older generation you’ll be happy to know that you are still one step ahead of today’s tech savvy youth — well as long as you can tie your own shoes. A [...]
Acer Not Giving up on Netbooks After All
Despite an Acer sales manager’s claims to the contrary Acer will not be leaving the netbook market in 2011. The rumor came to life after a Taiwan sales manager told Computer World that Acer would phase out netbooks in favor of tablets, but has been put to rest with a release from Acer. The release from Acer [...]
Apple Lists Top All Time Apps: Top Picks for Winning a $10,000 iTunes Card
To celebrate their upcoming 1 Billionth app downloaded from the App Store, Apple has a page listing the top iOS apps of all time as well as one inside the App Store in iTunes. These are the most downloaded apps not just in the past year, but since the inception of the app store. Apple [...]
How to Find and Replace in Word 2010 (Office)
If you need to make a large number of corrections or replacements in a document Find and Replace is the easiest way to fix your document without spending a half an hour manually making changes. Finding Find and Replace in W0rd 2010 can be challenging for users who are used to the easy to find [...]
Microsoft Cloud Document Editor Docs.com Gets Speed and Language Update
Microsoft announced an update to Docs.com, their online document editor, which will bring greater speed and support for more languages. Docs.com is Microsoft’s alternative to the more popular Google Docs. It allows users to store, read, and do very minor edits to Microsoft Office Documents. The service has been integrated with Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows and [...]
Nuance Offering Speech Recognition Engine to App Developers
Nuance, the makers of the powerful speech recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dictate 2.0 for Mac, which takes voice input and transforms it into text on your computer or smart phone, is now going to offer their speech recognition engine to developers, according to our sister site Gottabemobile.com. The company announced that they are going [...]
Acer May Phase Out Netbooks in Favor of Tablets
An Acer sales manager told Computer World that the company will be phasing out their netbooks in favor of tablets. The company is going to be selling two or three tablets during the first half of 2011, according to Lu Bing-hsian, the company’s Taiwan sales manager. The release will mark the beginning a slow transition [...]
