Soluto Could Be To Blame … For all the frantic stories about a drastic slowdown in PC sales so far in 2013. By providing a tool for maintaining a stable and more robust PC that can boot at optimal speed, Soluto has possibly extended the usable life of many PCs that otherwise frustrated owners might [...]
Plus, Wave or Buzz? Google+ is perhaps Google’s third strike. I’m going to be generous here and say.. after the experiments that were Google Buzz and Wave.. it seems that Google has gotten things mostly right with Google+ The experts, professionals and pundits are already arguing if Google+ is going to soon become the leading [...]
In the Beginning: Soluto has done it again. No longer a simple client PC application it has evolved and iterated into a sophisticated Control Panel for system management of multiple PCs. Uncle Monty’s Got No Internet: Many of us who are used to the frantic calls to resolve PC issues for friends and family were [...]
Last week in my daily roaming online I discovered an extremely practical, well thought out application of Search and Location Based Services by Microsoft. Pinpoint is a niche search engine / application online for the business user to find: Companies Applications Services It comes with all the bells and whistles you would expect but someone [...]
Several weeks ago I made the leap and made the update to Office 2003. The update was seamless but as a prior user of Office 2003 there was one feature I was determined to keep. Microsoft Photo Editor. Every other application in the Office suite is markedly improved yet Photo Editor which allows multiple images [...]
How do you update all that pesky software that sits on your hard drive that doesn’t come with a built in auto-update or “check for new versions” option? Truth be told, even for software like Adobe Acrobat Reader I don’t set it’s daemon that downloads new updates when my connection is not active. Until today [...]
Quick Launch has to be one of my favorite XP features. For those of you who don’t know, Quick Launch is the neat little toolbar to the right of the Start button at the base of the screen. The double arrow-head >> hides a pop-up menu/ toolbar containing a variety of standard shortcuts to launch [...]
I am a huge fan of tools that allow me to keep my OS clean, deal with my browser cache and prevent temp files from overwhelming my Hard Disk. Pretty much every activity you perform on your PC leads to something being saved there; browsing, productivity and so on. It’s not always easy to track [...]
On my PC I use Microsoft Outlook XP. Yes, I would love to upgrade to Office 2007 for all the added functionality and the new GUI but budget precludes this. So, I do my best to get the maximum out of the available features in my Outlook. One of the nice features that helps me [...]
If you read my last post you know I favor IE over all other pretenders to the browser throne. 2007 saw me enjoying my upgrade to IE7 and then I got the cherry, on the icing on the cake … IE7Pro. IE7Pro is a free download that adds a suite of varied functionality and stability [...]
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