Windows 7 ships with a host of great features and applications. It also carries a lot of dead weight inherited from its predecessors. The following three applications have received little or no attention from Microsoft as the years have progressed – and their fate is none improved in Windows 7. What’s more, there are free [...]
Since I use Google Chat to keep in contact with family and friends, I’ve used the desktop version of Chat to alert me when I receive new messages through my Gmail address. While Desktop Chat is nice, it has yet to be updated for Windows 7 – particularly for Windows 7′s best new UI feature, [...]
Windows 7 builds upon Windows Vista’s Backup and Restore feature, making it easier than ever to save copies of your current system image and media files. Several third party companies provide Windows 7-compatible applications that back up your files to remote servers on the Internet for a small monthly fee. While Windows 7 Backup is [...]
The verdict is in on Windows 7…and it’s all good news for Microsoft. After taking a beating when it released the buggy Microsoft Vista, the software giant has made giant strides one year after 7′s release. Web analytics firm NetApplications says that Windows 7 installations have (slightly) eclipsed Windows Vista. Since we can assume that [...]
If you liked the Search feature in Windows Vista, chances are you hate it in Windows 7. Windows Vista had a decent search interface that supported searching by date, name, tag, and author easily. You can get some of these options from the Explorer Search box when you search in one of your Libraries folders [...]
Many Internet users these days are signing up at sites like Dreamhost, HostGator, and similar companies for Web hosting accounts for their blogs. These Web hosts usually provide access to user accounts in two ways: through a graphical user interface (or Control Panel), and through a Unix command-line shell account. It used to be that [...]
I’ll be honest: I hardly use Internet Explorer. Google Chrome is my current browser of choice. When that fails me, Firefox is my backup. The main reason I use Chrome is speed: the browser runs lickety-split on Windows 7 when the network is running smoothly, with minimal latency in page load. By contrast, IE has [...]
Once upon a time, I believed that the Windows Startup folder (Start -> All Programs -> Startup) showed me every program that the system executed upon boot. Oh, to be young and ignorant….
As Netflix has expanded its online offerings, I’ve found myself watching more programs and movies online, and using their DVD ordering service less. I’m not the only one: according to Forbes, the Netflix on demand service has…
Most Windows users know that you can use the ALT and TAB keys in combination to cycle through your open applications. What you may not know is that ALT+TAB works in conjunction with your mouse to make selecting the right window a piece of cake. ALT+TAB and Aero Microsoft introduced the Aero windowing system with [...]
One feature of Unix windowing systems that I cherish is the virtual desktop, which allows you to create multiple desktop work spaces each containing its own set of windows.
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