Ever surfed for the number of a pizza place on your iPhone and just wanted to dial the phone number straight from the webpage? If you are using the default browser on your iPhone, which is Safari, that's no problem at all. Safari automatically converts numbers...
If you are using Internet Explorer and Windows 7, you may have noticed that when you mouse over an IE browser window, a preview of the open tabs in the browser is shown. While this is useful to give you an idea of the sites...
A very useful feature in Microsoft Office is called "AutoRecover", which automatically saves your document at specified time intervals so that in case of an application or system crash, Office can recover its latest version. By default this is set to 10 minutes, but you can...
Hackers are starting to move away from "big scores" that are harder to accomplish, and are moving on to smaller and ultimately easier and more profitable thefts from small and medium-sized businesses, whose generally lax to non-existent security systems make for easy and quick money. In...
Leaving your computer for a short time but don't want anyone peeking at your desktop or files? Simply lock it. When you lock your desktop, anyone who wants to use it will have to log in using their username and password. One way to do this...
Still on an old Microsoft system? It might be time to move up and do an upgrade, as studies and tests are showing consistently better performance from the new Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. Your old system might be limping along, but there's no...
Will the Windows PC go the way of the Dodo to eventual extinction? Are we in a post-PC era as Apple would like us to believe, or is it a PC-plus world? Are we witnessing the beginning of a new age when a wave of...
In Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, you can set an animation to trigger when you click on an object. This is a simple way to add and control interactivity to your presentation. To add an animation trigger, select an object that already has animation applied to it. On...
Safely remember and track your online passwords using these different tools. This is especially important today as more and more specialized services proliferate and become popular. Use these tools to manage the passwords of your favorite services for which a secure password is critical. A few...
A number of people have already been victimized by a new scam in which fraudsters pose as callers from Microsoft. They insist that your system has a virus or is running too slowly, and have you not only pay for a bogus service, but steal...