Have you ever had the urge to find new and innovative ways to do something that is normally quite simple? The other day I was going to save a Word Document, and forgot that I hadn’t created the folder where I wanted to save it yet. “No problem,” I thought to myself, “I’ll just right click and create a new folder right inside the save-as dialog window. Easy!” But then, when did that feature start anyway? I honestly don’t recall. I’m sure some of you out there may know.

Isn’t it amazing how something as simple as creating a chart can feel so complicated sometimes? In this article I’m going to show you how to use a really convenient and simple VBA object from Microsoft Office Web Components that lets you insert a Chart directly into a document, presentation or anything else where you can create VBA code to run it.

The next time you’re out hiking the hills or strolling the city streets, make sure you have the following five apps on your Android phone or tablet, and you’ll never have to worry about misidentifying a star, airplane or satellite as an UN-identified flying object ever again. You can turn those sightings into Identified Flying Objects!

In this article, I’m going to share five really cool features I found in Google Earth. These features are perfect if you’re looking to build a new house or trying to find a place to live, going on an adventure somewhere and need to plot out accurate distances, want to send your friends impressive views of your area from a bird’s eye view, or if you’re a history or an astronomy buff.

From the developers of Firefox, SeaMonkey promises to provide you with access to all of your online needs – browsing and email primarily, although an IRC client and WYSIWYG web editor is also included. In my quest to consolidate desktop applications that chew up my precious memory as I’m trying to test other apps and blog at the same time, I thought I would give SeaMonkey a full-out test run and really dig into its features.

How many people really make good use of scheduling tasks? I used to be obsessed with finding different PC automation applications that could time the launch of all of my critical applications throughout the day, turning my computer into a self-fueled workhorse. In this article I want to walk you through some of the things that I do to automate my day and increase productivity.

The commands haven’t always stayed the same, in fact some have been trashed while other newer commands came along, even with Windows 7 in fact. So, why would anyone want to bother clicking the start button and typing “CMD” into the Run field? Let me show you why.

In this article, I’m going to show you some of the coolest features of DD-WRT which, if you decide to make use of, will allow you to transform your own router into the super-router of your dreams. While DD-WRT isn’t the only router firmware capable of turning your router into a wireless access point, it is certainly one of the easiest.

Let’s face it, these days the likelihood that you are being monitored by someone is rising all the time. I’m not saying that everyone, everywhere faces the threat of cellphone surveillance, but there are plenty of situations where you could be at risk without realizing it.

When it comes to fitness, one of the things that always makes me give up over time is the inability to actually see progress. Not that I can’t drop 30 pounds if I try, but to feel as though that 30 pounds was something substantial can really give you that boost to continue on and lose the next 30. Planning and tracking your fitness efforts is really the only way to get that feedback.

Let me paint a scenario for you. Let’s say that you’ve created a scrolling Powerpoint slideshow that you want to display permanently on a large TV display at work. Or, maybe you have an Excel application that includes an entry form for your workers to type information into a database. There are a lot of [...]

Ever since I started using a second monitor, I realized that I just can’t get enough screen space. Every task seems to require so much display real estate. When I’m editing, I like to have the article I’m editing open, my research websites up in another browser window, and my email client available in the background. When I’m writing articles, I like to have a browser open that’s dedicated to researching, and a separate browser window where I do my writing work.

I should start off here by saying that I’ve tested out a lot of networked games in my time online, and I think I would only recommend less than half of them. Usually it comes down to either game quality, or lack of participants. Sometimes it’s just the fact that even though the game is awesome and there are lots of people online all the time, the game is set up so that long-time players can just sit there and massacre newcomers.

There’s more to having a tablet than just blogging, creating spreadsheets and managing your finances. Yes, one of the biggest advantages of having a tablet is, of course, playing games. Here are five games that I consider perfectly made for the larger tablet screen, and that make perfect use of touch screen technology in an intuitive, easy-to-learn way.

Do you sometimes find that you waste time digging around the PC because you can’t quite remember how to check one setting or another? Well, I’m glad to inform you that the folks at Foolish IT (an funny domain-name when you put it into one word though…) have come up with a very cool swiss-army knife application for PC technicians called D7.