Posts Tagged ‘windows’

How to Use Windows Vista Speech Recognition

Voice recognition software has been around for a long time, but it’s only in the last few years that it has become accurate enough and simple enough to use with any regularity. It has also been rather expensive, with “basic” versions running around $80-100 and “premium” versions running to several hundred dollars – prompting many buyers to ask what was missing from the lower-priced versions.

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October 10 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: howto, software, speechrecognition, transcription, vista, windows | 21 comments»

Can You Replace Windows Entirely With Ubuntu?

APCMag has gone through all the trouble of trying out an Ubuntu Linux installation and replacing everything they normally use Microsoft Windows for.

The upside is obviously the open-source and free aspects of Linux, but are their other clear benefits?

And what about the areas Ubuntu excelled? All the important ones — all the key applications were there and worked wonderfully for me to use it as a working desktop… » Continue

September 17 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: linux, windows | 4 comments»

14 Windows Programs You Didn’t Know You Needed

I’m really posting this list from About.com for the first suggestion of SharpKeys - a little program that let’s you reorganize your Windows keyboard.

Ron White suggests you use it to move that bleeding Caps Lock key and replace it with something you’ll actually use.

My Caps Lock now functions as another Delete key. The arrangement lets me kill files by mousing over them with my right hand and zapping them… » Continue

September 10 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: software, windows | 5 comments»

Using Windows XP For The Next 7 Years

To upgrade or not to upgrade; a question for all XP users. For those of us who aren’t upgrading just yet, and we have our reasons, this tutorial on how to stretch the remaining life of your OS may come in useful.

This article from ComputerWorld runs through some steps to make XP last, likening the experience to keeping an old car running. Isn’t that analogy suitable? Here are… » Continue

July 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: windows | 6 comments»

Tag Everything With Tag2Find

We’re already tagging everything on the web, how about letting that bit of organizational zen cross over to your desktop?

Tag2Find is a simple yet feature-heavy Windows tool that allows you to quickly tag individual or groups of files. Now instead of searching filenames and folders you can easily browse to intuitive tags.

Also features automatic tagging, tag clouds and integration with Windows Media Player.

Tag2Find

Know of a… » Continue

June 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: software, tagging, windows | 13 comments»

Uses For The Windows Key

Not immediately the most useful key on any Windows keyboard, the Windows Key generally creates more annoyance than good.

But it is there, and can be useful. Although, barely.

W = Windows Key

W: Opens Start Menu

W+ E: Opens up Windows Explorer

W+ R: Opens the Run command.

W+ U: Opens Utility Manager

W+ L: Log Off

W+ F: Search files on your computer

W+ D: Show Desktop [will switch back and forth… » Continue

May 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: keyboard, shortcut, windows | 21 comments»

Copy Clipboard Contents to Multiple Computers

Copycat is a simple Windows utility that syncs your Clipboard contents to other computers of your choice.

A very handy function for anyone working across a few computers.

Copycat by R2Studios… » Continue

May 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: multitask, software, windows | 8 comments»

10 Windows Alternatives to Quicksilver

Reading about the great productivity wonders that can be achieved through Mac’s Quicksilver app makes many Windows users jealous, myself included.

Scott Hanselman does the good thing and rounds up ten Windows alternatives that can get similar jobs done. Launching programs from a few keyboard shortcuts is fantastic fun, but completely replicating Quicksilver on a Windows machine is another thing.

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April 3 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Productivity, windows | 22 comments»

Turn Windows XP into Mac OS X with FlyakiteOSX

This is not exactly new news, but you can change the look and feel of your Windows XP computer to be extremely similar to that of Mac OS X by installing the free FlyakiteOSX transformation pack. I am quite impressed with the transformation pack. If you’d like to give the pack a test drive, head over to the FlyakiteOSX homepage and you can try a slimmed… » Continue

March 21 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: freeware, mac, Technology, windows | 13 comments»

10 Vista tips and tutorials

If you’ve recently upgraded to Vista, or if you are thinking about upgrading to Vista, Vista Rewired has ten tutorials that will surely get you going in no time. The following are the topics covered:

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March 16 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Technology, tips, vista, windows | 6 comments»

Four ways to automatically backup your hard drive

There are many pieces of software that are available to help you backup your hard drive. However in my opinion, the simplest and most customizable way of backing up your hard drive is to do so with a homemade script. I will show you how to create a very simple script that will backup your entire hard drive on the first run. With each successive… » Continue

March 14 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: backup, Productivity, Technology, windows | 16 comments»

Extend Vista trial period from 30 to 120 days

If you’ve been trying out Vista for the past 25 or so days (like me), your 30 day evaluation period is about to come to conclusion. A little known fact is that Microsoft built functionality into Vista that will extend the trail period for another 30 days. Open a Command Prompt session (Start >> All Programs >> Accessories >> Command Prompt), type slmgr -rearm and hit… » Continue

February 27 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: evaluation, Technology, windows | 3 comments»

Streamline your Research with Web Research

Web Research is, “a Windows program that helps you save important information from the Web, store it on your computer, and then organize and reuse it in your projects.” Web Research comes in several different flavors including an Internet Explorer Add-On, a Firefox Extension, and an Outlook Add-In. Web Research works with Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Web Research has many different capabilities. It is used to manage… » Continue

February 16 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: research, software, Technology, windows | 1 comment»

Outlook quick tip: Send email without using the mouse

Ditching the mouse can greatly enhance your productivity — especially when it comes to managing your email in Microsoft Outlook. The Cranking Widgets Blog wrote a short post that walks you through sending email in Outlook without using the mouse. Give this a try and see your productivity grow. I use this keystroke method everyday.

Use Alt+Tab to switch to Outlook.
If you’re looking at anything other than one

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February 1 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: email, keystrokes, outlook, shortcut, windows | 8 comments»

ToDoList 5 Offers Powerful Task Management

ToDoList 5 for Windows offers powerful task management for users. ToDoList is a “tree-based task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.”
ToDoList is a rare form of task management tool, one that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean and intuitive user experience.
ToDoList has been in continuous development for the last 3 years and is an ongoing project.
Your tasklists are… » Continue

January 17 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: lists, Productivity, software, task, todo, windows | 4 comments»