Well, the prices for Windows 7 are here and this is how it fares out. Is Windows 7 cheaper than Vista? YES (thank God). If Microsoft had priced this the same as the previous OS that would have been a seriously stupid maneuver. Starting today, if you pre-order Windows 7 as an upgrade, the Home Premium Edition (which is what most people would go for) is just a...

You have probably seen several posts on this site covering popular and alternative file archiving tools, such as WinZip or 7-Zip. If you are a Mac user looking for a better tool, check out The Unarchiver. The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is...

New software from Microsoft, Hohm, is a free web-based tool that you can use calculate how to save on energy costs in your own home. Defined: Microsoft Hohm is a free web based application (running on the Windows Azure platform) that enables consumers to better understand their energy usage by utilizing advanced analytics licensed from the Lawrence Berkeley...

I learned of fixoutlook.org from this article, so I’d like to add into the fray why I don’t use Outlook personally. First of all, I used to use Outlook. And I’m not talking about Outlook Express here, I mean the full version of Outlook. The client was good but there were certain things about the software that really rubbed me the wrong way. I...

Microsoft has just announced some beta anti-virus/spyware/malware protection software called Microsoft Essentials. It’s free and free is good. This software is only available to people running a legal copy of Windows. This is fine. My copies of XP are all legal as is my Windows 7. After jumping thru several hoops trying to download this thing, I sign in...

Windows Live Mail is a great email client, no question. But one very longstanding complaint is the way it renders fonts. Whereas in other mail clients it’s stupidly easy to make mails look a specific way for text, in Windows Live Mail (and the previous Outlook Express) it is, put politely, a challenge. This tutorial is how to get the fonts to look...

This tip is targeted to users of Microsoft Money. In case you have not heard, Microsoft will be discontinuing this product. Due to this, if you are an active user, you should start evaluating other options and planning on possibily making a transition so you are not stuck with a ‘dead’ product. I have written several endorsements for the use of GNU...

In 2007 I did a video on how to share files/folders to Windows with Ubuntu. But since version 8 of that OS the way in which this is done has changed a bit. It is simplified somewhat, but the drawback now is that in order to change the Workgroup name you must edit a configuration file manually instead of having the ability to do it in the GUI like before. In the...

If you have problems with your Windows computer freezing due to the system being overloaded, then a utility which might help is AntiFreeze. This free utility offers a way to shutdown processes which consume so many resources that the system becomes completely unresponsive. The scenarios where this utility will help are listed under the “When Will It...

Mac users who utilize QuickTime for their video player might want to take a look at the Windows Media Components for QuickTime available for download at Microsoft’s site. With Windows Media for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web...