If you upload videos to YouTube but have not bothered with the task of basic editing (as needed of course) for whatever reason, there is good news for you: Google has introduced a new tool which allows you to edit your videos directly on YouTube: YouTube has a new video editor that lets you create videos using excerpts from the videos you’ve already...

Much like new OS and browser releases, I like to keep tabs on the features available in the latest versions of Microsoft Office. So when Office 2010 was officially released earlier this week, I took a look at the new features available. Overall, there is nothing I see which makes me want to upgrade from 2007. Currently 2007 natively supports the XML document...

Good through Friday (6/18/2010), The Windows Club is offering a free copy of Paragon’s System Backup 9.5/2010. While I have never used this product personally, I pass this link along because everyone should have a reliable backup process and if you have nothing in place this program may fit the bill. You can read the full description on Paragon’s...

In Windows XP, the system restore feature was added to the OS which allows you to take incremental snapshots of your system state as a tool to assist in recovery from OS problems. While certainly not bulletproof, it is a useful feature nonetheless. By default Windows creates a new restore point when updates and/or applications are installed, however if you want...

Now that Office 2010 is here and after using Office 2007 for a couple of years now, I have to say that I really prefer the ribbon interface over the old menu driven one. However, sometimes I still have a hard time finding function I need in the ribbon as “translated” from the menu. Thankfully, there are a couple of helpers for situations like...

From the “it was just a matter of time” category, Twitter will soon be pushing out ads through user message streams as well as through a trends campaign: Twitter is beginning to roll out its ad platform, which allows advertisers to insert messages into users’ streams. But the microblogging service already has an idea for a new product: Selling some...

One of the criticisms of Microsoft has been that over the years their Windows OS  has attempted to be everything for everybody which contributed to a serious amount of bloat in the OS. Attempting to combat this problem, Microsoft has released their Live Essentials package as a separate package which is freely downloaded from either Microsoft.com or Windows...

As I am sure Google is the search engine of choice for most of our readers, they have just recently published an update to their search engine indexing process: Some background for those of you who don’t build search engines for a living like us: when you search Google, you’re not searching the live web. Instead you’re searching Google’s...

Included in the last round of Windows Updated patches released by Microsoft was, for some reason, a Firefox extension called “Search Helper Extension”. As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet...

If you visit the Google homepage regularly, a few weeks ago you probably noticed they published a Javascript version of Pacman as their Google logo. Much to the dismay of some employers (I’m sure), Google has made their Pacman tribute available indefinitely. If nothing else this is just a time killer and a fun way to pay homage to the iconic game. Just...