Big changes are afoot around here. And, if you’re on our mailing list, you probably already know that. I’m about to send out The Insider, Issue #2 to members. In this video, I tell you what’s inside this issue, and I send out a “thank you” to the 44 people who signed up in the last week.Thanks to everybody. And, if you’re...

A Jump List in Windows 7 is one of the best and most underrated features of the Windows 7 desktop experience. They’re ridiculously easy to use and all you have to do is make use of your right mouse button for app buttons in the taskbar area. Check out the video below to see how it...

I’ve talked about the Popcorn email client before but never actually showed a video explaining how it works. Popcorn is as minimalist as you can get with a GUI-based mail client; the only way to go more minimal would be to use a text-based client. While true this client only supports POP (with or without SSL), it easily runs off a flash drive and will run...

Making the rounds this week is a bunch of news stories going on about the fact that the Microsoft Windows XP operating system is officially 10 years old. I can’t say "Remember when we used to use that Windows?" because a ton of you out there are still using it. What has made XP such a beloved OS for so many? Two things. Longevity and...

GIMP is a great free graphics editor. Complicated to the new user, but still great nonetheless. One of the easier ways to give a logo or even simple text a bit of splash and flavor is to use the Perspective Tool; this is built-in to GIMP. Check out the video below to see how easy it is to use this tool and what it can do for your text and...

If you’ve ever thought about diving into the world of virtual computing, one of the better ways is to use the free VMware Player client and purposely install a Linux distribution. Why VMware and Linux? Both are free and there isn’t any nagging for serial numbers/product keys/etc. Simply install and go. You can get VMware Player here and Xubuntu...

I can’t even hazard a guess how many people at one point used the Microsoft Outlook Express email client, but for vast majority of internet users that weren’t using Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail, they were using Outlook Express. Why did so many people use OE6? Because it ran in Windows 98, NT 4.0 Workstation, 2000 and XP, and because it was free. Typical...

Windows Live Mail 2011 is one of the few mail clients that stores mail in MailDir format, and yes that’s a good thing because if one mail corrupts itself for whatever reason, it doesn’t affect your other emails (whereas with mbox it can). If you want to backup all the mail that’s in WLMail 2011, where are the locally cached emails? They do...

There are times when you need to have letters typed out that show an accent, such as é. Ordinarily this requires opening up the Character Map program or using some other utility to have those letters typed out. A really cool, free and small utility to take care of this task for you is Accents. This can be run either as an AutoHotKey script or as a...

I am sure I am not alone in hating junk mail. Not only is it a waste of paper (that I drop straight in the recycle bin) but the offers are sometimes borderline insulting. While you cannot totally eliminate junk mail, fortunately there are few things you can do to help limit the amount you get. This article on ArsTechnica titled "How to keep junk mail from...