Tips & Tricks

Windows 7: Disable The AutoRun/AutoPlay Feature

According to latest E-Threats Landscape Report , AutoRun feature ranks among the Top 10 Malware Dissemination Methods, being accountable for 5.22% of the total amount of infections worldwide. Part of the current Downadup or Conficker worm pandemic was actually carried away via intermediary variants that exploited this specific feature.


Windows Vista: Keeping on task

The Windows Vista Calendar helps you keep track of appointments or meetings and is a great way to stay on top of what is most important. It is easy to set up appointments, track tasks, and schedule meetings.


Windows 7: .ISO Image Files

Windows 7 introduces an easy to use applet that makes burning an .ISO image simple.


Windows 7: Notify Me, My Way

Windows 7 helps you solve more problems, and solve them on your schedule. The Action Center is a new, integrated Control Panel experience that gives you a central place to go for tasks and notifications associated with keeping your computer running smoothly.


Windows 7: Shuffling Through Program Windows

If you’re running a number of files from the same program, such as multiple documents in Microsoft Word, Windows 7 allows you to switch through these windows with ease.


MAC: Java Update for MAC 10.5 & 10.6

Apple released the two updates, Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 1 and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 6, on Thursday. Both include a number of security fixes for the cross-platform technology, with the Leopard update being the heftier of the two, weighing in at 122MB.


MAC: The Smaller PDF Secret Control

The file sizes of PDFs that Mac OS X creates are sometimes too big. There’s a way to get smaller PDFs.


MAC: Spell Check on the Fly

Mac offers a really quick way to check the spelling of individual words in Pages, Numbers, Keynote, TextEdit, Mail, Stickies, and other text-based applications. You can check spelling on the fly without leaving the application you


MAC: Setting High Quality Fractions

When you saw cookbooks specify at the last time.125 teaspoons of salt? No, in virtually all non-metric publications, this would be written 1/8 tsp. That


MAC: Smart Mailbox Idea

If you have got emails that more than one or two years old just clogging up your Inbox (and taking up valuable space), you can use a Smart Mailbox to help you do some fast email house cleaning.