If you need to make a video recording of something on your computer then Screentoaster is a free web app for doing just that. Using a mix of Javascript and Flash, Screentoaster is able to capture areas outside of your browser and save the recording directly to their page. You might want to grab a stick of butter to go with all of the toast in this groovy article!
Mar 12th, 2010 by grooveDexter
When you’re denied access to a file in Windows 7 one of the easiest ways around it is to just Take Ownership. This comes in handy when you’re dealing with stubborn system files and folders that don’t want to let you in. Normally this is a long process involving several CMD prompt lines or GUI clicks so today I’m going to review how to easily add the Take Ownership option to the Windows 7 right-Click context menu for the easiest 1-Click access possible.
Mar 12th, 2010 by grooveDexter
You might have noticed that somewhere on your windows 7 system there are a few GB of space that are unaccounted for. One of the places that this vanishing space is hiding is in the hiberfil.sys file. Besides being a big space hog, hiberfil.sys…
Mar 11th, 2010 by grooveDexter
Notepad has consistently been that small app that comes packed with Windows through every version released in the operating system’s history. While Notepad can be a useful tool, you’d think that Microsoft would have updated it or added at least a few optional features…
Mar 11th, 2010 by MrGroove
One of my favorite web app companies that has been deserving of some groovy mention is Zoho (my… what took me so long!!!). When Google unveiled it’s new Google Apps Marketplace Tuesday night, it was exciting to see that Zoho had some of…
Gmail Refresh is a new groovy update that allows you to receive pop mail on your own schedule. Normally imported POP mail is checked and received at regular set system intervals, but with the Google Lab feature enabled you can choose when you would…
Mar 10th, 2010 by grooveDexter
Maybe you’ve become part of the witness protection program and your real name cannot be seen by human eyes ever again, or maybe you’ve joined an evil organization and changed your name to No. 2. Whatever the case, this groovy feature in Windows 7 will let you rename your account!
If you are using a remote desktop connection to access one of your systems you may have noticed Windows 7 removes the shutdown option from the start menu. Lucky for us there is an easy way around it using an old school shutdown command. Let’s get to know it.
Mar 9th, 2010 by grooveDexter
Whether you’re a fan of the new Windows 7 taskbar or not, it becomes very frustrating when you attempt to pin different folder locations to the taskbar. Windows 7 doesn’t normally allow you to pin more than one folder to the taskbar, but with this groovy trick we’ll pin as many as we want.
On Friday, Microsoft announced the dates they will be releasing Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. April 2010 the products will go RTM and probably made available to Technet / MSDN / MLVS etc… And May 12th, 2010 is the big “official day” of release.