Many people have a love-hate relationship with the so-called Ribbon in Windows software now. Getting rid of you will gain you back an extra 85 pixels of screen real estate space. Here’s a quick tip to hide the Ribbon. Launch Outlook. Above the Ribbon and far right, just click the small up arrow. To get [...]
On Friday, October 7, Apple will begin accepting preorders for the new iPhone 4S. It’ll hit stores in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan October 14th. The new smart phone will be available in other countries, Apple said, by October 28. Can’t decide whether the iPhone 4S — with [...]
Dish Network’s Blockbuster on October 1 delivered a tasty alternative for miserable Netflix customers. It’s called Blockbuster Movie Pass — hyped up as, execs say, “the most comprehensive TV entertainment programming package ever delivered by a multichannel pay TV provider.” Quite a promise. Here’s the offering: Over 100,000 titles available on DVD Stream thousands of [...]
Apple announced the iPhone 4S just a few hours ago. Big deal or not? We’ll know when we see it — but here are the specs. Update 10/06/2011: Added Sprint to the iPhone 4 column, since Sprint will begin carrying the 8 GB iPhone 4 starting October 14. Update 10/07/2011: I’m changing the iPhone 4S [...]
Netflix, splitting its DVD service into a new subsidiary called Qwikster, isn’t a pleasing development for a lot of Netflix subscribers. So it’s no surprise to see Hulu step up its game right about now. As of last week, Hulu Plus is in the Android Market. The first thing I noticed when I downloaded this [...]
We at groovyPost.com just recently conducted a reader poll to find out what you thought about the Netflix price hike in July and spin-off of its DVD mailing service into its new Quikster subsidiary. The results? You were all dead on — and that’s bad news for Netflix. The majority of readers polled said they [...]
I finally solved a problem with with IMAP folders not displaying the item count in each folder in Outlook 2010. Here’s how to fix the problem if you’re having it too. For example, I recently added a Gmail account to my outlook using IMAP. It’s the default when pulling emails using POP3 with Outlook. Yet, [...]
If you use Skype, you’ve probably got an invite like the one I received today in my email. It’s for a new service from Skype — called GroupMe — a multiuser Skype chat service. Get all the details at the GroupMe website or check out the tour I did through this new service below. Is [...]
It happens to me all the time, I find an app that I really want, but it’s several megabytes in size and I’ve already got a notification saying low storage. These notices really get annoying, especially because your phone probably still has space available, just not on your internal storage, but likely on your MicroSD [...]
The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) has Apple on top once again in the Personal Computers category with a score of 87 out of 100. HP (running Windows OS) was number 2 with a score of 78 while all the other major PC companies sat clustered around the 75-77 mark. It’s no wonder Apple sales [...]
Ninety days ago, Google released its own social platform Google+. The internet has been buzzing with activity around the service. We’ve managed to cover much of the important topics we though you would be interested in such as screenshot tour of Google+ including an iPhone and Android tour. We also talked how-to manage your Google+ circles including creating a [...]
With Google+ opening up to the public, I think we’re going to be seeing some huge numbers flocking to it. With that in mind, all of our friends and co-workers will no doubt be using Google+, and because of this we should really learn about some of its features. Today I’m going to show you [...]
Although the initial DEV preview of Windows is a bit light on Metro Apps, the News app is one of my favorites. I honestly didn’t think I was going to be too interested in this app when I first heard about it because I typically don’t use an RSS readers anymore since most blogs I [...]
Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO of Netflix posted on the Netflix blog a few days ago about the changes to the DVD and Streaming services. The news is not good timing especially since we’re all still recovering from the strange and abrupt pricing change/restructure that Netflix threw on everybody a couple months back — so [...]
