Posted in Microsoft on Sep 5th, 2010
As a hard working professional, you probably have hundreds of documents stored on your computer. When it comes to finding them, tags work great but the downside is that tagging documents can take up A LOT of time. There has to better way to find the document you’re looking for… Indeed there is – this groovy technique will allow you to find them visually via thumbnail pictures.
Posted in Microsoft on Sep 4th, 2010
If you’re migrating to Windows 7 or if you’ve got yourself a brand new Windows 7 PC, you may find it a hassle to transfer everything over. This includes your preferences, settings, and all of your files. Lucky for us, Microsoft produced a simple…
Posted in Geek Stuff on Sep 2nd, 2010
Earlier we guided you into the world of taking HDR photos and how to merge them using Photoshop, then we showed you How-To Simulate an HDR Effect . In this next Photoshop photography article we’ll take a look at…
Posted in Apple on Sep 1st, 2010
Apple has just released 3 New iPods in their latest music event making a great addition to their product library and also surprised customers with lots of other goodies and news that we’ll quickly cover right now.
Posted in groovyReview on Sep 1st, 2010
Earlier, I gave a rather ebullient guided tour of Windows Live Sync Beta 2011 (which will be known as Windows Live Mesh when it is officially released), touting its groovy potential as a backup tool and cloud storage solution. But since that brief honeymoon phase, I’ve had a chance to move in some of my stuff and I’ll have to admit that I’m having trouble getting comfortable. It seems that much of the pampering I’ve received from old faithful Dropbox has given me some pretty high expectations when it comes to cloud-based syncing and in spite of my optimistic review, I think I’m going to have to stick with Dropbox—for now. Here’s why…
Posted in Geek Stuff on Aug 30th, 2010
We all know how it is – you’re rushing to get something done and it turns out the files you need are only available on Rapidshare. So you have to wait 30 seconds for each individual file and can download only 1 file per…
Posted in Freeware on Aug 27th, 2010
Do you have a favorite application, but it was only designed to run on DOS? Windows 7 doesn’t include support for DOS games, but you can get around it by using a virtual DOS machine on your computer. The solution is called DOSBox and it’s a groovy little program that simulates a DOS computer within a Window on your computer.
Posted in Chrome on Aug 27th, 2010
When Chrome was first released with Version 1, it wasn’t much to look at. Now 2 years and 5 versions later, the improvements are astounding. Chrome has really come out of the woodwork offering stability, performance, security, and a huge variety of features. Version 6 is an overall improvement over all of the things that we already loved about Chrome, so what exactly is this new version packing?
Posted in Microsoft on Aug 26th, 2010
Things are getting mighty cloudy over at Microsoft—and the addition of Sync to the Windows Live Essentials suite is making life in the clouds easier than ever. The latest version of Windows Live Sync is seriously upping the ante in the world of automated folder syncing and cloud storage. At first glance, it seems that the frontiers pioneered by the likes of Dropbox and Google Docs just might be tamed, civilized and finally be made accessible and intuitive for the masses by Microsoft. Let’s take a quick look at some of what Windows Live Sync is offering.
Posted in Microsoft on Aug 22nd, 2010
With Windows 7, Microsoft vastly upgraded how Wireless Networks are handled. If you consider the huge growth of wireless over the last 5 years it’s easy to understand why this upgrade was a shoe-in. This groovy guide will show you the ropes…