One of the grooviest new features in Windows 7 is to automatically rotate your desktop backgrounds. The only setback with this is that in order to get brand new images, you’ll still need to manually search the internet to find and add them to your image library. That’s why today I’m going to show you a groovy trick for using an RSS feed to get new images for your Windows 7 Background so you won’t need to worry about finding and download new images ever again!
For you SciFi freaks I mean groovyReaders out there who just can’t get enough of James Cameron’s latest blockbuster hit Avatar, Microsoft has a special gift for you.
Mar 4th, 2010 by grooveDexter
By default, the Windows 7 start menu power button is set to Shut Down. Of course if you Click the Small Arrow next to it you can choose all of the other available options like log off, restart, switch user etc… but who has time for that? Let’s make sure the power button is set to the option you’ll use the most often (while at the same time eliminating the accidental shutdowns…).
Mar 3rd, 2010 by grooveDexter
Internet email lists containing 1000 addresses are selling for $60 to $100 USD. While the value of your email address might only be worth $0.10 to a spammer, it’s likely worth much more to you!
Earlier we covered how to protect your email address from spam bots using puzzles and online security services. This time we’ll look at an even more secure way of keeping your email address out of the clutches of internet email harvesters spammer slime bags by using a temporary disposable email address!
Mar 3rd, 2010 by grooveDexter
Have you ever had a hard time reading something in Windows because the text seems blurry, fuzzy, or something is just wrong with it? Recently we talked about calibrating your screen color, contrast, and brightness in Windows 7 to help out with a fuzzy screen and today I’m going to review another tool that’s included with Windows 7 that can help tune / calibrate your screen even more. It’s called the ClearType Tuning Tool.
Mar 2nd, 2010 by MrGroove
Since the beta release of Outlook 2010, I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to find all the new shortcut keys for common tasks I perform several times an hour. I mean honestly, after YEARS why change the Reply All Shortcut key from Alt+L to Alt+Shift+R? Or the Reply shortcut key from Alt+R to Ctrl+R? <sigh> Anyway, like all things technology things change… so we might as well get used to the new Shortcut Keys in Outlook 2010 and more on. Right?
Mar 2nd, 2010 by grooveDexter
Posting your email address on the internet is a necessary evil from time to time. Perhaps your begging for a Google Voice invite or a Google Wave Invite?? Or perhaps your trying to sell something on your Website and need to publish a contact address?
No matter what the reason, the problem with posting your address on the net is that there are thousands of people slime balls out there who are actively harvesting email addresses for their own spammy gain. So in this article I’m going to talk about how you can prevent your email address from falling into these peoples hands or at least TRY make it more difficult for them.
Mar 1st, 2010 by MrGroove
When you’re working on a project and you want to give it an original feel, a custom font can be useful. In Windows 7, Microsoft added an easy to use user interface for installing and managing fonts which is a nice upgrade over the previous drag and drop method we had in Windows Vista and XP.
Mar 1st, 2010 by grooveDexter
If you’ve just purchased a new LCD screen and the color seems off, there’s a good chance the fault lies within Windows 7 and not your hardware. When borrowing a friend’s laptop, the first thing I noticed was that the Aero theme didn’t quite look right. At first I thought the video card was fried, but it turns out it was just a messed up gamma setting and the great news is Windows 7 has a wizard to fix this very problem!
Feb 26th, 2010 by grooveDexter
If you use a lot of different Microsoft services, it can get confusing sometimes remembering all your credentials (passwords and usernames) for each one. Sure, you could just use one universal username and password for everything, but that poses an obvious security risk. That’s where…