• You know you’re talking too technically to your business users when...

    Posted May 15, 2012 - 5:57 pm

    As much as we love the technologies we use and how they work, most of our business users don’t. Business users are looking for solutions to their problems and not necessarily the behind-the-scenes technologies that make it work.

  • 6 ways to use multiple displays with your laptop

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:28 pm

    Dual monitors improve productivity, but it can be hard to get laptops to use multiple displays. It's not impossible, though. Check out these six tips for connecting laptops to external monitors.

  • How to time-stamp your video in iMovie

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 3:05 pm

    I hope we can all agree that it’s good that video cameras no longer burn the date and time into footage as they used to. If you missed this particular piece of video history, cameras had an option to include the date and time on every frame of video. (Many cameras can still do this.)

  • 10 Questions That Can Help You Be More Innovative At Work

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 9:03 am

    As an individual contributor, first line manager, or IT executive, you can help drive innovation within your organization simply by using old technologies in new ways.

  • How to make your PC distraction-free

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 7:50 am

    With tons of desktop real estate and the processing power to run practically as many apps as you can open, it can be challenging to stay focused on a single task while using your PC. Luckily, in recent years a number of new tools have been developed to help you create a distraction-free workspace at home or in the office. These apps and tools hide unused windows and menus to help you focus on what's important and be more productive.

  • How to edit office documents on your smartphone

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 7:50 am

    Although office suites have been available on mobile phones for more than a decade, touch interfaces have made them much simpler and more efficient than before. Now, iPhone and Android users wanting to work with office documents while on the go have at least three great options each, and two of them in common. This guide will walk you through the process of choosing an editor and getting started in editing documents on your smartphone.

  • How to deal with tech distractions

    Posted May 10, 2012 - 7:25 am

    Having trouble focusing on your work? You're not alone: The advent of smartphones, tablets, and Twitter has made staying connected to the flow of information seem seductively simple. All you have to do is leave your email inbox open in one tab, have Facebook or Twitter open in another, and set your phone to beep whenever you have an appointment to ensure that you stay productive without missing a single meeting or status update.

  • Add Dropbox, Google Drive, or SkyDrive to Windows' Send-to menu

    Posted April 29, 2012 - 7:50 am

    Dragging and dropping isn't always the fastest way to handle file operations. Either you have to open and arrange two windows, or you have to navigate Explorer's folder tree, which many users find confusing.

  • How to grab a screenshot from iPhone, Android, and nearly any other smartphone

    Posted April 20, 2012 - 10:49 am

    Let’s review the best ways you can grab a screenshot from an iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, or Windows Phone. Or even a WebOS phone, if you're feeling esoteric.

  • Quickly print files from within the Finder in OS X

    Posted April 14, 2012 - 7:41 am

    Is there some way to quickly print a single copy of a file without having to go through a Print dialog box? Yes, if you do it in the Finder. Here's how

  • How to secure your BIOS

    Posted April 7, 2012 - 7:34 am

    You probably don't interact with your PC's BIOS (Basic Input/Output Operating System) much, but it occupies a unique and highly privileged position in your computer's architecture. Since the BIOS loads before the operating system--and before you enter your user credentials--malware surreptitiously introduced into the BIOS could activate itself long before any anti-malware software has an opportunity to detect it. A sophisticated and malicious program operating at such a low level could take control of your PC without providing a clue that it was there.

  • How to make Lion's desktop spaces stick

    Posted April 7, 2012 - 7:33 am

    Reader Bradford Poirier likes a feature introduced in Lion, but finds one of its behaviors distracting. He writes:

  • Track your own personal Twitter trending topics

    Posted March 31, 2012 - 7:26 am

    Twitter monitors the millions and billions of 140-character bits of wisdom that travel the Twitterverse and lists out the top 10 hottest trends. Twitter lets you view the trending topics worldwide, by country, or narrowed down to a metropolitan area, but regardless of how you filter the Twitter trends, they're based on all of Twitter for the given region, and much of that may be irrelevant to you.

  • Troubleshooting your Apple TV

    Posted March 24, 2012 - 7:47 am

    The second- and third-generation Apple TV were designed with simplicity in mind but they don’t always work as expected. Where do you turn when your Apple TV acts up? The next several paragraphs are a good place to start. Check out our symptoms and solutions for common Apple TV issues.

  • PC Gaming in the Living Room Part II: Enter the X51

    Posted March 19, 2012 - 8:30 am

    I enjoyed being able to play PC games on the living room TV so much that I decided to buy a dedicated system for it: an Alienware X51. Aside from one little glitch it's all been smooth sailing so far.

  • How to restore data from Time Machine

    Posted March 18, 2012 - 7:42 am

    Now that you’ve been using Time Machine regularly to back up your computer, you should be fully prepared if your Mac crashes or if you need to move data from one Mac to another. Restoring data from Time Machine is just as easy as backing things up in the first place.

  • Securing your home or office Wi-Fi

    Posted March 17, 2012 - 7:47 am

    Even with Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (the latest security standard) enabled, hackers can exploit vulnerabilities to crack your Wi-Fi security. Here's how to combat these weaknesses.

  • How to change your Facebook profile photo

    Posted March 17, 2012 - 7:18 am

    Yet another important Facebook setting that's nearly impossible to find -- unless you know where to look.

  • What to do when Windows Explorer doesn't refresh

    Posted March 15, 2012 - 3:45 pm

    Explorer refresh horror solved! 12 solutions (and workarounds) for a 5-year-old Windows Explorer bug.

  • How to install the Silk browser on any Android phone or tablet

    Posted March 11, 2012 - 8:15 am

    One of the coolest features of the Kindle Fire is Amazon's proprietary Silk browser, an application designed to leverage Amazon's massive server resources by precaching Web pages and delivering them to you faster--in theory--than any other browser. It works by preloading all the content (including music, images, and video) on popular websites to Amazon's remote servers first, and then delivering the entire package to your mobile device in a single stream of data. Amazon calls it a "cloud-accelerated" browser, and it's the first of it's kind.

  • PC Gaming in the living room - making do with what you've got

    Posted March 7, 2012 - 9:30 am

    The best part about console games is that you can play them while kicked back on the couch. But why can't you do the same with PC games? Well, it turns out you can and in fact it's pretty easy.

  • Facebook Business Pages: A how-to guide

    Posted March 4, 2012 - 8:17 am

    Several months after Facebook first started rolling out Timeline to the public, the social network has formally announced Timeline's expansion to brand- and business-focused pages.

  • Cutting the cord: How to ditch your cable company

    Posted February 11, 2012 - 8:52 am

    By now, the fact that anyone can watch TV online without paying a dime to a cable company is practically common knowledge. But lucky for most cable companies, time-sensitive television programming such as news, sports, and popular shows the first night they air are still somewhat off-limits unless you know where to look. Here are some quick and dirty ways to get TV programming with just an Internet connection and a computer or a mobile phone--no gazing into neighbors’ living rooms required.

  • iPhone problems solved: 6 tips to speed up your iOS device

    Posted February 3, 2012 - 1:10 pm

    Apple's iOS 5 update brought us 200 new features, along with a host of new problems, including hefty performance bottlenecks, overall sluggishness and frequent app crashes. We've got the solutions.

  • Turn a PC into a DVR

    Posted January 28, 2012 - 8:28 am

    Looking for a way to cut that pricey cable-TV cord, but don't want to give up on watching and recording your favorite network shows? Turns out there's an easy and very affordable solution. It's called Windows 7.
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