Microsoft opens an Office store for Office 2013 For a peek into the future, check out the Office Store now in beta. Office 2013 has a new form of plug-in based on HTML5 and web technologies with the Office Store intended as a ‘one stop’ place to get these addons. As you might expect, there’s […]
Sanebox is an interesting twist on email organizing. Sanebox is a new service receiving acclaim for the novel way to arrange your email. Usually, email organizing is done when messages arrive. The incoming message is moved to a folder, tagged, changed priority etc according to preset rules. Sanebox is a little different because it makes […]
To search PDF’s on a 64-bit machine you need a separate download. The Adobe PDF Reader software isn’t enough on 64-bit Windows computers. If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows (any release) you’ll probably find that Windows Search doesn’t find text inside PDF’s. Only file names are searched but not the contents. That’s seems […]
An embarrassing security lapse by Microsoft. ArsTechnica is reporting an astonishing security lapse by Microsoft in both Windows 7 and Windows 8 which exposes your password hint with a little code. The password hint is the additional line of text you can type in to remind you of your real password. It can be helpful […]
An interestingly cheap cloud backup option from Amazon Amazon has a new cloud storage option – slow but really cheap. Perfect for backups. Called Glacier, with good reason, because it can take 3-5 hours before your cloud stored data is available for download. On the upside, the prices are much cheaper than standard cloud storage. […]