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How to Create Panoramic Pictures with Windows Photo Gallery

How to Create Panoramic Pictures with Windows Photo Gallery

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 20.05.2013
Do you remember those little disposable panorama cameras? They let you take a few very wide photographs on a roll of 35mm film. Since the advent of digital cameras, making panoramic photos has been done by merging several photographs together and, in the beginning, that...
How to Record Audio with Sound Recorder in Windows 7 & Windows 8

How to Record Audio with Sound Recorder in Windows 7 & Windows 8

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 15.05.2013
Windows 7 and Windows 8 include a great little application you can use to record sounds - Sound Recorder. All you need is a sound card and a microphone plugged in, or a webcam with a microphone built in. Your recordings are saved as Windows...
How to Tag People in Photos with Windows Photo Gallery

How to Tag People in Photos with Windows Photo Gallery

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 15.05.2013
Windows Photo Gallery has many great features. One of our favorites is face recognition, which allows you to identify and tag people in your photos. The more people you tag, the easier it is for Windows Photo Gallery to suggest tags and correctly identify people....
How to Print to a Shared Mac OS X Printer from Windows 7 & Windows 8

How to Print to a Shared Mac OS X Printer from Windows 7 & Windows 8

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 09.05.2013
There are a number of indirect ways that you can trick Windows 7 and Windows 8 into printing from a shared printer attached to a Mac, but the best way to do it is through Bonjour. That's because with every version change - either between...
Scan for Open Ports & Evaluate the Security of Your System with Nmap

Scan for Open Ports & Evaluate the Security of Your System with Nmap

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 08.05.2013
Would you like to know how many open ports are found on each computer or device that is part of your network? Do you want to evaluate how good their firewall protection is and how vulnerable they are? Then, you should try Nmap - an...
Windows 8 Apps Crash Without Error Messages On AMD/ATI Video Cards

Windows 8 Apps Crash Without Error Messages On AMD/ATI Video Cards

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 03.05.2013
Recently I have encountered weird problems with some modern Windows 8 apps. A few of them (not all) were malfunctioning. When I was launching these apps they never started and, after a second or two, I was back to the Start screen. I did a...
How to Install a Windows 7 or 8 Network Shared Printer in Mac OS X

How to Install a Windows 7 or 8 Network Shared Printer in Mac OS X

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 02.05.2013
Installing Windows network shared printers in Mac OS X is easier than it used to be. However, some users will need a bit of help the first time they go through this procedure. To help them out, we decided to publish this detailed step by...
Reviewing the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000

Reviewing the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Desktop 7000

  • review
  • Marte Brengle
  • 25.04.2013
As I've mentioned before (bet I've put you to sleep with it, too) :) I love Microsoft Natural ergonomic keyboards. As someone who types both fast and frequently, having an ergonomic keyboard has made a major difference for me over the years. They do take...
How to Remove Network Locations Mapped as Drives in Windows 8

How to Remove Network Locations Mapped as Drives in Windows 8

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 23.04.2013
The process called mapping, assigns a drive letter on your computer to a location on a remote system allowing you to access and save files over the network easily. We have shown how to make these links permanent by reconnecting them every time you log...
4+ Free Tools for Making Remote Connections from Macs to Windows PCs

4+ Free Tools for Making Remote Connections from Macs to Windows PCs

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 15.04.2013
When I was asked to update our 2010 article about connecting remotely to a PC from a Mac, I thought it would be a fairly simple task. However, since that article was written, Microsoft has dropped support for their Remote Desktop Connection software for Macs....
How to Make Windows 8 Temporarily Reveal the Password You Just Typed

How to Make Windows 8 Temporarily Reveal the Password You Just Typed

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 12.04.2013
When using Windows 8, you encounter all kinds of scenarios in which you are asked to enter one password or another. And, as all operating systems do, Windows 8 masks the passwords you enter with bullets, so that they cannot be read by someone standing...
What's New About Windows 8 Themes? Why They Don't Work in Windows 7?

What's New About Windows 8 Themes? Why They Don't Work in Windows 7?

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 11.04.2013
Windows 8 themes are not different from Windows 7 themes, at least not when you look at them for the first time. The process for creating and customizing themes is the same in both operating systems but the theme files that result from the process...
How to Mount a Windows 7 & Windows 8 Shared Folder in Mac OS X

How to Mount a Windows 7 & Windows 8 Shared Folder in Mac OS X

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 10.04.2013
When accessing network shared folders from your Mac is a difficult task to do, the only solution you have left is to map a network shared folder from your Windows 7 or Windows 8 computer, so that the Mac always remembers its IP address and...
How to Access Windows 7 & Windows 8 Shared Folders from Mac OS X

How to Access Windows 7 & Windows 8 Shared Folders from Mac OS X

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 09.04.2013
What prerequisites must be met in order to be able to access, from Mac OS X, network folders shared by Windows 7 and Windows 8 computers? In this article I will detail all the dependencies that must be met in order for things to work...
Fix HD Monitors and AMD/ATI Cards Not Displaying a Full Screen Image

Fix HD Monitors and AMD/ATI Cards Not Displaying a Full Screen Image

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 08.04.2013
I recently encountered weird issues with my 27" Asus LCD display. When I plugged it in, the image displayed did not fill the whole screen, everything was blurry and it looked like there was something wrong with the monitor. If you have similar issues and...
Set Up Windows 7 & Windows 8 to Share with Mac OS X & Ubuntu Linux

Set Up Windows 7 & Windows 8 to Share with Mac OS X & Ubuntu Linux

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 03.04.2013
Do you have a network with multiple devices, computers and operating systems? What does it take to set up Windows 7 and Windows 8 so that you can easily share folders, libraries and devices with the other computers that are part of the network? It...
The Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Keyboard Review - Is it a Good Keyboard?

The Microsoft Sculpt Comfort Keyboard Review - Is it a Good Keyboard?

  • review
  • Marte Brengle
  • 28.03.2013
I have been a major fan of Microsoft's ergonomic keyboards ever since I saw the first generation Natural Keyboard in 1994. Since I type a lot, and usually at about 110 words a minute, having the ergonomic shape made a lot of difference for me....