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5 Reasons Why the Windows Firewall is One of the Best Firewalls

5 Reasons Why the Windows Firewall is One of the Best Firewalls

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 03.07.2013
Since we launched 7 Tutorials, we have tested lots of security products. Over the years, we learned a lot about what it means to provide a good security product and, we also learned that the Windows Firewall is one of the best firewalls available. Here...
What's New in Windows 8.1 Public Preview (codename

What's New in Windows 8.1 Public Preview (codename "Blue")?

  • misc
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 27.06.2013
Windows 8.1 Public Preview is now available for download and it brings many changes to Windows 8. There's lots of new stuff coming in this update and all of it is good. While many of you would think that Windows 8.1 is mostly about touch...
How to Install Windows 8 on a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion

How to Install Windows 8 on a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 18.06.2013
Although I'd known for a while that one can install Windows on an Intel-powered Mac, I didn't think I had much reason to try it. But then I sat down and actually read the directions for using the Mac utility named Boot Camp, and quickly...
How to Publish Pictures on Flickr with Windows Photo Gallery

How to Publish Pictures on Flickr with Windows Photo Gallery

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 17.06.2013
Many people like to publish images on Flickr, a justifiably popular image-sharing site. While there are several ways to do this, if you use Windows Photo Gallery, you've got one of the easiest publishing methods right at your fingertips. With just a few clicks you...
Introducing Windows 8: Customize the Look of the Start & Lock Screens

Introducing Windows 8: Customize the Look of the Start & Lock Screens

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 12.06.2013
Changing your Desktop wallpaper in Windows 8 is exactly the same procedure you've seen in Windows 7. While the choice to customize your Desktop is a given, Windows 8 goes farther than previous versions of Windows by giving you two more things to customize: the...
How to Edit Tags & Captions for Your Pictures in Windows Photo Gallery

How to Edit Tags & Captions for Your Pictures in Windows Photo Gallery

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 10.06.2013
In a previous article, I talked about adding People tags to images in Windows Photo Gallery. If you've looked at Photo Gallery, you already know that people tags aren't the only identifiers you can add to your images. In this tutorial, I'll talk about adding...
How to Rate and Flag Images in Windows Photo Gallery

How to Rate and Flag Images in Windows Photo Gallery

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 08.06.2013
Anyone who's taken digital photos for any length of time has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pictures stored on their hard drive. And the more photos there are, the harder it is to find any particular one—unless you've identified them in some easy-to-search way. We've seen...
The Windows Experience Index - How to Use it & Interpret the Results

The Windows Experience Index - How to Use it & Interpret the Results

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 03.06.2013
Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft includes the Windows Experience Index in its Windows operating systems. According to Microsoft, "the Windows Experience Index measures the capability of your computer's hardware and software configuration and expresses this measurement as a number called a base score". Wonder what...
How to Rename the Active Network Connection in Windows 7

How to Rename the Active Network Connection in Windows 7

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 29.05.2013
When you connect to a new network, Windows 7 gives it a name and a standard icon, depending on the network profile you have assigned: home, work, or public. But, did you know you can change the network's name, as well as its icon? Here's...
How to Create Your Own Screen Saver with Windows Photo Gallery

How to Create Your Own Screen Saver with Windows Photo Gallery

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 29.05.2013
I recently searched for good and free screensavers. What I found was pretty distressing. Free screensavers appear to be a favorite delivery system for malware more than anything else. However, all is not lost. If you want a really good, free screensaver, you need look...
How to Publish Photos to Picasa & Google+ with Windows Photo Gallery

How to Publish Photos to Picasa & Google+ with Windows Photo Gallery

  • tutorial
  • Marte Brengle
  • 24.05.2013
Many people have been using Google's Picasa photo management software to store and share their photos in the cloud for years. It's free, easy to use, and makes sharing your photos with other people about as simple as it gets. But, as we've seen, Windows...
How to Customize the Notification Area in Windows 7 & Windows 8

How to Customize the Notification Area in Windows 7 & Windows 8

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 23.05.2013
Although the notification area has been around since Windows 95, it wasn't very customizable and useful until Windows 7 was launched. Even though many know what it is and what it does (or at least in theory), few know how customizable it has become. In...
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...