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What does it mean to use technology productively? How do you use devices and computers with Windows, Android, or iOS? Which gadgets make your work easier? How to personalize the operating system and the gadgets that you are using?

Introducing Windows 8: How to Configure Mail App Accounts

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 16.12.2012
When adding accounts to the Windows 8 Mail app, most of the account settings are configured automatically. For most providers all you'll need to do is enter your email address and password to get the account configured, synced and functional. While this is preferable to...

The Windows 8 Customization Guide for the Traditional PC User

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 04.12.2012
Even though Windows 8 is hybrid in nature, it doesn't mean you cannot use iton traditional desktops and laptops. It works just fine and, most times, faster than Windows 7. But Windows 8 does things quite differently from what you may have been used to...
Microsoft LifeCam Studio

Reviewing the LifeCam Studio - Microsoft’s Top HD Webcam

  • review
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 28.11.2012
Recently I have found myself in need of an HD webcam. I did a bit of research, found a few models and ended up picking the Microsoft LifeCam Studio due to the unrivaled driver support offered by Microsoft for its devices. But was I wrong...

The Desktop Tile Missing from the Start Screen? How to Add it Back

  • tutorial
  • Ciprian Adrian Rusen
  • 27.11.2012
It can happen that your Desktop tile is gone missing from the Start screen. Accidents happen and you will want to have it back. Fortunately, Windows 8 makes it easy to add its tile back to the Start screen. Here's how: [DC-SUMMARY-BREAK] How to Add...

Introducing Windows 8: The Complete Guide on How to Use the People App

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 21.11.2012
Most of our web savvy readers likely have more than one contact list. One for each email account, one for each social networking account and maybe even more. While that may seem like an accomplishment in this digital age, isn't it really annoying? If you...

How to Sort & Manage Contacts in the Windows 8 People App

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 19.11.2012
After you've added your email and social networking accounts to the People app, you may find that your list of contacts is getting a bit unruly. Even sorted by name and including pictures may not be enough to help you find the person you need...

How to Use the People App to Manage Social Networking Accounts

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 17.11.2012
Essentially, the Windows 8 People app is an all-inclusive contact list. You add your various accounts and the app stores contact information for everyone you know, regardless of whether they're an email contact or a Facebook friend. While that is useful enough on its own,...
People

Introducing Windows 8: How to Manually Add and Edit Contacts in People

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 15.11.2012
When working with the Windows 8 People app, your contacts will typically be entered in bulk lists by adding your social networking accounts and email accounts. Their information will all be added automatically, you'll only have to type your usernames and passwords. However, times will...

Introducing Windows 8: How to Add & Sync Accounts to the People App

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 13.11.2012
The Windows 8 People app is a tool for aggregating all of your contacts from all around the Internet. You can pull contact information from email accounts, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other social networking accounts as well. Having to add each contact individually would most...

Introducing Windows 8: The Complete Guide to the Calendar App

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 08.11.2012
Life can be hectic. As your individual worlds of work, play and family come together you can be left with a jumbled schedule of overlapping appointments, parties and events that can be impossible to keep track of without help. Windows 8 offers you the help...

How to Use Outlook.com to Import POP3 Mail to Windows 8 Mail

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 07.11.2012
For those of you who've had a chance to try out the new Mail app in Windows 8, you'll know that it's a convenient tool for aggregating all of your emails into a single location, that is, unless you have a POP3 email account. While...
Language

How to Install and Enable a New Display Language in Windows 8

  • tutorial
  • Codrut Neagu
  • 07.11.2012
Not too long ago, we wrote a tutorial on how to add or remove keyboard input languages in Windows 8. To continue with the topic of working with languages, I would like to show how to install and enable additional display languages. I'm sure many...

Introducing Windows 8: How to Rename an Account in Mail

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 06.11.2012
When you add an email account into Mail, the app automatically configures the name of the account to match the account provider. That means you're likely to see accounts named Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo or others such as that. While that makes perfect sense and will...
The How-To Geek Guide to Windows 8

Book Review - The How-To Geek Guide to Windows 8

  • review
  • Marte Brengle
  • 06.11.2012
I have been a fan of the How-To Geek website for a long time. They've got a great mix of interesting articles, created by some of the liveliest and best-informed writers on the Internet (next to the crew from 7 Tutorials, of course). So it...

Introducing Windows 8: The Complete Guide on How to Use the Mail App

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 01.11.2012
Once you get your hands on a copy of Windows 8, you'll notice it comes packaged with a few useful apps to get you started. These apps aren't the standard Desktop applications you're used to, they're Windows 8 apps, and they're nothing like anything Windows...
Windows 10 Notifications

Introducing Windows 8: How to Configure App Notifications

  • tutorial
  • Robert Kingsley
  • 31.10.2012
Have you ever had an appointment that you remembered about 15 minutes after it was past? Have you ever had an important email message that sat in your inbox far longer than it should have? If you've known these annoyances in the past, you don't...