Add New Outlook 2013 Contact When you get a message from a new contact, simply right-click on their name in the Reading pane and select “Add to Outlook Contacts.” A window will pop open with their email address filled in. From here you can add any additional information you for them that you need and click Save. You can enter in their second email address, work or home address, phone number, IM handle, birthday, and any additional notes you need....

Perhaps a few days ago you noticed that the Google homepage had been taken over by a giant Pacman themed logo? The fun and clever theme was in honor of Pacman’s 30th anniversary (May 22, 2010) but there is something about it a lot of people might have missed. If you waited on the page for 10-15 seconds, the logo would come to life in the form of a game....

Uninstall Adobe Flash If Flash is still installed on your computer for some reason, make sure to get rid of it asap. Check out one of the following articles for instructions on removing it on Windows or macOS: How to Uninstall Flash from Your MacHow to Uninstall Flash from Windows 10 Original Article… It is the beginning of another beautiful weekend, so why not go with the “flOw” to start it out with a little fun....

Play Google’s Rollit Update: This project is no longer available. If you go to the website, you will get information about the Chrome browser. To play, you’ll need to use Google Chrome and your smartphone handy. Then head to the Rollit page and follow the onscreen instructions. This is part of the Chrome Experiments project. For best results on your smartphone, you’ll want to use the mobile version of Chrome. But according to the site, any modern mobile browser will work....

Run the Microsoft Malware Prevention tool. It’s part of the Microsoft Fix It Center. Then you have the option to have it scan your system and fix detected problems automatically, or if you like more control over your system, select the second option. After the scan simply select the fixes to apply and click Next. For some fixes, like enabling UAC, a restart of your computer is required. It also generates a detailed report that you can look through and save....

Why are Backups Important? The home computer contains our most important documents and precious family photos/videos for most of us. Losing even a single file can be catastrophic. Many don’t realize how quickly everything can be lost through a hardware failure, computer virus, or an accident (oops… I didn’t mean to delete that). With a single keystroke or power surge, decades of data will be gone and impossible to recover depending on the event....

Note: In this example, I’m connecting a Windows 7 system to my Mac running OS X Lion over my home network. Remote Access a Mac from Windows First, download and install the most recent stable version of the free utility TightVNC to your Windows computer. During installation, uncheck TightVNC Server unless you’re using it for other remote access situations. For connecting your Windows system to a Mac, the server isn’t required....

Notepad++ brings in a whole new set of features that allows you to do a myriad of new things with just a simple notepad. It’s light on system resources and loads instantaneously so that you won’t notice a performance difference between it and the standard Windows notepad. My personal favorite use for it is editing code or perhaps the hex-editor add-on, but there are far more things to be done with it....

According to Samsung Hub (where the picture comes from), the company will show everyone at CES its new Galaxy player, a device aimed at people wanting lots of multimedia action, in a small package and without the cellular connection. Basically, it’s aimed at the target audience of the iPod Touch. The Galaxy Player will be introduced by the Korean company at CES and it looks very similar to the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone....

One of the key parts to becoming a successful app developer is to be able to make your most important apps available on multiple platforms. That’s exactly what Microsoft has done by bringing some of their most used applications over to iOS and making them available for both iPhone/iPod users and iPad users. Let’s take a look at a few of these right now. Microsoft Tag Microsoft Tag is an application which allows you to create tags which can be scanned and can either lead to a URL, Image, or even just plain text....

If you’re using Google Chrome, my colleague Hammad Saleem has a great article about an extension which allows you to do just that. For the rest of us, and Chrome users that don’t want to install another extension, check out Webstagram. Go to the Webstagram website and click Login. Then log in with your Instagram account username and password. Then give the app permission to work with your Instagram account....

Although several sites have been talking about the release since yesterday, I just noticed on microsoftpost.com (sorry for the shameless plug) that Service Pack 2 “BETA” for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 hit the Microsoft Download Center today. I’m out on vacation this week so I can’t test this out BUT, below are the various links if you want to go ahead and get it installed. I also included some reference links which cover a How-To for system admins as well as the WHAT does SP2 BETA include?...

If you run multiple computers on your network, it’s a pain to switch from system to system to control it. First, install Mouse without Borders on the first Windows PC you want to share the same mouse and keyboard with. Installation is easy following the wizard. Since this is the first system Mouse without Borders is being installed on, click NO. Then just follow the on-screen directions – leave the screen up as you’ll need it for the other system....

This issue is very similar to when you have in-store credit or a gift card somewhere. The credit is as good as cash with that company – since it is offered as a currency alternative. You didn’t sign up to donate money. You purchased credit. In a sense, it’s like the company owes you X amount, and they can’t just forget about their debt of service or dollars after six months or a year....

Spotify Premium Update The new updates are for subscribers of its Premium tier that upgrades the radio feature that will provide users a personalized station that uses the same algorithms that the company uses for its popular Discover Weekly and personalized playlists. “If a subscriber wants a great playlist based on one of their favorite musicians or songs, they can simply search for it and start listening to one of the brand-new Artist Radio playlists,” Spotify writes in its announcement....

Update: Microsoft has now extended the deadline to May 2017. Users Running Windows 10 Build 10240 or Version 1507 Must Upgrade Well, technically, you don’t have to, but if you want to keep your system secure and if you want to be able to continue accessing areas of the system such as the Windows Store, you might need to upgrade. Also, Windows 10’s new update cycle is beginning to prove itself: research into zero day exploits proved the recent Anniversary Update was able to avoid being compromised, while previous releases and versions of Windows succumbed to the same attack....

Windows 8 (32 & 64-bit) Microsoft has officially named it simply “Windows 8”, but you’ll also see it called different things like Windows 8 Basic, Base or Core version. This version contains the essential components of the new operating system. It will come on most new laptops and desktops computers – like Home Premium did with Windows 7. If you’re the average home user, this is the version you’ll want....

Automatically Update Apps This is one that any user of IOS will be happy about. Your apps update in the background – a luxury Android users have had for some time already. You might want to control if this happens or not. Go to Settings > iTunes & App Store. Under Automatic Downloads you can turn the feature on or off. Update App Content in the Background If you frequently use a particular app, you might want it to update themselves in the background....

Go to PostPost.com and click Sign In With Twitter. Next, authorize PostPost to access your account. Then enter your email address. Click Gather My Timeline. That’s it for now. PostPost will gather your Twitter timeline info and send you an email when it’s finished. The time it takes will vary. It took around 10 minutes in my experience. After you get the email verifying your account, start searching your Twitter timeline....

After all, “I’ll Google Drive you the file” doesn’t exactly have the same ring to it, does it? Aside from the basics of using Dropbox (which has already been endlessly rehashed), what other things can you do to maximize your use out of the service? That’s today’s topic in groovyPost tech class. Use Dropbox More Effectively With These 10 Tips & Tricks OK, students, take notes. Control What Is Synced Using “Selective Sync” If you have many files inside the web version of your Dropbox account, you may not want all of it cluttering up your computer....