Category Archive: Technology

Google Calendar Agenda Gadget for Windows 7

If you’re looking for a Google Calendar Agenda Gadget for Windows 7 here’s one that I found quite helpful. http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=be5c647c-224b-40b4-ac9c-8044f51abb4a It allows you to add Gtasks and notify you of incoming emails as well. Also, here’s one for Outlook: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=ed840437-7d13-4755-8d0a-0ba2cbbf38e6 Great little gadget. DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our […]

June 6, 2011 / by Marco / answer, corner, email, email system, few days, Gmail, mail, mail settings, Search, Select, signature feature, signatures, simple answer, solution, system, tweaks, wheel

Moving Gmail Signatures to the top of emails

I spent a few days looking for this solution and it was quite simple. Currently, when you enable the signature feature in Gmail the signature ends up being at the bottom of the email. This means that if you’re replying to an email, the signature is at the bottom. Most other email system has this […]

June 3, 2011 / by Marco / click, download, job, link, open source, PDF, PDFCreator, print, printer, source pdf, tool, use

PDFCreator – the free and open source PDF writer

If you need to use an open source PDF creator then use PDFCreator. Simple hey! I’ve used this tool for several years and it does the job. Once you install it all you have to do is select the PDFCreator printer and click print. You’ll then be asked where you want to save the file […]

NetDrive – awesome tool for mapping FTP drives

For those of you who like using Windows explorer to browse through your FTP files, then I personally use NetDrive. NetDrive is free for non-commercial home use. Here’s the download page http://www.netdrive.net/download.html DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU’VE READ?Join our subscription list and receive our content right in your mailbox. If you like to receive some […]

Android MUIU ROM

A friend of mine told me about the MUIU rom and how great it was so I decided to test it out. Unfortunately, I didn’t like this ROM, even though the interface was nice and it did have a couple of nice features it didn’t do what I wanted: FM radio was missing Tethering didn’t […]

May 31, 2011 / by Marco / account, archive, Automatically, BCC, Gmail, gmail account, microsoft, Outlook, Today, WIthin

How to Automatically BCC in Outlook 2010

So today I wanted to automatically add in the BCC my gmail account so that I can easily retrieve and archive sent messages from Outlook 2010. WIthin 4 minutes I was able to get this working thanks to these instructions: http://www.groovypost.com/howto/microsoft/how-to-automatically-bcc-in-outlook-2010/ Now if you’re like me and want to backup your outlook information then you […]

EeePC 1000H recovery instructions

After a painstaking weekend, I finally managed to perform a recovery on my EeePC. Now this was probably the third time I actually performed a recovery but each time I do this, I seem to forget the procedures and steps so I decided to blog about it. That way I have the option of coming […]

May 20, 2011 / by Marco / application, cool, googledocs, microsoft office user, office application, phone, software tool, tool, word processor

OffiSync – GoogleDocs plugin for Office

If you’re like me, I love GoogleDocs and it’s innovative features. I basically use GoogleDocs for everything, including drawing pictures. The main advantages for using GoogleDocs is the fact that your documents are all stored on the cloud and what’s more amazing is that you can share documents, spreadsheets and drawings with your colleagues or […]

I love technology

I love technology and the fact that technology helps us achieve so many things. If you look around you, technology is everywhere. You’re using the Internet and Computer right this instant… can you imagine living without this. What about your mobile phone? When I was back in high school mobile phones didn’t exist but look […]

May 4, 2011 / by Marco / account security, com, connection, Hypertext, information, password, poll id, secure browsing, secure connection, transfer protocol

Use HTTPS for facebook.com

Are you using a secure connection to your facebook account? I know how important it is to ensure you have the most secure settings for your facebook profile and I accidentally stumbled across this one – using HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). For those non techies out there this basically encrypts and secures information between […]

April 30, 2011 / by Marco / download, free open source, Greenshot, image tools, imaging tools, Open, Photoshop, source image, source imaging, tool

Free Open Source Image Tools

There’s two open source imaging tools that I use to capture and edit on my Windows OS and I thought I would share this with you. GIMP – Image Editing tool similar to Photoshop. This tool can be difficult to use at first but once you get the hand of it, you’ll love it. You […]

Installing Cyanogenmod 7 on HTC Desire HD

I stayed up all night for this… (3am) but I managed to install Cyanogenmod7 on my HTC Desire HD. Initially, I thought it was going to be painful and I also hesitated after reading that you may brick your phone. I decided to take the plunge and update the most popular Android ROM out there […]