Yearly Archives: 2010

Outlook 2011 For Mac Review: What’s New?

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The much awaited Microsoft Office app for Mac OS, Outlook 2011 clinched its place back into Office 2011 suite with an eternal extinct of Microsoft Entourage. Like other Office 2011 pendants, Outlook 2011 has been spruced-up with enhanced UI (User Interface) ribbon, containing tabs with respective groups. Read More

Excel 2011 For Mac Review: What’s New?

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Like it’s counterparts, Excel 2011 has also been augmented with a lot of new features, tools and other improvements, unlike Excel 2008, which severely lacked user-friendly interface. Excel 2011 now includes a new fluent UI(user interface) tabbed interface, containing respective groups and galleries. Read More

Word 2011 For Mac Review: What’s New?

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Microsoft Office dev-team augmented new features in Word 2011, unlike Word 2008 which had certain IDE downsides, such as every important options & features were included in orthodox desktop toolbars, making them difficult to access. In Office 2011, you will see new revamped interface of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Microsoft dev team is leaning more towards sprucing-up Office 2011 with new fluent UI (User Interface), providing ultimate experience of editing, charting, and creating documents. Since getting hold on Office 2011, we have been excavating each & every feature, tool, added support and other improvements in Word 2011. Read More

Microsoft Office 2011 For Mac Beta 2 14.0.0.100326 Leaked

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While Microsoft has changed the status of Office 2010 to RTM and is planning to release to public in June 2010, all eyes are now fixed on Office 2011 which will not see the light until Q4 2010. Microsoft is testing Office 2011 internally for a long time now, and has recently gathered steam with beta 2 milestone build version 14.0.0.100326. Ironically it has also been leaked and can be downloaded by anyone. Read More

Opera Mobile Emulator For Desktop

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Until recently if you wanted to test and debug the mobile version of the site in Opera Mobile, the only way was to get a phone with Opera Mobile installed. Opera Mobile turned out to be a huge success on the iPhone topping the Apple AppStore in all countries simultaneously, but not everyone has the iPhone or Android handsets to check their site’s compatibility. Read More

Easy Way To Restore And Keep Desktop Icon Layout In Windows

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The desktop is perhaps the most used and relied-upon location, we use it for temporarily storing documents, images, and so on, keeping track of things, fill it with soon-to-be-needed or frequently accessed data. Organization freaks like myself take advantage of the desktop by keeping icons in carefully mapped places. For example, I prefer to keep application shortcuts aligned with the left border of my desktop, while documents and images go alongside the right end. Most frequently accessed apps are hanging close to the top. Read More

Protect Document And Shapes In Visio 2010

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Visio 2010 does not support high-level protection like it’s counterparts. While creating complex diagram in Visio, you might need to protect either whole diagram or a single shape. Fortunately, you can apply generic Office 2010 protection level, which is by default concealed. In this post we will let you know how to make this feature apparent and how to make use of it. Read More

How To Edit Body Header Title In Visio 2010

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Visio 2010 includes list of new Border & Title styles which give better look to the diagram but changing them can be irksome as most of times we overlook the new open background window, which allows us to change the title, border box shape, and size. In this post we will be guiding you through how to insert and edit Border & Title. Read More

Change Default Email Font Settings & Theme In Outlook 2010

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Changing font settings and adding image background in Outlook 2010 is a piece of cake, as you can change it from the font setting present in mail compose window. But wouldn't it be more convenient if you can change default font styles; font family,size color, etc? So that you don't need to change font settings all the time while sending email. Apart from changing font settings, you can also apply default theme from the list of Outlook intrinsic themes. Read More

Import & Link HTML Datasheet In Access 2010

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Access 2010 lets user import web datasheet which could be very useful, especially when you are dealing with data tables saved in HTML format. Through importing them to Access 2010 database you can easily start defining data types and apply constraints. Apart from importing data table, you can also link web datasheet with Access 2010 database table which enables smooth synchronization between data tables. Read More

Efficiently Manage Your Bookmarks In Chrome With Bookmark Tree

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If you’re a user relying heavily on bookmarks and like to keep them organized and categorized in folders, Bookmark Tree extension can help. This extension shows all your Google Chrome bookmarks in the form of a neat, tree-like structure for easy viewing, and opens every new bookmark in a new tab instead of navigating the user away from the current page. Read More

XP Style Network Activity Indicator For Windows 7

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For almost all users who love Windows 7, we do miss one tiny little feature back from the days of Windows 98 SE’s glory, and up to Windows XP. Remember those two little monitor icons sitting in the system tray, indicating network activity by blinking innocently with traffic transmission? Used to be the easiest way to tell whether you network connection was alive or not. Read More

Powerful Photo Viewing & Editing With Hornil StylePix

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Image processing software are a dime a dozen, and while various commercial solutions are available, they are either paid or lack advanced features. Hornil StylePix is among the the list of free image viewers and editors (Gimp and Paint.NET being the others) that  is both intuitive and feature-rich tool which can replicate several of the options present in commercial software like Adobe Photoshop. Read More

Disable Unsecure Windows Components, Hackers & Script-Kiddies

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The first step to protect yourself against viruses, worms, and malicious code would be to disable unsecure and unused operating system components, hackers, and script-kiddies. Windows has hundreds of components that majority of users do not need but are enabled by default. Hackers can find any unsecure component and take control of the system, this won’t happen if the component itself is disabled. Read More