There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...

Windows comes with two ways to capture screenshots baked into the software. If you hit PrintScreen it will capture the entire screen to the clipboard. If you hit Alt-PrintScreen it will capture the active application/window to the clipboard. I very rarely use the full screen capture because I'm usually taking ...

I'm the tech/operations person for a branch of our organization that has staff in 3 locations. I work out of the "main office," and do a poor job of making it out to the other two locations on a regular basis. Partially because of the location spread, and ...

I'm always on the lookout for quality, free software. Over at nedwolf.com they have four lists of Windows freeware: general freeware, portable freeware, web developer tools, and online apps. These lists are very extensive, and nicely organized so you can easily find the software you need. They have ...

I'm pretty sure people can already guess that I'm a fan of ways to avoid using the mouse. A long while ago I was on the lookout for a Windows-based keystroke application launcher, in the same vein as QuickSilver for MacOSX. I had started out with Colibri, but ...

Frank Ohlhorst just asked if the penguin is listening. I haven't thought much about Linux since I made my home computer switch to Mac about a year ago, but he poses some very good ideas. The Mac guy, the PC guy and a penguin are all standing around having a ...

There are four keystrokes that involve the Windows key that I use on a daily basis at work. A variety of tasks are completed with them, and I'm sure these are not the only four out there. Windows-D minimizes all of your open application windows, showing the desktop. Windows-R will pull ...

One thing I've found annoying about the way Windows handles the display of open applications is the inflexibility in the Taskbar. With XP they gave the ability to group Taskbar items from the same application together, but still no way for me to organize the lineup how I really ...