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With thanks to Windows Vista magazine, check out some of the cool tools to enhance your desktop at http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/vista/. I particularly like the 3D User Picture, Glass Toasts, and Thumbnail Sizer. Nice enhancements, but only if you’ve got a sufficiently powerful graphics card. Folder Backgrounds are also pretty quirky, but I’ve yet to see the…

  As a long time fan of R.E.M. I’m excited to learn that they will become the first major act to allow fans to freely stream and share their new "Accelerate" album via social networking sites when it is released on 24th March. To take advantage of this great opportunity to hear the album before…

Here’s an ace tip from Channel 10 that explains how to configure Windows Vista to automatically index all .pst (Outlook Personal Storage) files on your computer. This saves you having to open archived .pst files in Outlook every time you need to dig out an old email. Follow the steps in the tip on Channel…

It would appear that rumours of FolderShare’s death were grossly exaggerated. Au contraire, FolderShare is alive and well, and looking better than ever with: a new extra-confusing name ‘Windows Live FolderShare Beta’ a new web site that makes file management easier speedier setup faster performance in Windows Vista and a sparkling new logo Some of…

This has to be the offer of the century: Yes, that’s right. For just £2.99 at www.bigpockets.co.uk you can now buy a bag full of crappy items that would otherwise be cluttering up their warehouse. The contents will almost certainly have a value above £2.99, but not necessarily to you. The web site goes on…

Regular users of Microsoft Word and Outlook will have discovered the Format Painter tool which looks like this . By selecting some text then clicking the button, you can apply the exact same formatting to other text in your document just by selecting it. Give it a try. Advanced users will have spotted that by…

If you find yourself inserting things like your address, maps, travel directions, disclaimers and your web site URL into emails over and over again, then Quick Parts could be your new friend. Quick Parts are new to Outlook 2007 and Word 2007 and provide an easy way for you to quickly insert regularly used text…

Are you forever hitting the Caps Lock key by mistake and discovering THAT YOUR PERFECTLY FORMED SENTENCE HAS TURNED ALL SHOUTY? While there’s no known cure for fat fingers, you may be pleased to know that you can configure Windows to play an audible alert warning whenever you press the Caps Lock, Num Lock, or…

Surprisingly, before today I had never used mail merge to send a personalised e-mail. I say "surprisingly" because now that I’ve mastered the technique I can think of dozens of uses for this simple but very powerful tool. Put simply, mail merging allows you to create customised communications (be they e-mails or ye olde printed…

I’ve blogged before about SkyDrive, but this week it got even better. Users now get a full 5GB of free storage in the cloud. And because the service is now out of beta you should feel extra confident that this is very secure place to store the stuff you need. All you need to get…