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Awesome Note – Stay Organized

May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Organization is a necessity when it comes to keeping track of your day to day activities, as well as notes, information, or whatever items that keep you on track in your busy day. I use an app on my iphone called Awesome Note. It keeps all my important information in one easy to find location. It also allows me to quickly jot down new notes or task. Even great tool for shopping list and those daily "to do's". It even has a calendar with reminders. You can add photos to your notes either by taking a picture or from your storage of pics. Whats also cool is if you need to draw something, you can … [Read more...]

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Use Apple Configurator to deploy iPhones and iPads

May 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
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Apple's Configurator tool allows you to configure and deploy up to 30 iOS devices at a time.  The free app allows you to configure settings like Wi-fi and Exchange ActiveSync, and well as restrict access to features like the webcam and even internet browsing.   Apple support: http://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/1.0/#cadf1802aed Download here:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-configurator/id434433123?mt=12 … [Read more...]

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Air Display – User your IPad as a Second Monitor

May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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As more and more users become mobile the need for mulitple screens on the road has become invaluable. Now if you have an iPad, using wifi, you can use it as a second monitor with your laptop. You'll have to install the app on your ipad for $9.99 as well and download and install the app on your laptop. http://avatron.com/apps/air-display Key features: - An instant second monitor - Touch your desktop - Display it the way you want (ie Landscape or Portrait) - No wires needed … [Read more...]

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Bins – Folders for the taskbar.

April 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

When users work on their workstations, some have trouble keeping the clutter off the desktop, some keep an icon for every application on their machine in their taskbar dock. 1UP Industries has developed a new solution called Bins that's provides folders for the task bar. The cost of the solution is $4.99 and here's some more information on the product:   Restore sanity to your Windows 7 taskbar Combine related icons on your Windows 7 taskbar with Bins™. Reduce clutter, and get at your programs quickly. Super easy Create a Bins container by dragging one taskbar icon … [Read more...]

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Ultramon – A taskbar on every screen

March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Ultramon is a piece of software that allows users who have multiple screens to have a taskbar on each screen they are using. This becomes particularly handy when your are working with mulitple application as it allows you to see what screen the application is opened on, rather than trying to tab thru it or clicking until you find it. www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon With Ultramon you can: - You can move applications from one screen to another with a click of a button - You can easily manage more applications so that they are not all on one task bar - You can have a different wallpaper on … [Read more...]

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4Sync – Syncing Files so you can access them virtually anywhere

March 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I wrote a blog previously about Dropbox. An application that allows you to sync a folder so that you can access it over the internet, or on whatever PC you have dropbox installed on. I love the application, the only pitfall is that it only gives you 2gb of free space, after which you need to start paying a monthly fee to get more space. I found another application today called 4Sync, its basically the exact same $9.95. Not too bad. I decided to try it out today and I was able to sync a folder and have the folder replicated on two different PC's. I can also access the files logging into the … [Read more...]

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Miss the Start menu in Windows 8?

March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Stardock has created software that adds the Start menu functionality that many users rely on, back into Windows 8. Features - Adds a “Start” menu to the Windows 8 taskbar - Enables quick access and searching of your installed applications - Adds Run... option via right-click menu - Adds Shutdown... option via right-click menu - Choose a custom Start button image Download it here:  http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/     … [Read more...]

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How to reset local security policy settings to default

March 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever found yourself with a computer that has remnants of a Group Policy still applied to it, or if you have changed GPO, and need to reset the local policy back to default, there’s a handy command you can use. Open a command prompt (Start, Run, CMD) and enter: secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose                           for Windows XP secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose                                 for Windows Vista/7 It … [Read more...]

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Apple TV: Oh the Possibilities…

March 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
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I have used the Apple TV appliance for a little over a year now and just recently found some cool features to use it with my iPhone and two very neat applications. First of all for those of you who don't know what the Apple TV is, its a small box that you can connect to your TV and by either wifi or ethernet cable access movies, netflix, music, and whats really cool your iTunes library when you turn on Home Sharing. You connect the device to your TV via HDMI cable, the streaming video quality is amazing. The AppleTV retails for $99. If you have a Netflix subscription you can access it via … [Read more...]

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