The concept of Windows began in 1981 and was first officially released as Windows 1.0 in November 1985. Since then we have had many versions released by Microsoft and each one has become more and more feature rich. Windows Operating Systems list In order of release from oldest to newest, the windows operating systems list is as follows: Windows 1.x - The very first releases of the windows operating system. [...]
Most people have heard of the Microsoft Office Suite its a fantastic word processing suite produced and sold my Microsoft. Its the industry standard for publishing text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and simple databases. Microsoft office is great if you are a business, or someone who can justify spending money for a word processing application, but if you are a home user and just want to write some personal documents then you [...]
If you are running an older version of Windows such as Windows XP, you can use a Windows 7 disk and upgrade Windows 7 onto your computer. If you are currently running Windows 7, you can also upgrade Windows 7 to run Windows 8 or Windows 8.1. Unfortunately you cannot directly upgrade from Windows XP (or prior) to Windows 8 (The latest Microsoft operating system). But there are indirect methods [...]
Microsoft remote desktop is essentially a tool that is used to access a desktop from a remote location. The application is produced by Microsoft and the client comes pre-installed with most recent versions of windows. The Microsoft remote desktop host protocol comes with most professional and server based operating systems. uses of Microsoft remote desktop The term Microsoft remote desktop is a literal description of the tool. The common use of Microsoft remote desktop [...]
Tinytake is an image and video capture tool produced by MangoApps and the best part is that its absolutely free. Tinytake is so useful that after featuring it recently in one of our general articles about screen capture software, we have decided to do a full writeup on the program. overview of Tinytake Features Tinytake takes screen capture to a whole new level and it is absolutely packed with features, saving you time on all the tasks [...]
Firefox is a very robust browser, and lots of people prefer it over Internet explorer, Google chrome and so on. In this article we will go through the process of downloading, installing and setting up Firefox. We will then explain how to change default search engine in Firefox to something of your liking - such as Google.co.uk for example. Downloading and installing Firefox Firefox can be downloaded by following this link. [...]
Microsoft Excel 2010 is a fantastic program that enables you to work with large amounts of data. More specifically you can arrange the data in columns and rows, sort the data in a particular order, filter the data and also perform complex calculations on the data. In this tutorial we will guide you through how to create a spreadsheet in Excel 2010. Afterwards we will show you some basic tasks [...]
Microsoft Remote Desktop is as client side application that is used to access a server or computer over a remote link using the RDP protocol (Remote Desktop Protocol) which, incidentally, runs on TCP Port 3389 and the Microsoft remote desktop app is the mobile version of that application which runs on several mobile operating systems, but the one we will be concentrating on is the Microsoft remote desktop app for IOS. The [...]
these days almost everyone uses email in some way or another - you might access it via your phone or tablet, or if you use a PC you may be used to accessing email via web-mail, or you may have an email client installed on your computer. How do you Access your Email? Depending on your provider there are probably lots of ways that you COULD access your email, but [...]
For those of you that are not familiar with the term open source, it refers to a model of development that allows anyone to view, edit and distribute the source code for the project. Open source is a fantastic way to get software projects developed quickly and it tends to grow communities around those projects because everyone is able to get involved and help with various parts of the projects. [...]
