Windows Tools, Help & Guides

Backup is the overall most important thing you’ll ever do when working on your computer. There are literarely tons of software promising to do that for you in the easiest and safest way possible. Me, personally I am old school computer geek who likes to have total control, so I’m going to show you how you can get a complete backup of you Outlook emails and contacts in just a few minutes. In this guide I am referring to MS Outlook 2007, but this guide should also cover earlier versions like 2003 and 2000.

Here’s how to really do it in the fast and reliable way…

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To set up an email account in Outlook 2010 is very straight forward. You get started by clicking the orange File button. This will show the new file-menu system. Here you can add and edit accounts, cleanup your mailbox and create Rules and Alerts. All you’re existing accounts (if any) will show up in the top part of the window.

In this article we’ll be setting up two account types:

• POP3/SMTP account
• Windows Live/Hotmail account

[UPDATE] Added Pop3 Information for Hotmail accounts.

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Recently ThePirateBay announced they will no longer run their torrent tracker and will be moving to magnet links. Magnet links are an older technology but many people have neither heard of them or use them. This guide goes into the basics of how to use a magnet link and provides information on what magnet links, DHT, and PEX is.
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Outlook 2010 (Beta)

It’s here !! – well not officially – but the Beta i. I’ve been using MS Office 2010 since the Beta hit the market. After running it for about 3 months I can definitively say: What are you waiting for ? Okay, I get it you want to wait for the final release – but the thing is you really don’t have to.

In this first part I’m going to show you how to get started with Outlook 2010 and show you some of the newest and coolest features which I’ve come to love. This article and the upcoming ones will be subject to change as the Final Release becomes public, so bookmark this article already!

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[UPDATE] The contest is now closed, we will reveal the lucky ten shortly.
Be sure to check out the review and try this software on your own.

Today we reviewed the affordable feature packed PDF-Suite Nitro Pro. Today, I’m proud to announce that Nitro PDF Software and their Executive Director Richard Crocker have come up with no less than 10 licenses of their Pro Edition for some of our lucky readers.

How do I win ?

Entry is simple.

1. Tell us which feature you find most exciting about the product , and how much you will appreciate receiving a free license (like “I promise to tell all my friends” etc).
2. Send your contribution to: nitro@www.mintywhite.com no later than: February 12th, 2010 @ 10PM ET.

Rules

• Forum Administrators and Moderators are not eligible for this competition.
• Entries, from any where in the world, are welcome.

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