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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I’ve tested many online solutions for creating PDF documents online – and most work okay. Granted most of them add their pesky watermark telling everyone you’ve used their software, but if you can live with it, go a head… I can’t!  This time I have found a couple of great tools which allows you to create PDF documents from any URL or document. Free of charge. No watermarks. And very very fast.

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The Opera  Browser is a powerful, yet versatile browser fully packed with features and tweaks. Most people already know about Mouse Gestures, tabbed page preview, widgets etc. There are however several little known and hidden functions that I’ve come to love, and which I cannot seem to do without anymore.

Let me tell you about two of them:

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