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Microsoft made a ton of changes in Windows 8, and many them were not well received. But they did make a few changes that are actually great, and one of them was the addition of a handy new ‘Power Users’ menu.
The Power Users menu places a number of Windows’ most useful tools just a couple of clicks away, regardless of which screen you happen to be on at the moment.
Here are the tools that are available from the Power Users menu: [Read more…]
Have you ever noticed that Gmail automatically adds people to your “Other Contacts” list when you send them a message? I guess it assumes that if you contact them once, you’re going to want to do it again at some point in the future.
But over time that list of “Other Contacts” can grow quite large and unwieldy. It’s very easy to wipe the “Other Contacts” list clean and start fresh. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Google is currently in the process of rolling out a new feature that lets any Google+ user who follows you send you emails via Gmail – even if you aren’t following them back. In fact, they don’t even need to know your email address!
Some folks might be fine with it, but I really don’t much care for the possibility of getting emails from people that I don’t even know. If you don’t either, you can easily turn it off and keep your inbox off-limits to your Google+ followers. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to schedule your emails for delivery at a later time, right in the Gmail editor? Well, now you can thanks to a fantastic browser extension called Boomerang.
Scheduling Gmail messages for later delivery used to be a clumsy multi-step process, but after you install Boomerang all you have to do is change the date and time right on the edit message screen! The message will then be delivered at that date and time, instead of right away. [Read more…]
If you’re like me, when you use Windows 8.1 you probably use your Desktop apps a lot more than any of the Modern apps that are native to the Windows 8.1 “Start” screen.
If so, there’s an easy way to make your Desktop apps be displayed before the Modern apps on the “All Apps” screen (which makes them a lot easier to find in a jiffy). Here’s how: [Read more…]