So you installed Microsoft Office 2013 and now you’ve got a new context menu item: “SkyDrive Pro”, when you right-click a file, that is gray out, right? Although, this is not a big issue, it is a little annoying to have the option listed, when you don’t actually have the feature. Honestly, this is a pointless [...]
Learn step-by-step how to use Facebook Trusted Contacts and get to know the pros and cons using the new security feature to restore access to your account. Many web services are already offering two-step authentication, a security method that basically integrates secondary password, typically a code, to allow users to regain access to their accounts. [...]
If you took the turn of installing Windows 8 yourself, instead of buying a brand new PC, you may get the error: “Windows 8 installation has failed”. What’s irritating about this problem is that it is a generic installation error, and it could be really hard to pinpoint the specific cause of the problem. Luckily [...]
Remember BitTorrent? The controversial peer-to-peer file sharing application. Well, things have dramatically changed since those days, and the company is developing new interesting products today. BitTorrent Labs, just released “BitTorrent Sync”, a free application that continues using P2P technology and it can well be your next favorite “remote backup”/”private cloud” solution, you’ve been waiting for. BitTorrent Sync [...]
Many Firefox users got really excited to hear that Mozilla made available a new Firefox (Metro) Nightly version specially designed to take advantage of Windows 8 chromeless UI. But many users are reporting in different websites and in forums that the new Metro style version of Firefox is not working when they trying to launch [...]
When upgrading from any new version of Windows, you will always be recommended (at least by me) to make a full backup of your PC before proceeding. This is just in case things were to go wrong and you have to rollback, for example, from Windows 8 to Windows 7 and, of course, to protect your [...]
Synergy is one of the most commonly used software to share between computers one set of mouse and keyboard over the network, and it works on PC, Mac, and Linux. The problem is that it seems not fully compatible with Windows 8 just yet. As such, I want to lay out a few settings in Synergy and [...]
If you are an owner of a HP Windows 8 PC, you may want to bookmark this video tutorial, because HP happens to have its own recovery tool. Since chances are that at one point or another your computer will catch a virus or system failure will occur, you’ll need to restore your notebook or [...]
When it comes to improving your PC in some way, sometimes simple tweaks are just worth trying. This is the case of a recently uncovered method that allows to make Microsoft Surface tablet more touch responsive by simply modifying the Windows 8 Registry. The finding appeared at the XDA Developers Forum by user tamarasu, and [...]
Forget every tool you tried in the past, Ex7ForW8 really gets the job done when it comes to bypass the Start screen at sign-in and go straight to the Windows 8 Desktop and bringing back the original Windows 7 Start menu. Windows 8 brings a radical change to the way we use computers and as much [...]