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  • 05 November 2012

  • How-Tos: 6 Kickstarter nightmares, and how to prevent them

    For tens of thousands of entrepreneurs frustrated by Washington's arcane legal rules for raising business capital, Kickstarter has been nothing short of a red-tape weed whacker. The crowd-funding website lets individual investors pledge money directly to inventors and artists, handily upending the complex and often impossible process of raising financing one person at a time.

  • 19 October 2012

  • How-Tos: Extend broadband network to a garage or shed

    You have an office in the garden that you want to connect to your broadband. Running a cable isn't an option, so what do you do? Our Helproom Editor explains.

  • 17 October 2012

  • How-Tos: How to move from Gmail to Outlook.com

    So you've decided you like the cut of Outlook.com's jib, so much so that you're ready to ditch Gmail and move your mail into Microsoft's camp. Easier said than done, right?

  • 12 October 2012

  • How-Tos: How to recover deleted emails

    Our Helproom Editor explains how to recover emails you accidentally deleted.

  • 03 October 2012

  • How-Tos: Quick Look power tips: working with multiple files

    You've worked on a project that's generated multiple versions of many files with next-to-useless names, and now you need to send the best ones to your colleagues. How can you efficiently rummage through the candidates, when even the apps that created them can't give you a good overview of multiple files? All you need is the often-overlooked features of OS X's Quick Look.

  • 27 September 2012

  • How-Tos: Monitor cable problem

    Our Helproom Editor helps out a reader who is having problems with his display.

  • 10 September 2012

  • How-Tos: How to keep your office organized

    There's little hard information on the subject--and some of the evidence is conflicting--but it seems logical to say that a disorganized office leads to a lot of nonproductive time spent looking for stuff. One study from Brother found that workers waste, on average, 76 hours per person per year looking for misplaced items on their desks. And years ago, NEC-Mitsubishi said that cluttered desks can cause mental and physical stress, both as a result of frustration with the mess and owing to poor posture while working around all the junk.

  • 24 August 2012

  • How-Tos: How to download webmail for offline viewing

    Webmail is great, but sometimes you want to be able to read your emails when you don't have a web connection. Our Helproom Editor explains how to download webmail for offline viewing.

  • 16 August 2012

  • How-Tos: How to Analyze Data Using Excel PivotTables

    When you compile data in a list, you often need to answer questions such as "How much revenue did the West Coast office generate last month?" or "What was the average number of customers served at each office in each quarter last year?"

  • 13 August 2012

  • How-Tos: Add AOL's 'You've Got Mail' Announcement to Gmail

    So you finally made the move from AOL to Gmail, but you're missing one beloved feature from the former: The "You've got mail" announcement that heralds the arrival of a new message.

  • 12 August 2012

  • How-Tos: Thunderbird Tip: Show Only Unread Messages

    I'm increasingly of the opinion that Mozilla's Thunderbird is the best email client for Windows. It's fast, free, versatile, and reasonably easy to use.

  • 10 August 2012

  • How-Tos: 10 Microsoft Word Style Secrets

    As with most things in life, there’s an easy way to do things in Microsoft Word, and a there’s hard way. Using styles might seem like too much effort when you're busy, but this feature can save you a great deal of time should you ever need to change a document's formatting later.

  • 11 July 2012

  • How-Tos: How to Collaborate on Microsoft Word Documents

    If you're collaborating with coworkers on Microsoft Word documents, and you're finding yourself frustrated because your collaborators are making changes without informing you, it’s time to turn on the Track Changes feature. This tool records all the changes that anyone makes to a document, so you can review every change and either incorporate it into the document or reject it.

  • 02 July 2012

  • How-Tos: Use Call-Out Arrows to Add Emphasis to Outlook Emails

    It's precisely because a picture is worth so many words that many of us embed images in our emails.

  • 25 June 2012

  • How-Tos: How to Fix Facebook's Email Switcheroo

    One of the reasons there's so much animosity toward Facebook is that the service frequently makes changes without notifying users -- and not always for the better.

  • 19 June 2012

  • How-Tos: How to sell products with Google Checkout

    You'll attract more customers if they can pay in ways other than PayPal. Here's how to set up a Google merchant account and use the Google Checkout store to sell products online

  • 31 May 2012

  • How-Tos: How to Create Advanced Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets

    Looking to become an Excel power user? Excel has a number of features that will make it easier for you and your colleagues to enter data into your spreadsheets. If you're developing a spreadsheet that you'll use over and over again, inserting a spin button or scrollbar will allow you to choose from a predefined range of values using your mouse, instead of typing numbers in with the keyboard. Or, if you wish to limit a spreadsheet user to selecting from a few preset choices, a set of option buttons will do.

  • 30 May 2012

  • How-Tos: How to set up email in Windows 8

    If you need to email friends or colleagues in a hurry, then you'll find Windows 8 Metro offers a quick and easy way of managing all your messages. Here's how to set up email in Windows 8.

  • 29 May 2012

  • How-Tos: Adding RSS feeds to Outlook

    If you are having trouble adding an RSS feed to Outlook, our Helproom Editor can help.

  • 28 May 2012

  • How-Tos: How to share photos and files with Windows 8 and Skydrive

    Perfect for sharing and editing documents with colleagues, SkyDrive is certain to become an everyday essential with Windows 8.

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