More addictive games for Windows 7 Touch Screens
There are certain Windows 7 games that can be played using the touch screen feature of your laptop or tablet. You can find that the Internet is a rich source of Windows 7 touch screen games as well as regular games. This article has discovered four downloadable Windows 7 games that are easy, fun, yet challenging to play.
Recover lost or stolen gadgets with Prey Project
Prey is a lightweight laptop and phone tracker that helps you locate, secure, lock and recover your stuff if it goes missing.
Prey is an anti-theft security program that can be used with any Android mobile-phone, Wi-Fi ready laptop, desktop or tablet computer. You can choose to get a free basic version or a paid plan ($5/month, $15/month, $39/month, $99/month, and $399/month).
4 sophisticated Cloud Applications more commonly seen on desktops.
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Cloud applications are the wave of the future. Cloud technology opens doors to possibilities that would be hard to accomplish in typical desktop environments. You can do amazing things even if you are using an entry level PC with cloud. Below are examples of up and coming cloud apps that have tremendous potential.
How to use Twitter to develop your business and get more followers
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Twitter was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey. For the first three years of its operations, Twitter did not earn a single cent. Now, however it is regarded as a serious money making machine and by 2013 is expected to make US $1.54 billion in profits. Twitter has over a billion followers and gets around 65 million tweets each day at a rate of 750 tweets per second.
Free Screenshot Making and Video Capturing Tools
Programs that let us create and edit screenshots and videos on our computer are truly lifesavers. It makes our lives easier and helps us with our jobs. These types of applications, with Adobe Captivate being a good example, are widely available in the market today. Below is a list of the video capturing programs that you can use to create awesome videos and presentations.
Why you should give Internet Explorer another chance
Internet Explorer 9 is the latest version of Microsoft’s highly popular Internet Explorer web browser. Unlike previous versions, IE9 is not tied to any Microsoft Windows OS release. IE9 supports the following systems: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Similar to other neat looking browsers like Chrome and Firefox, the interface design of Internet Explorer 9 is sleek and simple. The navigation buttons, address bars and tabs are also placed into one single neat row in IE9. Computers that run on Windows XP will not be able to use this version – but why are you still using XP anyway? Forget the marketing blurb from Microsoft, here are the 6 features which really count.
Amazon Cloud Player Lets You Play Your Music From Anywhere
Amazon has just entered the streaming music business with the launch of Cloud Player. Amazon Cloud Player is a music player that lets anyone upload their music to Amazon’s servers and play them via the web or Android.
Cloud Player comes in two types, an app for the web and an Android app counterpart. No app for the iPhone as yet. Both players allow users to upload their music, create playlists and organize their music. And because it’s a cloud-based platform, users can access their music and settings from any compatible computer or Android device. At the moment, you can only purchase music directly for Amazon Cloud Player from the American Amazon.com site. UK site isn’t supported so far. .
Tips from Googleplex to become a great Manager
Nearly everyone at some time has to manage other people. This can be either through formal appraisal, as is customary at this time or year, or through day-to-day management. For any manager having to appraise staff, we’ve taken a leaf out of the Google book to develop better managers.
In 2009, Googleplex geeks started Project Oxygen. Google analysed performance reports, feedback reviews, and appraisals and came up with the definitive list of actions to develop betters managers. Here’s the edited list of the key principles to develop better managers, as well as a few no-nos. Many of them are fairly obviously, but it’s the ranking which is important. We can’t do everything right? So here they are listed from the most to least critical.
Whiteboard ideas and doodles with Dabbleboard
Remote working has its challenges when it comes to sharing ideas and diagrams. A picture paints a thousand words so being able to quickly whiteboard an idea can save so much time and eliminate any confusion. Dabbleboard is one of the easiest tools I’ve come across to start sharing ideas quickly and easily. It doesn’t require the complexities of screen sharing, and Flash is the only plugin you’ll need.
Download from YouTube using Chrome
YouTube Downloader is a Chrome extension that allows downloading YouTube videos in MP4, WebM quality, as well as in FLV format.
Increase the button size on Windows 7 Tablet PCs
Windows 7 wasn’t designed for the touch screen of a tablet PC. The buttons and scroll bars are far too small to easily use Windows 7 on a tablet PC. It’s all too easy to click the small Close button rather than the small Minimize button. Thankfully, there’s a couple of easy tweaks to make the buttons and scroll bars much larger on a Windows 7 tablet PC.
Automatically schedule Tweets with Twuffer
Maintaining a living and breathing Twitter feed can be a full time job. What you need is a Tweet scheduler to queue up your Tweets and schedule them for publication. There are many tools to schedule Tweets, some more complex than others. We’ve grown to love Twuffer for it’s simplicity.
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