As much as I like Gmail’s web interface, sometimes I would prefer to format the email in a desktop client.

Every once in a while Outlook’s data files used to store all your emails, contacts and calendar entries gets corrupted. If you have an Exchange server, Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail which backs up all your email then you can very easily restore Outlook to default settings. Here is how you can reset Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010 to factory default settings.

Now that Windows7 is officially out and available to everyone, most people would want to take advantage of the shiny new operating sysem from Microsoft.

Over time computers have become fast, efficient and a storehouse of knowledge, documents, pictures and media. In fact if something were to happen to our computers we generally pay hundreds of dollars to recover the data that was on it.

As more and more features get crammed in to computers everyday it gets a difficult to keep track of all the small hardware components. Windows provides the various system information in several different places. But there is no one place which gathers the hardware, software and peripherals information in a report or a list.

Firefox is the second most widely used browser right after Internet Explorer. It is fast and efficient but its true strength lies in the hundreds of plugins that add to its functionality and make it indispensable.

Backups are a must have for all computer users. As much as we rely on our laptops and desktops every single day, there is no denying that it might just stop working the next minute.

MS Word 2007 is a fully featured text editor from the Microsoft Office family of products. But Word 2007 is so much more than just a word processor.

XAMPP is a software package that allows you to emulate a hosting provider’s environment.

Outlook 2007 has quite a few features which helps you become more productive. You can add multiple email accounts in their own folder structure, read RSS feeds straight from your inbox, a To-Do Bar which shows a snapshot of your calendar along with Tasks and Calendar entries for that day.