Put your Business Photos on Google Maps

27 oct 2010

Business owners can now invite Google photographers into their establishments to take high-quality photographs of their businesses. The service is currently available in select cities of US, Japan and Australia. If your business is located outside these cities, you may capture and upload photos to your Google Places listing on your own (see example).

Obama Autograph on an iPad [Video]

25 oct 2010

President Barack Obama gave his first digital autograph on an iPad at a rally in Seattle at the University of Washington. The security agents won’t allow pens near the President so this guy got an iPad with the Adobe Ideas app and the President could sign just using his finger.

ScanDisk in Windows 7

24 oct 2010

Windows XP had a useful utility called ScanDisk that would check your hard drive for any bad sectors, damaged files, and other problems. For some reason, ScanDisk is not available as a standalone utility in Windows 7 but there’s a new way to check your hard disk as illustrated in the above screencast.

What is Microsoft Office 365?

19 oct 2010

You can think of Microsoft Office 365 as Microsoft’s answers to Google Apps that aims to serve both enterprise customers as well as small businesses. Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based solution so organizations don’t have to install anything and yet they have access to services like Microsoft Office Web Apps, Exchange and SharePoint delivered online.

Choosing Different Passwords for Different Websites

19 oct 2010

Here’s a suggestion from Mozilla on how you can easily create different passwords for different websites that are also strong and memorable.

The Benefits of Using Facebook Groups

07 oct 2010

With Facebook Groups, you can form multiple smaller networks of people inside Facebook and what you share with one group stays in that group.

Microsoft Creates a 3D Commercial for Office 2010

06 oct 2010

Enjoy this impressive 3D commercial film for Office 2010 that has come out of Microsoft Germany.

Windows Phone 7 Apps – Video Demos

20 sep 2010

The following videos will walk you through the design and features of various popular mobile apps like Twitter, Netflix and OpenTable that you’ll get to see in Windows Phone 7. Other than the product demos, the music is quite awesome as well.

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