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How to Configure Outlook 2010 for Yahoo Mail Users?

Posted May 21, 2013 By admin
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Your previous trouble is simply for the fact that Yahoo has its unique security feature that does not allow all third party mail programs for a Yahoo email server connection using a free account. This step requires a premium account.

The previous versions requires you to purchase a Yahoo Business Email Account or a Yahoo Mail Plus account. Technological advancements and innovations in online communication opened all doors to every possibility. Now, you can easily upgrade your personal Yahoo email account to either a Yahoo Business email account or a Yahoo Mail Plus account.

The difference in the features of these two Yahoo upgrade options lies on the user’s specific needs. If you are using Yahoo mail for email marketing and growing a wide variety of niches and websites for a huge online business, then getting a Yahoo Business Email account is the ideal choice for you. A Yahoo Mail Plus account is preferable for managing teams and handling email for smaller businesses and organizations.

Configuring Outlook 2010 for Yahoo is almost the same for these two premium accounts. The process and instructions are very simple and quick to accomplish. You just have to follow the prompts and the systematic guide online for a faster set-up. This only requires the user’s average technical skills coupled with your ability to follow all instructions accurately. If you are fond of installing various software packages to your PC or even modifying software features based on your preferences, then you will not have any problem configuring Yahoo mail for Outlook 2010.

Yahoo Outlook 2010 configuration and modification vary from every operating system and software features that you are using. Switching to Yahoo Mail Plus Account and the amazing Yahoo Business Email Account is as easy and fast as following instructions in its simplest terms.

There are various E-mail services present over the net to give us a quality services and a huge amount of space in which we keep our personal messages or emails. The major email services are Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail and many other services like that. Well we are going to discuss here about Yahoo Mail service and will going to tell you about how you may close or delete your Yahoo Mail account.

This is happening most of the time that people creates multiple e-mail accounts on Yahoo and after using them for a certain amount of time they need to close those account, so what exactly they need to do to delete or remove their Yahoo Email accounts, for this just follow the given steps.

How to Delete/Remove Permanently Your Yahoo E-Mail Account:-

 

    • First of all just navigate to Yahoomail.com or mail.yahoo.com and then login to your account.

 

    • After login to your account just open up or paste the following address into your browser address bar: https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user in order to terminating or delete your Yahoo Mail Account.

 

    • After navigating to the above link you will be ask for enter your password of Yahoo account along with the security code which you may see in the below image.

 

    • Now after entering your password and security check code just Click on Yes “Terminate this Account” button, and your account will going to be delete after this step. But you need to be very careful because once your account is set for deletion then it cannot be recovered again.

That’s it you have done it:)

 

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How to Install Device Drivers (Windows and Linux)

Posted May 14, 2013 By charliebrown
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In this tutorial we are going to teach you how to install device drivers in Windows and in Linux. Since Windows is obviously the most popular operating system we will be discussing it first. We will be using Windows XP specifically for this example, but it will be very similar in all versions of Windows.

Before you being the driver installation you’ll first want to make sure you have the right drivers. Even if you have a driver that is for a piece of hardware that is similar to yours, it still may not work correctly. If you do not have the drivers yet you can get them online by doing a simple search. Also, sometimes it may not be in your best interest to change the drivers, especially if you are considering changing to a BETA version. If your drivers came with the device on a CD or Floppy Disk then all you need to do is pop it in and then follow instructions. Most drivers are .exe files, so make sure you’ve scanned your drivers for viruses if you got them online. All that is left to do then is to double-click the file name and follow the simple instructions in the install wizard. Usually the Install Wizard will notify you when the driver is done being installed, and all that is left to do is click Finish. Sometimes a reboot may be required for the changes to take place, if this is the case then the install wizard will let you know.

Sometimes you may have to install a driver that does not include an Install Wizard, so you may have to install it manually. To do this, first you will have to find the “Device Manager”. If you don’t know where this is then clicks on the Start Menu, and then select Control Panel, then click Performance and Maintenance and then click on System. Then you’ll see a new window open up that has multiple tabs. Next click on the tab called Hardware and that will pull up the device manager. From there all you have to do is basically follow instructions. Simply click the tab that says driver. Select no thanks when prompted for the option for Windows to search for drivers automatically (since you already have the driver files). Now select no thanks, and then next. After you’ve chosen the don’t search option you simply click to the right where it says “have disc”. Now find the driver files (usually ending in extension .inf) and double-click the file. Now wait for the installation to finish, making sure not to interrupt. You may have seen the option in the device manager window that says “return to the previous driver”. If you encounter problems with the new driver you can revert to the old one using that option. Congratulations you have installed a device driver in Windows!

Now for Linux

Click System located at the top of Linux. Click the administration tab that appears in the drop-down menu. Next select Synaptic Package Manager. This will bring up an interface that is much like add/remove programs in Windows. Now enter the name of the driver you want install into the search bar in the Synaptic Package Manager. When the search results are finished, click on the box that’s next to the name of the driver you want to install. Then click OK. Congratulations you’re finished! You don’t even need to restart!

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How to Review Changes in PowerPoint

Posted April 8, 2013 By gauthamnekk
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PowerPoint 2013 has dominant collaboration tools which are effective to build presentations with crowd editing features. Other team members and colleagues be able to operate PowerPoint to revise and allow modifications made by another person within the group, and for this reason the Review instructions in PowerPoint 2010 can be very helpful to review presentation modifications and track changes in PowerPoint 2010 or other older editions.

In the article, We are going to learn how to use various collaboration features in PowerPoint

Review and Track Changes

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The primary features that we would like have a look at is New Comment.With this intuitive features, you can make notes and comments on slides to inform other users working on this PowerPoint assignment as well.

By choosing Show Markup, it will shift the comments from display area, if you feel they are a obstruction to your work space

Before you can really review or create any revisions or comments within your PowerPoint assignment, you must merge the current presentation with an additional one.

When changing the slide, you can choose to revise the current slide and change it or you can prefer to put the new, incoming slide at the opening of the presentation. The positions can be edited accordingly.

Also notice to that the Comments can be observed on the slide icons to the left.

How to Review and Accept Changes

Finally, you can wish to Decline the corrections and revert the project back its earliest form or else Accept the modifications. The Comments will explain whomever you’re working on the Presentation with, You can also review the new revisions and you they can decline them as well.

Once End Review option has been chosen, the revisions will be ultimate. You’ll want to save it in advance so that your team mate can in fact turn out revisions and accept or refuse them. You’ll also observe that the previous Comments will be gone too because the Review phase of the project has been completed.

 

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Microsoft Unveils Surface Tablet Hybrids [Specifications]

Posted June 19, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Microsoft has unveiled its new player in the tablet market – surface. With which Microsoft is trying to make a new design statement and a better share in the tablet market. The new Microsoft branded tablet comes packed with a lot of things.

Microsoft Surface runs on Windows 8, which looks too cool in a tablet. It comes in two flavours, one with an NVidia processor and other with an Intel Core i5 processor. The device features an 10.6″ HD display (Hail Retina). It is 9.3mm thick and weighs a little less than a kilo.

The best part is, it has an attachable keyboard (just like the Asus transformer tablet, but much better) and a magnetically attachable trackpad. It also has an integrated kickstand too. It has a magnesium case and comes in around 6 colours (screw iPad).

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The magnesium case is manufactured with ”physical vapor distribution” and it has Gorilla Glass 2.0, both of them making the tablet virtually scratch-proof. The keyboard and trackpad are part of the Touch Cover that Microsoft unveiled too, which magnetically attaches to the tablet, making it easy to wear it.

The NVidia version will be running the Windows 8 RT and the Intel version will be running a new specialized version of Windows 8 called as the ”Surface for Windows 8 Pro”.

The ARM variant will be coming in 32 GB and 64 GB models, and the Intel variant will be coming in 64 GB and 128 GB models.

The prices of the devices are not announced yet. However the NVidia variant is expected to be priced less than $699 and the Intel variant to be priced like an Ultrabook at around $1000. It is expected that it will be released before Christmas season.

Microsoft is not so good when it comes to making hardware. Except for their XBox gaming console, which is of course a world leader, their other big ventures on making in-house hardware were big failures. Like Zune aimed at iPods and their Kin mobiles where all epic failures.

This new tablet might be the real competitor for Apple’s iPad. If the price is reasonable and if it comes with a better numbered app store, then it can cause quite a lot damage to the iPad’s market share than Amazon did with it’s less powered and cheaper device, the Kindle Fire.

Take a look at this introduction video of the Microsoft Surface.

Hope you liked Surface. If you are expecting something in this new tablet, let us know through the comments. Subscribe to the newsletter to stay updated on this device.

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Automate Your Android Phone With Microsoft on{X}

Posted June 15, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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You can automate your android phone to make it do wonders for you. Like reminding you to take an umbrella if it is going to rain or reminding you to go to the gym, if you haven’t been there for more than a few days. Even more, you can do stuff like letting your girlfriend know where you are when she texts you “Where are You ?” (might not be good for some guys though).

The idea looks interesting, right ? There are a quite a few apps for Android that does this stuff, but Microsoft (yeah, you read it right) has refleased a new app, named on{x} that can automate your Android phone with much ease.

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Microsoft has launched on{x} only in the Android platform. All you have to do is go to the Google Play Store and download on{x} [QR Code]. Once you download it, you’ll be asked to login through Facebook. Once you are done with it, you can go to the website for on{x} and login there with your Facebook account too.

Once it is done, you get to create what is known as recipes. Each recipe is like an automated task. You need to create a recipe online before using it on your Android phone. There are several built in recipes, which you can use right from there. But if you want to do more, the code for each action, which is basically written in javascript, so easier to use, is available for free to everyone. You can use it to create your own custom recipes and share it with the world if you wish.

Though it is a wonderful app, it has been rated so badly in the Play store and the main reason is because Microsoft hasn’t offered any other authentication method other than Facebook. They might not get a favourable rating at the Play store unless they give users multiple options on this front. Many users feel reluctant to share these stuff on their Facebook wall. However, you can always set the privacy settings of the app to “only me” to make sure the app updates aren’t being seen by anyone.

The app has a lot of potential and it is highly user friendly. If there had been an ability to create new recipes right from the phone, it would’ve been much better. Take a look at this video below to know how it actually works.

Anyways, the app is free to use and it is quite user friendly and is good in its purpose. So give it a try.

Automate your android phone with Microsoft on{x} and if you face any problem in the process, do let us know and we’ll help you solve it.If you are using any other automation app, do let us know. We are preparing a list for the next article. Stay update, subscribe to the feed.

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How To: Set Google Drive as the Default Documents Folder in Windows

Posted May 9, 2012 By Arun Sathiya
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Cloud storages have always proved to be way too good to those business savvy people who love to move everywhere with their documents in hands. Instead of carrying them in secondary storage devices, these cloud storage devices can be used, which make it easier for people to access the files from any computer.

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It was just a few weeks back when Google Drive was launched and that cloud storage device has been doing a really great job. When compared to the Skydrive and Dropbox, Google Drive seems to be far better in my opinion, owing to it’s Windows application. With that in hands, syncing files have become a lot more easy. A simply drag-and-drop or Send-To Google Drive folder, will make sure that the files are uploaded to your Google Drive account.

And now, if you ever wanted to set Google Drive as your default Documents folder, you can do so with this simple trick. Enabling this will ensure that all the documents that you save are saved in the Google Drive folder, making it easier for you to upload them to Google Drive and use for future purposes.

  • Right click on the current documents folder and hit the “Properties” button.
  • Now select the button named “Include a folder…” and select the “Google Drive” folder.
  • After the folder gets added as an option, select it and hit the “Set save location” button.
  • Later, select any option as per your requirement, to choose the types of files, from your drop down list “Optimize this library for:”.
  • Finally, hit “Apply” and then “OK”.
That’s it. You have just set Google Drive as the default folder for documents in your Windows powered computer. If you still have any doubts, feel free to contact me in the comments section below.
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Get 25GB of Free Space in Skydrive [Tip]

Posted May 3, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Microsoft’s Skydrive is one of the early birds in the cloud storage arena and they offer the highest ever base free storage of 7 GB to all users. In order to cope up with the competition and to prevent it’s users from switching to other services, Microsoft has announced a free upgrade to 25GB for existing users. This is available for some time now, since many approached us about how to get this free 25GB upgrade, we’ll guide you through the process.

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Note: This upgrade is available only for existing users of Windows Live Skydrive, new users will get only the 7GB storage, which is still not a bad one, when we consider the competitions’ offerings.

Related: Google Drive vs Dropbox vs Skydrive vs Others

How To Get 25GB of Free Space in Skydrive

  1. Login to your Windows Live account.
  2. Then go to Skydrive.
  3. Click Manage Storage in the bottom left of the left task pane or follow this link.
  4. If you can upgrade to 25GB, you will see something like this.
  1. Once you click the Free upgrade button, your, skydrive account will be upgraded with 25GB of free storage space

You can download official Skydrive apps to keep your data in sync across multiple devices. Currently we have Skydrive apps for Windows Vista and upwards, Mac, iDevices and Windows Phone 7. Skydrive app isn’t available for the Android platform and there is not information whether an app for the android platform will be available in the future or not.

Related: Send Files to Google Drive, Skydrive, Dropbox Quickly from Windows’ Right-Click Menu

One interesting feature with Skydrive is fetch, if you have Skydrive installed in one computer, and switched on fetch, you can access it’s files from a different device through Skydrive.com This is an interesting feature, but however you can’t fetch files in a Mac. Take a look at this video to understand about fetch.

Hope this simple tip helped you to upgrade your storage to 25GB. Do share with your friends. If you have any doubts, do let us know.

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Send Files to Google Drive, Skydrive, Dropbox Quickly from Windows’ Right-Click Menu [Tip]

Posted April 27, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Windows Right-Click menu is a Swiss army knife for many power users of Windows. You can use the right-click context menu to quickly send your files to Google Drive, Dropbox or Skydrive, if you find dragging and dropping a bit time consuming. You can add these cloud drives to the “Send to” sub menu in the right click context menu.

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This is a very simple trick and can come very handy if you are using multiple cloud drives. It is easy to setup too. Just follow these steps.

  1. Open Windows Explorer.
  2. Just copy paste this into the navigation bar and click enter.

    [stextbox id="grey"]%APPDATA%/Microsoft/Windows/SendTo[/stextbox]

  3. You’ll be taken to a folder. Create shortcuts for your cloud drives like Google Drive, Dropbox, Skydrive or other cloud based drives and drop them here.
  4. The next time, you right click, you can find the corresponding cloud drives in the Send to sub menu.,

If you are not comfortable with this method, you can try a simple app known as FileMenu Tools. FileMenu Tools’ GUI is intuitive and easy to use, so you won’t find it difficult to use. You can customize the Right-Click context menu to your heart’s content using this freeware.

Hope this tip helped you to share files quickly between your multiple cloud drives. If you have any queries regarding this process, do drop in a comment, if you know any better app for this purpose, do let us know.

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How To: Use a Pen Drive as a Key for Your Computer

Posted April 12, 2012 By Ganesh Babu
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Traditionally we use lock and keys to lock away anything that is precious, valuable or important to us. After all, for most of us our computer is the most valuable possession. Most of us use passwords and other means of software based protection techniques to keep intruders at the bay. But using a hardware based security setup for your computer, decreases your risk of losing your data to hackers.

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Using a pen drive as a key for your computer might look something from the spy books, but it is easy to set up and comes in handy at times. All you need is a pen drive that you’ll have with you always.

We’ll be doing this using an inbuilt windows utility called the sys key.

Using a Pen Drive as your Computer Key

1. You need to assign A: as your removable disk drive. This is important because sys key was basically designed for floppy drives.

2. Press Start and type “disk management”, obviously without quotes and press Enter.

3. Connect your Pen drive and right click on the relevant drive and click rename and change it.

4. Press [Win] + [R] again and type “SysKey” and press enter.

5. Click Update then select Store key on floppy disk and click ok.

6. A file called Startkey.key will be created on your selected Pen drive and it’ll be required every time you boot your computer.

This nifty utility can help you save your computer from prying minds as your computer won’t boot up without it. But it is necessary that you keep that pen drive safe.

Hope this helped you to set up your pen drive as a key for your computer. Do share with your friends and let us know if you had any difficulties in the process.

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7 Little Things that My Inner Geek Loves About Windows 8

Posted March 29, 2012 By Greg Buckskin
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The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been covered extensively over the last few weeks, and there’s a rough consensus about the pros and cons. Metro looks good and it works well for touchscreen use. The desktop is virtually the same as Windows 7, but you may get frustrated using the mouse and keyboard, or looking for the Start button.

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I’ve been playing around with Win 8 Consumer Preview for a couple weeks now and I’ve got to say that there are a number of little benefits and important improvements that that should be highlighted. To supplement the usual ‘best things about Windows 8’ lists, I’ve compiled a list of:

Seven Under-Reported Geeky Benefits of Windows 8

#1. It’s Just Faster
One of Microsoft’s main goals with Windows 8 was to create a ‘scalable, device-agnostic’ operating system that could run on nearly anything. Microsoft took a hard look at memory utilization, and came up with a way to cut the ‘memory footprint’ of the OS nearly by half. The result is an efficient use of memory for tablets and a noticeably snappier feel for users of more powerful desktops.

#2. Task Master
If you want to see exactly where this memory is going, you can pull up the revamped Task Manager. Call me geeky, but I really appreciate the thought that went into making the redesigned Task Manager more clean, informative, and downright good-looking than ever.

#3. It’s Refreshing
In earlier versions of Windows, System Restore came in handy when your PC needed a trip back to an earlier, simpler time when things worked better. In Windows 8, the Refresh and Reset options take the concept much, much further. Reset gives you a fresh install, including scrambling empty space on your hard drives (among other things, so that none of your data can be reconstructed after you’ve sold or given away your PC). Refresh is like a fresh install but with all of your system settings and files kept intact. Refresh will also re-install Metro apps, but NOT ‘Windows mode’ programs — like System Restore, you can take a snapshot of your PC when you have everything exactly the way that you like it, and go back to that at any time.

#4. Try Before You Buy
The Windows Store has a little feature that should make Apple and Android very nervous: the Try option. When browsing the Store, users can take an app for a test drive before committing to buying it. Developers will have the option of defining a trial period or limiting features, but Microsoft assures that choosing to buy will allow you to continue right where you left off, with all settings or data (or levels) saved. It’s a far more direct, immediate, and streamlined way of sampling apps than other app markets have to offer.

#5. Mount Up
Remember the days when you had to find, download, install, and juggle third-party tools to mount disk images on virtual drives? Well, Windows 7 began by taking care of the virtual drive problem, but Windows 8 provides a one-click solution that instantly creates a new VHD (virtual hard drive) with the selected ISO, BIN, CUE, or IMG file mounted and ready to roll.

#6. As Much Space as You Need
When it comes to storage, Windows 8 offers new ways to make more efficient use of your storage than ever before. StorageSpaces let you create a virtual hard drive (VHD) which automatically scales to be as big or small as you need it (called ‘thin provisioning’). VHDs can be spread across any or all physical drives (internal, external, HDD, SSD, etc.) in the same way that Windows 7 can look at multiple locations for your Documents, Music, and Pictures folders. Multiple VHDs can also be configured as RAID drives for data redundancy in the case of a hardware failure, and still grow in size as needed without re-configuring the whole setup even when you add new hardware drives.

#7. The Sky’s the Limit
Speaking of storage, Windows 8 gives you cloud storage in the form of your SkyDrive account. ‘Big deal’, you might say, ‘everybody and their mother offers cloud storage these days.’ But in the case of SkyDrive, it comes to a sizable 25GB, and is integrated directly into your system; as far as your OS is concerned, it’s just another folder on your PC, with no extra apps or steps or settings. You can ‘save and load’ from any Metro app and you can drag and drop, even from ‘desktop mode.’ On top of all this, when you sign into SkyDrive, from any device, anywhere; you’ll get secure, protected access to anything stored on your ‘main’ Windows 8 PC (and not just files, but also Metro apps and personalization settings.

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