Google Apps offers a number of applications and features for business customers and further customization than their free line of Gmail and Google Drive. Up until this past week, Google offered a free Google Apps account for organizations that needed 10 accounts or fewer. Before April 2011, that number was even higher at 50 accounts or fewer. Unfortunately, Google no longer … [Read more...]
Controlling how Ctrl+V (Paste) works in Word 2010 by default
When in Microsoft Word to paste some text, you can right-click and get a few options regarding how the content you paste in will be formatted. It can keep source formatting (how it originally looked), merge the formatting, or paste just the text in. In all cases that I can recall, I have wanted the text to inherit the formatting of the document it is being pasted into. I'm not … [Read more...]
How our minimalist, icon-based tech is making itself harder to use and support
One trend in technology lately has been to embrace a minimalistic user interface. This has entailed using a lot more icons and a lot less text. I can agree that this approach isn't all bad. You are able to fit more on a screen and with smaller devices you are able to make the buttons bigger for an easier touch interface. In many instances, the context can explain what an icon … [Read more...]
Use WMI Code Creator to simplify WMI scripting
Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI, has been mentioned on the site a few times previously. It allows you to get information about a PC from the computer itself. Today, I'm sharing about a free tool provided by Microsoft called WMI Code Creator. You can utilize WMI through the command line or with other languages like VBScript. You can use the WMI Code Creator to … [Read more...]
Organizations can get a private channel in Google Play for their internal apps
There is more than one way to get Android apps on your device but Google's Play Store is the prime source for those apps. With BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) finding its way into more organizations and the undeniable usefulness of portable devices has many organizations turning to develop their own apps for the Android platform. However, the organization is probably reluctant to … [Read more...]