Windows Observer: Social Media in an Emergency

You never know when life will throw a curveball at you and when those unexpected events occur it can be very challenging keeping everyone updated on what is happening.

You never know when life will throw a curveball at you and when those unexpected events occur it can be very challenging keeping everyone updated on what is happening.

This is a walk through on how to use the new SkyDrive App from Microsoft to sync your Internet Explorer Favorites between multiple machines.

I recently transitioned our household to hosted email accounts with Office 365. My wife and I are both Outlook users and like the benefits of working in that interface locally on our desktop and laptops.

How you can use your mouse and keyboard to navigate the new Start Screen in Microsoft’s Windows 8 Consumer Preview – the other half of the OS in Microsoft upcoming Windows 8.

Learn how to reset your HOSTS file to its default state – when malware might be causing unauthorized URL re-directions to occur.

Learn how to overcome the Windows 8 navigation learning curve.

If you want all links across Windows 8 Metro apps to open in Desktop IE instead of the Metro version…follow these steps.

A quick method to finding the key info you need to map SkyDrive folders to your PC…

Well in the past week several major players in the online and tech community have either come clean or been exposed concerning privacy related actions such as keeping your data without telling you, copying your entire address book or watching your browsing habits.

Well we have arrived in the month of February and that means the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is due out later this month. As I wrote about yesterday the preparations seem to be starting to bring the next step in the development process to the public and I can see the buzz starting to increase on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.