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18 Feb

Thumbs Up – Techo Twitter Posts week ending 25 Oct

Welcome to the Thumbs Up Edition of my review of the week in tech.

Each week I’m picking out the things that I liked the most that I submitted via Twitter for you all to read. If you haven’t already seen my Twitter feed of tech tips add me @aholesgrove or have a look at http://twitter.com/aholesgrove and subscribe to the RSS feed of my tweets.

I missed out on doing this weekly review on time as it was all hands on deck in Making Life Ezy putting the final touches on HireEzy 2.1 before release that week. We’re all done now and everything is back to normal.

This week in Thumbs Up the common theme here is Windows 7.  It’s out – finally – and it’s awesome.  I’ve been finding all sorts of really handy links which I think you’ll like, such as how to change settings, handy little apps and more. Check it out:

This feature is something that sort of exists in Windows 7 already but takes it to the next level – what you can do is split your monitor into multiple monitors, so that you can maximise a program into a portion of your monitor and then maximise a seperate window into another portion of your monitor.  What you’re left with is a few apps open on the screen at the same time, all into their tidy areas.  Pretty handy for power users, check out the screenshots on the article link.

  • Great article – Top 10 Windows 7 Booster Apps [Lifehacker Top 10] http://tinyurl.com/yfnfoqg #Lifehacker

I won’t detail all of the Top 10 here so I encourage you to take a look yourself, but the summary here is tips for changing some of the look and feel of Windows 7 back to older styles of Windows for the technology phobics out there, in addition to useful jumplist applications for GMail and FireFox, which allow you to access application shortcuts from the taskbar which is handy (especially if you’re using a touchscreen). There are also a couple of super handy apps at the bottom – one of which I detailed last week, the alternate ALT+TAB application, but also a sinlge program that will install a whole pile of programs for you that you might use all the time – in one installation – which is really handy for people buying new PC’s and find downloading and installing all of their favourite utilities a drag.  Check it out.

  • RT @makinglifeezy How to Design a Company Name, Logo and Colour Scheme – http://tr.im/CKmk Includes examples of the bad ones

Our very own marketing department put together this little gem of an article – a list of links to other sites detailing how to choose the core details of your business well.  Great examples here of the right and wrong way of doing things, I found it quite educational. :)

A pretty self explanatory post here – this article has a whole pile of links to good tips and handy apps and definately worth a read of you’ve just grabbed yourself a copy of Windows 7 or a thinking of doing so.

  • Here’s a huge pile of links to useful #Windows7 articles and tutorials – Lifehacker’s Complete Guide to Windows 7 http://j.mp/3Fy0cc

… and another one! Consider this article the ultimate crash course in Windows 7.  Forget about buying books or training courses, EVERYTHING is here.  The best part about this article? I can guarantee that you’ll see something in the list here and you’ll say “wow I didn’t know it could do THAT!”  Check it out!

Here’s a good way of somewhat balancing out all the excitement for Windows 7 – post an article about how you can install Mac OSX on a normal PC so that you don’t have to buy an expensive Mac.  I’ve been reading other articles about people who are tried this out and they say it’s legit and works well – even on netbooks.  If you’re willing to give it a try, then have a look at this.

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