Bing’s Social Sidebar is going deeper into Facebook. Bing says the new Social Sidebar is multiplying the information you retrieve from your social circle by a factor of ‘five’. Microsoft calls it 5x. In simple terms, Facebook is now more searchable...

In all honesty, Windows 7 came with a pretty decent file explorer. You’ve got an easy navigation pane on the left, with file and folder listings in the center, and a useful preview pane on the right.  You can completely change how files and folders...

We knew it was coming ever since Microsoft took over Skype, but now it’s official: Starting March 15, Windows Live Messenger (previously MSN Messenger) will be no more. Instead, you’ll find all your Messenger contacts waiting for you on Skype, whether...

Dropbox has arrived on the Windows Store, and is now officially available for both Windows 8 and Windows RT. While retaining all the basic Dropbox functions we all know, the app’s interface is quite different from its iOS and Android counterparts, and...

Last week we asked you what’s the best and most significant gadget of 2012. Naturally, not every gadget released in the past year could be included, but unfortunately, I forgot to include an “Other” option in the poll, as pointed out by observant...

Your drivers can be a scary and intimidating thing. The two pieces of the Windows backend that I never recommend the novice user play with are the registry and device drivers. The smallest of errors in handling either of these can result in system...

I recently purchased a new Windows Phone 8 device (the Nokia Lumia 920) and discovered a much-improved mobile operating system compared with the previous Windows Phone 7.5. However, as much as I am enjoying the new phone, its increased speed and wider...

Google has dropped support for Internet Explorer 8, and they aren’t the only organization to do so. While you can’t use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 without upgrading to a newer version of Windows, there are a variety of modern browsers that...

The right-click menu is a favorite nook and I sometimes prefer it to application launchers because it is a faster way to connect the source document to the target folder or the application. For the sake of productivity, it is therefore the...

This year could be the year that both the PS3 and Xbox 360 are superseded by new, more powerful consoles. Which means that the existing offerings, from Sony and Microsoft respectively, are starting to show their age a little. However, the dying days of a...