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Google Currents: Reorder the Library

When you add news sources to Google Currents, they will be arranged chronologically, according to the time they were added. In order to organize the news library, many users will want to gather sources on similar topics on the same screen. Directions are included for Android and Apple iOS versions.

Outlook: Change the Font and Color of Unread Emails

Even though Outlook uses a bold font for displaying unread messages, many people still find them hard to spot. To simplify finding new incoming messages, consider changing the text color or even switching the font type.

Microsoft Visual Studio: Display Line Numbers in the Text Editor

By default, line numbers are not visible in Microsoft Visual Studio’s Text Editor. This is a disadvantage which may make it difficult for developers to navigate, track, and jump to a specific line in a long script. This tutorial will help you enable this feature easily.

Office 2013: Disable the Start Screen

Previous versions of Office programs would typically start with a blank document. However, programs in Office 2013 suit load up from a Start screen instead. Many users will not like this feature and want to open directly to a blank document. By following these steps, you can disable the Start screen from applications within the Office 2013 suite including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Outlook 2013: Disable the Inline Reply Feature

Traditionally, when you reply to an email in Outlook, you simply click Reply and compose your message within the new window that opens. However, with Outlook 2013, you now respond to a message from inside the Reading Pane, with your response entered above the original message. Many users may not prefer this streamlined interface and may want to switch back to the compose window in order to access all of the features it includes. This tutorial will provide all the necessary steps for you to achieve this task.

What features in iOS 6 will the iPad, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS miss?

Similar to previous upgrades of iOS, users with older devices will not be able to use all the features of iOS 6. Here is a listing of the limitations for the older hardware.

Solaris: Unmounting a Filesystem with umount

Most filesystem mounting or unmounting is automated for a system at boot or shutdown, but there are times during system maintenance and working with NFS shares, for example, when manually unmounting a filesystem is important.

Solaris: Disk Usage of All Users on a Filesystem

The quot command provides a quick measure of the disk usage of multiple users on a filesystem.

Solaris 10: Create Multi-Terabyte UFS Filesystem

Solaris 10 supports UFS filesystems up to 16TB (with files up to 1TB). To do this, the newfs command needs to be modified when creating the filesystem.

How to Check the Available Storage Space in iCloud

If you backup your iPhone or iPad documents and settings to Apple’s iCloud storage, then it is a good idea to monitor how much space you have available to prevent problems with the backup. You start out with a free 5GB of storage space, after that fills up, you will need to purchase more.

Useful Windows Key Shortcuts for Windows 8

Any true Windows guru has a mastery of the keyboard shortcuts. In the Windows 8 environment with less visual clues for mouse clicks, learning to navigate this shortcuts will even be more essential. Let us explore what the Windows Key shortcuts in Windows 8 allow us to do.

Google Chrome: Put the Home Button on the Toolbar

Google’s Chrome browser gives you the option whether or not you want a button on the toolbar to bring you back to your homepage. Here is how to add (or remove) the Home button from the browser’s toolbar.

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