Back in June Microsoft launched Outlook.com, an effort to combined Hotmail and Live email accounts together. If you haven’t already, when you login to your Hotmail or Live webmail, you will see a Outlook.com “ad” at the bottom on your left sidebar.

Once you make the upgrade, your mail will have a totally new Windows 8 look. You will also notice a cleaner interface and that the buttons are placed in different places.

Your Profile

Here you can edit all your profile settings, such as contact information and your linked accounts (Xbox, Zune, etc). If you are wanting to change your email address from @Hotmail or @Live to @Outlook.com this is where you would go to do it as well.

On the same side of the screen, just left of your name, you will see a little gear. That’s where you can customize the feeling and look of your new Outlook.com. You can change the theme’s color, where the Reading Pane shows, and if you feel more comfortable you can go into “More Mail Settings” and edit settings such as mailing rules and spam filters.

Reading Mail

When you are reading an email, you will notice the bar on the top of the screen where all your options are. Microsoft has made it extremely easy with this new interface to have all your options readily available. From there you can Reply, Delete, Archive, etc. Personally I love this menu a lot better than GMail’s, because you can read it instead of guessing what each logo means.

Also, if you have emailed someone back and forth, the new Outlook.com organizes your emails in conversation. When you open an email that you have replied to, you can see the different emails that were sent between recipients. This features makes it unbelievable easy to spot a specific email that you were looking for.

Writing An Email

Now, when you are writing an email it looks so clean and pretty. On your left you will see the “To” field, where you can start typing the name of your contacts and they will automatically populate, or you can simply choose from your Frequent Contacts below. There is not much new on the writing box, besides the pretty nice “Attach Files” button. Once you are done writing away, you can Send it or Save it for later by clicking on the respective buttons on the bar at the top of your screen.

Your Are Done!

I hope that this article has helped you navigate your way around the new Outlook.com interface.

In my case I ran a plugin that was supposed to clear every category that didn’t have posts attached to it. The problem was that I had a main Parent Category and every post was linked to a child category under the Parent. So, the plugin deleted the Parent Category and “hid” all the child categories because it didn’t know what to do with them since the parent category was deleted.

After much research I realized that I was the only one that seemed to have had this problem, so I decided to write this post to show you one way of restoring the status of your categories.

Step 1: Re-Create The Parent Category

Step 2: Find The Old Child Categories

Step 3: Edit Old Child Categories

What you are doing in this step is choosing the assigning the “Parent Category” that you re-created  In Step 1. Then click the “Update” button at the button to update each category.

You Are Done!

Enjoy!

As you can see on the following pictures, if a case is filthy on the outside it probably means that the inside is 10 times worse. In this particular case you can see how the front grill is covered on a thick layer of fuzz. This is one of the main places where the hot air is supposed to come out through from inside your machine. A look on the inside shows us how clogged this area is, thus impeding normal cooling. The rest of the pictures show us a little bit of the inside. If you look closely, you can see how the fan is starting to get covered by the same dust and fuzz that the outside of the computer has.

These are a few different ways that you can clean the computer to see if that fixes the problem that you were having. Note: BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, UNPLUGGED THE COMPUTER AND LEAVE IT UNPLUGGED FOR AT LEAST 1 MINUTE.

Open the case and follow one of these methods:

Compressed Air (Air Compressor): You can use an air compressor to blow from the inside out. If you are using this method, make sure you are not doing it from too close. I would say 6 to 8 inches away.

Compressed Air (Can): If you are using this method, you might need to get as close as possible to the components. As a rule of thumbs, try to avoid touching any of the component with your hands.

Vacuum: You can use a vacuum to suck up most of the thick stuff that’s on the case and may be even some of the fuzz that’s lying around loose inside the system. If I was you I would avoid touching any of the inside components with it just to be safe.

Close the case and connected it all together. Turn it on and see if it keeps shutting down unexpectedly or if in fact you just fixed your own computer.

Go to Appearance>Menus and click on the + sign on the top to add a new Custom Menu. Give it a name and click on Create Menu.

Step 2: Add a Custom Link to your new menu

On the left side panel named “Custom Link” by entering the desired url (don’t worry you will remove it later) and the name that you want the button to have. Then click on Add to Menu.

Step 3: Remove previously set URL from button that you don’t want to be clickable.

Go into the created Custom Link that will show under you Custom Menu and delete the URL. Then Click on Save Menu. This step is key if you don’t want this particular button to be clickable.

Step 4: Activate New Menu

Once you are done with your new menu, all you have to do is activate it. Simply choose the menu that you just created on the left panel, and then click save.

You Are Done!

In January of 2013 PowerUp Technology Solutions LLC is launching Posticle.com, a place where you become the news reporter.

The name Posticle is a mix of the word Post and Article, and the concept behind it is that the piece of work that people will write will be in a blog post format, but with a newspaper article goal. The purpose and goal of Posicle.com is to become an online newspaper with relevant news written by its readers.

As of now, Pocticle.com in on Beta version and we are accepting requests to sign up to write a posticle “column”. During this time period we are asking people to choose a category that they would love to write about: sports,politics,health&fitness,religion,technology,business,financial,etc. Once people  sign up at www.posticle.com they will recieve and email with writing guidlines and updates on the lauching of the website.

We’ll keep updating this post as time goes by and we made more progress.

If you are getting annoying green stars or crosses on the notification area of your Android phone, here is the best and quickest solution.

Step 1:

Go into Google Play and download an App called AirPush Detector.

Step 2:

Once AirPush Detector is installed, run it and it will show you what Applications are causing those green stars to show on your notification bar.

Step 3:

Now that you know what Applications are causing such headaches you need to uninstall the. For that you will need to go into Settings>Apps>Downloaded>(Tap on the App that AirPush Detector showed you)>Uninstall

You Are Officially Done.

1. Go to Settings

2. On the left panel tap “Wi-Fi”

3. One the right panel, slide the Wi-Fi  button to the left.

You are Done! Repeat the same steps to turn the Wi-Fi back on whenever you need to.