To create calendar groups:

1. In the Navigation Pane at left, click Add New Group.
2. A new group appears at the bottom of your calendars. Give it a name of your choice.
3. Drag as many of your calendars as you want to the new group’s name bar to enter them into that group.

To arrange your new group by name:
Right-click the group name, and then click Arrange By Name. This is a quick and easy way to find the calendar you’re looking for.

Electronic versions of old-fashioned Rolodex cards, vCards provide the fastest way to import contacts into your own Address Book or to share your Address Book contacts with friends, family, or colleagues.

Much like their physical predecessors, vCards contain basic contact information (such as name, address, phone, and email). But you can easily add information to enhance their value, including URLs, photos, or logos. And since the vCard format works cross-platform with many contacts programs, including Microsoft Outlook, you can exchange contacts with people who don’t use Address Book in Mac OS X Leopard.

To export a vCard from Address Book on your Mac, just highlight the contact and drag it to your desktop or directly into an email. (The file icon even looks like a Rolodex card.) To import a vCard into Address Book, drag the card-shaped icon into your open Address Book application or onto the Address Book icon in your Dock or Applications folder. Address Book opens (if not already open) and asks you to verify the import. Click Import to have Mac OS X store the vCard’s contact information in Address Book.

Share contacts by dragging vCards to and from Address Book.
Want to export more than one contact from Address Book? Just Command-click to select multiple contacts, and drag them to the desktop or into an email. This method collects all the highlighted contacts in a single vCard file. (Note that although Address Book allows you to export multiple contacts in a single file, Microsoft Outlook only lets you import a single contact per file.)

When you drag this combined vCard into Address Book, all the contacts are added at once as separate Address Book contacts. So with vCards and Address Book, it’s as easy to share a large group of names as it is to share a single contact.

Although synchronization occurs automatically, you must be running Microsoft Office Groove 2007 to send and receive updates. Adding Groove to your Windows Start menu will help you remember to log on to Groove.
1. Go to the Launchbar, click the Options menu, and then click Preferences.
2. Click the Options tab, and then select the Launch Groove when Windows starts up check box.

Jing is my new favorite FREE software! It’s a program that you can use to record your screen, or open program to share with others. You know, when Grandma asks you how to do that Facebook thing, you can record a quick video of you walking her through, upload it to screencast.com, then email her a link to the video.

After you install it, it will ask you setup a FREE screencast.com account. (Don’t worry it walks you through the process). After you’re logged in, you click the glowing orb and select Capture. Show Granny how to use facebook, and record instructions if you have a mic. When you’re done give it a name and share it!

The FREE version only lets you export to flash, and upload to screencast.com. If you decide to drop $14.95 a year and Go Pro, you can export to other file formats and upload to youtube.

Pros:
This software is so easy to use! It’s light weight, and FREE!

Cons:
Honestly, I can’t think of one. Go get it!

http://www.jingproject.com/

After talking to my new “Tech friend” @robertbasil, at http://www.robertthetechguy.com/, he showed me how to make better use of Twitter using Twitterfeed. It’s a cool little service that allows us to tie the website RSS feeds into our Twitter account.

Now you can follow us on Twitter and get instant info as we make posts to the website. Then you can decide when or what you want to read on our site by clicking the links in Twitter!

Looking for those good old menus at the top of your “My Documents” window in Windows Vista? Most Explorers have classic menus available. Press the ALT key to access them; hide them by pressing the ALT key again.

It is fairly common for Windows Vista to shutdown slowly sometimes, and this can be for a variety of reasons (such as installing updates, crashed applications or driver problems). If this happens more frequently, it indicates that this problem shouldn’t be happening and is worth troubleshooting.

Start by loading the event viewer “eventvwr.msc” from the run box (press WINDOWS KEY + R to start this):

Once event viewer has loaded, browse to Applications and Services > Microsoft > Windows > Diagnostics-Performance > Operational. This may take a few seconds to appear, as lots of data is loading. Once complete, it will display any significant events in the centre panel. You can scroll through events occurring at the time of a slow shutdown to see which applications or services caused a slowness (look for “Shutdown Performance Monitoring” under the “Task Category” tab):

In this example, a service called TrkWks caused a shutdown problem (“This service caused a delay in the system shutdown process”). Once you have determined which services or applications are causing the problem each time, you can then google for more information to diagnose each item individually. Often, patching or updating drivers can improve these issues.

You can flag a message by using the INSERT key. Select the message that you want to highlight in Microsoft Office Outlook, and then press INSERT. This will flag the item and enable you to insert a start date and due date. If your To-Do Bar is active, the item will appear in your task list.

After you have worked on a document in Microsoft Office Word, click the Office button, point to Print, and then click Print Preview. You can still edit in print preview mode: Disable the magnifier by clearing the Magnifier check box on the Preview tab, and edit the document as you want.

You can link contacts with specific tasks. To add individual contacts to individual tasks, click the Contacts button on the lower-left side of each Task form. This opens the address book, from which you can select one or several contacts. You can then add these to the task as links so that the next time you need a particular contact who relates to the task, all you have to do is click the link.

If you don’t see the Contacts button on the Task form, here’s how to make it appear:
1. Click Tools, click Options, and then on the Preferences tab, under Contacts and Notes, click Contact Options.
2. Under Contact Linking, select the Show Contact Linking on all Forms check box.