So for those of you counting down the days to the release on June 14th, here’s the latest Trailer: So with this new flick on the way, tell us what your favorite Superman movie is? Do you prefer the classics or the latest 2006 version? Personally…I still prefer the original 1978 original, but that’s just me. But the original has always been my favorite Great film. Superman Returns was lame....

Bing my Lockscreen You can already customize the Lock Screen in Windows 8 and RT a bit through system settings. You can do things like add your own background images and select which apps display info. The Bing my lockscreen app allows you to set the daily Bing image as your Lock Screen background. It offers the eight most recent Bing images, which you can set of your Lock Screen manually....

Support for Adobe Flash Player started to drop mid-2012 and Adobe announced there would be no certified implementation of Flash Player for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Flash Player Support on Lollipop All you need to do is download the most recent version of the Dolphin browser on your device. Then when you come across a site that still requires Flash, it will be offered to you as a download....

In Word 2010, while working in your Word document, click the File tab then Options. The Word Options window opens. Click on Advanced. Then scroll down to the Save heading and check Always Create Backup Copy. Click Ok. In Word 2007, while working on a document, hit the [Alt][F][I] key combination. Word Options opens. Click on Advanced. Scroll down to the Save header and click Always Create Backup Copy then Save....

What is This Feature? From scratch using the Insert tab On any presentation slide, click Insert > SmartArt to show the Graphics window. By default, the window will show you all of the available graphics you can choose from. For this step, I’ll try out the Detailed Process graphic. After pressing OK, your graphic art will be inserted. A small pane to its side will allow you to enter the desired text....

Note: Windows 8 has reached the end of mainstream support. This is the announcement according to Microsoft: Windows 8.1 as Trusted PC From the Windows 8 Start screen, use the keyboard shortcut Windows key + C and select Settings. Or, if you’re Windows 8 system is touch screen enabled, swipe from the right bezel to the left to display it. Then select Change PC Settings. Under PC Settings, select Sync Your Settings....

Google Fit Heart and Respiratory Rate Google Fit is a useful health monitoring tool. It’s perfectly capable of monitoring a lot of health metrics. You can even sync your Fitbit data with it, with a little bit of effort. However, until recently, if you wanted to measure your heart rate or your breathing, you had to have an external device for this purpose. Afterward, you could sync that data, presumably via Bluetooth....

Bing Guitar Tuner To get to the tuner, simply type: guitar tuner into Bing. Or, if you’re on a Windows 10 system and have the “Hey Cortana” feature enabled, say: “Hey Cortana. Guitar Tuner.” and it will open it up in Bing. That will bring up the Guitar tuner as a top result, and you can use it to tune your guitar. Just select the type of tuning you want, then hit each note, and it will play through your PC or device’s speaker....

Microsoft aggressively focused on delivering a similar experience for the Windows PC. Eventually, Microsoft’s fight against new rivals Google on the web and Apple in mobile took center stage. It was no longer about PC software but about tapping into the new trends in computing: mobility, internet search, and touch. Eventually, software like Windows Essentials suffered. The last version was released in 2012 and included support for Windows 8; there is no Windows 10 release for Windows Live Essentials, but the last version is still available for download....

Vista Support Ends April 11th Here’s a look at what End of Support (EOS) means as well as which when support is ending for other versions per the Windows lifecycle fact sheet: Remember the uproar from users when Microsoft killed support for XP? Well, we doubt there will be as much concern for EOS for Vista. Microsoft launched Windows Vista back in 2007. The adoption of it by users (unless they bought a new PC) was low, to say the least....

Microsoft Office Fluent UI Redesign The most notable change is to the ribbon. Microsoft says this will be a more modern, clean, and simplified look that will be highly customizable. You can load it up with the tools you use most during the day and remove the ones you never need. it will also be collapsible to a single line that looks like a toolbar. The web version of Word will see the new ribbon design first and select Office Insiders will start to see the new ribbon for Outlook in July....

OneDrive for Kindle Fire & Fire Phone Not only is OneDrive available on virtually every mobile device, but it’s also available on PCs and Macs as well. OneDrive has come a long way since it’s initial inception as SkyDrive and has turned into an easy to use and convenient cloud storage service. Microsoft has also been rolling out increased storage space for all users from 7 GB to 15 GB for free accounts and even more for Office 365 subscribers who will receive 1 TB of space....

But now, Microsoft has released the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook and the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger, which means it’s time to re-enable that People Pane and get connected. Here’s how to connect your Facebook account to Outlook using the Outlook Social Connector. Install Outlook Social Connector. If you are running Outlook 2010, Outlook Social Connector will download via Microsoft Update. If you are running Microsoft Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2007, you can download the Outlook Social Connector at the Microsoft Download Center....

Microsoft has decided to pull the update from its servers while it investigates the issues and comes up with a way to fix them. Microsoft Investigating Windows 10 Mobile 10586.29 According to Microsoft Community Forum moderator Mike Mongeau: Some of the problems Lumia users are experiencing include seeing low storage notifications, the update getting stuck at 0%, or the update not being offered at all. For those of you who still see the low storage notification: while bothersome you can safely ignore this message....

According to a reply by John1F Microsoft Forum moderator on the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 forum: The following updates will be listed as “System Firmware Update – 12/3/2015” or “System Hardware Update – 12/3/2015” within the Windows Update History. HD Graphics 520 driver update (v20.19.15.4326) improves display stability.Surface Display Calibration driver update (v1.1.381.0) supports compatibility with the updated graphics driver. Note When Surface updates are provided via the Windows Update service, they are delivered in stages to Surface customers....

Windows 10 20H1 Preview Build 18970 Microsoft is starting to roll out a new tablet experience for convertible PCs to a portion of Insiders. It allows you to enter the tablet posture and stay in the familiar desktop you’re used to. It also includes the following improvements. Increased spacing between Taskbar icons.Search box on taskbar collapsed into an icon.File Explorer switches to touch optimized layoutTouch keyboard auto invokes when you tap text fields....

Windows 10 Build 21292 The news and interests section on the taskbar is receiving several updates including a more polished UI. Here is a list of what has been improved on with the news and interests feature: We fixed multiple issues impacting performance and reliability.We fixed an issue where an empty flyout would be shown after opening news and interests.We fixed an issue where the text on the taskbar button wasn’t being read by screen readers and some tooltips were missing....

Windows 10 19H1 Build 18234 Ink support for Microsoft To-Do allows you to use handwritten notes with Microsoft Ink technology. You can complete your tasks by striking through them or using checkmarks. — Microsoft To-Do Help (@MicrosoftToDo) September 4, 2018 Sticky Notes 3.0 is getting a refresh in this next version and will include several new features and abilities. Snip & Sketch is a new tool for taking screenshots and it’s getting improvements including delay snip which includes the option to delay a snip from three to 10 seconds....

There isn’t a whole lot of information of what this update addresses. In typical Microsoft fashion, the update says “This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10.” There is a Microsoft Support page up, although it doesn’t spell out what exactly this update is addressing. Hopefully we’ll get more information on it in the coming days. This updated does require a system restart, and remember you can schedule when restart takes place....

An exclusive on Windows for the past 25 years, Solitaire and its companion card-playing games Spider, Freecell, Tripeaks, Pyramid, and Klondike are classic time killers at home (and let’s be real, in the office, too). The original Solitaire has remained virtually unchanged since its first release in Windows 3.0 in 1990. Since Windows 8, Microsoft has moved Solitaire in a new direction, focusing on daily challenges through XBOX Live integration....