Cool Stuff

Although I don’t personally recommend this, there are some people out there who don’t want to bother with using a password to protect their Windows user account. Of course, using a password in Windows isn’t required, only suggested. But even if you don’t fill one in, you still have to click your…

If you downloaded the new Windows Live tools, then you probably have installed the new version of Windows Live Movie Maker, the easy to use software that lets you transform your videos into great movies. For Movie Maker aficionados, though, the new Windows Live Movie Maker is too stripped down. In…

About a year ago, my wife and I sat down to work through our family finances. With a baby on the way,(and the parents amongst you will know how muchthey cost)  it was an opportune time to figure out where we could save a little money each month. Going through the finances line by line was…

You’ve been hearing a lot about themes in Windows 7 lately, haven’t you? It’s probably because everyone and their brother is out there creating new theme packs for you to download. The latest one comes from Mike Swanson, a talented macro photographer known to his friends as the “desktop wallpaper”…

The WindowsMobileCool web site posted a great list of Twitter applications for Windows Mobile phones which Owen Allen recently discovered. We’ve covered some of these apps here on Channel 10 before, but others may be new to you. So if you haven’t found the perfect app to suit your needs, you’ll…

Recently, I’ve been checking out the different ways to customize my Windows 7 logon screen. There’s this manual registry hack as well as this newer downloadable software program that does the hacking for you. But the only thing that was still making customization a bit of a pain was having to resize…

Connectify is a cool free service which lets you transform your Windows 7 PC into a Wi-Fi hotspot just by running a little application. After downloading and running the Connectify installer, you’ll see a new icon appear in your system tray. Click the icon to set up your Wi-Fi network by entering…

The Channel 9 events area now includes all keynotes from previous Microsoft Professional Developers Conferences or as everyone calls it The PDC! Our archives start with the very first PDC which happened in Seattle in 1991 and go all the way up last fall’s event. We hope you enjoy this look back at…

Last year, Neflix started offering the ability to stream movies over the internet to your PC. Of course, for Windows Media Player enthusiasts, the next logical step was to port Netflix into Media Center by way of a plugin. Luckily, there's a pretty active developer community for WMC, so we ended up…

Kate Gregory presents Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity at Tech Ed North America 2011. Go Kate! This session clarifies what features are in Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 and what is yet to come. It illustrates how new constructs such as lambda expressions enable…