Here’s another quick and very useful tip to keep in mind about Windows 7. When you press on Windows key (
) and tap P you will be presented with the following list of available options:
You can click on a desired option with your mouse and it will be immediately applied. Alternatively you can keep pressing the Windows key and tapping the P key again. Each key press will select the next available option thus you can scroll through all listed items (pressing on Tab will have the same result). To scroll through this list backwards hold the Windows Key and Shift key at the same time and use Tab to move back. You can always use the Arrow keys to move forward and backwards as well.
This new feature provides a very convenient and quick way to switch display to external monitor/projector. In case you haven’t connected any external monitors to your PC (or it’s not turned on) you will be see the following message:
Another very nice feature that I like is once you’ve connected your PC/notebook to external monitor/projector and configured this setting – next time your computer starts, Windows 7 will automatically switch your display to connected device.
I’m using this quite often when I want to watch movie on bigger monitor.
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Today during my work in Google Calendar I’ve stumbled upon a new feature added to it that allows you to view your national holidays in your calendar. You’re presented with a long list of various holidays that you can subscribe to.
How to set it up
Click on the Settings menu option at the top-right corner of the page. Click on the tab named Calendars. At the Other Calendars section click on the link named Browse interesting calendars. You will be presented with a list of different calendars: national/religious holidays, sports and much more. Each calendar can be previewed and subscribed to.
Once you’ve clicked on the subscribe button the chosen calendar will be added to your calendars list. All the events from this calendar will be available for you. Each calendar has it’s own color and you can easily choose your own color for holidays. For example, you can specify that all holidays will appear in Red color. This way it will look different from the rest of your appointments and even tasks.
Check out all the available calendars. For example, the tab named More will list you some very useful calendars – like your contact’s birthdays and events.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to specify alerts/notifications for such events.
So, go ahead and try it and I’m sure you will find it as a pretty useful feature.
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Have you ever wanted to take a screenshot of whatever is displayed at the moment on your iPhone ? This is another wonderful and sometimes very useful feature to know about iPhone.
Once you are on a screen that you want to capture, just press and hold the Home button and then press the power button. You will hear a sound that you used to hear while taking pictures and you screen will blink. The image will then appear in photo gallery in the Camera Roll album. From there you can share it (send by email or MMS), delete it or copy it and paste in other app.
I tried to take screenshots of running apps and it just worked.
I’m sure you will find it useful for yourself one day.
