In a previous Tip of the Week I mentioned the Image Resizer Power Toy. This is an excellent utility which places an item in the context (right-click) menu for images, allowing you to easily resize such images. Unfortunately the Microsoft released Power Toy only works in Windows XP. However, this utility has been cloned and extended by another developer to work on other versions of Windows, including Windows Vista and 7. Recently the website for the Image Resizer Power Toy Clone has been moved, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to mention this tip again. If you would like to download this excellent utility the new website is located at www.codeplex.com/ImageResizer .

When trying to use Mac Mail on my Apple iMac to check my ISPs email a message appears saying that my password is incorrect. I have verified the password with my ISP but it still does not work. (more…)

Since upgrading to Windows XP Service Pack 3 I have found that Google Earth crashes. The program worked fine in the past so I cannot understand why it no longer works. I have reinstalled Google Earth several times but this has not resolved the problem. The computer meets the minimum requirements for Google Earth. (more…)

For those users who like to try the latest and greatest, the Office 2010 beta is available. This allows users to download and try a beta version of Office 2010, the latest version of the Microsoft Office suite. The download is free and could provide some interesting insight into the next version of Office. More information is available at www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx . The beta edition of Office 2010 expires on 31st October 2010.

Having downloaded and installed Windows Live Messenger from the Microsoft website I am having a problem directly accessing my email from within Live Messenger. Clicking on the Mail icon within Live Messenger it requests me to sign-in and then the following message appears: “Recovering the Live Windows Database”. Shortly after, an error message appears: “Windows Live Mail could not be started as could not open the Live Mail Message Store. Existing messages under Orphaned Accounts 0×00000000.2”. Then a final message pops-up: “Computer may be out of memory or disk full 0×80070002”. There is plenty of memory and disk space, and all the other Live Messengers accounts on the computer work perfectly, it is just my account. The computer is running Windows XP Service Pack 3 with all updates. (more…)