Windows Explorer in Vista makes it very easy for you to manage large folders that have hundreds of files and sub-folders (e.g. Program Files or the Windows installation folder).

Earlier, if you were to hunt for files that end with a .log extension or are larger than 2 MB, Windows search was the only option but things get much simple in Vista Explorer.

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If you are using Google AdSense on your website, here’s some very good news.

You will soon be able to track visitor clicks on your AdSense ads using Google Analytics reports.

These new reports in Analytics have enough details to help you exactly measure AdSense performance on every single page of your website.

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Say you got tons of Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on your computer that were written in Office XP or 2003. How do you convert all these files to the new Office 2007 format.

One option is that you open all of them in the associated Office program and manually save them in the newer (docx, xlsx or pptx) format. Or follow these steps and convert all documents in one go.

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Does your computer have a webcam? If yes, you can easily record and send video emails to your friends for free with Video Messages, a brand new service that is part of the growing Windows Live family.

There are two ways to create video messages - you can either record in the browser or download the Vista gadget to record from the desktop.

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Iterasi is a perfect tool for creating personal web archives - click a button and it saves an exact copy of the current web page in the original format including all images, style sheets and JavaScript files.

Web pages downloaded into your Iterasi account are preserved forever so even if the original website goes down, you always have access to the old content just like the Wayback Machine at Internet Archive.

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Don’t miss this. Blue Planet Run is a book with over 250 awe-inspiring photographs captured by some of the world’s top photojournalists. The idea is to help you know about water problems faced by people in different parts of the globe.

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If you like to perform the same search on multiple search engines, one option is to use meta search tools like Dogpile that aggregate results from different place into one page.

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The Sysinternals team at Microsoft today released another useful software utility for Windows called Desktops to help people who run multiple applications at the same time.

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