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The Electric Wand

Weekly tips from the "Tip o' the Week" email distribution inside of Microsoft.

Tip o' the Week 318 – Read Maps on Windows 10

The development of accurate maps was one of humankind’s biggest advances (after learning to talk)...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/25/2016

Tip o' the Week 317 – The Wunder Years

As regular readers know, ToW is often peppered with funny/stupid/obscure links to web content...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/11/2016

Tip o' the Week 315 – Getting to know Windows 10 Mobile

There was a time when the software “ship cycle” resulted in delivery of the final version, the...

Author: EwanD Date: 02/26/2016

Tip o' the Week 314 – time, time, time, see what's become of me

In the northern hemisphere, it’s winter. Time marches slowly by, as the springtime stretches just...

Author: EwanD Date: 02/19/2016

Tip o' the Week 311 – Band on the Run

… or bike, golf course, in the gym etc. The original Microsoft Band might not have won many fans for...

Author: EwanD Date: 01/29/2016

Tip o' the Week 310 – New Year, new Outlook discipline

Now that the festive period is behind us, it’s time to get back to the mundanity of the New Year....

Author: EwanD Date: 01/15/2016

Tip o' the Week 307 - Skype Meeting Broadcasting

It’s been a busy time for the Skype team at Microsoft. At the Convergence EMEA conference, it was...

Author: EwanD Date: 12/17/2015

Tip o' the Week 302 - Bing Maps Preview

Bing Maps has had a bit of a refresh recently, with a new look and some tweaks to functionality...

Author: EwanD Date: 11/27/2015

Tip o' the Week 304 - Xbox One goes to 10

When the Xbox One console was released in November 2013, it marked a change in architecture compared...

Author: EwanD Date: 11/20/2015

Tip o' the Week 300 - Xbox Streaming to PC

So,ToW reaches its 300th weekly missive. In the first weeks and months following the inaugural ToW,...

Author: EwanD Date: 10/30/2015

Tip o’ the Week #296 – Win10 Xbox App: snap snap, grin grin

There are a variety of apps out there for grabbing your PC screen in video format, using for making...

Author: EwanD Date: 10/02/2015

Tip o’ the Week #294 – OneDrive sharing & syncing

OneDrive - the consumer-oriented file-sharing service, www.onedrive.com – has added a nice new...

Author: EwanD Date: 09/25/2015

Tip o’ the Week #295 – Outlook 2016 tweaks

Office 2016 for the PC is nearly here. Many Office users have been already running a preview...

Author: EwanD Date: 09/18/2015

Tip o’ the Week #293 – STOP SHOUTING ON CONF CALLS

Keeping track of the characters on conference calls could be a new type of buzzword bingo – from the...

Author: EwanD Date: 09/11/2015

Tip o’ the Week #291 – A few handy date handling tips

Sometimes, the Tip o’ the Week is all about one topic, and sometimes it’s a theme that spans several...

Author: EwanD Date: 08/21/2015

Tip o’ the Week #286 – Windows Explorer tweaks in Win10

Here’s a quick tip on navigating around Windows 10, courtesy of Stuart Leeks, concerning the File...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/24/2015

Tip o’ the Week #284 – Music on OneDrive

Did you know you can now put music on your OneDrive, and stream it to the Xbox music app on your...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/17/2015

Tip o’ the Week #282 – Delay your mail

There are several techniques to delay sending messages, something that could be considered good...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/10/2015

Tip o’ the Week #285 – Windows 10 picking up pace

The release of Windows 10 has started to pick up speed as it nears its planned July 29th RTM. If...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/02/2015

Tip o’ the Week #281 – Calculator rebooted

So, Windows 10 will be with us in less than 2 months. As well as many significant improvements and...

Author: EwanD Date: 06/11/2015

Tip o’ the Week #280 – Telling time on Windows 10

For some time now, the death of the watch has been predicted, as people increasing use other devices...

Author: EwanD Date: 06/04/2015

Tip o’ the Week #278 – Skype for Business UI tips

Skype for Business has rolled out across a good number of customers and it’s, generally-speaking, a...

Author: EwanD Date: 05/29/2015

Tip o’ the Week #279 – Windows 10’s multiple desktops

Windows 10 is developing apace. A new build (10112) arrived this week if you’re on the “Fast Ring”...

Author: EwanD Date: 05/22/2015

Tip o’ the Week #276 – Reduce massive PowerPoint files

Windows Explorer has a search function which can filter found files, based on some attribute or...

Author: EwanD Date: 05/09/2015

Tip o’ the Week #275 – Prioritising External Email

Do you suffer from email overload? The temptation is to get dragged into dealing with all the...

Author: EwanD Date: 05/01/2015

Tip o’ the Week #273 – Projecting your Windows Phone

It’s often handy to be able to show to an audience what’s happening on a phone’s screen (or other...

Author: EwanD Date: 04/24/2015

Tip o’ the Week #274 – Hello, Skype for Business

Instant Messaging (and later, voice/video calling) has been with us, in the corporate world, for 15...

Author: EwanD Date: 04/17/2015

Tip o’ the Week #272 - Finding your phone (again)

(breaking the fourth wall) Inevitably, when writing the Tip o’ the Week for 4½ years, the odd topic...

Author: EwanD Date: 04/03/2015

Tip o’ the Week #271 – Finding your Friends

Sometimes, people don’t want to be found. That’s maybe understandable if you’re a sweary unemployed...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/27/2015

Tip o’ the Week #269 – Clip to OneNote, once more

Time moves on. Things that are news soon turn into things in history: 20 years ago, Microsoft Bob...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/13/2015

Tip o’ the Week #267 – Synchronising Outlook Signatures again

Hot on the heels of last week’s missive about how to snaffle more storage space, once again we...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/06/2015

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