The Electric Wand
Weekly tips from the "Tip o' the Week" email distribution inside of Microsoft.
Tip o’ the Week #265 – Sorting pages in OneNote
As has been mentioned before on ToW, OneNote is the kind of application that lots of people really...
Author: EwanD Date: 02/13/2015
Tip o' the Week #259 – Manage your Christmas Cards in Outlook
Happy New Year! For many of us, time to chuck out trees, and pack away any and all decorations,...
Author: EwanD Date: 01/02/2015
Tip o' the Week #258 – The Network of Your Stuff
As buzzwords go, 2014 has been a big year for the “Internet of Things”, or IoT. A term coined 15...
Author: EwanD Date: 12/31/2014
Tip o’ the Week #256 – Clip Art clips off
Exactly 5 years after publishing the very first instalment (though it was internal only for a...
Author: EwanD Date: 12/24/2014
Tip o’ the Week #253 – Using Cortana in the Car
There are many cool things that Cortana can do, which make using Windows Phone 8.1 a pleasure. Try...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/28/2014
Tip o’ the Week #251 – Toasting a new email message
You got a new email – hurray! Back in the early days of using email, it was expected practice for...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/21/2014
Tip o' the Week #249 – Sync your Desktop
This week’s tip comes as a direct result of a conversation had over a glass of wine and a plate of...
Author: EwanD Date: 11/14/2014
Tip o' the Week #247 – Block the adverts in IE
Adverts. The economy of much of the web is dependent on them, as evidenced by where Google makes its...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/31/2014
IoT at Future Decoded, Excel Docklands, London–12th November
There's a 3-day conference called "Future Decoded" running at the Excel centre in...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/24/2014
Tip o’ the Week #245 – Podcasts on Windows Phone 8.1
The topic of Podcasts was raised by a Tip reader some time ago, after Windows Phone changed the way...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/21/2014
Tip o' the Week #244 – Ticking away, the time of day
“Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day” – even if you choose not to fritter them...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/17/2014
Tip o' the Week #243 - Parliamo Glasgow?
The great Stanley Baxter had a famous series of comedy sketches looking to help Sassenachs and...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/15/2014
Tip o’ the Week #242 – File favourites and Explorer
Office365 offers a great way of hosting documents in the cloud, using SharePoint Online and OneDrive...
Author: EwanD Date: 10/10/2014
Tip o’ the Week #241 – Where did that email come from?
Most people don’t really pay much attention to where emails originate from or how they got to be in...
Author: EwanD Date: 09/19/2014
Tip o’ the Week #239 – OneNote templates
As we’ve covered on ToW before, OneNote is an application that attracts legions of fans like few...
Author: EwanD Date: 09/05/2014
Tip o’ the Week #238 – quiet hours on Windows Phone 8.1
The time of year has rolled around where many of us are travelling – maybe time for a last, late...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/29/2014
Tip o' the Week #235 - Present on Lync
Tip o’ the Week #111 covered how to present within a Lync meeting. Given that it was 2+ years ago...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/15/2014
Tip o' the Week #233 – When I'm moving windows
As the nights are already drawing in, UK domestic interest in international football has long waned...
Author: EwanD Date: 08/08/2014
Tip o' the Week #231 – Linking LinkedIn and Outlook, look!
LinkedIn has been going for over 11 years and has resurged in user base and usefulness after...
Author: EwanD Date: 07/25/2014
Tip o’ the Week #228 – Lync Q&A
Presumably, we’ve all been on a Lync conference call where there may be a presentation going on and...
Author: EwanD Date: 07/04/2014
Tip o' the Week #224 – Alarem Scarem in Windows 8.1
If you’ve installed Windows 8.1 Update 1, there are many great additions which will be ...
Author: EwanD Date: 06/06/2014
Tip o’ the Week #229 – Cortana, let’s rock!
(Another slightly out-of sequence tip as this could be more timely now than in a few weeks) One of...
Author: EwanD Date: 05/30/2014
Tip o’ the Week #220 – Wireless networking, 15 years on
It’s amazing how quickly technology goes from an expensive frippery to a cost-insignificant...
Author: EwanD Date: 05/16/2014
Tip o’ the Week #219 – OneNote takes flight
In case you missed it, OneNote had some interesting news a few months ago. The application has a...
Author: EwanD Date: 05/09/2014
Tip o’ the Week #218 – Have you got the touch?
Using “touch” in computing has evolved so much in just the last five years. First phones then...
Author: EwanD Date: 05/02/2014
Tip o' the Week #216 – Bing Smart Search in Windows 8.1
Hopefully, everyone who was on Windows 8 should be running Windows 8.1 by now. There’s so much that...
Author: EwanD Date: 04/25/2014
Tip o' the Week #223 – Clear your inbox
Some people live a disciplined existence and manage to keep a very tidy desk, their to-do list at...
Author: EwanD Date: 04/18/2014
Tip o' the Week #222 – Windows 8.1 Update 1 is here
Another in the occasionally out-of-sequence Tips: since this is quite topical, it’s jumping the...
Author: EwanD Date: 04/11/2014
“Latent Data” – the secret sauce of the Internet of Things
This is part 2 of a series of articles exploring the Internet of Things, starting with the first...
Author: EwanD Date: 03/24/2014
Tip o' the Week #212 – Filing and piling of email
The topic of filing vs piling of email has been had on ToWs passim (here & here), but this...
Author: EwanD Date: 03/21/2014
What is this “Internet of Things” thing, anyway?
I’m going to start the odd bit of blogging aside from the weekly Tips that will carry on...
Author: EwanD Date: 03/14/2014