Stories by Rick Broida

How to move from Hotmail to Outlook.com

Late in July, Microsoft unveiled Outlook.com, a new Webmail service designed to take the place of the aging Hotmail.

Learn the basics of Ice Cream Sandwich with the Android 4.0 cheat sheet

So your company just snapped up your aging BlackBerry and handed you an Android phone. Or you got fed up with Apple (it happens) and decided to switch platforms.

Print from your iPhone or iPad to any printer

Want to print an email you received on your iPad? How about a photo you snapped with your iPhone? Or a document you just downloaded from Dropbox?

Need help choosing a smartphone or tablet? Head to Versus IO

Trying to decide between, say, the hot new Samsung Galaxy S3 and the iPhone 4S? How about the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7 tablets?

The business benefits of adding a second monitor

For my money, there's no better way to transform your computing experience than by adding a second monitor.

The 6 best new iOS 6 features for business users

It's official: Apple iOS 6 is coming this fall," and with it some 200 updates and improvements.

How to manage multiple Twitter accounts

There are many ways you can use Twitter to help build your business. For example, you can track trending topics, leverage Web analytics, and tap some 50 million daily users.

The right way to respond to a nasty email

Very often in business, the important thing is not how you act, but rather how you react.

How to manage Google Docs on your desktop

No one would argue that Google Docs is a great tool, but it remains, stubbornly, a Web-only tool.

Three smart ways to use Evernote in business

It's easy to see why Evernote has legions of fans. It's like a digital brain for all your ideas, a way to capture and organize the volumes of information that might otherwise slip through your fingers.

Sign and send documents from your smartphone or PC

See if this sounds familiar: Someone e-mails you a document, contract, or whatever that requires your signature. So you print it, sign it, then dust off the fax machine so you can send it back.Talk about a waste of time (and paper). Isn't this the 21...

How to Put Windows 8 on a Flash Drive

If you've poked around PC World in recent weeks, you've learned how to download and install Windows 8 on a new hard-drive partition and how to install Windows 8 in a virtual machine. Today, let's talk about one of my favorite approaches for installin...

How to Sync Your Android Phone or Tablet with iTunes

It's not uncommon to have iOS and Android users living under the same roof. Indeed, perhaps you've been an iPod owner for many users, but recently decided to pick up an Android-powered smartphone or tablet. Now the question becomes, how do you sync y...

Recover a Missing Android Phone with Where's My Droid

If an iPhone goes missing, well, there's an app for that. (It's Apple's venerable.) But where's the equivalent for Android? Surely there must be some app-tastic way to locate a rogue Android handset.

Browsing tips: Slow-loading sites, Google Chrome tweak

True story: I'd been getting fed up with Firefox, in part because it was acting sluggish and flaky, so I decided to give Google's Chrome browser a try. And by "try," I mean make it my primary browser for a couple weeks.