Adding new holiday

Adding holidays is simple ... and here's how. Note: To avoid creating duplicate entries on your Outlook / Exchange calendar, search for existing holidays and remove them before continuing.

To add holidays to your Exchange calendar using Microsoft Outlook:

1. In Outlook 2010, click the File tab, and then click Options.
2. From the menu on the left, click Calendar.
3. Then click Add Holidays.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Outlook automatically selects your country or region. Use the checkboxes to change your country or region, or to add holidays for other countries and regions.
5. To save your holidays, click OK.

Conditional Formatting allows you to customize how different messages appear in your Inbox. The message list based will show messages differently  based on criteria that you set. By default, conditional formatting makes unread messages bold.

By adding your own customizations, you can highlight the messages that are most important to you.

For example, when you are at work, you might want to separate and distinguish emails which have been sent from your boss, manager or supervisor.

For that reason you might want to set these messages to appear larger than others in your Inbox.

To set up Conditional Formatting from your Inbox, go to the View tab,then click View Settings, and then click Conditional Formatting. 

You have a new computer that came with Windows 7 pre-installed on it, and you want to create a dual boot system so you can run Ubuntu Linux as well. Here we take you through the process to install Ubuntu on your pre-installed Windows 7 machine. Check it out!

If you've been using your android device but want some apps that offer more functionality than basic free apps on the android market, the Amazon Appstore has got you covered.

Every day they offer a different paid app for free. Thats right, you get to save money and get an app you would usually have to pay for, completely free. In the past they have offered some cool stuff like Peggle and Plants Vs. Zombies completely free. Mind you, it isn't all games. They offer good productivity apps and cool stuff like alternative keyboards as well.

Starting tomorrow, Funkykit will be covering each of these new apps every day! So you will get a mini-review of sorts to figure out if you want to try out that free app or if it isn't even worth your bandwidth.

To find the appstore: Amazon Appstore

Introduction

Today we will be taking a look at the newest benchmarking program to be included in Funkykit reviews, AIDA64. This program is brought to you by the makers of AIDA32, as well as the popular Everest program. It includes benchmarks, as well as in-depth system information for all of your hardware as well as software.

Some prelim testing will be done on my test rig:

• Intel Core i7 2600k @ 4.0ghz
• Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3 Motherboard
• Mushkin 998707 2x2gb Memory
• Zotac Nvidia GTX580 video card
• 1200w Antec Quattro Power Supply
• Custom Watercooling Loop

Now lets get onto the good stuff ...

For those of you guys and gals out there who have wanted to game with your fellow funkykit readers, heres your opportunity to do so. We have started up a steam community page for all of you that are interested in playing some games with staff members or fellow readers. The steam community page is Funkykit Steam group.

Feel free to join and strike up a chat, or challenge us to a game!

(Image credit: TiN and K|ingp|n of team PURE at Kingpincooling.com)

In the DIY computer world a lot of people are concerned about a video card (GPU) "bottlenecking" on a given CPU, or a given CPU bottlenecking a GPU.  In this article I will explain what it is that they are talking about, as well as discussing whether or not it's worth being worried about.

First off is the answer to the question "What is this bottlenecking you speak of?!"

Here's a quick tip:  The rig in the picture is not bottlenecking! .... Hit Read More to find out!

I thought I'd share my overclocking experience with you. As you know, we received a sample of MSI's Big Bang Marshal P67 motherboard, and we're in the middle of testing it with a full review coming soon. There has been lots of rave reviews about this motherboard. From what we've heard, we know it can handle overclocking pretty well ... sure! So to see for ourselves, we decided to do some overclocking tests of our own to find out what the MSI Big Bang Marshal can really do.

For our tests we used the Core i5 - 2500K (Quad core). Yes, I know most hardcore enthusiasts would probably choose the Core i7 - 2600K (Quad core, plus Hyperthreading), but I just wanted to show people out there that the Core i5 - 2500K is also a great little chip for overclocking at a considerably lower cost.