Sep 12 2012
Outside of the technology media, I have seen mainstream media seriously misreport the app situation for Windows Phone 8 and potentially doing Microsoft’s latest mobile OS quite a disservice. In a nutshell, pretty much any app designed for Windows Phone 7 or 7.5 will work on Windows Phone 8 and with 100,000 apps there is …
Sep 11 2012
Just an observation on Windows 8 that I wanted to share which may also help others using Windows Vista and 7. Recently, I was seeing some graphical glitches occur under Windows 8 as well as CPU usage getting stuck at 25% for unusually long periods of time on my quad-core i7 desktop. This meant that …
Sep 07 2012
Here’s another Windows 8 tip. With prior versions of Windows you would normally require third party software in order to mount ISO files as a native drive in Windows Explorer. This changes in Windows 8 with its ability to mount ISOs without additional software. All you need to do is the following: Locate the desired …
Sep 06 2012
My wife is over in Denmark by herself at the moment but wanted to share her in room internet connection (a cabled Ethernet connection) to her other devices over Wi-Fi. She had recently upgraded her MacBook Air to Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) but had used internet sharing on that computer in the past on …
Sep 05 2012
Leading on from yesterday’s tip on how to unlock Windows 8 there are several ways to shutdown and restart Windows 8 as well. Alt + Ctrl + Del Hit Alt + Ctrl + Del on your keyboard, Click the power button in the bottom right corner and select your shutdown option. Charms Bar Hit Window + …
Sep 03 2012
With many things from Microsoft, there are a myriad of ways to do the same thing and this goes for unlocking a Windows 8 computer. Essentially, you have the following options from the lock screen: Hit the space bar on the keyboard, Hit Enter on the keyboard, Click the primary button on the mouse (the left …
Sep 02 2012
For those on Windows 7 and Windows 8 you may not have known about the special functionality provided by middle clicking (or pressing down on the scroll wheel). If you want to open a new instance of an application, then do the following: hover your mouse cursor over the application on the taskbar, middle click. …
Aug 30 2012
Even after the launch of Windows 8 for MSDN and TechNet members the complaints about the Start Screen still persist along with calls for the Start Menu of old to return for better or for worse. We’re still seeing various pieces of software coming out to mimic the functionality or presence of the old Start …
Aug 23 2012
While the tech heads and developers are getting a head start with Windows 8 as part of their MSDN and TechNet subscriptions the rest of the world will need to wait a little longer. However, for people who have bought computers since 02/06/2012 through 31/01/2013 these people can get a slice of the Windows 8 …
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