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Continue reading →: Play the Nintendo Classic, Paper Dash, on Windows 8Random Salad Games have been publishing retro games for Windows 8 since the Consumer Preview was available for beta tester. One of their game is the Nintendo classic, Paper Dash. It has a quirky music and 90’s cartoony look to it. I like it. It’s a good time waster. If…
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Continue reading →: IntoWindows.com – Great Windows 8 Resources, Tips, and TutorialsThis post is not a sponsored or promotional post. Rather, the goal of this post is to direct you to information that you may find helpful, informative, and interesting. I want to share with you IntoWindows.com. This is a fantastic place to get some great Windows 8 related tips, tricks,…
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Continue reading →: Experiment: Running Windows 98 on Windows 7 & 8Is running windows 98 on windows 7 or 8 possible in 2013? Well first, Windows 98 was released in 1998. That’s a whooping 15 years! We are going to try running this 15 year old bad boy and see just how compatible these operating systems are. We will browse the web…
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Continue reading →: Windows 8 Glitch Causes Windows 95 UI to AppearFor some strange reason, I encountered a Windows 8 glitch that did something unusual. Windows 8 fell back to the Classic, Windows 95 style, theme for window boarders, and user interfaces, such as buttons, text boxes, radio buttons, and more. The Windows 95 UI theme, also known as Windows Classic…
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Continue reading →: How To Reinstall Microsoft Office Without the DiscWere you in a situation in which you lost or misplaced your Microsoft Office Disc and now are unable to reinstall Office on your computer? Ever wonder how you would ever be able to reinstall Microsoft Office It often happens that we may need to reinstall Microsoft office when we buy a…
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Continue reading →: YouTube for Schools Helps Educate Students In the ClassroomOver the years since YouTube has been around, hundreds and thousands of educational videos have been spawned across YouTube with hundreds of different subjects and in many variety of languages. As a result, YouTube has an educational version of its service, where it provides thousands of proven education videos from a variety…
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Continue reading →: Check Out Crash Course GO! Xbox Game for Windows 8
The popular Xbox 360 arcade game, Dorito’s Crash Course has now been ported to Windows 8 as an Xbox Game! It costs only $1.49, but there is a free trial available. Description “Crash Course Go is the Windows 8 version of the highly successful game for XBOX Live, “Doritos Crash…
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Continue reading →: Success – Site Upgrade CompleteI am pleased to announce that the website upgrade has been successfully upgraded. Here are some cool new features that have been added! Note that some features are still not complete and will continue to be refined. However, you should not be experiencing any major issues. If you do, let…
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Continue reading →: Let’s Begin!Welcome to McAkins Online Start Page, the perfect place to start exploring McAkins Online! Take a look at the content hubs below, or browse the full catalog on the right.
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Continue reading →: Help & Tips CenterGet help with the many features of Windows. Plus, we have some tips to speed up your workflow, so you can enjoy technology for both work and play more efficiently. Click here to Visit the Help & Tips Center Need Help With McAkins Online? Click here to Visit our Support…
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Continue reading →: Top Three Programming Tools Every Team Should HaveMost of my programming these days involves two other people working together with me on the same project(s). Without these tools, working together would be much tougher. So here are the top three programming tools every team should have.
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Continue reading →: ALERT – Site is Being UpgradedDear Readers, I am excited to inform you that we are performing an upgrade to this website. We will be introducing some neat features that I think you will appreciate! In the meantime, however, please be aware that some existing features may not work properly or at all. This should…
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Continue reading →: How to Delete the Windows.old folder after a Windows Upgrade or ReinstallIf you have upgraded Windows or reinstalled it without formatting your hard drive, you may notice that there is a Windows.old folder on the C drive (or a your primary hard drive partition). This folder contains files from the previous windows install. The folder is used to back up potentially…
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Continue reading →: How to Delete the Windows.old folder after a Windows Upgrade or ReinstallIf you have upgraded Windows or reinstalled it without formatting your hard drive, you may notice that there is a Windows.old folder on the C drive (or a your primary hard drive partition). This folder contains files from the previous windows install. The folder is used to back up potentially…
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Continue reading →: Win8.1RTM Users: Don’t install that last Updates for XBox Music & Video
Two days ago there was an update for both the XBox Music and Video, but there is a problem with these updates. I first got wind of the issues with these apps from Tom Warren of the Verge that his Music App install was botched, that this may be one…
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