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Continue reading →: OneDrive on Windows 8.1 Updated with New Features for Desktop Users!One of the updates for Patch Tuesday on June 10, 2014 was for Microsoft OneDrive. This update brought significant UI update for desktop users. Let’s check it out.
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Continue reading →: iOS8, OSX Yosemite, OneDrive, and Gold – Week of 6/2/2014We had a flood of tech news for the week of June 6, 2014! Some include Apple’s WWDC, an interesting OneDrive update, and changes to Xbox LIVE Gold.
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Continue reading →: Windows Phone File Manager “Files” now in the Store
Microsoft jumps the gun and released the Windows Phone file manager simply called “Files” today in the Windows phone store instead of waiting till June as we’ve heard earlier. Everyone knows MS is working on the file manager, there have been a few tweets even a few weeks past from…
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Continue reading →: Making OneNote MX Better – Part 1Some people have recently discovered Microsoft’s OneNote and within no time it has become a tool of choice to organize their lives. Rightly so. As for me, I was using OneNote when it was first known as the Clipboard in Microsoft NetMeeting. Believe it or not, in those days even…
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Continue reading →: I SPY Challenger by Scholastic – Game HighlightA fantastic game is now available on the Windows Store. I SPY Challenger raises the bar for great game design. The game is made by Scholastic, a well-established company that makes and sells products for kids, including books and educational video games. They have released their latest creation to the…
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Continue reading →: When an Apple person reviews Oranges“This thing called Orange doesn’t look like Apple, doesn’t have Apple color, it doesn’t taste like Apple, an Apple can have a worm, but this Orange thing can’t even tolerate a worm”. Here we go again. Another Microsoft Hardware/Platform launch, followed by rounds of Reviews from people who has little…
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Continue reading →: Goodbye Fake Facebook Apps — Microsoft Will Finally Police Fake Misleading AppsI want to throw my arms up and cheer! Finally, the days of searching for Facebook and finding dozens of fake Facebook apps are hopefully behind us. Microsoft is finally making it against the Windows Store policy to make apps that are titled and have tiles to mislead customers into…
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Continue reading →: Windows Store Refresh is Rolling outMicrosoft is rolling out changes to the Store to enhance App discoverability. The Store has gone awesome with the introduction of Windows 8.1, and now MS is even making Apps front and center in the new Store Refresh.
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Continue reading →: Kinectimals Unleashed in the Store as Universal App!Microsoft brings Kinectimals to its platform as universal App! We already have Kinectimals on Xbox Live for all the while, now they’ve debuted as Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 Apps. And the best of all, they are downloadable for free! Something for the whole family to enjoy…
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Continue reading →: Cortana is already knocking on Win8 door!Our favourite MS tweeterer and Trekkie-extraordinaire Brandon LeBlanc posted this blog post today to inform that the power of Bing, the same that powers our lovely Cortana is now in Windows 8 common search feature or “Smart Search” as Microsoft likes to call it. Before you only search as always…
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Continue reading →: Bing Wikipedia Browser — An Elegent App for your Windows DeviceHi, this is Nazmus, and I recently decided to download and try out a new app by Microsoft called “Bing Wikipedia”. At first, I was hesitant to download it because I wondered “why would I need a Wikipedia app when the website works well enough?” Well, I was pleasantly surprised…
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Continue reading →: [Deal Over] Free for a Limited Time — Xbox Title Rabbits Big Bang on Windows StoreUpdate: The Deal is Officially Over As part of the weekly red stripe deals, an Xbox title for Windows 8 is downloadable for free from the Windows Store. It is called Rabbits Bing Bang. It’s a puzzle game and worth checking out!. Here’s the neat part: this game is available…
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Continue reading →: Pro Tip: Use Custom Colors for Windows Phone Start Screen TilesWith Windows Phone 8.1, you can now choose any background images for your Start screen tiles. A nice side effect of this is that you can now also put custom colors for your live tiles too! No, Windows Phone 8.1 did not add new accent colors for you to customize…
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Continue reading →: Did you know: Windows Phone 8.1 Built-in Apps Update through the app StoreWith Windows Phone (WP) 8.1, many of the built-in apps are now updatable from within the Windows Phone Store. Unlike on previous WP versions, the built-in apps do not need to wait for the next OS update to be updated. These apps now can and do update regularly just like…
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Continue reading →: Windows XP Dead as Advertised–Now what?Source: @Thurrott & @TheRomit Unless you’re an alien visiting earth for the first time today or you’ve been living under a rock, no doubt you’ve been bombarded with the so-called death of the most veritable OS on the planet today: Windows XP! Yes, XP is officially dead today. Tomorrow is…
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