January 9, 2014Windows 8, Windows 8.1 Using MS Project Siena for Rapid App Development The first truly visual tool for developing Windows 8 apps has emerged from Microsoft. Project Siena (beta) is a Windows 8/8.1 […]
December 30, 2013Internet Explorer, Windows 8.1 Tweaking IE11 Live Pinned Tile Code for dual feeds on same domain After using Microsoft’s Build My Pinned Site web app for my personal site, I decided to see what I could create for […]
December 28, 2013Internet Explorer, Windows 8.1 IE 11 Pinned Tiles with Full RSS and Image Support for Windows 8.1 During the Windows 8.1 preview, I posted an article about IE 11 pinned tiles. Last night, one of my Twitter followers […]
December 24, 2013Surface, Windows 8.1 Fitbit Devices Now Sync with Windows 8.1 Store App Wow, just got a Windows Store Update for my Fitbit App. I figured it was XMAS and just maybe… (syncing with […]
December 22, 2013Windows 8.1 Cleaning Up Xbox Music on your PC and in the Cloud for Windows 8.1 I’m one of those Luddites who has multiple terabytes of local NAS redundant storage for my photography hobby and my music […]
December 20, 2013Windows 8.1 Build an App for Windows 8.1 with the Microsoft Project Siena Beta Microsoft just gave Windows 8.1 users who aren’t coding experts or developers a nice holiday gift. The Microsoft Project Siena beta […]
November 28, 2013Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 Photos App Crash Fix Steps It’s obvious from the number of posts and threads in Microsoft Communities that the Photos App in Windows 8.1, besides having […]
November 4, 2013Windows 8.1 Cyberlink’s DVD Mobile App trumps the Photos App in Windows 8.1 I really wanted to title this post “Microsoft ruined the Photos App in Windows 8.1 for me and many others, but […]
October 26, 2013Miracast, Surface, Windows 8.1 How to Make Miracast work on Surface Pro Microsoft broke Miracast for Surface Pro (original) users on Windows 8.1. They have not officially commented on this or provided any […]
October 20, 2013Windows 8.1 Specify the 50 images that Photos App 8.1 selects from for Live Tile You read that correctly. Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 Photos App by design won’t let you select what images are used on the Photos […]