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The first truly visual tool for developing Windows 8 apps has emerged from Microsoft. Project Siena (beta) is a Windows 8 Windows Store App that enables you to create a Windows 8 Store App for Windows 8 users from…
After using Microsoft’s Build My Pinned Site web app for my personal site, I decided to see what I could create for www.msmvps.com which hosts two blog platforms, WordPress and Community Server. I did some reading on MSDN, but found…
During the Windows 8.1 preview, I posted an article about IE 11 pinned tiles. Last night, one of my Twitter followers asked me why I didn’t have a Pinnable Live Tile for this site and I replied that I’d…
Wow, just got a Windows Store Update for my Fitbit App. I figured it was XMAS and just maybe… (syncing with my favorite fitness tracker was one of the three big missing features on my Windows 8.x list, the…
I’m one of those Luddites who has multiple terabytes of local NAS redundant storage for my photography hobby and my music collection. I’m not interested in paying anyone for the privilege of storing “my stuff” in “their” cloud. Yes,…
Microsoft just gave Windows 8.1 users who aren’t coding experts or developers a nice holiday gift. The Microsoft Project Siena beta was released yesterday as a free app in the Windows Store. Microsoft characterizes the app as: Siena…
It’s obvious from the number of posts and threads in Microsoft Communities that the Photos App in Windows 8.1, besides having been gutted of features loved by many, that QA on this app pretty much didn’t happen and customers…
I really wanted to title this post “Microsoft ruined the Photos App in Windows 8.1 for me and many others, but if you spend $15, there is a wonderfully elegant app that not only returns the functionality that Microsoft…
Microsoft broke Miracast for Surface Pro (original) users on Windows 8.1. They have not officially commented on this or provided any information on a fix. As pointed out on Twitter by Rafael Rivera, you can work around this by…
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 App Live Tile. Microsoft uses your 50 most recent images, regardless of location, which means they can be…