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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…
The PhotoWeaver App is free for a limited time. If you are one of the people complaining about the great stuff Microsoft ripped out of the Windows 8.1 Photos App like Facebook and Flickr integration and the ability to Play…
I’ve been frustrated, as have many others, with the inability of the Photos App in Windows 8.1 and the Libraries to recognize and use images stored on Linux based NAS boxes. So what’s the hack? Install Windows Live Photo…
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…
I’ve got lots of computers and devices on my home network. Many of which don’t use the Microsoft Homegroup so I use password based folder and file sharing so that everything has access to all devices and computers. One…