Category Windows 8

Speech to Text in Surface is Built in

A while back I was complaining that there was nothing like Siri on my Surface. I was wrong. I happened to go into the classic control panel for something entirely different and found Speech Recognition . So I started exploring.…

Surface Review

Upfront I have to say that I really like my new Surface tablet.  I have a desktop with Windows 8 that I’ve been using primarily for development and testing and I found that the modern UI is just not very…

Weatherbug App W8 vs. iPad reliability

Here we are in the middle of a hurricane and I decided to see what the projected wind speeds would be. Turns out that the info on the iPad app from the same vendor is off by 10 mph for…

Posting from Surface using WinRT and Word

One of the things my iPad does not do elegantly, even with the Blogsy App is allow me to post to my blogs easily. I’m hoping that using Word 2013 on new surface tablet is reasonably successful. In any case,…

My two apps are in the Windows 8 Store

  I’ve been hooked on “touch friendly” web sites since I first started using Onswipe to display my blog on the iPad. When Windows 8 came along with the new Start screen and tile interface, I started thinking about the…

Getting My App Ready for Release

  Now that I have Windows 8 RTM and Visual Studio 2012 RTM, I’m getting my MsMVPs Blog Reader ready for posting in the Windows Store. I have reserved my app name and have created my account! Look for it…