Category Archives: Windows 8

I’ve just got to give a shout-out to this. Since Windows Vista, I’ve really liked the ability to have some extremely handy desktop gadgets. Microsoft tried killing these off with Windows 7, and now with Windows 8.1. Here’s a screen shot of what’s on my desktop on most of my Windows boxes. install this first: […]

Last year, I attended a nice free one-day seminar on developing applications for Windows 8. Bottom lime: Microsoft really, really wants developers to develop Win8 Apps. One concern I had was that corporations or other enterprises had an extremely difficult time writing these apps – and then NOT publishing them on the public-facing Windows App […]

I promise to be a good boy scout and ‘go with the flow’ when I get my new Surface tablet computer. in the mean time – I’ve installed this little helper to get back to my same level of productivity I had with Windows 7. http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ One change I made was to re-enable the ‘Windows […]

main speaker: Jeff Brand  http://slickthought.net  jbrand@microsoft.com   we were strongly advised to sign up for this: http://aka.ms/30days   How to develop a Windows 8 app in 30 days. SPONSOR: “jeff brand”   Begin your 30-day journey to create a Windows Store style app. Sign up to get started and receive:   Insider tips and tricks […]