In reality, not all features crammed into the OS is useful to all kind of people. While Windows 8 OS does give a glimpse of the bright future, by providing not only subtle Modern UI interface but also plethora of new features. The most sibilated feature which we offer here from tech corners is live tile notifications. Dapper notification on start screen makes it tad easy to keep tab on most of the recent happening across the various platform. For example, I personally liked Tweetro Twitter client for Windows 8, which keeps giving me information about the latest mention, so I can quickly follow up the conversation. However, sometime people often feel that notification is unnecessarily drawing their attention to not-so-important things. There arise a
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Somehow, apps that offer quick reinstallation or can restore your data quickly are always in high priority on the customer demand list. Reinstaller is a half baked solution for Windows Phone users, which can help them to reinstall Windows Phone apps and games with few hiccups. Windows Phone users are in dire situation compared to Android and iOS counterparts, where there are many featured rich applications available for them. Despite of the lack of auto installing feature, reinstaller is getting a wide recognition since it was the first of its kind app to offer such feature. In case, if you have reset your phone for one of more reason or have purchased a new phone on which you want to reinstall all Windows Phone apps
The final version of Windows Phone 8 is yet to be unveiled by Microsoft. However, the OEMs have already started announcing their new Windows Phone 8 handsets, which are expected to be available before the end of the year 2012. At a developers only conference, Microsoft did give a glimpse at some of the features of their new WP8 OS, but the full-fledged version is yet to be available for public consumption. The announcement of making previous Windows Phone 7 series device obsolete with this update has bollixed up the whole WP7 community. However, enthusiastic tech industry pundits are eagerly waiting for Microsoft to bring some joy on the face of perturbed users who were rattled by previous disheartening announcement. Just after a month, first
The recent revelation of Outlook webmail service has opened up a new can of endless possibilities. It has also sparked up the debate of who is the best web based email service? Yes, this time Microsoft has learned a lesson and provided a near to perfect webmail service at Outlook.com. Previously, we had covered some of the interesting features of Outlook.com; importing Gmail account contacts to Outlook and keyboard shortcuts for new Outlook webmail service
Microsoft’s recent endeavour took everyone by surprise. MS has given a preview access to revolutionary Outlook webmail service, which might change the perception of the people about Hotmail and other web based mail offerings from the software giant. The Redmond based company has unveiled its intention to take on the unassailable Gmail service. At a first glance, you might get surprised with the familiar metro look. MS would have thought retiring incondite Hotmail features and interface and hence the all new Outlook service. In our previous post, we advised users to hurry and grab their desired email ID before someone else does it
Today, Microsoft pushed out the biggest ever change in its email service. With an aim to dethrone Google’s Gmail service from number 1 position, Microsoft has given a sneak peek of its latest lab rat. Highly inspired from the aesthetic look of Metro UI, Microsoft has completely revolutionized its Hotmail service, which sooner will be served as Outlook.com. Google has been ruling web based email service since its arrival back in 2004 and people refused to migrate from Gmail to other lucrative services like Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL etc, due to the sheer amount of features Gmail has to offer. This also includes a number of security features like 2-step verification system which made email hacking almost hacking proof. However, Microsoft is pushing out the new update
Of late, we have started providing some of the useful apps for Windows 8 users. However, people often ask me, how one can search an app in Windows 8 store? The metro UI of Windows 8 is intuitive, but often leads to confusion since users are used to the traditional Windows UI seen in likes of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Initially, the new user interface inspired from Windows Phone metro tile will bemuse the people so we decided to lend a helping hand to users so they can get used to newest and greatest OS from Microsoft. It is an utter unjust to write off the future of Windows 8, not just yet
Often people tend to use multiple Skype accounts due to various reasons one of them is they want to have segregated accounts for personal and professional use. For example, bloggers like me often use one instance to manage list of friends, family members and important people in their life, while second instance is being used to manage important business contact and prospective. Such segregation helps in maintaining personal and professional relationship more conscientiously. Let’s not delve too much into the reasons why would someone have multiple accounts on Skype or other services
The rise of cloud storage service has given a birth to multiple service providers offering wide range of solutions to all kind of users. In fact, 2012 has witnessed the rise of such service providers by manifold. With giants like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Dropbox already serving users from diverse community, it became somewhat difficult to manage all of them. In the past, we’ve provided a detailed guide to manage multiple cloud service on android (guide for PC users is here). Such services solves our basic problem of maintaining account and knowing what files are stored on different services. By now, it would be safe to presume that most of us have accounts on multiple sites. Having solved the first problem of managing multiple cloud service,
Microsoft Word is an extremely useful program to manage your notes, project reports and for billions of other daily routine work. Even as a blogger, people like me always use Microsoft word to handle routine errands including checking up for asinine grammatical errors that we often tend to make while writing a post. Microsoft Word is a handy tool to fine tune your post or fixing such silly errors, but it’s a cumbersome job and often requires lots of effort on our side. Then there is a time limitation which often force us to perform such routine job efficiently and subtly. In such case, manually performing the different formatting and fine tuning related task can be time consuming. However, smart use of already available Microsoft