Windows Phone Designer is Named as One of 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012

Written by on May 16th, 2012 | Posted in Windows Phone Windows Phone design

Fast Company released their picks for its annual 100 Most Creative People in Business in its June issue, and Jeff Fong, the leading force in Windows Phone team, is named as one of them, listed as No. 81. Here is his write-up. Airports may be frustrating, but give them this: "The …

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How To Find Out Hash Value of Any File in Windows 7

Written by on May 16th, 2012 | Posted in General HashTab screenshot #1

A file’s hash value is an unique ID for that file to identify itself. It’s generated by one of the hash function or algorithm based on some information about the file, CRC32, MD5, and SHA-1 are the ones mostly used. Accuhash explains it fairly well how it works. Simply put, a …

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Windows 8 Tip: How To Disable Windows Store

Written by on May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Tips & Tricks, Windows 8 disable windows store #1

Here is a quick tip on how to turning off Windows Store on your Windows 8 computer. Why? I don’t really know and care, but in case someone out there don’t like the idea of having a store inside their Windows. In fact, this tip is more for IT admins rather than a regular user. [...]

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Schirmfoto to Make Screenshots Easier

Written by on May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Tools schirmfoto-top

Schirmfoto is another free screen capture tool that enhances the limited built-in Windows screen capture capability while still making the job painless easy and intuitive. It’s a new tool just released lately by Ablesoft, the same guys who made the SSD Fresh which we covered here not long ago. The screenshot tool has a …

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GeekUninstaller Cleanly Removes Any Windows Applications, even the Broken Ones

Written by on May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Tools Geek Uninstaller 1.0.0

Removing applications from Windows isn’t always a pleasure process. Most of the time they can be removed cleanly without leaving any trace but sometimes they are hard to wipe off. And when they are hard to get rid of, they are often leaving a lot of things behind even after being removed manually off the [...]

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NTFS Health Model Improvements in Windows 8 and FAQs

Written by on May 10th, 2012 | Posted in Windows 8 NTFS Health model #1

Microsoft details some of the new designs and improvements in NTFS new health model and the old CHKDSK utility on their official Building Windows 8 blog. Here are some highlights. The new design of the NTFS health model and chkdsk is based on these 3 main requirement. 1. 0 downtime caused by file …

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How To Backup Your Entire Gmail Message and Attachments To Your Local Windows 7

Written by on May 10th, 2012 | Posted in Tools

If you are a Gmail user this will be useful for you, especially if you wish to have a backup of your entire Gmail to your local machine. There maybe many reasons why you want to back up your Gmail, you may feel safer to have an archive of your older messages. You might not [...]

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Maxthon SkyFile Offers 6G Free Online Storage

Written by on May 9th, 2012 | Posted in Tools SkyFile ScreenShot #1

Does Maxthon sound familiar to you? If not, Maxthon is a web browser provider that offers a pretty decent fast browser called Maxthon browser currently at version 3. Now that you know what Maxthon is good at, are you surprised that they are also offering an cloud sync solution called SkyFile that offers …

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SSD Fresh to Optimize Windows Settings for Your SSD Hard Drive

Written by on May 8th, 2012 | Posted in Tools SSD Fresh screenshot #1

SSD drive is fast but could have a much short life if used improperly. Windows 7 is the first Windows system that’s optimized for SSD out of the box. So you probably don’t need to worry or change too much when you plug in a SSD into a Windows 7 machine, though there is still [...]

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