Last year, several community leaders held a Windows Phone Unleashed event. This year we hosted it again with @DanWahlin taking the presentation lead (and speaker manager role) while I stayed behind and ran logistics. Last year we focused on Applications, where this event focused on XNA Games. we had...
YouTube has a feature that for really old (prior to 2009 accounts) you can unlink, and then later re-link the YouTube account to a Google Account. After 2009, the actually YouTube account was a Google Account, so there is no linking / unlinking involved. So I’m stuck in this loop … and I have a question...
Most of you know I’m pretty very well connected into Microsoft. Mostly because it’s been my playground for the last few decades. I’ve been an MVP since 2003, and Regional Directory since 2011, and my company is an Approved Vendor with Microsoft that gives me corpnet access. I’m on email list after list...
I was on a plane yesterday reading my Kindle, and the guy next to me says something like “I used to have a Kindle, but I left it on a plane”, while he was pointing to the Seat-Back Pocket. And another time this week, I saw something on TV about the volunteer staff that work at airports, that have thousands...
As you see pictured here, the MacBook Air power button is just above the Delete (which really is backspace) button on the MacBook Air keyboard. If you’ve ever seen me type, you know I use the backspace key a lot! Once I accidentally pressed the power button, which wasn’t too painful as it put my machine...
Eric Sink (@eric_sink on twitter) has written a great book on Version Control Software, titled Version Control By Example. It showed up on my desk again this morning. I say again, because I keep letting people borrow it, and they keep returning it :) I figured with it's popularity, I could record a quick video book review, and post it. So here it is. Great job Eric, it's a great book. Easy ready, very informative, and sometimes funny (if you can be funny in a DVCS book?).
2010 was a great building year for EventDay.com. One of our great moments came when we donated services to help the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conference. Here is a quick video post, talking about 2010, and trying the help push registration for the 2011 event.
If you don't have a keyboard available on your Windows 8 machine (like my Samgsung Slate when it's not docked) you will benefit from this trick. If you have several (or lots of) applications open, a fast way to switch between them is to swipe in from the left, one-by-one until the application on your back stack surfaces. You can also press the START button and from the start screen, launch the application again. If it's already in the back stack, the application will start with the same state (or at least it should if it's programmed correctly). Or you can .... Control the swipe from left action, and control the specific application you want to bring forward. The video/screen cast was done holding my Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7, so it's a little shaky, but you'll get the point. Enjoy!
At http://BuildWindows.com we received a really Nice Samsung Slate with Windows 8 developer preview loaded. Playing around with the hard button combinations, I found that holding the Windows Home key, along with pressing the Power Button brings up a quick menu, with access to the Task Manager.
There will be some confusion around this, and Video is worth 10,000 words so here it is. IE10 comes in two (or more) flavors. Desktop IE10, and Metro IE10. This quick screencast will show the differences ...