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Windows Phone 8: Voice to SMS Features

Text While Driving? You know you do it — sucka …. and you shouldn’t. Keep your phone in your trunk, and do all your communication hands free. Using the Windows Phone Voice to Text techniques, you’ll be able to easily safely message without ever taking your hands off the wheel. This also works great

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Windows Phone: Events on Facebook App Fixed

A few days ago, I wrote about the Windows Phone 8 Facebook application being broken. Last night, I rec’d an update from the Marketplace, and my (or my Wife’s) main concern was the Events page wouldn’t show any information about the event. Here is a link to The Verge, which has many more details on

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Dec 16, 2012: Cam and CoCo Quick Vidoes

Cameron and the Lock Cameron has been playing with this little pad lock, that we didn’t know the combination to. Last night, I found it. With only 999 combinations, I started at 000 and moved on. in about 10 minutes, I found the combination of 777. Before Cameron went to bed, i showed him it

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Windows Phone 8: Pinned Email Folder

Using rules+folders in gmail or Exchange? By default your email is only showing you the “INBOX” of your email. Mail in other folders is, well, not in your inbox. This video shows you how to pin an email folder to your home screen.

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Windows Phone 8: Change Text Size

Did you know with Windows Phone 8, you can change the text size? Out of the box, that phone shows some pretty small fonts, even on a larger screen like my Nokia 920. And if you’re using an even smaller phone, the font is just that much smaller. Settings > Ease of Access > Font

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Using LoopLogic to Create-Edit-Hide Chapters in a Screen Recording

What if you make an audio mistake during a screen cast? Do you have to start over? Not with the Loop Logic screen recorder. In post production, online after the video uploads, you can create sections of the video (called chapters) and then hide them from playback. I’ll let the video speak for itself

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Windows Phone: Create a Speed Dialer

If you’re like me, you connect with the same people on a very regular basis. Email, Twitter, Facebook, and phone calls seem to circulate around the small group of people you’re commonly in contact with. With this information, I found a way using GROUPS in Windows Phone 8, that let’s me quickly and e

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WordPress ‘Press This’ BookMarklet 404 Solution

As you have heard (if you’re a reader) I’m new to WordPress. In the tools, there is a drag/drop bookmarklet that makes it easy to copy/paste from the site you’re reading, into a new blog post. When I tried the bookmarklet, my site was returning a 404 not found. After searching for the answer, not