Below are three brief videos I recorded explaining how to use the your S3: UPDATE: DEC 5, 2012 – Under Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, DRIVING MODE has been relegated to SETTINGS > LANGUAGE AND INPUT > TEXT TO SPEECH OUTPUT > DRIVING MODE . The button on the notification screen Read more
I have been looking at this “N” (see right) for weeks and have not figured out what it is doing. I have turned off WiFi so it should not find an 802.11 N networks. This was making me nuts. It turns out that “N” relates to NEAR FEILD COMMUNICATION. If Read more
I was going to write an article on all the crazy Windows performance improvement myths and then I found a great article which I have taken snippets from below (and provide a link to the full article below). The bottom line is this, Microsoft has a lot of massively intelligent Read more
It turns out that Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) has a dandy EXPORT, IMPORT feature. The only thing that isn’t particularly obvious is that you have to EXPORT (and IMPORT) in the GROUP POLICY OBJECTS folder, and not on any of the OU’s. On the old/source domain, start GPMC Expand your Read more
Have you ever saved (cached) a password in your browser or in some other Windows application and then had the password change but not know how to edit your saved version? Well, if so, this will help. Windows stores passwords in the CREDENTIALS MANAGER which you can get to via Read more
An American tourist in a small village he was visiting in Newfoundland, approached a local person and asked, “What’s the quickest way to Marystown?” Jarge, the local, scratched his head, “Are ya walkin ER drivin?” he asked the stranger. “I’m driving,” said the stranger. Jarge replied, “That’s the quickest way.”
No. The $15 upgrade offer https://windowsupgradeoffer.com is available only for individuals.
Windows 8 RTM’d on August 1st 2012 and will be made available to developers and techs on August 15th. “General Availability” meaning retail packaging and OEM hardware sales will commense on October 26th. The President of the Microsoft’s Windows group said: While we have reached our RTM milestone, no software Read more
The new OUTLOOK.COM looks very similar to Windows Mail in Windows 8 (and to a lesser degree Outlook 2013) with an ultra clean “metro” layout. Microsoft said the new web interface has 60% fewer pixels than Hotmail and as you can see in plain screen shot below, I don’t think Read more
…global market share fell to 16.9 percent from 18.8 percent a year earlier. Meanwhile, Samsung smartphone shipments surged 172.8 percent to 50 million units from 18.4 million. Market share rose to 32.6 percent from 17 percent a year earlier. Quarter on quarter, Apple share fell from 24.2 percent, erasing most Read more
BACKGROUND: Every machine I install the lastest Windows Update Agent on results in a 800B0001 error when getting updates “FROM YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR” but have no problems when getting “UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE”. This is the same as: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerwinclient7rc/thread/e64bdfef-f92a-4924-85f1-6b858ec81c59 All of the machines in question are Win 7 64Bit Enterprise Read more
It sounds like yet another important legal body is rejecting Apples (often viscous) claims and ordering Apple to undo the damage with prolonged advertising favouring Samsung! Note that Apple actually manufactures very little (if anything) and that Samsung is a very very important OEM which engineers and manufactures such things Read more
Yes, you can get Windows 8 to display all Control Panel and Admin Tool apps in a single folder by: Right click on the desktop and select New, Folder Highlight this folder and press F2. Call the folder: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and press enter. Double-click the icon to view all the shortcuts
XP I understand but Vista is hardly old. Vista has only 8% market share and that was likely a large factor in Microsofts logic.
There are two ways to change the favicon in a Sharepoint 2010 / MOSS site. The easiest (by far) is to simply change the FAVICON.ICO file in your Sharepoint folder. For me that path was C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES Note that after I changed this, I cleared my IE9 cache Read more
I spent the last 30 minutes trying to locate the damn thing! Very frustrating. It is NOT on connect.microsoft.com microsoft.com/office microsoft.com/office2013 microsoft.com/office15 … From what can tell so far there are only two options for the beta: www.office.com/preview which requires that you sign up for a free Office 365 account and Read more