First off, according to an email Microsoft has sent out to users, the Windows Marketplace for Mobile website (where you could buy apps for your 6.x Windows Mobile smartphone), will be shut down on July 15. What does this mean? Well, it means that you will no longer able to buy and download apps from it for your old smartphone. Of course, there are still tons of 3rd-party websites that will provide 6....
Last week, Microsoft rolled out Windows 10 Insider Preview build 16199 for PC and build 15215 for mobile. No new Insider preview builds for PC or Mobile this week due to the team dealing with what Dona referred to as a “blocking bug”. — Dona Sarkar (@donasarkar) May 24, 2017 Also, the Windows Insider team is taking time off for a long Memorial Day weekend (Monday is a holiday here in the U....
First, right click an empty area on your desktop and select New » Text File. Now name that text file to something memorable .exe. Here I naming my external drive that I use for Plex Media Center which has a lot of videos, songs and pictures to MediaDrive.exe. It’s important to change the file extension from .txt to .exe. Click Yes to the dialog that asks if you’re sure you want to rename the file extension....
Plexamp The Plexamp feature allows you to create a better audio experience. It features a parametric EQ, Sweet Fades, and a loudness leveling solution. In addition, Plexamp features the following: Clean and elegant design that makes it easy to search and explore your libraryMix Builder to design your own mix or radio station, or browse your personal charts to see your favorite music across timeOnce you find the music you love, download it for easy offline listeningPlexamp is available on five platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux...
Plex’s Free Streaming Service The new Plex streaming service is now live and works across all devices that support the Plex app (which is virtually everywhere). And Plex says it will use your existing media collection to make recommendations for content on the free service. The service is similar to others that offer free ad-supported content like The Roku Channel, Tubi, and others. You can access the free content via the Plex app from the sidebar....
Create a PIN Login for Surface Note that Microsoft Surface RT, a light version of Windows 8, is no longer supported by Microsoft. Pull up the Charms bar and tap Settings. Then tap on Change PC Settings. On the next screen, tap Users, and under Sign-in Options, tap Create a PIN. Next, you’ll need to type in your current Windows Account Password and tap OK. Next, type in the four-digit PIN you want to use for logging in and tap Finish....
Photo Credit: Kitchen Dreams Developed by Travis Krumsick the freeware program KeyTweak provides a graphical user interface for remapping every key on most keyboards. Behind the scenes, all the program does is edit the Windows registry as we did in our Disabling the Caps Lock Key tutorial. What took us several steps and 5 minutes to accomplish, KeyTweak can do in only two mouse clicks. KeyTweak isn’t just for disabling keys though....
So, you’ve successfully migrated a few Virtual Servers Guests to Windows Server 2008 running Hyper-V, but now you want to manage the Hyper-V Server remotely from another Windows Server 2008 or Vista box. Is it possible? Today at work I had that very question, and found that it is possible and easy to configure a Windows Vista Client OR a Windows Server 2008 box to remotely manage a Microsoft Hyper-V Server....
Ready to remove those pesky empty cells in Excel? Here’s how to do it. Open your spreadsheet and press [Ctrl] [A] to highlight the entire document. Or highlight just the section of the spreadsheet where you want to remove empty cells. Now, press F5 on your keyboard. The Go To menu will appear. Click the Special button. The Go To Special window comes up. Select Blanks and click OK....
What makes this form of online extortion fall into the sextortion category is when either the threat or the demand is of a sexual nature. Both victims and perpetrators of sextortion can be either gender. One of the reasons sextortion is so effective is because most of the time the victim is embarrassed about falling into the trap in the first place. However, there are ways to extract yourself from the situation if you’re caught in one of these scams....
Visit the SimCity Beta Sign Up Page and click the Sign Up for The Beta button. This will require an Origin account. If you don’t have one, then you’ll need to create one to sign up for closed beta. EA will ask you to fill out a brief questionnaire, and at the bottom it will ask for a DxDiag file. A Dxdiag is an automatically generated report with information about your system’s hardware....
According to Google, the service isn’t yet available however you can request to be added to the waiting list. Interesting, looks like Google might actually be opening up Inbox by Gmail also until 4/2 so shoot them an email if you’re not yet signed up. Do you have a favorite “news” event today? Drop it in the comments and share it with the gPost community. Comment Name * Email *...
Stream iTunes to WMC If you use iTunes to manage your music, there isn’t an obvious way to share your collection with Windows Media Center. Here’s how to stream your iTunes music library to Windows Media Center (WMC). First, open iTunes and right-click on any song in your library. Select Show in Windows Explorer. This brings you to the location of your iTunes music folder. Copy the path, so you remember where it’s located....
Microsoft is now building Windows for us “creators.” That’s the theme of their vision, and mark my words, you’ll be hearing the term “creators” a lot in the coming months. On its face, it feels like marketing. But once you start to learn about the products, it really truly is inspiring. Let’s go over the highlights. Surface Studio: “It’s going to change the way people do work at their desk....
But first click the loudspeaker in the Windows system tray and click open the playback devices’ dialog box. Right click on any of the devices listed there and make sure that both “Show Disabled Devices” and “Show Disconnected Devices” are checked. Close the box that has those two options by clicking outside it. Now count your output devices, including disabled and disconnected, and remember the numbers of the two you want to be able to switch between....
Shutdown Windows 8.1 from Start Button Right click the Start Button and it will display the power user menu. You can also bring up the power user menu by hitting Windows Key + X on the keyboard. Then just go to Shut down then you can select between Sleep, Shut down, or Restart. Here’s an example of the Start button on the desktop. The Start button is also available from Start Screen....
The Thanksgiving holidays meant a slow week for gaming news. The first wave of turkey and stuffing is gone, and it’s time to enjoy leftovers or shop for deals on the busiest shopping day of the year Black Friday. Wii U Arrives with Issues out of the Box The biggest news of the week, of course is the launch of Nintendo’s newest console, the Wii U. It’s the successor to their popular Wii....
Sometimes, it can get annoying. For example, if you comment on a friends post, Facebook assumes you want to subscribe to it. You are supposed to be able to unfollow these threads, but sometimes that doesn’t work; even when you choose to turn off notifications for a post, Facebook is still pushing updates about that same post (this, I assume, is a bug). Well, here’s how to stop that from happening once and for all....
With all of today’s technology, paper still lives on. You never know when you’ll need to sign a document to send to someone or scan receipts from business trips. There are several apps that let you scan documents on iOS, but my favorite is DocScan HD Lite Version. It’s free. Launch the app then tap Camera to take a shot of the document you want to scan. Then focus on your document with the camera and get the best shot of it you can....
As of now, MrGroove has 9.5 gigs of Dropbox space on his free 2 Gig “Basic” Dropbox account. And you can have it, too. Simply log in to your Dropbox account and click the Get Started tab and follow the six easy steps to begin building on your free 2 Gig account. Oh, and when you get to the sixth step and they say: “For every friend who joins Dropbox, we’ll give you both 250 MB of bonus space (up to a limit of 8 GB)!...
