Windows 8 has redesigned the Task Manager. It’s better and more advanced than the previous versions of it. Did you know that you can customize Windows 8 Task Manager to your liking?
Take a look at the tabs along the top and you will notice (among others) Performance, Startup, App history but to name a few. (You might also want to read this post: Windows 8 Tips Part 16 – Change Startup Programs… But Where Is Startup?)
Moving Startup here makes sense, because I can now have a one-stop screen for most things application and process related. For me anyway, I want to tweak the Task Manager a bit to suit my preferences. This is quite easy enough to do.
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I have to say that when I first thought about the journey that Paul Miller took, I was confronted by my own inner demons of what my life would be without the Internet. You see, Paul Miller undertook to stop using the Internet for a whole year. No emails, no Google Maps, no Reddit, no Twitter, no Facebook, no reviews of the latest movie or restaurant or accommodation. He took a brave step back to 5 August 1991, into where we came from… the unknown time before we had the Internet.
On 6 August 1991, the Internet became publicly available. Tim Berners-Lee posted a summary of the project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This heralded the birth of a new phenomenon of the human race that changed the world as we knew it.
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When I first signed up for an Outlook.com account, I was reserved regarding how much I would use it. I have had the same GMail account since receiving an invite years ago, and I figured that Outlook.com wouldn’t come close to replacing GMail. Well I was mistaken. The more I used Outlook.com, the more I loved it. I now use it almost exclusively for new mail and contacts.
But a clean looking, incredibly user friendly interface isn’t all that Outlook.com offers. With the migration of Hotmail users to Outlook.com completed, Microsoft have been quite busy! Microsoft has moved an estimated 150 petabytes of email data over to Outlook.com. (That is a huge amount of data).
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It was bound to happen sooner or later. Microsoft poked fun at the whole Samsung versus Apple spat. This has obviously lead to the proverbial ‘My dad is better than your dad’ attitude amongst Apple and Samsung fan boys.
But seriously, the truth is that many of the services I use are so ingrained into iOS that I would rather have root canal than migrate them all over to a new platform. (Yes, I am one of those Apple fan boys, I’ll admit it)
One thing is for certain, I am not a fan of Android for various reasons I won’t go into right now … *cough**cough**malware**cough, but if there is one platform I will consider ditching Apple for, it will be Windows Phone.
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When I started researching PowerStory for PowerPoint, I was floored by the rich set of features. I wondered where to begin in order to do this product justice. I decided to take my time and use it extensively.
Having been using it for some time, I can truly say that PowerStory offers a lot of value. I’m sure that you know that PowerStory will do the basics such as creating UI Mockups / Wireframes and so on. But did you know that it has an incredible UI Mockup Library?
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Is your Windows 8 machine taking a millisecond longer to start up? Well, that’s easy to diagnose. Just head on over to the Startup Programs and change what apps are loaded when you start your PC.
Right…. the Startup Tab…. where is it? Well Microsoft have moved the Startup Tab from MSCONFIG to the Task Manager. (When did they tell us about that?)
Yes, and they’ve beefed it up a bit too. So start up your PC and let’s take a closer look.
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Do you want to have an all access icon on your desktop? Some call this God Mode but I am sure that if it were, you would be able to do much more.
I came across this tip the other day and thought it would be nice to share here. Windows 8 settings are spread across the OS in various nooks and crannies. How many times have you rooted around the Control Panel in search for that one setting you used a few months ago?
Wouldn’t it be nice to have it all in one place (so that you can go rooting around in only one place)? Well, Mark Kaelin shared this tip on TechRepublic (reference link below) and here it is.
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The last two weeks I have been developing an application that creates Sales Orders from a web interface. The application is used to return damaged watches and sunglasses to the repair centre.
It creates a Sales Order entry in SYSPRO and makes use of various custom fields to store data not available in SYSPRO. The application wasn’t very complicated, but did take a few days to complete.
During this development, I came across a nice quick tip (see reference below) when browsing ASP.NET pages in Visual Studio that allows you to specify that you need to browse with a Browser (IE in this case) sans the add-ons. I wanted to share this here.
There is no doubt that the human race is ever evolving and (hopefully) improving. Everything is becoming faster and the use of mobile electronic devices has exploded.
With the advent of the smartphone, we were given unparalleled access to information on tap. We were no longer required to be in front of a computer in order to do our daily tasks.
Almost everything can be done with a device that fits in the palm of our hand. This is nothing new, we all know this and there have been countless blogs written on the subject.
Quantifying this is a whole different story. The vastness and consumption of data becomes incredibly apparent. In short, it is simply stunning.
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