Category Archives: Tips & Tricks
Nokia engineer hacks Windows 8 to get free games (and provides full instructions)
A Nokia engineer who has previously pointed out security holes in Microsoft’s Windows 8 has now posted a detailed step-by-step explanation of how to hack Windows 8 games.
Unfortunately for those who want free games, his site is down.
Justin Angel posted the instructions on his personal site yesterday. Today, the page is displaying ...
5 tips to getting your apps certified quickly
From the beginning, we designed the Windows Store to be a partnership between developers and Microsoft. We’re committed to ensuring that our certification requirements and app submission processes are clear and easily understood, so that you, the developer, can create high-quality apps that customers love. In this post, we want ...
10 reasons why you should upgrade your system to Windows 8
A quick glance at Windows 8 will tell you that this is not Windows 7 or XP or any other Windows that you might be familiar with. The Start screen is a sharp departure from the Start of old and the live tiles are a fresh new way of interacting with your ...
Windows 8 Lock Screen in details
Modelled after the Windows Phone lock screen, the Windows 8 lock screen is a full-screen, Metro-style experience that appears when you boot your PC, lock it (WINKEY + L), or resume from sleep. And as with its smartphone-based counterpart, the Windows 8 lock screen is designed to provide basic glance-and-go ...
How to Disable Windows 8 Lock Screen feature
With Windows 8, Microsoft is bringing a number of technologies and user experiences from the mobile world into its desktop OS for the first time, a blending of the old and then new that will confuse some users. But while some of the new mobile-based experiences in Windows 8 will make ...
Windows 8 Start tip and Back tip
Start tip
There’s nothing more controversial in Windows 8 than Microsoft’s decision to remove the Start button from the desktop in this release. But give the company a bit of credit: The Start menu that sat behind the Start button had been replaced by the new, full-screen Start screen and in ...