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EXCLUSIVE: Tom Warren is now 28 years old

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Sources close to Within Windows are reporting that Tom Warren, European Senior Editor at The Verge, has reached the next age milestone of twenty eight years. Warren is the resident Microsoft expert at The Verge and has covered the software company for over 10 years. Tom previously worked at a number of different investment banks [...]

Daemon Tools is cataloging all your disc images, without permission

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So after launching Daemon Tools Lite today, I noticed a new pane on the right labeled MountSpace. Turns out, it’s a cute little service that shows the top games and applications that folks are mounting and using in Daemon Tools. And to deliver that experience, Daemon Tools hashes every image you mount and sends it [...]

Motorola S10-HD is great, if you’re not wearing glasses

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In response to some reader mail I received, I purchased a Bluetooth A2DP-capable wireless headset – the Motorola S10-HD – to test on a Windows Phone. Pairing with the device worked great. Crystal Method sounded okay. (PCMag slammed them in this area, though.) It transmitted my voice enough for Paul Paliath to hear me. And [...]

The Homebrew Backup Hackathon is over

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So, I stayed up till 6AM MST as promised. I wasn’t successful in creating that dream backup application this time around, but as Buckminster Fuller once said: “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes”. So what happened? I made some assumptions that weren’t in fact true. This left [...]

12 hour Windows Phone Homebrew Backup Hackathon

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Inspired by a recent App-a-thon event, in one hour I will drop everything I’m doing to attempt the creation of a backup application. I will continue at it until 6AM MST, staying up all night. This homebrew backup application should allow me to backup Marketplace-derived applications, allowing them to be transferred to another device. Given [...]

Windows 8 Secrets: PC and Device Requirements

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Last month, Microsoft released its hardware requirement documentation for Windows 8 logo certification. This documentation contains Microsoft’s guidelines for designing systems which successfully meet Windows performance, quality, and feature criteria, to assure the optimum Windows 8 computing experience. As you’ve probably noticed, the blogosphere is hung up on one of the Secure Boot on ARM [...]

A wild Start screen Personalization applet has appeared

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Windows 8 Build 8175 – Start screen Personalization applet (© The Verge) Back in September, I dissected the new Start UI in Windows 8 and wrote that readers should expect a new personalization UI. Well, it’s official! The Verge, today, uploaded some photos of a newer Windows 8 build running at CES, with a shot [...]

Apology accepted

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The Verge story was corrected for the most part, thanks for emailing me Tom. The Next Web published a follow up post re: the situation. It isn’t corrective in any way, but I got the gist of what Alex was trying to say: “I fucked up, sorry man.” I hope I don’t get removed from [...]

ChevronWP7 Labs and the misinterpreted tweet

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I see my friends Alex Wilhelm and Tom Warren covered some comments I made on the ChevronWP7 stream, bless them for that. Specifically, I made two comments on the stream, after successfully selling 10,000 unlocks close to the start of the New Year: [1] ChevronWP7 Labs enters the New Year with 10,000 token sales under [...]

Sigh, denial-of-service notes published over holidays

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It’s 5am, I haven’t slept. A critical ASP.NET security update is being issued out-of-band today. Immediately, I sprung into “what the hell, Microsoft?” mode, given our government (US-CERT) indicated Microsoft was contacted about this back on November 1. (And the fact I have to worry about ChevronWP7 Labs on Azure and our product at work.) [...]

Hell freezes, Messenger network accessible via XMPP

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Today, Lead Program Manager over in the Messenger camp, Dare Obasanjo, wrote about enabling public access to the Messenger network via… yep, XMPP. (The Windows client’s days are numbered.) Today we’re taking another step, with the public availability of access to the Messenger network via XMPP, an open standard. This means that anyone can build [...]

My thoughts on that text processing glitch

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Tom Warren wrote up a piece yesterday regarding a glitch affecting the way Windows Phone handles text. (Sadly, he ran with a misleading and sensational title you’d expect from the pro-Apple All Things Digital camp.) The condensed version of his write up is that Windows Phone user Khaled Salameh had a buddy on Facebook post [...]

Beep every time you hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio

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I was chatting recently with Microsoft Sr. SDE Garrett Serack – that cowboy open-source guy – and kept hearing a faint beep in the background. When asked what that was, he kindly shared he had configured Windows to emit a tone whenever he hit a breakpoint in Visual Studio. My eyes enlarged while I processed [...]

Silverlight 5 and P/Invoke. Huh?

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From MSDN: In Silverlight applications, sometimes you want to call unmanaged libraries or native code, including Microsoft Win32 functions. In Silverlight 5, you can call unmanaged or native code through the platform invoke feature. Platform invoke is also referred to as PInvoke or P/Invoke. Platform invoke in Silverlight is very similar to platform invoke in [...]

The approach is clear, sign up for Microsoft Flight Beta

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Just got this little gem regarding Microsoft Flight in my inbox: The Microsoft® Flight team is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications to our beta. To apply for the beta: 1. Make sure you have a LIVE Gamertag. To sign up for the Microsoft® Flight beta, you will need a LIVE Gamertag. [...]