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Microsoft offers $10,000 travel voucher for Skype “Stay Together” story 11 Jul 2013 | 05:11 pm
If you can look past the irony of a Microsoft competition about connecting people all around the world open only to US residents, you could win a $10,000 United Airlines travel voucher for simply usin...
Microsoft adds multi-color fonts in Windows 8.1, proposes OpenType standard 28 Jun 2013 | 07:34 am
I’m a big fan of emojis, especially colored ones. At Microsoft BUILD 2013, the Windows graphics rendering team announced that Microsoft is proposing a practical and efficient addition to the OpenType ...
Windows 8.1 Preview breaks touch scrolling in XAML Windows Store apps 28 Jun 2013 | 05:17 am
If you’ve installed the Windows 8.1 Preview build 9431 on the Surface or any other touch computer, you might have noticed touch scrolling is really buggy if not completely broken in XAML Windows Store...
BUILD 2013: What handing out 6,000+ Surface Pros look like 27 Jun 2013 | 10:30 pm
Last night at the Moscone Center, many of the 6,000 attendees of Microsoft BUILD 2013 lined up to collect their freebies: a 128GB Surface Pro, Surface Type Cover, a 64GB Acer Iconia W3 and an Acer Blu...
[tl;dr] Windows 8.1 new developer API tidbits 27 Jun 2013 | 06:40 am
Today at the Microsoft BUILD 2013 conference, the WinRT team quoted there are “over 5,000 new APIs in Windows 8.1″ available to developers that enable more powerful Windows Store and Windows desktop a...
[tl;dr] Microsoft BUILD 2013 keynote: more refined “Windows, Windows Windows” 27 Jun 2013 | 12:45 am
If you missed what happened earlier today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, here’s a quick overview of everything Microsoft revealed (or revealed again) at the first keynote of BUILD 2013. Stev...
Seeing is believing: Photoshop CC camera shake reduction is mind-blowingly good 19 Jun 2013 | 06:47 pm
Yesterday Adobe released Photoshop CC, the latest version of the image-editing application that is now only available through a digital subscription. One of the most exciting new features (besides th...
Seeing is believing: Photoshop CC camera shake reduction is mind-blowingly good 19 Jun 2013 | 06:47 pm
Yesterday Adobe released Photoshop CC, the latest version of the image-editing application that is now only available through a digital subscription. One of the most exciting new features (besides the...
Work hack: use Google Docs to create an automatically updating TV kiosk presentation 18 Jun 2013 | 06:09 pm
At the co-working space my startup works from, there’s a large-screen TV in the open communal area that usually displays a looping kiosk presentation with announcements, event schedules and people’s n...
Work hack: use Google Docs to create an automatically updating TV kiosk presentation 18 Jun 2013 | 06:09 pm
At the co-working space my startup works from, there’s a large-screen TV in the open communal area that usually displays a looping kiosk presentation with announcements, event schedules and people’s n...
