I recently sent a tip to Paul Thurrott about how to reset the Library view in Windows 7 back to defaults and he actually used it in his tip of the week for Windows Weekly.
You can listen to the tip at about 1 hour 07 minutes 42 seconds here ww0170.mp3 or below if you have HTML5 enabled.
Charles Petzold has just released a draft preview of his MSPress eBook called “Programming Windows Phone 7 Series” for public download.
The chapters offered in the free download of the book are:
Part I Getting Started
- Chapter 1 Phone Hardware + Your Software
- Chapter 2 Hello, Windows Phone
Part II Silverlight
- Chapter 3 Code and XAML
- Chapter 4 Presentation and Layout
Part III XNA
- Chapter 5 Principles of Movement
- Chapter 6 Textures and Sprites
I hope that this will help add some more advanced functionality to my first Windows Phone 7 application (see video below).
Download the book from Microsoft Press : Free ebook: Programming Windows Phone 7 Series (DRAFT Preview)
Microsoft have just released a Internet Explorer 9 developer edition at MIX 10 in Las Vagas this week. This version of IE9 has been released to great praise however this version has a very limited UI. This is a move by Microsoft so that developers can start to testing their web sites but not to be usefull enought people dont start to do this as their default browser as its still not even beta code. However there is something a little more usable by customising the home page to something other than http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive .
Step 1. Right click on the Internet Explorer 9 icon on your desktop and click on “properties”
Step 2. Add the URL you want to set as your home page on the far right of the path in the “Target:” text field then click “OK”.
Now when you click on the IE9 shorcut on your desktop you will go to the URL you typed in above and all you have to do to go back to the home page is press “F10”.
Long Zhen and Rafael Rivera have just released a software based GPS sensor that integrates with the Windows 7 sensor and location API. What they have essentially allows users to now make their copy of Windows 7 know its location without the use of a GPS device. This is really awesome tool as right know there are still no Windows location API GPS devices that I know of if you live in Australia.
Below are the steps involved with download installing and Geosense for Windows and then how to configure the Windows 7 Weather Gadget application to automatically detect your location.
Step 1. Head over to http://www.geosenseforwindows.com/ and download either the 32 or 64 bit version of the software based on your computer.
Step 2. Double click on the MSI file (Geosense_1.0_x64.msi or Geosense_1.0_x86.msi)
Step 3. Tick “I authorize you to slap me if i violate the terms above” and then click “Install”
Step 4. Accept the UAC prompt (you do have UAC turned on don’t you?)
Note: You may get prompted to install the device driver if this happens then click “Install”.
Step 5. Click “Finish”
Step 7. Open “Control Panel” and type “location” in the search bar then click on the “Enable location and other sensors” option
Step 8. Tick “Enabled” next to the Geosense Location Sensor and the click “Apply”
Now you have enabled the Geosense Location Sensor for Windows 7 its time to enable automatic location options in the Windows 7 weather gadget.
Step 1. If you have not already enabled the Weather gadget that comes with Windows 7 open the Gadget Gallery from the star menu and double click on the “Weather” gadget.
Step 2. Click on the Options spanner icon next the Weather gadget.
Step 3. Select the “Find location automatically” and click “OK”
Your done… Notice when you click on the small blue location next to the location it tells you that “Your location is detected”.
I just figured out the URL’s for TWIT’s RSS Video Feeds for downloaded the video version of some of their podcasts. I don’t think they have been officially announced yet so not sure if these will be permanent so get them while you can.
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