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Firefox 28: Easier Media Playback, Metro Version Dropped!

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Mozilla has released Firefox 28.0 FINAL for desktop. Plug-in-free media playback support is the keystone of Firefox 28 for desktops and Android. Support for VP9 decoding and Opus support in WebM  power media playback in HTML5. It's another nail in the coffin for Flash. Firefox 28 for desktops also gets a new volume control for HTML5 audio and video. The GamePad API has been finalized and is now enabled by default.

 

Mozilla decided to pull the Metro mode at the last moment because only 1,000 users per day were using the Metro mode.

 

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ModernUI Tuner for Windows 8.1 Update 1

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ModernUI Tuner is my latest app which I have created specially for Windows 8.1 Update 1, Spring Update, Feature Pack, whatever it is called there. It can control several secret hidden options of the "Update 1" and will make your Windows a bit tunable and flexible.
In short, with ModernUI Tuner you will be able:
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  • to speed up Metro apps closing with mouse
  • to speed up Metro apps closing with touch gestures
  • to speed up the "flip to close" feature.
  • to change the Switcher (top left corner) hover timeout delay separately for Desktop and Modern apps.
  • to change the Charms bar hover timeout delay separately for Desktop and Modern apps.
  • to disable the shutdown button on the Start Screen
ModernUI Tuner is a free, portable application. It works on Windows 8.1 Update 1 x86 and x64, no separate x64 version is required.

Download ModernUI Tuner

If you would like to see the application in action, I made a video:

Microsoft OneNote now free for PC and Mac

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Microsoft OneNote is now available for free on Windows PC and Mac. Previously, the note taking service was available for free for Windows RT, web and mobile devices only. Everything you create in the free PC and Mac versions are synced to OneDrive, so you can access them from your phone and tablet too. OneNote now has a web clipper bookmarklet for Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari which works similar to Evernote web clipper.

 

More new features:

  • OneNote Clipper for saving web pages to OneNote
  • me@onenote.com for emailing notes to OneNote
  • Office Lens for capturing documents and whiteboards with your Windows Phone
  • Sending blog and news articles to OneNote from Feedly, News360 and Weave
  • Easy document scanning to OneNote with Brother, Doxie Go, Epson, and Neat
  • Writing notes with pen and paper and sending them to OneNote with Livescribe
  • Mobile document scanning to OneNote with Genius Scan and JotNot
  • Having your physical notebooks scanned into OneNote with Mod Notebooks
  • Connecting your world to OneNote with IFTTT

Go to www.onenote.com to get OneNote for free for your desktop or mobile devices.

 

Here's a new OneNote video from Microsoft's YouTube channel:

 

Snowdrop Engine - The Division - GDC 2014

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Snowdrop Engine video from GDC 2014. The engine will be used Ubisoft's new game in Tom Clancy's The Division coming in Q4 2014 for PC, Xbox One and PS4.

 

Beautiful engine demo:

 

DirectX12 revealed for PC, Xbox One and smartphones

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Microsoft revealed DirectX 12 at the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. it's lighter and more efficient API that allows developers to control hardware resources more directly. Microsoft demonstrated the new API with a tech demo of the Xbox One racing game Forza running on a PC powered by an NVIDIA GeForce Titan Black. Microsoft says that PC, smartphones, and Xbox One will see boosts in performance when the new tools arrive but the company haven't announced whether DX12 would support Windows 7 or not.

 

First DirectX 12 games will arrive in holiday 2015.

 

Source: Microsoft 

Unreal Engine 4 running in Firefox without plugins

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Web is continuing to evolve as a powerful platform for gaming. This video provides a sneak peek of Epic's Unreal Engine 4 running in Firefox without plugins.

 

 

Exactly a year ago, Mozilla and Epic Games have showed the power of the Web as a platform for gaming by porting Unreal Engine 3 to the Web and showcasing Epic Citadel, using asm.js, a supercharged subset of JavaScript pioneered by Mozilla.

 

Source: Mozilla

Google Now finally comes to Chrome desktop browser

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Google announced in a Google+ post that starting today Google Now notifications will be available to Chrome users on their desktop or laptop computers. To enable this feature, simply sign in to Chrome with the same Google Account you’re using for Google Now on Android or iOS. Remember, it's a two-way system. If you use Google Now on your Android device, then only you can see certain cards on your desktop computer if you're signed into Chrome, including weather, sports scores, commute traffic, and event reminders cards.

 

If the notifications isn't appearing on your PC then you may have to wait. The company is rolling out the feature over the next few weeks.

 

Screenshot of Google Now notifications:

 

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KMPlayer comes to Android and iOS

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Fan of KMPlayer? You will be glad to know that KMPlayer is now available for Android and iOS. Similar to the popular media player MXPlayer and VLC, KMPlayer comes with built-in codec support for playing almost all the video formats without the need for any external codecs.
 
KMPlayer for Android
KMPlayer for iOS


Microsoft Cloud TV ad

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Lotus F1 Team uses Microsoft Dynamics, Azure and Office 365 to analyzes and shares data from over two hundred sensors that measure everything from engine fatigue to torque and vibration.

 

Splinter - Anything Can Be Anything

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Splinter is a desktop interface / super simple imagery based programming language that combines the 5 most commonly used desktop application functionalities: File Launcher, Icon Docking Station, Stack Docklet, Wallpaper Flipper, and a Visual Style Editor, in a unique way, giving it uniquely amazing abilities that have never been seen

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ALWAYS REMEMBER. THAT ANY SPLINTERFACE CAN BE ADDED TO OR ALTERED, IN ANY WAY, AT ANY TIME, BY ANY ONE. NOTHING IS EVER FINAL

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Icon-ic Edition


Eternity Edition - THIS IS A VISUAL BLAST. ONLY MEANT TO SHOW THE IMAGERY I PLACED INSIDE ETERNITY. YOU CAN LOAD THIS SPLINTERFACE AND CHANGE IT IN ANY WAY YOU WISH. ADD WHATEVER YOU WISH. SHARE WITH WHOMEVER YOU WISH. DO WHATEVER YOU WISH. SAME WITH ALL OTHER SPLINTERFACES.  


SPLINTER USING SPEECH RECOGNITION


Crowbars  and Coffins (Arkham Edition Promo)-100% script run for  video.


Alice Edition - (so much fun to make and so much fun to interface/act with)


Cyanide  Sedition Splinter (world's  first interactive desktop comic - 1 year  old, lousy screen capture  quality and splinter was not as fine tuned, so is  choppy at times, but  still bayadd)


EV  Edition (electric  vehicles. Made for ZAP auto. Pretty sure it is the  greatest  interactive and appealing commercial, since the dawn of time-starts  bit  slow but picks  up)


Windows 7 Sith  Edition- --THIS IS THE WORLD'S FIRST THEATRICAL DEPLOYMENT, CREATED USING THE MICROSOFT DEPLOYMENT TOOLKIT. WHAT YOU SEE IS THE DEFAULT INSTALLATION OF THE WINDOWS 7 OPERATING SYSTEM.....this started it all. the stuff you see is not even Splinter. It is the  'function-stein' that I pieced together, using 3 desktop apps and my own code on  top


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NEW INSTALLER - Will a 32bit OS user please confirm that the installer works?
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Splinter Portable- Extract anywhere

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Australis UI in Firefox 29

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Firefox 29 will be a landmark release because of the long awaited Australis UI. If you want to give the new UI a try then download Firefox 29 Beta, it looks awesome!

 

Firefox 29 Beta features include:
  • NEW Australis user interface
  • NEW first-run experience
  • NEW Firefox Accounts sync your personal profile across many devices
  • Firefox for Windows 8 touch preview (still available)
  • Fix common scheme typos
  • Gamepad API finalized and enabled
  • WebVTT support

According to Mozilla Wiki, Firefox 29 will be moved to RELEASE on April 29, 2014.

 

Download Firefox 29 Beta

Gmail Promotions Tab: Grid View

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I disabled the promotional tab as soon as I saw it in Gmail. But if you've subscribed to a lot of newsletters and like to see promotional materials sent my companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Ebay then you may like the new grid view. Sign up for Gmail's grid view.

 

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I personally hate promotions in my Inbox. What about you?

BlueStacks App Player now for Windows XP

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BlueStacks App Player, the Windows application capable of running Android apps has launched for Windows XP. The alpha version that launched in October only ran on Windows 7, but the company says nearly 20 percent of Android users are also Windows XP users, so this new version is for them.
 
The company tied up with AMD in September and launched AMD AppZone for Windows users. In December BlueStacks announced that it will soon release the App Player for Window RT users.
 
So far, 500,000 people have downloaded BlueStacks App Player for running Android apps on Windows devices.

Download: BlueStacks App Player for Windows XP.

Update (Jan 26, 2013): You can now have full-fledged Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich running on your Windows desktop with WindowsAndroid, unlike BlueStacks which brings individual apps.

Microsoft Office for iPhone and Android now completely free!

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Microsoft Office Mobile for Android phones and iPhone is now completely free for home users. An Office 365 subscription is no longer required. You can view and edit Microsoft Office documents without any restriction. Office for iPad on the other hand, supports viewing but not editing for free.

 

Microsoft is likely making this change in response to both Apple’s iWork (free for iOS 7 and up) and Google's QuickOffice (free for Android 4.4 and up).

 

Microsoft is also working Office for Android tablets, as well as a Metro version for touch-enabled Windows devices.

 

Download Office Mobile from Google Play and Apple's App Store for free.

[Issue] Onedrive/Skydrive sync issue after 8.1

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So after upgrading to 8.1, I can't access any of my pics and files saved in Skydrive folder. I've always used Skydrive from the app rather than the inbuilt Skydrive in Windows 8. I could easily save my files and access them. 

 

Now, I have to download every file in order to open it. Using file explorer doesnt loads the images and files.   Digged for some answers and found that " If you're uploading files to OneDrive, you are removing them from your PC". Why is that ?  Issue is, I wanna access them using file explorer too like I always did. Any help is appreciated. Correct me if I'm doing something wrong. 


LiveTuner - Simply tuning Windows performance smartly

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LiveTuner will help you tuning Windows system and network performance smartly by focusing optimizations on hardware specs, device type and application usage with careful selections and tests for optimal values without risking to damage computer. So users who don t possess computer knowledge can use it with confidence because it was made to be as simple as possible for everyone with experience from optimizing Windows over 10 years.

 

Back in 2001, I made one click Windows optimizer software called 'PC Tweak 2001'; with tweaks I gathered from internet and magazines hoping to improve my veryyy slow PC and shared in Thaiware.com. I kept improving it until 2003 called Optimizer XP. That software made me won national software contest award and I used the winning prize to buy a new computer. Since most optimizations I put in are obsolete by the time Windows Vista came and my PC is fast now, I stopped updating it.

 

Ten years later, my dad asked me if I still continue developing Windows optimizer software because Chrome in his PC was quite slow lately and hope I could do something about it. To fix my dad's PC performance issue, I decided to revive this project from sratch and made simple yet efficient tool to fine-tuning Windows for optimal system/network performance according to devices and applications.

 

I know there're tons of Windows optimizer software released for over 10 years and some of them are pretty decent ones. Let me give you 3 reasons why you should also consider trying this out.

-Doesn't require computer knowledge in power user's perspectives. All you need to know before using this program are what your device is called and how you will use it. For example if you use Desktop and you're gamer elite, you just select device 'Desktop' and application 'Online Gaming' and be done with it.

-All tweaks in LiveTuner has Microsoft documents research as reference so there's no myth/obsolete/non-existing tweaks here. Not a single one of them doesn't have MSDN reference. However, not all tweaks follows Microsoft documents. I made my own tests with data from communities outside Microsoft as well to get real world's optimal result with beta testers.

-The ability to adjust tweaking parameters, turning some features on and off according to hardware specifications, device type and application usage are cleverly implemented without trying to make things simpler but as simple as possible. This is one of the finest automatic optimizations you could ever find today.

LiveTuner is thoroughly tested in devices having Intel/AMD/Atom build as Desktop/Laptop/Netbook/Tablet/Server doing all kinds of applications without any problem. You can use with confidence just like one of my friend who was against Windows optimizer software before and messaged me a day later that his brother's PC is a lot better now.

 

Features

 

LiveTuner has 2 main configuration parameters. Please choose one of them according to your hardware and main application usage.

Device optimizations: Desktop, Laptop/Tablets, Server

Application optimizations: Full Workstation, Office/Internet, Online Gaming, Enterprise Server

 

I'd like to list other internal tweaks but they're finely tuned based on above options and hardware specs so I think it's better to keep it simple and clean rather than complicated bragging. LiveTuner also have 4 startup optimizations below.

Increase Windows Explorer priority: This will raise Windows Explorer's priority to 'High' level improving Explorer responsiveness and less chance to freeze/crash.

Remove temporary files: One of basic maintenance task that most PC optimizer software should have. Use this if you don't have other tools cleaning up temporary files.

Optimize Windows timer resolution for low latency applications: Helps time-sensitive application getting more accurate timing from 15.6ms tick to 0.5ms tick.

Process idle tasks every day for server PC: If you don't normally turn off your computer after using it, you should select this to keep Windows in shape for home users.

 

Changelog

 

1.0

-Changed file system tunneling from disabled to have small tunneling cache instead

-Improved TCP latency optimizations according to selected application

-Revised additional threads for multi-core optimizations fixing process stalling for real world workstation usage

-Revised paged/nonpaged pool scaling with memory calculation

-Revised additional optimizations approach to be startup optimizations

 

beta 4

-Added disabling file system tunneling for faster delete

-Added network optimizations for TCP/IP protocol

-Increased paged/nonpaged pool scaling size

-Memory 4096MB or higher will be reported as 4096+ due to x86 app limitations

-Updated graphics and branding

 

beta 3

-Added remembering configuration now

-Added restore function to revert all optimizations back to default

-Pooling now scales with memory size

 

beta 2

-Removed memory top-down allocation preference tweak (It broke PotPlayer app and possibly some other apps)

-Maximum pool usage and cache trimming no longer have separated device optimizations but follow MSDN’s recommended optimizations

-Additional optimizations features are working now

 

beta 1

-Initial release

 

Info and Download LiveTuner 1.0

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Google Maps April Fools' Day Joke: Pokémon Challenge

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It's not just a prank for April Fools' Day. Google actually has updated Google Maps with Pokémon that you can catch. :D

 

"To catch 'em all, grab your Poké Ball and the newest version of Google Maps for iPhone or Android. Then tap the search bar, "press start," and begin your quest."

 

OkCupid protests Firefox over CEO's anti-same-sex marriage donatio

Monitor Bandwidth Usage in Chrome

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Chrome has a hidden page that shows the amount of data transferred in your current session and the total amount of data transferred (ever since this feature was added).

 

Open a new tab, paste this in the address bar and press Enter:

 

chrome://net-internals/#bandwidth

 

The stats will look like this:

 

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Use a simple calculation to turn the number (which are in KB) into megabytes (MB):
 
Number in KB / 1024 = MB

 

The Savings rows are for Android and iOS versions of Chrome if the data saving is enabled.

Windows Phone 8.1 brings a Siri rival named Cortana

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Microsoft announced Windows Phone 8.1 and a Halo-inspired voice-controlled assistant Cortana at Build conference today. Cortana is Microsoft's answer to Apple Siri, Google Now and Samsung's S Voice.

 

Cortana lets you set appointments, play music and perform searches. It learns from the web searches you perform and the locations you frequent to try and provide contextually sensitive and timely information, similar to Google Now.

 

Windows Phone 8.1 will also have a new Action Center, which is basically the notification center. Users will be able to customize which apps can send notifications to Action Center. Users will also be able to skin the Start Screen tiles with images instead of just a solid color.

 

Other new features are Lock screen themes, Skype integration, improved calendar and New apps (Podcasts, Xbox Music and Xbox Video).

 

Source: TheNextWeb

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