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Endless Mike posted:I'm pretty sure all games are supposed to be playable with an Xbox controller. I'm mainly interested in multiplayer games.
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They updated Travel, Sports, Finance, Weather and News apps today. I only checked Weather but they finally fixed the issue where you would get stuck on the hourly updates when scrolling and they added a hint bar that pops up when you scroll until you right click to see the other options.
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For those interested, there is a decent-looking unofficial Facebook app now.
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Dominoes posted:Is there a way to get the People app to sync with Google Contacts? I set it up with my Google account, and it pulled the contacts successfully, but they no longer sync. Changes on Google made after the initial setup don't appear on People, and changes on People don't change on Google.
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Is MetroTwit working for anybody today? It keeps crashing at startup for me now.
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Aatrek posted:Is MetroTwit working for anybody today? It keeps crashing at startup for me now. Working for me.
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Dec 15, 2012 19:40
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I thought Twitter had introduced some API key or user limit for third party applications? IIRC the few more popular Twitter clients have been crashing left and right because they couldn't deal with rejected requests.
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Combat Pretzel posted:I thought Twitter had introduced some API key or user limit for third party applications? IIRC the few more popular Twitter clients have been crashing left and right because they couldn't deal with rejected requests. They do, but anybody that already has a working token on their machine should continue to work indefinitely. I believe MetroTwit also syncs the token between machines, so as long as you don't remove/add your account you should be fine. Edit: The original Tweetro didn't sync between machines. I probably single-handedly took up 10-15 of their tokens with all my reinstalling and different machines. After they got rate limited I was able to get new machines working by manually copying over the applications settings file. tk fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Dec 15, 2012 |
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I did a full reinstall and that seemed to fix MetroTwit for me.
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Is anyone having issues with the People app? It doesn't show my latest notifications. The live tile will display a new notification but when I open the app and go to notifications it doesn't get updated. Even if I try to refresh.
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Dec 16, 2012 00:34
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Blu Graphing Calculator (http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/764cce31-8f93-48a6-b4fc-008eb78e50d4) Free for a limited time. Normally $1.99
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So I have a Surface on the way. I'm mainly interested in using it for technical PDFs and reading epubs. What are some recommended epub reader apps? I have a Windows 8 laptop for work, and I tried a few readers, but it doesn't have touch, so I'm not sure how they work on a tablet. Is there a recommended library and PDF annotator app?
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Jerk McJerkface posted:So I have a Surface on the way. I'm mainly interested in using it for technical PDFs and reading epubs. What are some recommended epub reader apps? I have a Windows 8 laptop for work, and I tried a few readers, but it doesn't have touch, so I'm not sure how they work on a tablet. I got my Surface on Monday. Installed "Freda" on it straight away for reading epubs. I love Freda from using it on Windows Phone. First impressions are that I like it on Surface too.
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Any applications like AirVideo or other options to stream videos on the surface? If it could just handle stuff from a share, that'd be good too.
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Falcon2001 posted:Any applications like AirVideo or other options to stream videos on the surface? If it could just handle stuff from a share, that'd be good too. I use Multimedia 8 (http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/0260a0fc-38bb-45a6-aa2a-f2453766c5fc) to play videos off local shares, bur the built-in Video app should be able to play videos off SMB or UPnP shares no problem.
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How are people using Facebook? Does anyone find that the "People" app fails to show status-updates from a bunch of their facebook friends? (friends whose updates are visible from Windows Phone 8, and also from the facebook web-page?) How are people uploading photos to facebook? I tried this app http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-GB/app/share-photo-to-facebook/ae3b5341-a854-4d9b-87d0-5fb0cc852694 but it felt sleazy - it asked for more facebook permissions than seemed justified, and the photo I uploaded with it still hadn't appeared on my facebook timeline after 24 hours. There's another app in the store http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/photo-uploader/c0a4cfdf-7d36-40c8-b415-c57a41690cf3 that I haven't tried yet. This article http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-share-to-facebook-from-any-windows-8-app claims you can just "share to facebook" from any photo, but it's not true. (One of the commentors said you can also "share to people app", but that's not true either as far as I can tell.)
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Is there an RSS type app that uses live tiles and is free? Basically I'm on a desktop and I was hoping to use my windows 8 start screen to replace iGoogle.
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Gilok posted:Is there an RSS type app that uses live tiles and is free? Basically I'm on a desktop and I was hoping to use my windows 8 start screen to replace iGoogle. Nextgen Reader (http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/30648d7a-f0b5-4719-8ca9-7ed6ce3b4b9b) is my Google Reader application of choice, which as far as I'm concerned is the only way to consume RSS. There are a few other Google Reader applications in the store if you search around. News Bento (http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/7d008fc1-8f63-4283-8297-33471fc2b882) may support raw RSS, but I'm not 100% sure. Edit: These may not do exactly what you want, but should be work checking out. tk fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Jan 2, 2013 |
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tk posted:Nextgen Reader (http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/30648d7a-f0b5-4719-8ca9-7ed6ce3b4b9b) is my Google Reader application of choice, which as far as I'm concerned is the only way to consume RSS. There are a few other Google Reader applications in the store if you search around. Is there a way to display also read articles? It currently shows only unread ones, and they disappear after I read them :/
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Ihmemies posted:Is there a way to display also read articles? It currently shows only unread ones, and they disappear after I read them :/ Click on the gear next to subscriptions and select "Show All Articles" and/or "Show All Subscriptions" This toggles between showing all of them and showing only unread items.
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Gotta like the consistency of the certification process. The last two versions of one of my apps had no changes to its audio subsystem and passed it fine. The current version failing just had a bunch of UI changes done and still no single line of code changed in audio. And guess what, it apparently failed because of "background audio", a capability not even advertised or required.
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Dropbox is finally out! Not a good desktop replacement as it doesn't do sync, but it does do the file picker right as well as have a good interface for tablets.
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Is there a good replacement Calendar app? I like the one that came with 8, but it is only available with People and Messaging, which were getting annoying.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Is there a good replacement Calendar app? I like the one that came with 8, but it is only available with People and Messaging, which were getting annoying. Can't you just unpin and not use People/Messaging? Or was there something else about them that was annoying you?
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Speaking of People and the other associated apps, is there a way to mark all mail in an Inbox as read?
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DuckDuckGo came out with an official app (http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/d526ba1b-a065-4cb9-a6c6-bf30f6123e2b) Third party Roku remote app (http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/b0eac380-be6a-48ac-86a6-b92826ba2abe)
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Chasiubao posted:Speaking of People and the other associated apps, is there a way to mark all mail in an Inbox as read? Ctrl-A (not joking)
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tk posted:Can't you just unpin and not use People/Messaging? Or was there something else about them that was annoying you? Getting messages in Facebook on Chrome caused them to pop up in Messaging as well. Was redundant.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Getting messages in Facebook on Chrome caused them to pop up in Messaging as well. Was redundant. Haven't tested it, but Messaging has an option to disable "Send/receive messages" for all accounts.
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Are there any good fullscreen PDF readers intended for sitting a few feet away and flipping pages with a remote control or the arrow keys or something? I just want a ghetto reader until I can afford a tablet, and I know I can do better than Adobe Reader fullscreened in desktop mode or something. Seems Windows ships with one, and it was just hidden. Doesn't support CBR/CBZ too, but oh well. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jan 18, 2013 |
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Met48 posted:Haven't tested it, but Messaging has an option to disable "Send/receive messages" for all accounts. You can also disable notifications and lock screen permission for any app under its permissions.
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Is there an app for writing PDFs (by saving as PDF using Print) along the lines of PDFill? Sunshine89 fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jan 19, 2013 |
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Heh, Microsoft's PR agency Wunderman just requested my permission to feature imagery of my Audio Analyzer app in their TV/online ads. I wonder if they'll actually use it. I guess this will finally compel me to start that rewrite it direly needs.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Heh, Microsoft's PR agency Wunderman just requested my permission to feature imagery of my Audio Analyzer app in their TV/online ads. I wonder if they'll actually use it. sorry for your loss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3dFSzh1yU
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right arm posted:sorry for your loss So Microsoft's marketing team have decided to target the elusive "High-School Musical" demographic?
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I actually recognize the guy looking all  in the last frame from a Shakira video.
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Is there a metro app that replaces paint or paint.NET? I did a quick glance through the thread and didn't see anything. I mean, I know Adobe just made some old versions of Photoshop (CS3, I think?) free and I could just use that, but I doubt they will play nice on my surface pro. I need an app to facilitate my dick-drawing needs, basically.
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IcedPee posted:Is there a metro app that replaces paint or paint.NET? I did a quick glance through the thread and didn't see anything. I mean, I know Adobe just made some old versions of Photoshop (CS3, I think?) free and I could just use that, but I doubt they will play nice on my surface pro. Fresh Paint
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Sporadic posted:Plex just released a Windows 8 app. It's currently $2.99 I've been using this and it's really awesome. Quick question: Is there an app that will let me stream my TV tuner (WinTV 950-Q) to my tablet from my desktop?
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The official Twitter app is now out.  It offers the basic Twitter functionality but I can't find a way to tweet from more than one account or lists, which is a pity. It does have the Live tile updates and you can share stuff from other Metro apps on Twitter.
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