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So, are there any decent metro calendars that do ical or whatever support is necessary to pull/push stuff from google other than in some bizarre round-robin fuckup metro -> live -> google ->live ->metro arrangement? Honestly, if this can't be made to work or google/MS don't stop their slapfight, there's no point in even bothering, I might as well cough up for StartIsBack. Kerbtree fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Mar 31, 2013 |
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Kerbtree posted:So, are there any decent metro calendars that do ical or whatever support is necessary to pull/push stuff from google other than in some bizarre round-robin fuckup metro -> live -> google ->live ->metro arrangement? Google is end-of-lifeing caldav, so the only way to synchronize with Google Calendar is by using Googles own proprietary API. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Microsoft to do that implementation work, and don't know off-hand of anyone else who have either. Personally I just use an ical link to pull Google Calendar events into my Live Calendar, while just letting all my new events go on the Live calendar instead. Where gmail is irreplaceable for me I don't really have any strong feelings either way on Google/Live calendar.
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Mar 31, 2013 15:01
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Google is end-of-lifeing caldav, so the only way to synchronize with Google Calendar is by using Googles own proprietary API. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Microsoft to do that implementation work, and don't know off-hand of anyone else who have either. Personally I just use an ical link to pull Google Calendar events into my Live Calendar, while just letting all my new events go on the Live calendar instead. Where gmail is irreplaceable for me I don't really have any strong feelings either way on Google/Live calendar. Yeah, I considered the same, the annoying wrinkle in the works being that I've got an android phone. The lag from entered events propagating was wretched, too.
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Mar 31, 2013 16:22
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Google is end-of-lifeing caldav, so the only way to synchronize with Google Calendar is by using Googles own proprietary API. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Microsoft to do that implementation work, and don't know off-hand of anyone else who have either. Personally I just use an ical link to pull Google Calendar events into my Live Calendar, while just letting all my new events go on the Live calendar instead. Where gmail is irreplaceable for me I don't really have any strong feelings either way on Google/Live calendar. Except the online Hotmail calendar is ugly as hell, there's been talk about them 'outlooking' it for ages but nothing seems to have happened.
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Apr 2, 2013 17:40
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Sri.Theo posted:Except the online Hotmail calendar is ugly as hell, there's been talk about them 'outlooking' it for ages but nothing seems to have happened. Funny you should mention that: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft...utlook-com.aspx
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tk posted:Funny you should mention that: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft...utlook-com.aspx Yay!
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tk posted:Funny you should mention that: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft...utlook-com.aspx Haha I claim full responsibility! Although I have discovered a couple of features that are missing when compared to google, specifically IMAP and multiple calendars, which they may never support in order to protect their EAS/exchange and Outlook income 
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Sri.Theo posted:Haha I claim full responsibility! Although I have discovered a couple of features that are missing when compared to google, specifically IMAP and multiple calendars, which they may never support in order to protect their EAS/exchange and Outlook income Multiple calendars do exist, unless you're talking about something else that I'm misunderstanding.
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Apr 5, 2013 00:30
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This is a thread!  Foursquare is getting an app as well as Facebook and Flipboard!. All of them are 100% official and not third-party commissioned by Microsoft like the old WP apps. They are supposedly coming "soon"
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Jun 27, 2013 20:48
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Anyone know the deal with Google calendar support for the 8 calendar app? I can set up an Outlook calendar and use it as the go-between? This is kind of a big deal for me, and if it doesn't work I will hate whoever was responsible.
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Jun 29, 2013 05:51
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agarjogger posted:Anyone know the deal with Google calendar support for the 8 calendar app? I can set up an Outlook calendar and use it as the go-between? This is kind of a big deal for me, and if it doesn't work I will hate whoever was responsible. Google Calendar supports the latest CalDAV protocol. The Calendar app supports the latest ActiveSync protocol. Google Calendar also supports an old version of the ActiveSync protocol under the name Google Sync, but only for paid users. Google Sync has been End-of-Life'd for others. I think this will get resolved sooner rather than later, either by Google adding support for latest ActiveSync for all users or Microsoft starting to support CalDAV. It'll be interesting to see which one happens first. The important date to watch is July 31st as that's when Google Sync stops accepting new Windows Phone devices.
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Max Facetime posted:Google Calendar supports the latest CalDAV protocol. The Calendar app supports the latest ActiveSync protocol. Google Calendar also supports an old version of the ActiveSync protocol under the name Google Sync, but only for paid users. Google Sync has been End-of-Life'd for others. I don't see Google adding activesync support back in.
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Maneki Neko posted:I don't see Google adding activesync support back in. I could see Microsoft surprising by adding CalDAV, like they did with WebGL in IE11.
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Maneki Neko posted:I don't see Google adding activesync support back in. Activesync support requires Google to pay a licensing fee, right? CalDAV is open and free, I think. I can sort of see why Google would do this. This is one of those situations in which elephants fight, so the grass suffers. Although its interesting to see Microsoft in a situation where they are at the mercy of another company and are no longer the 500 pound gorilla that can force other companies to bend to their environment. Super-NintendoUser fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Jun 29, 2013 |
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edit: nevermind I seem to have misunderstood the question
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Thanks for the answers. Also apologies for not noticing the exact same discussion not more than six posts up from mine. 
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Just got a windows 8 laptop, and I'm liking it so far. However, I've run into a problem with Metrotwit crashing before it can load. The FAQ pages says to delete the profile, but I can't find the profile on my computer because they only include part of the address. Has anybody else run into this problem, and does anybody know how to fix it?
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Jul 24, 2013 03:54
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Lance Streetman posted:Just got a windows 8 laptop, and I'm liking it so far. However, I've run into a problem with Metrotwit crashing before it can load. The FAQ pages says to delete the profile, but I can't find the profile on my computer because they only include part of the address. Has anybody else run into this problem, and does anybody know how to fix it? You should just be able to delete %appdata%\MetroTwit to get it going again.
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Never mind, an update fixed it.tk posted:You should just be able to delete %appdata%\MetroTwit to get it going again. I tried that, but I couldn't find where it was and search was turning up no results.
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Jul 24, 2013 03:58
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Lance Streetman posted:Never mind, an update fixed it. If you drop that into explorer, it should open to the correct place. If you try to search for that, you won't find it.
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Is there a Metro app that can be used as a front-end to launch desktop programs using command-line prompts? One thing I want to use my XPS 12 for is as a portable emulation machine. I have emulators for the various Nintendo consoles and a few others. But I don't want to have to navigate the desktop with a mouse to browse and launch the games. There are frontends out there that can do this, typically designed for home-made MAME machines. Most of these are poorly designed. Honestly, the Metro tile design would work perfectly. It's clean and it's basic. I imagine there could be a Metro app that opens to a new Metro interface, with the ability for the user to create their own tiles that launch programs. I think I found a possible solution in OblyTile. Would this work? Problem is, I'd need it to point to either a game ROM, which is a document, or have multiple entries for one program (the emulator) with different arguments for each that include the ROM file. Edit: Yup, this will work. It'll take a lot of effort, I'm gonna have to make over a hundred tiles. But I think it'll be worth it. The only real problem is that my Metro UI will become incredibly crowded. I wish you could make folders for this UI. Revol fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jul 28, 2013 |
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Revol posted:Edit: Yup, this will work. It'll take a lot of effort, I'm gonna have to make over a hundred tiles. But I think it'll be worth it. The only real problem is that my Metro UI will become incredibly crowded. I wish you could make folders for this UI. Pinch to zoom out and then tap a tile group not a good solution for you? I find it rather nice once I got used to it.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:Pinch to zoom out and then tap a tile group not a good solution for you? I find it rather nice once I got used to it. That's true. In which case, I'll be sure to color code each console. In the zoom-out, the icons are bordered with this color. I did a test run of each system. I've confirmed that each emulator will launch properly, directly to full screen, and that when the emulator is closed, it jumps back to the Start screen. Here's an example of a game for each system:  Now that I have a tile made for each category... is there a way to make new tiles without OblyTile? Is there a text file or a registry that I can edit? OblyTile was a lot of help this far, but having to do that process 100s of times for each tile will get a little tedious. I think being able to edit it all in text would be a lot easier. Then I can just copy the last tile, make a few edits, and I'm done. With OblyTile, I have to create a blank tile, starting from scratch. Edit: I just noticed that all of the tiles created by OblyTile go under the Metro section of the App list. This means this category is going to loving explode by the time I make all these tiles, and using the Apps screen to search through my Metro apps will be a loving pain, as I'll have all these different emulator games in the way. Right now, I have each tile named beginning with its console, like 'NES SMB3' or 'PSX Ape'. Looks like I should put a 'z' at the beginning of all that to try to organize this screen a bit. Edit 2: Aw, I guess using the program isn't all that bad. I've got all the NES games done.  But this shows another problem. The sorting of the games are really messed up thanks to the way Windows lays out the tiles:  Everything is in a set of two columns. This is mostly due to the double-sized tiles, I imagine. Is there any way to change the layout? Otherwise, I guess I'll need to separate all of these into two column sets. Revol fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jul 28, 2013 |
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AlphaJax is out now (it's a scrabble/words with friends game), with cross platform play between Windows 8/Windows Phone users, so there's a pretty decent user base: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/e27ac155-20f1-4b3e-9293-26e58da970ad
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Dunno if it's been mentioned, but people in the general Seattle area should check out the windows 8 version of One Bus Away. I just started using it and it definitely seems more accessible than any of the mobile versions I've used. Ed: One drawback is that it doesn't update the expected bus times in real time like the mobile versions do. Lance Streetman fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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AlphaJax is published by Microsoft now? Does it finally have international dictionaries?
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Combat Pretzel posted:AlphaJax is published by Microsoft now? Does it finally have international dictionaries? Nee Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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I got my dad a windows tablet, is there a setting that allows music to keep streaming(xbox music) even while its idle?
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I guess it's a good thing. Wordament seems to be property of Microsoft now, too, and they've added international dictionaries. If the German one's a sign of the quality, then gently caress it. There's tons of words in there, that are either made up, spelled wrong, or simple fragments that aren't supposed exist on their own.
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After using this Asus T100 for a while, I kinda wanna make a forum reader app.
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404notfound posted:After using this Asus T100 for a while, I kinda wanna make a forum reader app. drasticactions is already working on one  http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3573078
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Call Me Charlie posted:drasticactions is already working on one What the hell, I've never seen that subforum before  Well, good to know somebody's already gotten something started. I guess I'll check out the project and see if I still remember anything about C# and XAML
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Combat Pretzel posted:I guess it's a good thing. Wordament seems to be property of Microsoft now, too, and they've added international dictionaries. If the German one's a sign of the quality, then gently caress it. There's tons of words in there, that are either made up, spelled wrong, or simple fragments that aren't supposed exist on their own.
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Is Next-gen Reader still the definitive RSS client for Metro apps?
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Autumncomet posted:Is Next-gen Reader still the definitive RSS client for Metro apps? It's good enough for me that I haven't bothered to look at the alternatives recently.
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Autumncomet posted:Is Next-gen Reader still the definitive RSS client for Metro apps? I haven't found one I like better on the Win Phone OR on Windows 8.
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I know this is traditionally where Windows devices have fallen short but are there any good audiobook players for Win8.1 metro? That's the last thing keeping me from switching from my Nexus 7 to my Dell V8P, a good audiobook app that allows me to do a sleep timer, always saves my place, etc. I know audible is there, but I want to use my own audiobook library I've built up over the years.
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OldPueblo posted:I know this is traditionally where Windows devices have fallen short but are there any good audiobook players for Win8.1 metro? That's the last thing keeping me from switching from my Nexus 7 to my Dell V8P, a good audiobook app that allows me to do a sleep timer, always saves my place, etc. I know audible is there, but I want to use my own audiobook library I've built up over the years. On a side note, holy poo poo is the store bad for Audiobook related searches. I know they want their app number counts up, but sifting 5000 audiobooks released as separate apps is a goddamn nightmare.
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Maneki Neko posted:On a side note, holy poo poo is the store bad for Audiobook related searches. I know they want their app number counts up, but sifting 5000 audiobooks released as separate apps is a goddamn nightmare. Yeah that's pretty much what made me give up searching the store. One company alone (Collected Classics LLC) has released 596 individual classics for $1.49 each. 
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Nextgen Reader is currently on sale for $1.49 through the end of the year: http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-US/app/nextgen-reader/30648d7a-f0b5-4719-8ca9-7ed6ce3b4b9b
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