Announcing Windows Phone SDK update for Windows Phone 7.8 – for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Windows Phone SDK 8.0

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Phone SDK for Windows Phone 7.8 support. This SDK adds Windows Phone 7.8 emulator support for Windows Phone SDK 7.1 and Windows Phone SDK  8.0. The Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 adds two new emulator images to your existing Windows Phone SDK installation. New Windows […]

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Download TypeScript 0.8.2 for Visual Studio 2012

Microsoft has announced the availability of latest preview release for TypeScript as Version 0.8.2. Read more about the release from MSDN Typescript Team blog here You can download the TypeScript 0.8.2 for Visual Studio 2012 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34790

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StartW8–a closer, free Windows Aero start menu alternative–for Windows 8

While searching for Third Party alternative software’s for bringing back windows start menu feel on Windows 8, I came across few interesting tools – and I introduced them in my earlier blog posts – Stardock’s Start8 (licensed version), Classic Shell, Power8 were those. [logo courtesy: AreaGuard] Today I just found another cool alternative that you […]

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Power8–yet another replacement to bring back old Windows Start Menu in Windows 8

Power8 is a similar windows start menu alternative like ‘Classic Shell’, which I introduced in the last post. Benefits Power8 includes: No system files patching; No hooks over system objects; No app-init DLLs; No additional services, drivers, etc; No trash in registry; No installation – just unpack and launch; Small, fast and powerful; Open-source; You […]

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Classic Shell – the Free Start Menu alternative for your Windows 8/7

Being a Windows 8 user you always dreamed of having Start menu back, unfortunately there is no straight work around for having our old Windows 7 kind of start menu back. We have to rely on third part alternative software’s, which provides us the old start menu kind of menu function back to Windows 8. […]

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HTML5 – Introduction to HTML5Shiv for Internet Explorer 6/7/8

HTML5Shiv is a JavaScript workaround, discovered by Sjoerd Visscher, to enable support styling of HTML5 elements in versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 9.0, which do not allow unknown elements to be styled without JavaScript. Means your CSS classes and attributes will not be applied to the particular HTML5 specific display element, until and […]

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