Archive for October 14th, 2011

RadioPI – Another Good Tool for Accessing Internet Radio

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Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Internet radio stations abound providing all types of musical genre. In my search for another Internet Radio tool I came across one called RadioPI. To download this tool here is its website address:  http://radiopi.com/download/ Once you download it and install it RadioPI creates a toolbar on Internet Explorer

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Microsoft works to win desktop users over to the Start screen

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The most striking, in-your-face, and noticeable part of Windows 8 is its new Metro user interface, and in particular, its Start screen . The Start screen is a replacement for the Start menu that has been a feature of Windows for the last 16 years. The Start screen is touch-friendly, fullscreen, and filled with live, active tiles

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Fix: Logon Process Initialization Failure in Windows 7

If when you try to start your Windows computer, the computer stops at the logon process and you are unable to proceed further – then this article may interest you. Not only will your logon… For more visit The Windows Club.

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Skype is now part of Microsoft; newly released version drops Google product bundling

Finally, Microsoft has completed its acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion, making it a division of Microsoft. Skype CEO Tony Bates will assume the title of president of the Skype Division of..

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Bad Shortcut Killer, Delete Broken Shortcuts From Windows PCs

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One of the issues that the majority of Windows users will experience after some time of using the operating system is that of broken shortcuts. The best case when uninstalling programs is that the uninstallation routine removes the shortcuts and program folders.

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Download, Verify And Use Proxy Servers With ST-ProxySwitcher

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If you work a lot with proxy servers you have probably noticed that they are not the most reliable usually. While it is possible to pay for private proxy servers many users do not want to go that far for that extra bit of anonymity or access to country specific contents on the Internet. There are two main issues that you will identify eventually

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Use Microsoft TellMe voice and speech recognition on Windows Phone

Windows Phone lets you use voice to operate and perform simple but useful tasks on your Windows Phone. Using this feature you can make a call, redial, send SMS text messages, call your voicemail,… For more visit The Windows Club.

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Windows 8 BluePoison, Enable Disabled Features

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Microsoft released the Windows 8 developer preview exactly a month ago as part of the Build Conference. The release was made available publicly – it in fact is still available for download – and users had ample time to test some of the new features of the operating system.

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Building ‘Windows 8′: Task Manager – Example Eye-Tracking Data

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As we mentioned during the Windows 8 keynote at //build/, every 15 years or so we choose to update Task Manager. Of course that was said in jest as we have incrementally improved the utility in just about every release of Windows. For Windows 8, we took a new look at the tool and thought through some new scenarios and a new way of tuning the tool for “both ends of the spectrum” in terms of end-users and those that need very fine-grained control over what is going on with their PC

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