It is easy to dismiss the Photos app in Windows 8 as a lightweight that doesn’t offer very much and it is true that the original wasn’t that impressive, but the latest version with Windows 8.1 has more features than you might think. It has filters that enable you to apply effects to your digital… Read More
The Windows 8 Start screen does not show every app and program that is installed and instead, it shows a small selection. The tiles are large and sometimes they have no name, so you can’t fit many apps on the screen or tell what they are if you make them small. Down at the bottom… Read More
Do you use the News app on the Windows 8 Start screen? If you haven’t yet explored its capabilities, you might be surprised by what it can do. For example, it can be configured to fetch only the news you are interested in and it can filters out the stories you don’t want. Here is… Read More
If you are experiencing problems accessing the Windows 8 Store using the Store tile, if you cannot update Windows 8 apps, or if Windows 8 live tiles don’t update on the Start screen, here is a collection of possible solutions. Most people don’t have problems with the Windows Store, Windows 8 apps and live tiles,… Read More
The most notable feature of Windows 8 is the Start screen with its tiles representing built in apps, apps downloaded from the Windows Store, and traditional software that has been installed. It is interesting, up to a point, but one big failing of this new menu system is that if there isn’t a tile for an… Read More
