Two years after HTC launched its Windows Phone flagship model 8X, the Taiwanese manufacturer now offers another high-end model with the Microsoft OS. Today HTC has revealed a Windows Phone version of the HTC One M8, originally launched with Google’s Android OS in March this year. This means the One M8’s unique Duo Cam features are now available in a Windows phone environment. Read more
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Make the Windows 8.1 mouse pointer stand out by adding a drop shadow.
As Windows 8.1 has adopted a flatter interface, gradients and drop shadows have been removed from a variety of places including the mouse pointer. If you feel that the mouse pointer drop shadow helps make it easier to spot on the Desktop, do the following:
1. Access the “Mouse” Control Panel. One way to do this is by pressing Windows + R, entering main.cpl and pressing Enter….
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Communicate with people across time zones? Make two additional clocks available with a mouse hover over the Windows 8.1 Taskbar clock.
Do you often need to communicate with co-workers, extended family, or friends that live across the country or world? Stop waking them up at odd hours of the night or sending them an electronic mail or Skype request by not knowing their local time zone.
Two additional time zones can be added to the Windows 8.1 Desktop Taskbar, accessible by hovering over the clock. Clicking on the clock can display larger clocks of each configured time zone….
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Add the full paths to Explorer folders in Windows 8.1 to make it easier for you to navigate your system.
Let’s say you are copying files between different folders on your Windows 8.1 system or networked drives, or perhaps you are performing basic file maintenance. The need comes to work with two different folders that end with the same name in the path. Another task distracts you, and now you need to get back to work on a particular folder. If you hover your mouse pointer over “File Explorer” in the Taskbar, only the ending parts of the paths are readable. You’ll have to manually click on each window to find out what path each thumbnail represents.
What if you could make the folder windows contain the full paths, such as “C:\Windows.old\Windows\Cursors”, instead of just “Cursors”? This is an easy tweak….
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Greenshot is an open-source screen capture program for Windows that allows basic image editing and integration with a variety of third-party software packages and web services.
Greenshot is an open-source screen capture program for Windows that supports window, region, and full-screen capture, as well as special support for Internet Explorer complete with auto-scrolling to grab entire webpages.
Greenshot has plugins for various services and applications including Imgur, Box, Dropbox, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, and Microsoft Office (make sure to enable them during setup), as well as support for multiple languages….
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Prevent Windows 8.1 from automatically rearranging and resizing windows when they are moved to the edges.
Just as with Windows 7, when you move windows to the borders of the Windows 8.1 Desktop, they will automatically rearrange and resize. For example, moving a window to the top will make it appear full screen (except for the Taskbar unless it is set to Auto-hide), and moving a window to the left or right edge will make it fill half the screen.
While some people appreciate this automatically occurring, advanced users and those who want more control over their window placements may find this feature extremely annoying. Luckily, it can be disabled:…
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Change the size of tiles on your Windows 8.1 Start screen to show or hide live tile details.
Are some of the tiles on your Window 8.1 Start screen taking up too much room and you’d like to fit more on the screen simultaneously? Or do you only have a few apps installed (or a large monitor with lots of free space) and want to show as much information and pictures as possible from live tiles such as News, Store, and Weather?
To resize tiles on your Start Screen, just do the following:…
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