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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Learn using the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start Training content–for Online or Offline view–Courtesy Channel9

On November 28-29th 2012, Microsoft has hosted the Windows Phone 8 Jump Start training, a fast-paced and demo-packed learning ‘experience’ tailored to show developers how to build responsive, appealing, and effective applications quickly. If you missed this outstanding event, you’re in luck. All 20 modules are now available online for your on-demand viewing, (or download) […]

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TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012 v0.8.1.1

v0.8.1.1 is the latest release of TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012, contains debugging fixes for v0.8.1. TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript. TypeScript adds optional types, classes, and modules to JavaScript. TypeScript supports tools for large-scale JavaScript applications for any browser, for any host, on any OS. TypeScript compiles to clean, readable, standards-based JavaScript. […]

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Free eBooks from Microsoft Press on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012

Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals (Final Edition) You can download the eBook in: Introducing Windows 8- An Overview for IT Professionals – PDF ebook Introducing Windows 8-An Overview for IT Professionals – Mobi format for Kindle Introducing Windows 8-An Overview for IT Professionals – ePub format If you prefer a hard copy […]

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