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The video covers new personalization options, deeper SkyDrive integration, improved search capabilities, Lock Screen photo slideshow, and more. One thing that’s not highlighted in the video is the Start button that will be included in the new version. But if you watch closely, you can see it during the demonstration. Windows 8.1 will be a free upgrade for existing Windows 8 users, and the Preview version will be launch on June 26th to early adopters during Microsoft’s BUILD conference....

Get Started with Snagit and its Library for Symlinks The first thing you should do is completely exit out of Snagit (and the editor). This will let you modify the capture library, and also ensure that you don’t lose any data from it. Next, copy over the library to the location you want it. A robocopy with the proper parameters should move everything over while maintaining security settings. To do this open up the command prompt and type in the following command: robocopy C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Techsmith G:\Destination /e /secfix /copyall /b /sl /xj Obviously, change the “G:\Destination” part to match up with the path of where you are moving the Snagit library too, and the username to match up with your Windows username....

PowerPoint Transitions I’ll start with the transitions. The transition is a short animation that you can place in between two slides. Transitions used more often than animations, which is why we’re giving you a full in-depth look at all 46 transitions PowerPoint 2013 has to offer. (Click the GIF image to view it larger in more detail.) Animations PowerPoint 2013 offers 40 Entrance, 24 Emphasis and 40 Exit effects to animate the contents on your slide....

On your Mac, navigate to System Preferences » Internet and Wireless and click the iCloud icon. Enter your Apple ID and password to set up iCloud for use with contacts, calendars, and bookmarks. In the iCloud control panel, make sure Calendars is checked. Next, open Safari, log into your Google Account and open your calendar. Click the gear icon then select Calendar Settings. In Calendar Settings click on Calendars....

Plex, the popular DVR, and media streaming service have been including a growing library of free on-demand content. It’s now debuting more than 80 live streaming TV channels that cover news and sports to cooking and kids networks. All channels are free but ad-supported. The company already has a way to allow consumers to record live over-the-air TV but that requires additional investments in equipment and Plex Pass. Now you get free TV with or without Plex Pass....

On your Android smartphone or tablet’s main menu tap on Settings. Scroll down the menu and tap About phone. Next tap on Software Information. There you go. Here on my HTC, you can see the Android version and the HTC Sense version too. And since we’re talking Android, here’s how to block calls from an annoying contact. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post....

However, it’s interesting to note that Photo Viewer is no longer included in Windows 10. So, if you do a clean install, you’re not going to find Photo Viewer. The only way to keep it is to do an upgrade to Windows 10 from an existing version. Replace Photo Viewer in Windows 10 The screenshots below, both show the same version of Windows 10, one is upgraded from a previous version, and the second is a clean install....

Over the next few days, I will dedicate a few articles to each of the new Office Live Web Apps – including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote. To begin, let’s take a look at Microsoft Word Online. What’s different between the Word Web App and the Word 2010 Professional? The Office Web Apps Word Online is honestly pretty nice. Microsoft not only put Word on the web, but they’ve done a few other new things as well, which I’ve not seen yet with other online word processors – such as drag and drop into the browser as an upload function (excluding email....

Sound Serum isn’t your usual music streaming site Sound Serum is an online music library chock full of creative commons licensed electronic music. This means that if there is a song that you like, you can download it without any worry of the RIAA coming after you. Sound Serum incorporates a Java based music player that works directly in your web browser. The interface is simple, and as you know us groovyPost’ers are huge fans of simple....

Start Chrome in Incognito Mode by Default First, right-click the desktop icon or from the Start menu rename the icon something that you can easily recognize. Here I’m calling it Chrome Incognito. Then right-click the icon again and select Properties. In the Target field, scroll to the end and after the closing parentheses, Type: On my computer, the target now looked like: The path may vary so don’t just copy and paste the above....

The tablet is made by Samsung and, according to reports from the conference, it’s not at all an ordinary tablet. How can we get one? Well unfortunately, that probably won’t be possible unless you want to spend some cash on Ebay. The new Windows 8 Tablet is was made specifically for this event, for developers and it will almost certainly remain that way. Even the name of the tablet says that: Samsung Windows 8 Developer Preview PC....

Apple has been sending out invitations to the media for a September 12, featuring the image above. A pretty good clue that the new device will be called “iPhone 5” is the 5-shaped shadow in the image. According to various reports on the web, Apple won’t be showing its new smaller iPad at the event. I’m guessing they will want to milk as much press out of the product launches as possible and not dilute the iPhone 5 launch....

Nexus 7 Design Differences This is an aesthetics and subjective of all area, as beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. The new design looks more modern, with the Nexus logo on the back looking better in the new position. This makes it seem like it’s designed more for landscape view — which is the way a lot of people use it anyway. Screen Display If you were to go by that alone, there is absolutely no contest here....

Make Your Computer Wake You Up to Any Media Launch Task Scheduler in Windows and create a new Basic Task. If you’ve never used Task Scheduler before, check out my article on making Windows run Disk Cleanup automatically. Here I’m using our favorite free and light-weight media player, VLC. Of course, you can use whatever program you want, but I wouldn’t expect consistent results from the bloated and problematic iTunes. In the Start a Program section of the Wizard put in the path to VLC, then the path to the music, video, or podcast you want to play....

Was it inspiration from Twitters trendy fail whale? Apparently Twitters success despite its many, many, many technical difficulties has led to a new hip error 404 page. Remember when we talked about the new and upcoming Digg? It’s live, and here is the new fail ox which accompanies the new design. Unfortunately, the Ox-cart isn’t the only thing that is failing around Digg these days. The new Digg dubbed “V4” or “version 4” has some serious bugs, and the Digg user-base is taking up some big issues with it....

So what does that mean? When people start talking about trillions of dollars, my mind starts to fog over. Trillion is a hard concept for me to wrap my head around. If someone said that a stack of 1.3 trillion one-dollar bills would reach to the moon, I’d believe that. And if someone told me a stack of 1.3 trillion one-dollar bill would reach to Mars, I’d accept that too....

This, in my opinion, is no way to live. Unlike your home’s electrical wiring, your wired/wireless network is fun, easy, and safe to tinker with. If there’s a modem and a router in your house, then you have a network. And with that network, you can do much, much more than simply connect to the Internet. Or, at the very least, you can do so more quickly and safely....

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Demo On the Windows 10 demo site, you can get an idea of how all of its new features work. It features video walkthroughs, Q&As, and device specific demo’s. It allows you to get an idea of what you can expect from Windows 10 on different devices. Want to compare how Cortana or Microsoft Edge works on the desktop, tablet, or Windows Phone? It just takes a couple of clicks....

The graphics in Give Up, Robot aren’t anything complicated or special. None-the-less, they have an alluring value that sucks you in much like a 60’s disco party. The music that plays in the background is pretty similar, and the computer voice that plays when you complete, or fail, each level only adds further to the ambience. Each level is a basic puzzle, your goal is to get your robot character from one side of the screen to the other....

The project itself is hosted by an independent developer, and it seems to really be picking up some steam. Already it has over 350 Freeware games and over 30 game Demos. The service doesn’t cost anything to use. All you have to do to use Tiggit is download, install and then boot the games up. The games are downloaded and installed by the launcher, so there isn’t anything complicated about it....