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April 29, 2014

Staff App Pick: Take flight with the Prepware Private Pilot app for Windows and Windows Phone

Do you dream of learning to fly? Take the first step by finding an instructor at a local flight school and downloading these two apps.

April 29, 2014

Rise and shine! Bing finds out which US cities are early risers

Inspired by Nate Silver’s recent experiment of examining major U.S. cities’ work arrival times, Bing data scientists explored the search engine’s usage as a barometer for when people get online, start work or wake up. As you can see from the infographic, New Yorkers are the latest to get up and at ‘em in the a.m.

April 29, 2014

This wedding planner counts on Surface 2 for getting all the details done

Wedding planner Ashlee spends a lot of time out and about, testing cakes, scouting wedding venues and constantly communicating with her clients. With her at all times is her Surface 2. “The quickness of opening Surface 2 and getting into the apps” is a huge help, she says.

April 29, 2014

New Bing Translator plugin available for WordPress

Using the plugin, visitors can translate a site into any of more than 40 supported languages in one click, without leaving the page once this lightweight, cross-browser plugin is installed. This plugin also provides options for suggesting translations.

April 29, 2014

‘Dragon Age: Inquisition’ gameplay trailer: The demons are in the details

In “Dragon Age: Inquisition,” the Inquisitor is the only survivor of a cataclysmic blast and the only one who can stop demons from terrorizing the land of Thedas. A new trailer of the game coming Oct. 7 in the U.S. gives you the full-on effect of how it’s “raining demons out here.”

April 28, 2014

Check out the fun emoticons that are part of your Surface keyboard :)

No matter how long you’ve had your Surface, it’s always fun to learn some new tips, and the Surface Blog shares some, including where to find emoticons. Access your Touch Keyboard on the bottom right-hand side of your taskbar and click the smiley face. You’ll find nine categories of emoticons to choose from.

April 28, 2014

Security advisory released regarding potential Internet Explorer vulnerability

Microsoft has released Security Advisory 2963983 regarding a potential vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is currently under investigation.

April 28, 2014

Find out differences in background transfer API in universal Windows apps

With the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you can now build Windows Store and Windows Phone Store apps from a single-source project. The WinRT Windows.Networking.BackgroundTransfer API is the API to use for background transfers in any universal app project.

April 28, 2014

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April 28, 2014

Urban legend true: Xbox dig finds long-buried Atari ‘E.T.’ video game cartridges

After a few hours of digging down past 30 feet of debris, excavators found what they were looking for: “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” game cartridges that had been buried by Atari three decades ago in a landfill in New Mexico. The excavation was filmed over the weekend as part of an Xbox Entertainment Studios original documentary series to be released only on Xbox One and Xbox 360 later this year.