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- 1 month ago Dissertation is probably the right word for what I wrote given that the "company" is actually a university, specifically...
- 1 month ago Thanks. Now if only I could get Microsoft to agree with me... (I try to keep my posts as filled with fact as my manicotti...
- 1 month ago Cool. The sad part is that very few apps use toasts and fewer still use MPNS to push them (as opposed to creating them...
- 1 month ago Thanks (for letting me know that I'm not too wound up today). For what it's worth, this issue is not really connected to...
- 1 month ago No, he means that that he wants something that's reasonable and that you either don't understand or don't want him to have...
- 2 months ago So, does this mean your original message really meant "give me what I want or I'll give you more money!"
- 3 months ago I have the X1 Carbon Touch. it is a bit thicker than the non-touch because of the digitizer, but having a TrackPoint,...
- 6 months ago No, it isn't at all redundant, despite what many people seem to think. This kind of app lets you see toast notifications...
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- 3 days ago Are you looking for Background file transfers for Windows Phone?...
- 1 week ago "Settings" is an app that shows a list of settings apps. "Audio" is an app. "Brightness" is an app. It makes sense in that co...
- 2 weeks ago The pictures on the tiles are changed by a periodic task (what the phone calls "Background Tasks" in the Settings app). These...
- 2 weeks ago Notifications can pop up because a server sent the "toast" to you or because a "periodic task" ran in the background and deci...
- 2 weeks ago Live tiles are more like a form of Android home screen widget. I think that Microsoft's implementation is better thought out ...
- 3 weeks ago When you say "embedded" spreadsheets, do you effectively mean tables that look like spreadsheets, but lack formulas or someth...
- 3 weeks ago This strikes me a normal kind of thing for someone to say if they are coming to WP from Android or Windows Mobile. There's a ...
- 3 weeks ago Yes, but the type of phone and type of cloud-based account may vary. Just as Google's Android prefers Google-based services a...
- 1 month ago I don't mean this to sound condescending, but it might (so apologies in advance). Have you tried tapping the Sync button at...
- 1 month ago I think that the philosophy behind "don't sync on delete" is that people often handle their unread mail in two passes: 1) go ...
- 1 month ago The choice of keyboard (text, text with suggestions, email, numeric, etc) is up to the developer on a per-textbox basis. It m...
- 1 month ago ^ This is a good point. Also, since there's no way for an app to "know" if background tasks are on or off generally, apps oft...
- 1 month ago One possibility, although unlikely, is that the tile update "subscription" has ended. Recall that tiles have two ways of bein...
- 1 month ago The number or badge shown on tiles is how much activity has occurred since you last looked at the content in the app. For ema...
- 1 month ago This shift is unlikely as Google has said that they intent to still use "webkit" as the vendor-specific CSS prefix. Ugh....
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