Little fun with NFC and Windows Phone 8
Since Windows Phone 8 supports NFC I wanted to see what I could do with it. I ordered a bunch of NFC stickers online from Special Line. You can use your own app to program the stickers but there are...
View ArticleMaking a backup of my HP EX470 Homeserver disk
Update: make sure you follow this post when finished cloning your drive otherwise WHS won’t run as you would expect. One of my colleagues Homeserver crashed and he doesn’t have the restore DVD anymore....
View ArticleHow to increase your Windows Phone app ratings
UPDATED (18-1-2012): Jason mentioned in the comments this doesn’t work for Windows Phone 8. He is absolutely right. If you check the documentation on MSDN...
View ArticleHow to increase your Windows 8 app ratings
Today I described a trick for Windows Phone how to increase the numbers but also the average rating of your app. It worked very well for the my rubber duck app I wrote. A little over 11000 downloads...
View ArticleHow to play a WAV sound file with DirectX in C# for Windows 8
Many people use the Mediaelement to play soundfiles in their apps. For my liitle app this wasn’t good enough. I build an app where I want to be able to press a button very fast and everytime a sound...
View ArticleWhere are all the Windows 8 apps?
We get a lot of questions from people they see less apps in the Windows 8 store than their friends and are wondering what’s going on. It’s pretty simple. By default the Windows 8 store only shows the...
View ArticleNerd tracert
Ok I know I am a nerd but this is just funny open a command prompt and run this command: tracert –h 100 obiwan.scrye.net it will result in this:
View ArticleWiFi enabled my Roomba
A month ago I purchased my Roomba 780. At home we have a dog (German Sheppard) and we had to vacuum at least once a day (ok my wife did that ) I thought; let me help a little in our household so I...
View ArticleAdding Videos from your SD card to your Videos library on your Surface RT
My daughter watches a lot of videos on the iPad (youtube and some local stored videos) today she wanted to watch the videos on the pink iPad (our Surface RT with pink touchcover). I have an SD card...
View ArticleBing.com April fools
This is one of the funny April fools jokes I found today. Most jokes aren’t that funny. But this one is subtle. Go to http://www.bing.com/ Search for google. This will be the result. Michael Kroll,...
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