Now these days Android is almost everywhere. You can find Android in phones, tablets, hybrid devices, wearable devices such as watches, home appliances and soon the OS will be a part of cars too. We tested several different ways to run Android apps on Windows PCs, but only one app was able… Continue reading
The new Metro Style Apps and traditional Windows applications differ in a number of ways. Some of them are explained below: New Metro Style Apps have a different look and user experience. They have borderless windows, with no option to resize or close. To close a Metro App, all you… Continue reading
Metro Style apps can be developed for the following architectures: x86 x64 ARM Out of the above three, both x86 and x64 architectures support both Metro apps and traditional Windows programs. However, the Windows 8 on ARM will support only Metro Style Apps. The traditional Windows applications will not run… Continue reading
Some of the characteristics and features of the Windows 8 Metro Style Apps are explained below: A Metro Style App is a new type of Windows application that work on Windows 8 (and future operating systems) A Metro App occupies the full screen and has no borders and no minimize,… Continue reading
Metro Style Apps are the new form of Apps, designed for Touch based computing devices like Tablet PCs. If you are an App developer who develop apps for various platforms like Windows, Android or iOS, you may want to try your hands on Windows 8 Metro Apps. Microsoft expects majority… Continue reading
You can use the following development environments and technologies to develop Windows Metro style apps: Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Using native C++ .NET programming languages like C# and Visual Basic If you are interested in developing simple web based Metro Apps, you can go for the… Continue reading
Metro style apps are the new type of applications that work with Windows 8 (and future operating systems from Microsoft). Metro style apps function similar to the traditional Windows apps in terms of end user experience. However, there are significant difference in the way they are developed since the way… Continue reading
Legacy software written for Windows 7 and prior targeted the traditional Windows API, often referred to as Win32. They resulting apps would be a combination of an executable, assets and libraries. The Windows 8 operating system introduces a new type of application, called a Windows Store app. The new architecture… Continue reading
Windows Experience Index Benchmark tool measures a PC’s performance in terms of its processor, memory, graphics, gaming graphics and hard disk, but finding it in Microsoft’s latest Windows 8.1 OS is a little tricky but still available. The tool has been around since Microsoft first introduced Windows Vista and although,… Continue reading
Tired of dragging the mouse every time you want to perform even the most basic tasks on the computer? Here’s help. Did you know, for example, that you don’t need the mouse to select text, switch between programmes, or open and close browser windows? Microsoft Windows, Word, PowerPoint and Excel… Continue reading