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Reportedly, a Surface Pro 3 owner has been able to recondition his failing SIMPLO battery back to life. read more Continue reading...

Here in our family, we have at least 4 of the original Microsoft Surface Pros in constant use. The originals are about as solid and trustworthy as the old IBM Microchannel PCs. They just won’t die. And, I know many of you are still running these tablets for various things. read more Continue...

desktop weather gaget Says no internet connection this happened yesterday on 3 different comp/ all win10. ie11 my weather gadget on the desktop says no internet connection I tryed to reinstall the app. now it says the same and cannot even find the zip code for my city. i have IE11 working...

Is there a compatible app to the Windows 7 sidebar Calendar gadget that works with Windows 10?

If you are looking for a charging stand for your Microsoft Band 2 then check out this new offering from the Microsoft Store. read more Continue reading...

The Build a Workout feature delivered with Microsoft Band v2 is as powerful and creative as you are. read more Continue reading...

The iDeaHome Wi-Fi speaker is an awesome value, able to deliver rich sound anywhere in your Wi-Fi network. read more Continue reading...

I've happily had 2 widgets running in my Windows 7 for the past 3-4 years without any issue. Usually if either disappears I only need to reinstall it again to get it going. However, for some reason on a reboot today I've not only lost them both, but if I try to reinstall them I get an error...

Funny how some of the coolest projects come my way. Today project by Evan Cohen came via a "first time poster" on an internal Microsoft Distribution List, that happened to be subscribed to by a Channel 9 dev, who happened to read and realized it would be great of the Coding4Fun blog. Got to love...

I have been having an intermittent problem with my Win7 machine. I have several programs that automatically launch at startup, but sometimes it gets stuck partway through this process and leaves only some of the programs launch, with some of them apparently having hung, and never launches the...

The Ops Team is a new weekly show where 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps. This week on The Ops Team, Simon...

The charging cable between Band v1 and Band v2 is different, but Microsoft offers extra cables as an add-on. read more Continue reading...

Get up close and personal with the ultimate laptop, the Link Removed. Microsoft recently unveiled the Link Removed, a revolutionary new device that is the ultimate laptop. Ounce for ounce, the Surface Book is the fastest 13-inch laptop in its class, combining amazing performance with...

I received the newest Fire tablet from Amazon this week and will be putting the $50 device through its paces for a more in depth review. However, to get started I needed to get it out of its box and setup for use so here are images of that process. read more Continue reading...

These amazing headphones from Ausdom should be your first choice if you're looking for a full-on sound immersion experience. read more Continue reading...

Turn your smartphone into a mega-sized, video streaming theater. read more Continue reading...

Lenovo's LaVie Z series is a sweet device with a bitter price tag. read more Continue reading...

Microsoft Band v2 is coming, for sure, but what will a new version offer? read more Continue reading...

Back to running Windows-7-pro. Still more solid than 8.1 or beta-10. I have 16-gigs of ram on the board. Windows-7 sees it, but I often wondered if it actually uses it. I had the pagefile at 12-gigs. So I did a test. I moved 38-gigs from one sata drive to another sata drive. The desktop...

I had to replace an old, trusted set of earbuds recently. I settled on the Plantronics BackBeat Fit Bluetooth Headphones. read more Continue reading...