Contents tagged with Windows 7

• Surface 2.0 SDK Launches

  Tags: Surface, Surface 2.0, SDK, Windows 7, NUI, MultiTouch

  Jul 12 2011 1:16 PM

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  The Surface 2.0 SDK just launched and it’s open to everyone.

  There’s even a developer center on MSDN to help get you started, complete with online training, design & interaction guide and forums.

  Getting started is as easy as 1, 2, 3!

  Design & Development             Learn why the Surface platform is great for developing applications using touch and objects.         Download the Surface 2.0 SDK         Get training to design and develop touch applications for Surface and

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• Frank's World Now Has Site Pinning

  Tags: IE9, Windows 7, Web, SitePinning, Frank's World

  Dec 22 2011 4:40 PM

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  If you’re running Windows 7 and have Internet Explorer 9, then you can take advantage of a cool feature called Site Pinning.

  To try it, drag the Frank’s World icon in the address bar in the browser to the task bar.

  Then right mouse click on the newly added icon.

  You’ll see the following:

  

  Adding this feature to your site or page couldn’t be any easier. There’s even a site for making the process easier: buildmypinnedsite.com.

  For example, I added the following meta tags to my Orchard page template.

  <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Frank on Twitter;action-uri=http://twitter.com/tableteer;icon-uri=http://twitter.com/favicon.ico" />
  <meta name="msapplication-task"content="name=Try Azure Free for 90 days;action-uri=http://bit.ly/FreeAzure90DayTrial;icon-uri=http://www.windowsazure.com/favicon.ico" />
  <meta name="msapplication-task"content="name=Download WebMatrix Free;action-uri=http://bit.ly/WhatIsWebMatrix;icon-uri=http://www.microsoft.com/favicon.ico" />
  <meta name="msapplication-task"content="name=Public Sector Team Blog;action-uri=http://frnk.us/PubSecTeamBlog;icon-uri=http://blogs.msdn.com/themes/MSDN2/favicon.ico" />
  

  Easy.

  If you want more advanced features and notifications, there’s a complete API and plenty of documentation.

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• Troubleshooting WiFi Troubles

  Tags: Windows 7, Wifi, Troubleshooting, Useful, Tips

  May 9 2012 10:29 AM

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  Recently, my WiFi router would stop working intermittently.

  This was the fancy, new router which was built for performance. My wife and I are both geeks and our son is a young geek in training, who hates waiting for Sesame Street to stream.

  A few weeks after replacing the old router, I was disheartened to see the new one breaking down so quickly. I began to ponder running fiber optic cables through the house.

  Then I noticed two things: all my wired devices worked perfectly all the time and that this happened around the same time the new neighbors moved in. Were they the problem?

  I started doing some troubleshooting and found out that there’s a simple command line utility to check for Wifi networks and their frequencies.  It’s built right into Windows, so you don’t have to buy anything.

  Here it is: netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid

  Run that from a command prompt and you’ll see al the wireless networks within range along with some metadata about each one.

  Turns out that there was a Wifi network on the same frequency as ours. I changed our WiFi router to another frequency and suddenly, everything became reliable again.

  What surprises me is that we have this problem where we live, given that homes around here are fairly spread out.

  I wonder what folks in more densely packed areas do. There’s only a finite number of WiFi channels/frequencies. So, what do you do when they’re all in use? 

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