So you installed Microsoft Office 2013 and now you’ve got a new context menu item: “SkyDrive Pro”, when you right-click a file, that is gray out, right? Although, this is not a big issue, it is a little annoying to have the option listed, when you don’t actually have the feature. Honestly, this is a pointless [...]
After installing Office 2013, one of the first thing you’ll notice when saving a file is the new cloud integration to SkyDrive. This is a very convenient way to keep your files safe from accidental deletion in the mighty cloud. But the problem is that Microsoft has only added SkyDrive to the list, there isn’t [...]
If you took the turn of installing Windows 8 yourself, instead of buying a brand new PC, you may get the error: “Windows 8 installation has failed”. What’s irritating about this problem is that it is a generic installation error, and it could be really hard to pinpoint the specific cause of the problem. Luckily [...]
It’s here folks, better late than never, Microsoft is slowing rolling out two-factor authentication to further secure the Microsoft account — the one passport to access Xbox Live, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Skype, Office, to unlock your Windows 8 PCs, and practically everything else. It is not a requirement, but you should enable it, because it will [...]
Facebook Home, the suite of apps that turns your Android phone into a whole new social experience, is without a doubt a brilliant idea. However the new launcher may not please everyone, maybe because is just too simplistic, the lack of widgets support or because it gets on the way of what you really need to do. [...]
In case you accidentally merged your Skype profile with a Microsoft account that you didn’t intend to, don’t panic you only need to unlink Skype from the Microsoft account, and then sign-in once again in the Skype Windows 8-style app with the correct email address and everything will be OK. Most likely it won’t be an issue, but you [...]
Did it ever happen that you wanted to share a post on Facebook or Google+, but you wanted to share it with an image you found on the internet and you had to download it first, before attaching it to the post? This can be a bit time-consuming and you might end up piling unnecessary [...]
You probably heard that this time around Microsoft is letting people clean install Windows 8 using an upgrade installation media (e.g., DVD or USB drive). However the catch is that you need to have a previous valid version of Windows already installed in your PC to properly activate the operating system. As the guys from [...]
Many Firefox users got really excited to hear that Mozilla made available a new Firefox (Metro) Nightly version specially designed to take advantage of Windows 8 chromeless UI. But many users are reporting in different websites and in forums that the new Metro style version of Firefox is not working when they trying to launch [...]
When upgrading from any new version of Windows, you will always be recommended (at least by me) to make a full backup of your PC before proceeding. This is just in case things were to go wrong and you have to rollback, for example, from Windows 8 to Windows 7 and, of course, to protect your [...]