Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . .
… will only get you so far ….
Joining the popular Windows Phone 8 App comes this fully re-imagined Windows 8 App featuring great hands on tutorials based on classic rock tracks! “An awesome way to learn classic rock tracks and riffs from popular contemporary rock bands”. Pause, rewind and playback lessons as often as needed and the new half and... Continue Reading →
The popular Windows Phone App is now available for the Windows 8 platform. Commonly regarded as one of the most motivational ways to begin to learn the piano this App provides a large (and constantly updated) collection of training videos based around popular tunes for the piano. Play, Pause, Rewind and repeat as... Continue Reading →
Now that my Leap Motion Developer kit finally looks to be winging its way to me I thought I would share some of my thoughts and ideas I hope to be able to incorporate into my existing and future Apps. My understanding is that normal Windows 8 gestures are automatically mapped onto standard Leap... Continue Reading →
A little odd, I received the following email today but have not had any indication of which Apps might be infringing copyright. Anyone else in the same position? “This is to inform you that you have more than one Intellectual Property complaint against your account. If we receive one additional Intellectual Property complaint regarding... Continue Reading →
At this stage downloads of my own Windows Phone Apps appear to have doubled since the release of Windows Phone 8 - with downloads continuing to increase on a daily basis. While reading positive sales stats and figures from Microsoft and Nokia is always a good thing, having access to ‘real data’ such as this... Continue Reading →
I got to spend the day at Modern Jago yesterday on day 1 of a two day design oriented event (I cannot make day 2 but that is a whole other story). Modern Jago is nestled amongst a village of designer clothes shops, art house cinemas, T-Shirt presses and independent publishing houses in the ‘trendy’... Continue Reading →
On submitting an update for one of my apps i just got prompted to install an updated SDK – looks as though this is mandatory for certification. Download: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/desktop/hh852363 NB This is quite a large download at 568.6 MB UPDATE Looks as though it isn’t mandatory as after kicking off the download, I selected... Continue Reading →
So when using a flipview control there is no need for ‘next’ and ‘previous’ buttons as they are built into the UI already: But … the Windows 8 UI is new and unless you are using a mouse those buttons above will stay hidden. So these programmatic buttons serve as clues that you can... Continue Reading →
Or did he just take away the principal exponent of gun culture? I’m not a Microsoft insider but it is commonly known that while brilliant, Sinofsky was very much the head of his own silo. Now that Microsoft has all the pieces in place across all its divisions (divisions being a very appropriate name it... Continue Reading →
Anyone interested in this great new device should check out this new user guide published by Nokia: http://www.nokia.com/us-en/support/product/lumia920/userguide/?action=onlineuserguidepagechange&pFile=GUID-BD3470B6-FECA-470A-B571-F52CB298C856_FILE001.html Some great gems in here, new information relates not only to new features in Windows Phone 8 but also some great features unique to the device itself. There really is a wealth of information in this document... Continue Reading →
Hard Work, Persistence and Passion . . . . 