Windows 8 tip: enabling demo-like touch feedback

han_gyoo73    Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8     black, design, istartedsomething, metrotwit-show, microsoft, nic-filtering, speedo-plus, windows, Windows 7, windows 8, windows-twitter

If you’ve tuned into any of the keynotes or sessions at Microsoft’s BUILD 2011 conference you might have noticed the black dots that appear on screen to indicate where the presenter’s fingers are. Previously thought to be a secret registry key, it turns out it’s actually an option that anyone enable. Thanks to a heads up from Paul Thurrott , the setting to enable this is under the classic “Control Panel”, in Touch settings, Touch tab and the option “Optimize visual feedback for projection to an external monitor”.

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Likno Web Modal Windows Builder 2.1.232 Released: WYSIWYG Desktop Application for Creating Stylish Modal Windows, Popups, Dialogs in Websites

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Likno Web Modal Windows Builder 2.1.232 Released: WYSIWYG Desktop Application for Creating Stylish Modal Windows, Popups, Dialogs in Websites

Likno Web Modal Windows Builder: Create feature-rich modal windows, dialogs, popups for your websites with a WYSIWYG desktop application.

Maroussi, Athens (PRWEB) August 20, 2011

Likno Software releases a new version of its product Likno Web Modal Windows Builder (version 2.1 build 232), which allows users to create “javascript modal windows”, “dialogs” and “popups” for web pages with minimal effort & coding. The produced popup modal windows are fully cross-browser (work seamlessly in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror, Safari & others).

Users can create jquery modal windows that support dynamic content, many opening/closing effects, colors, styles, slideshows, image galleries, thumbnails, auto-play, videos, automatic opening “on page load”, transition effects, & more.

New features:

Keyboard Navigation on Slideshows.
jQuery v1.6.2 support.
Improved IE9 support.
Opera 11 support.
Improved “Image Preloading”.
Bug Fixes.

General Likno Web Modal Windows Builder features:

Rich and powerful interface.
Displays information on a floating window when visitors click on selected page elements or even on page load.
Shows simple text, HTML code, images or whole pages as the content of the jQuery Modal Windows.
The style of Modal Windows are fully customizable through CSS.
Multiple Modal Windows can be used on the same page.
Dynamic content (database-driven/programmable) can be displayed through AJAX techniques.
Page elements can be used to define the content of Modal Windows easily within the page.
A variety of opening/closing effects is available to open/close the Modal Windows.
A Header/Footer can be added to the Modal Windows for extra information.
Ready-made examples can be quickly applied to projects (pre-installed in software).
Supports both “Single-sheet” Modal Windows (all content on a single sheet) and “Multi-sheet” (multiple content on separate sheets, for an Image Gallery, Product Presentation, etc.).
A variety of Navigation Bars on multi-sheet Modal Windows is available. CSS and dedicated properties can fully customize the appearance of “First”, “Previous”, “Next”, “Last” buttons, text label, sheet numbers, background of the bar, mouse over effects and more.
“Rounded Corners” and/or “Shadows” on Modal Windows are supported.
A Modal Window can automatically open on page load.

With Likno Web Modal Windows Builder web professionals save a significant amount of time required to fully understand DHTML/JavaScript code for creating modal windows.

Features at: http://www.likno.com/jquery-modal-windows/index.php
Examples at: http://www.likno.com/jquery-modal-windows/examples.php
Download at: http://www.likno.com/jquery-modal-windows/download.php

Likno Web Modal Windows Builder costs $ 39.95 for a 3-domain license and is available for Windows ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7.

About Likno Software

Likno Software is a leading software development company that over the past years has managed to establish itself in the international community of web developers as a leader in JavaScript/DHTML technology through its advanced software & services.

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Windows Simulator lets you touch Windows 8 using just a mouse

IvanFjodorov    Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8     2011-at-415-pm, 2011-at-418-pm, design, istartedsomething, microsoft, september-16, speedo-plus, windows, Windows 7, windows 8, windows-phone, windows-simulator

For those of us without a touch slate or Tablet PC, it’s now at least possible to try some of the touch features of Windows 8 by just using a mouse. Bundled with the Windows 8 Developer Preview , the Windows Simulator might look similar but is much more advanced than the Windows Phone Emulator. It can be launched through Visual Studio or directly with “ Program Files (x86)Common FilesMicrosoft SharedWindows SimulatorMicrosoft.Windows.Simulator.exe “

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Design considerations for Windows 8 on HD slates

ROSARoy21    Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8     build, design, desktop, istartedsomething, metrotwit-show, microsoft, speedo-plus, user, windows, Windows 7, windows 8, windows-store

As Jensen Harris of the Windows User Experience team alluded to in his first day session of Metro design in Windows 8, high DPI displays may soon become mainstream, some of which he has personally seen behind closed doors. To make sure Windows 8 looks great on these displays for the desktop and slates, the system will have native scaling support for Metro-style applications to take advantage of them. The MSDN documentation “ Guidelines for scaling ” clarifies that although Windows 8 will automatically scale the user interface elements, layout and images, developers and designers (mostly designers) will still have to put in some work to ensure their applications are pixel perfect even at 208 PPI and beyond.

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Dreamboard Software – pays 50% – popular product in market test

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Dreamboard Software – pays 50% – popular product in market test
Dreamboard software for Windows Xp.
Dreamboard Software – pays 50% – popular product in market test

Windows Store to provide 70/30% revenue share, 5 PC user license

ROCHELLEFields    Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8     build, desktop, istartedsomething, marketplace, microsoft, september-15, store, windows, Windows 7, windows 8, windows-store, work

At the BUILD 2011 conference , Microsoft has been unusually reluctant to confirm details of the revenue share in the application store in Windows 8 known as the Windows Store. Thankfully their developer documentation is far more helpful to confirm the industry-standard 70/30 split

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Windows 8 adds touch target “locking”

han_gyoo73    Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8     australia, bluetooth-le, build, istartedsomething, microsoft, nic-filtering, september-15, speedo-plus, wifi-direct, windows, windows 8

At the “ Designing Metro style apps that are touch-optimized ” session at BUILD 2011, Kay Hofmeester and Jan-Kristian Markiewicz revealed an extremely subtle improvement to touch in Windows 8, among many. It turns out there’s actually some built-in error correction for touch targets

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Connectivity improvements in Windows 8: USB3, Bluetooth LE, WiFi Direct, NFC, NIC filtering

Santiago29MIRANDA    Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8     australia, bluetooth-le, design, istartedsomething, microsoft, nfc, nic-filtering, windows 8

As the BUILD conference represents a combination of formerly separate software and hardware events, Microsoft has many sessions dedicated to the design of hardware for Windows 8 devices. In the first of these sessions, Dennis Flanagan provided an overview of the hardware improvements in Windows 8 including some interesting connectivity additions and improvements

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Short: Websites can launch Windows 8 applications

JosiePotter28    Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8     australia, bluetooth-le, build, internet, istartedsomething, microsoft, nic-filtering, september-15, speedo-plus, wifi-direct, windows, Windows 7, windows 8

I just discovered this interesting feature of Windows 8 that allows websites to connect users with Metro-style applications. The BUILD conference website uses a currently undocumented meta tag that changes the website’s icon to a button in Internet Explorer. Clicking the button reveals a “Switch to BUILD app” button which seamlessly launches the BUILD app.

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Short: Websites can launch Windows 8 applications

Tour around the BUILD 2011 expo hall

kylecatarn    Latest News, Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 8     australia, build, explorer, metrotwit-show, microsoft, trademark, windows, Windows 7

Following the Steve Ballmer’s appearance at the conclusion of the second keynote at Microsoft’s BUILD 2011 conference , the trademark exhibition hall opened up to the public for the first time with vendors and Microsoft booths showing off new products and technologies. Of note are the booths of AMD, Qualcomm, Intel and Nvidia who each have at least one Windows 8 device showed off inside a glass cube. Many of these devices are prototypes of smaller-sized slates of around 8″

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