Recent content by BenTR

I was just wondering whether Mail in WP 8.1 is now a separate app like Music and Games or whether it is still part of the OS. Mainly I am curious to know whether an OS update is required before email can make use of the new file picker or whether this functionality could come through an app...

Actually, the new cursor controls were one of my favorite changes from the start. Now you can just grab the cursor and move it wherever you want. You can tap in the middle of a word and hold for about half a second and the cursor goes straight to the middle of the word. Also, the cursor...

The biggest difference I have found is that the directions in the MS map app include exit numbers, while the Nokia HERE map app does not. So in HERE Maps, when you need to get off a major highway, it just says "Take the exit to XYZ street" but won't tell you which exit number it is...

I like that the file picker can access downloads, and that now it is possible to download a PDF into the downloads folder without burying it in the sandbox of a PDF app. At least, this is possible from Internet Explorer. However, with email attachments, I haven't been able to do this. Yet...

There is a lot to be positive about in the update. One thing I did not expect is that I finally have Data Sense. ATT disabled it in whichever GDR update, but now, thanks to the magic of developer preview, it is back. Read View is nice in IE11. Surprisingly fast, too. I was on the...

Here are some I have pinned: Nextgen Reader Wikipedia (depending on settings) Nokia City Lens WeChat

Looking through the games I have, I paid for three of them and made an in-app purchase in one. I am not much of a gamer, but $2.99 for Contre Jour is worth it. Phone games are cheap. It baffles me when I look at the reviews of $0.99 games and people comment, "Make it free!" I can't imagine a...

I just checked Amazon, and the Surface 2 is listed as in stock but the price of the 32GB model is $513.99 (USD), while the 64GB model is $609.99. What is going on?

Where is this $200 minimum claim coming from? When I checked the Best Buy trade in web site, the most they offered for a Surface RT was $175 for a 64gb model in good condition.

re: Official Must Have Apps (x86, RT) Freda is a good eBook reader. You can read books from several sources, including SkyDrive and local storage. That last is nice; I transferred a bunch of epubs from my laptop using a USB drive, and can open them from Freda. It also syncs across devices if...

If anyone else has this concern, there is an app called VerbTeX Pro that can compile LaTeX. It is cloud-based, sending your .tex file to their servers to be compiled there. So far it seems to work well. The editor is not as feature-rich as TexMaker or TeXnic Center, but at least it recognizes...

A guy who works in my office just got an Android smartphone. It looked old, so I asked him about it. Apparently his friend just got a "huge Windows Phone" and gave the old Android away. Edit: And I just met a guy at my bus stop with one of the entry level Lumias, the 520 I think.

I hope bought mine through eBay. I watched for a while, and saw that bundled 64gb RT's would show up from time to time for cheap. I missed the initial 1,000 or so, but there were a few more later. Then those sold out. Then a few more showed up, and I got the second to last of those. They...

When I heard the rumored $500 price tag, I was thinking that it might have been leaked so that when the real, lower price was announced it would be a welcome surprise. Now seeing the real price is lower, I wonder if that's what happened. I just got one of the cheap RT bundles, otherwise I...

Ok, I did it. I just bought a 64GB Surface RT. Got the touch cover as well. Supposed to arrive in about a week. Still need to get an adapter so I can do PowerPoint presentations for teaching. Now I just have to overcome my innate sense that every purchase over $20 is a huge, idiotic...