Recent content by wolfdale

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    Podcast Question

    It's been a week since I got my Lumia 521 and I've been putting it thru the works. I do have some questions though. I'm big on podcasts and I notice two big issues. One, the default podcast and music player do not have a moveable slider where a user can "slide" to a certain position in the...
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    Does Windows 8.1 make sense in a non-touch laptop?

    I run Win8.1 Pro in my 4 year old Vostro (Dell) laptop without touchscreen and it seems to run fine. I mainly use it for C# development. Everything else I do on Slackware, same hard drive, different partition.
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    Well I Did It

    I bought a Lumia 521. The deals were so good on cyber Monday it was hard to pass up. I'm currently an iPhone 5 user and I like the i5 but I wanted to start developing phone apps. So it was either purchase a $1000 macbook for xcode development or buy a $80 WP8 phone. Guess who won. I do C#...
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    In precentages, how much of your computing life is Microsoft products?

    For me 95% Windows 7, 5% OpenSUSE. At home, 100% Slackware although that will be going down because I'm going to try to develop some WP8 apps on my spare time.
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    Any other ex-Blackberry users?

    I once vowed that I would not give up my bold 9700 / curve 9360 simply for the keyboard, but after 9 months with iPhone 5 I've learned to change. Although I do miss my keyboard short cuts.
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    VS 2013 vs VS Express

    Visual Studio just came out. I'm wondering what advantages are there that VS 2013 has over Express in regards to phone 7/8 app development. Is VS2013 worth the cost ($500)?