Lately, the little man has been getting into a more predictable sleeping pattern, and that’s given me back a stretch of time in the evening to focus on things at greater time spans. Also, F recently had his birthday and received an ATIV Smart PC Pro so I get to inherit his Slate 7 (why didn’t they just stick with the slate naming convention? it’s much cooler and easier to remember). Thanks to MSDN, the slate 7 is now a slate 8, or as I like to call it, the SL8 :p
Ever since little was born, every waking moment I have has been spent feeding, playing, watching over him. Okay I admit, chronic TV series watching has also become part of our daily regimen (and if you must know, it’s Dexter, Homeland, Walking Dead, Revenge, Newsroom, Suits, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Parenthood and we even tried to give Flash Forward and Alcatraz a chance). When most of your time is spent at home, you need something light to keep you entertained, and something that you can pause/play without having to “get into it”.
So far, I’ve managed to install the Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 developer tools, and familiarize myself with the new interface, and other consumer features.
Everything seems to be working fine except for the screenshot shortcut (Windows Hardware Key+Volume Down Button). A few other things that I would like to find out is if there is a way to enable access to the “samsung store” with an upgraded slate. There are a few samsung exclusive apps that would be cool to have.
The features of a “natural born” windows 8 citizen that I am enjoying is the ability to stream the music that I have on my main desktop without having to copy over files. It’s seems to be the music that I’ve purchased with my zune pass. Also, with skydrive, I get access to pictures and videos from all my machines which I’ve logged in and installed Windows Photo Gallery (including windows 7 devices). UPDATE: more information on this feature here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/skydrive/fetch-files-pc-ui
Will continue to explore more, hopefully I’ll get some time to play with the dev tools soon. For now, I’m glad I’m at least blogging again.
being in tech 