[Tutorial] How To Setup And Use SVN Client In Windows

Subversion (SVN) clients are open source version control software that many developers use to keep every revision of important or frequently changing files. You can think of Subversion as a database of your files where each time you make a change to a file or group of files, you can commit those changes to your Subversion repository. If you are not satisfied with those changes you can use Subversion to compare your current version with any previously committed version and choose the one you like. There are many different Subversion applications out there that work under Windows and in this tutorial I will show you how to run Subversion under Apache in Windows 7.

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Microsoft Blocks The Pirate Bay From Windows Live Messenger

The onslaught of anti-TPB campaign continues unabated and of course, wrapped in sweet excuses that don’t directly target the site itself, given its wild popularity. First the site faced legal actions, extra-legal raids and now, Microsoft has blocked TPB links from the Windows Live Messenger on the pretext that they are considered ‘malicious’ by the intelligent algorithm that filters links on the messenger.

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Microsoft Announces Prize For Winner Over ‘Smoked By Windows Phone’ Controversy, Apologizes

Microsoft had launched the ‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ campaign rather ambitiously, hoping that with its own hand-picked tests, it can easily show off that Windows Phone was better than nearly every other smartphone. Even then, Sahas Katta was able to beat Windows Phone with his Galaxy Nexus. Microsoft relented and made excuses formerly but now the company has announced a laptop, a smartphone and an apology for Sahas.

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[Tutorial] How To Enable Handwriting Recognition In Windows 7

If you prefer hand writing rather then typing and you have a tablet or touch screen display that supports a pen input then you should try out a Windows 7 feature for handwriting recognition. Many people will say that these kinds of things do not work well and do not recognize your writing correctly, well if you try this Windows feature you will be amazed. Enabling it inside Windows is not a completed task however there are few things you should pay attention on and I will try to point them out inside this tutorial.

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Microsoft Says Windows 8 Is Ready For Retina-Display Like Screens

Microsoft seems very ambitious with its upcoming Windows 8. It has been gradually unveiling a number of really useful and advanced features in Windows 8. Now, Microsoft has announced that Windows 8 will be scaled to fit neatly on different displays of tablets and other devices. It will also be scaled to fit finely on Retina-like displays. The announcement is quite significant since there are rumors that following in Apple’s footsteps, a number of vendors will be using Retina displays in upcoming devices.

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[Tutorial] How To Disable Windows 8 Metro UI And Get Back Old Windows 7 UI

Microsoft did a huge change in upcoming Windows 8 and added so called Metro User Interface (UI) which is very good familiar to Windows mobile users. However not all of us like it or navigate through it very easily so that’s why many of you will want it to return old good Windows 7 UI. In this tutorial I will show what change you need to perform inside Windows registry and disable Windows 8 Metro UI.

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Microsoft Compares iPad App Development To Windows 8 Metro-Style App Development

While Microsoft seems pretty busy with Windows 8 and expects to make a loud bang with the final release of the OS, it is also active on the third-party development front for it. The company is already enticing developers to develop Metro-style apps for Windows 8. Now, Microsoft has released a case study to show how iPad app development compares to Metro-style app development for Windows 8. The details of the case study are posted below.

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