The popularity of cloud services has witnessed a huge hike in recent days, with the explosive growth of the mobile platform. For long, Dropbox has been among the most popular cloud storage service. But more recently, a number of new cloud offerings from notable vendors have surfaced.
![[Tutorial] How to Turn Windows SmartScreen On/Off In Windows 8](https://thetechjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/action-cenatr-win-8.webp)
If you ever did use a SmartScreen Filter in Internet Explorer you are probably familiar that it can help keep your whole computer safer by warning you before running unrecognized programs downloaded from the internet. With Windows 8 SmartScreen you can achieve the same results but on bigger scale which will give your system another level of protection and in this tutorial I will show you how to enable this option in Windows 8.
Facebook has long been trying to establish itself more firmly on the mobile platform. Whereas it has made somewhat of a successful transition from web to the mobile, it still has to find adequate ways of monetizing its mobile presence. And now, it may seem that the social network has found a new way of doing it.
Microsoft’s Xbox Live is a hub for Xbox users. It’s also the chief portal which serves as Microsoft’s entertainment hub. However, multiple reports indicate the Xbox Live has been down for quite some time and Microsoft has immediately launched an investigation to discern its cause.
In an interview with Charlie Rose on Monday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates shared his thoughts on why iPad was a success and Microsoft’s tablet PC back in 2000 was a failure. The entrepreneur, however, thinks that the company might have something great in hand to change the game.
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The final output of the Consumer Preview Windows 8 showed a real interests from Windows users with more than one million downloads in the first 24 hours. The biggest change in Windows so far is its Metro style which some users may find a bit hard to handle but its not that hard as it seems. Today I will show you some tips that will help you achieve your goals inside Windows 8 much faster and access easier those usual options you did used in Windows 7 such as Start menu, Control Panel etc…
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With new Windows 8 Microsoft added a new feature called Storage Spaces. With Storage Space you can group drives together in a storage pool and thanks to this you can save files on two, three or more connected drives so that your files remain safe and protected, even when a drive fails. I this tutorial I will show you how easily you can create a new pool and storage space in just few mouse clicks.
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You accidentally open an .mp4 file, picture or a web page with Microsoft Word? After doing that, Microsoft Word will be present in the Windows Explorer Open With menu every time you select .mp4 file types. Every time you open a certain file type (.mp4 .mp3 .html .php .txt .pdf …) with a particular software, Windows 7 or Windows Vista will automatically add that software inside Open With menu. This can be useful to quickly open a file with another software that is used normally, but it quickly becomes annoying when inadequate software fill up the menu and in this tutorial I will show you how easily you can clean this list and remove those software’s that are unnecessary.