Microsoft Extends Updates for Windows XP

Microsoft have announced that it will continue to provide updates to its security products (antimalware engine and signatures) for Windows XP users through July 14, 2015.

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/01/15/microsoft-extends-updates-windows-xp-security-products-july-14-2015/#!smd34

Windows 8.1 Preview Expires Today

"If you’re still running the preview, take note that it’ll expire today, January 15. If you’ve not fired up your machine for a while, you should now see a notice advising you to upgrade every time you sign in. After January 15, your PC will also restart every 2 hours, and you’ll lose any unsaved data."

http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/m/tech-news-psa-windows-81-preview-expires-today

Free Bootstrap Themes

If you have been using Bootstrap a lot...check out this site http://www.blacktie.co/ where you can download really nice and free Bootstrap themes.

User friendly web based manpages

explainshell.com is a web based application that contains 29761 parsed manpages from sections 1 and 8 found in Ubuntu's manpage repository. Personally, I find it really useful and interactive for beginner learners. Just type in a shell command and it will explain to you what it means.

Windows 8 App: IP Link

Description

IP Link display information about your current internet connection (e.g. external IP address, ISP and etc.). If you need to find out information about a particular domain or IP, this app will also help you to retrieve information from ip-api.com. IP Link also display your internal IP address in app and update in Windows 8 Live Tiles too.

Features

• Display current IP information
• Bing map showing location of the IP
• Background task to update internal IP in Windows 8 Live Tiles (every 15 minutes)
• Search for IP/domain from Windows 8 Search Contract

Link

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/ip-link/2f23afaa-41be-4ddf-bda1-e5d1946cdfde

Visual Studio 2013 launches on 13 November 2013

Link: http://launch.visualstudio.com/

Error: The {0} cannot continue testing since the specified Windows Store App was not found! (Resolved)

Today, after I updated my Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, my Visual Studio 2012 (Update 3) does not allow me to validate my app using the Windows App Certification kit. I have been stuck at this error message, "The {0} cannot continue testing since the specified Windows Store App was not found. Please verify the packagefullname is correct".

I began to search online for solution and found that it was because I was using Windows App Certification Kit (Version 2.2). So after I go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/bg127575.aspx to download the latest kit (Version 3.1) and it works now.