Category Archives: Tecnologia

Antivirus for Windows 10 Mobile: why not?

In Windows Phone 8 there was no antivirus: here you can download a white paper that discusses and contains information about Windows Phone 8 security. I wondered if in Windows 10 Mobile there would be something like the Defender embedded … Continua a leggere

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How to change font size in Windows 10 Mobile

Depending on the resolution of the Windows 10 Mobile phone, the displayed text could be to little … especially if you are over 50 like me!! 😉 Don’t worry, anyway! … you can set font size (and possibly style) as … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Smartphone OS | 1 commento

Protetto: How to add a new APN in Windows 10 Mobile (e.g. an employee one)

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How to record a phone call using the embedded Windows 10 Phone feature (even though it is the Italian version of the OS)

Windows 10 Mobile has embedded in the phone call page the feature to possibly record it (or a part of it): in the past I heard that this feature would be available only in some countries, like US, where the law … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Review e test, Smartphone OS | 1 commento

Having squared contact tiles in the Start page of Windows 10 Mobile

I hate to have, in a Windows 10 Mobile‘s Start tile, the picture of a contact inside a circle: it reduces both the size and the visibility of the picture, … moreover it is, in my opinion, not very nice … Continua a leggere

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How to … in Windows 10 Mobile

The new Settings section available in Windows 10 Mobile is much better than the one of  Windows Phone 8.1: now you can easily find the proper section where to get what you want! Anyway, in this ongoing post, I will list … Continua a leggere

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How to get, in a new Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile device, the same configuration you had in an old one (… and then change the new device name)

If you buy a new Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile device (e.g. a Lumia 930 or 950) and you have already an other Windows Phone, probably you would like to restore the same configuration you had in that old device: in fact, … Continua a leggere

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How to archive and clean up your Outlook email account

Sometimes it happens that you receive from the Outlook server a notification that the space available for your email account is nearly full and so you have to do something in order to be able to send and receive new emails. … Continua a leggere

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Treasure Tag … a nice gadget for Windows Mobile devices!

I think that Nokia Treasure Tag is a nice gadget and I suggest you to have a look to this page where all its features are listed: the nicest one is that, attaching it the to your belongings, it alerts you … Continua a leggere

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How to disable the ‘New wifi available’ notification in Windows 10 Mobile

This kind of toast notification is very annoying, especially when you are using a navigator. It is not listed in the notification list, available in Windows 10 Mobile, and so it seems not possible to disable it!! On the contrary, fortunately you can: … Continua a leggere

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What to do if the following error occurs: “Unable to locate ‘C:\…\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\MyProject\.nuget\nuget.exe”

It may happen that downloading a package from GitHub (e.g. WpWinNl.MapBindingDemo) after compiling the solution, the dependences are resolved but still remains an error like “Unable to locate ‘C:\…\Visual Studio 2016\Projects\MyProject\.nuget\nuget.exe“. What to do? A simple solution is to download … Continua a leggere

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How to use web.whatsapp.com with Microsoft Edge browser

P.S.  7/2/2016 –  Finally web whatsapp supports also Edge, … without doing the following workaround! Therefore now it is sufficient to open a new tab and write the https://web.whatsapp.com URL. For further information see this post. ____________ I  must admit … Continua a leggere

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Create an app for end-users and even for business without coding: Microsoft AppStudio, Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Project Siena (all Beta)

In the last few months, Microsoft released several tools that allow to create apps without coding, even for business and for any device (e.g. Windows 8 and Windows 10 devices, iPhone and iPad; support for Android devices will be available … Continua a leggere

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How to locally download a streaming video with Edge browser (e.g. the Verdi’s grandest opera AIDA or the Puccini’s Boheme)

Sometime there are streamed video that you may want to download locally because you want to see even when network connection is not available (or you have to pay for) or because you can see it free on Internet for … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Just for fun!, Musica, Review e test, Windows | 6 commenti

How to manage users and groups in Windows 10 (Pro and Home edition) and add the Local Users & Groups in the Control Panel

If you have a Windows 10 Pro edition,  the management of local users and groups con be easily handled right clicking on the Start  menu icon, choosing Computer Management and then selecting the Local users and Groups folder. From this windows … Continua a leggere

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How to give a feedback and suggestions and/or report a bug in Windows 10 and in Windows 10 Mobile

Do you have suggestions for Windows 10 / Windows 10 Mobile new features (or do you want to vote for some already inserted)? Go to Windows Community forums: Windows Feature Suggestions … future developments will take care of this end user requests!! … Continua a leggere

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Visual Studio Team Services (previously called Visual Studio Online)

Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Team Services and extends its features. It is an on-cloud Team Foundation Server (TFS) and so it is a set of complementary cloud basis services that help a team to write code better in an agile way: agile … Continua a leggere

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Aggiornare il proprio PC a Windows 10: e perché no?

Per un anno (fino al 29 luglio 2016) l’aggiornamento (da Windows 7 in poi) sarà gratuito e le nuove funzionalità introdotte sono tali che dovrebbero indurre anche i più restii ad effettuare per tempo tale upgrade. ============================================================= PS: anche se ufficialmente … Continua a leggere

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How to report a fake/spam app published in the Windows Store

Sometime, may be too often, you search in the new Windows Store an app (called in some way or that could do a feature) and you find some that are fake / spam / not appropriate. This is a problem common … Continua a leggere

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The last Windows 10 Mobile build 10581 is very stable and it is the first Windows 10 Mobile build I feel useable, with battery life more on par with WP 8.1, e.g. outstanding, than with previous insider builds. Therefore I think it … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato il da Enzo Contini | 7 commenti

How to install Windows 10 Mobile (preview) on your Windows Phone 8.1 Lumia smartphone

It is very easy! You have to register as an Insider and download the Windows Insider app on you Lumia device: more information can be found here. After launching that app you have to choose  (and agree) to be a … Continua a leggere

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How to configure OneDrive in Windows 10

If you want to use OneDrive (and I recommend you to do!) the first time you have to configure it: it is a simply procedure with the help of a wizard. So, go in the bottom right arrow menu and select the OneDrive … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Tecnologia, Windows | 6 commenti

Microsoft Edge: how to change default home page tabs

I know that this should be a very easy issue, but the way actually adopted in Microsoft Edge is, let me say, “different” from the one we are habit to use in other browsers like Internet Explorer … and may be … Continua a leggere

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Push notification using Azure Notification Hubs

This is an on-going post … so it will be updated in the near future in order to provide more info on this topic 😉 See also Gestire le notifiche push di una Universal Windows app con i Notification Hub di Azure … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Review e test, Smartphone OS, Windows | 1 commento

How to change the default search engine in Microsoft Edge

The procedure to add (and possibly set as default) a  search engine other than Bing is, till now, not very friendly in Microsoft Edge. It is true that now Bing search engine is comparable with Google one (or may be others), … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Tecnologia, Windows | 1 commento

Nice tools/services (for free) … and other useful links – Programmi utili :-)

In the following, I will put some links to free tools that I found useful … … it is a growing list! Please, do suggest even more in your comments! ============================================================ Nice tools/services (for free) 7zip: to save the zipped … Continua a leggere

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Some considerations about the new Microsoft Edge browser

With Windows 10 Microsoft introduced a new browser with a lot of new features never seen before in any existing browser (at least without possible plug-ins): for example, you can draw over the browsed page and possibly share it, you … Continua a leggere

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How to do a slide show of your photos in Windows 10

At least with the insider preview build 10547,  the embedded Photos app has now also a Slide Show (F5 – second icon in the top right menu) feature: so no need anymore to necessarily use other ways … that any way remain … Continua a leggere

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State or status?

Too often, in programming, the two terms status or state are used indifferently. I did some search on Internet and I found this answer that I consider reasonable … anyway you can comment on it   😉 status == how are you? [es. … Continua a leggere

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Surface Pro 3 useful links

In the following some useful links and sreenshots for Surface 3 Pro. Surface Support (Microsoft Customer Care Center [IT]) Device repair : from here you can register your device inserting the serial number and then, clicking on it (and waiting for … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Review e test, Windows | 1 commento

Usually to be connected to a Wi-Fi network it is sufficient to put the Wi-Fi on, click on the Wi-Fi icon (on the taskbar at right), select the right name from the available Wi-Fi list and (if protected) insert the proper secure key. … Continua a leggere

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Template 10: useful information and links

In this post I will put information and useful links related to the Template 10 and possibly I’ll add also some considerations using it: therefore it is an ongoing post that will contain more and more contents … whenever I’ll find … Continua a leggere

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Problems in downloading your photos from your Fuji X-T1 to a Windows 10 PC? Please, update the camera firmware to be Windows 10 supported … and use a proper USB cable connection! Useful FujiX T1 links.

Yesterday I took some photos with my Fuji X-T1 and when I tried to download them to my upgraded Windows 10 PC I had a bad surprise: no way to see anymore the photos connecting via USB the camera to my PC, … Continua a leggere

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How manage (and possibly turn off) Windows Update in Windows 10

I really do not know why, but there is someone that do not want to have the latest update of Windows 10 to be installed, at least automatically, even leaving you to choose the time when you prefer to start the update procedure. I … Continua a leggere

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Programming for Windows 10: useful links

In  the following there is a list of useful links for Windows 10 programming. You can have a look also to Windows Phone 8.1 – Some useful links for developing Windows “Universal Apps” and/or other posts related to Windows and/or to the post … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Smartphone OS, Windows | 4 commenti

Windows 10: how to map your OneDrive cloud storage as a drive in File Explorer

P.S. Since 2018 Windows 10 update, OneDrive management became better and now it allows to set files on-demand (so free space on your PC) and to have different sharing options to files/folders. See, for example,  https://www.windowscentral.com/how-get-started-onedrive-windows-10 _______________________ Some time ago, … Continua a leggere

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Programming maps in Windows 10 Universal app

In the following you can find some useful links related to programming maps in Windows Universal app. Mappe, pushpin e MVVM nelle Universal Windows app [sample] (M. Pagani) [here you can download the docx file] UWP Map data binding with … Continua a leggere

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What to do if, compiling in release mode a Universal Windows app, this error is displayed: “LOGGERBASEDEXECTASK : ILC error ILC1004”

It happened to me to have my prototype Universal Windows app compile and run in debug mode, but when I switched in release mode a strange “LOGGERBASEDEXECTASK : ILC error ILC1004” was trown. Searching in the MSDN forum I found … Continua a leggere

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How to locally install an Universal Windows 10 app on a Windows 10 device and possibly debug it remotely

Very often it is useful to install your app on a device different from the one used for development, where probably Visual Studio is installed so the deploy on it can be simply done running the app in that IDE. … Continua a leggere

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Poco usabile la sezione di registrazione del sito GTT di Torino (e … troppi problemi di accesso al suo sito di e-commerce?)

In previsione della prossima apertura delle scuole ho pensato di provvedere fin da ora a rinnovare a mia figlia studente l’abbonamento annuale per l’utilizzo dei mezzi pubblici. _______________________________ P.S. 8/2019 – Vedi anche: Come agevolmente (senza fare code) rinnovare/attivare online un … Continua a leggere

Pubblicato in Giustizia, burocrazia e malcostume, Just for fun!, Review e test | 6 commenti