FIX: Firefox tabs having strange colors in Windows 8

This graphics glitch is a known bug in Firefox running on Windows 8. It appears to manifest only on machines that run on nVidia graphics cards and it is caused by the browser using hardware acceleration. The fix is simple – disable hardware acceleration from your browser’s settings menu. The strange colors will be gone…

AdMob crashing Windows Phone apps. What is the alternative?

Not long ago I’ve published my first app using the devcenter developer account and not the global publisher – and just a couple of days later (or should I say weeks) I started noticing crash reports for my app.  Downloaded the stack trace data in hope that I could find out where the issue was…

Windows 8 and Secure Boot – What if your PC doesn’t support it?

So today, while (by mistake) attempting to upgrade my Windows 7 to Windows 8 I ran into a compatibility check with 6 errors including one that states: Secure Boot isn’t compatible with your PC At first it gave me the creeps thinking that I won’t be able to install Windows 8 although the Consumer Preview…

8bit Google Maps for NES

Google has long neglected one of the most popular and best sold devices ever – but all that ignorance ends today as Google releases their first NES product: Google Maps 8bit for NES. The product has all of the features you got used to on the desktop version, including the street view: All this is…

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Metro TimeBlock

Metro TimeBlock is a time display control that I’ve made which should allow you to display time in any color and with any background you want. Size is also adjustable and you can choose to display either the current time or a time of your own. Properties of the control: Time – takes in any…