Develop Bugs

Detailed weather URL not working

(by McNevin and mloamiller from T-Mobile forums)
On the weather tab, when I click on "More Detail Online" I get a 404 error page. It does the same thing on my PC, if type the address manually. I can look up detailed weather pages, I know that Athens, Greece works.
The correct address is:
http://www.accuweather.com/m/en-us/NAM/US/WA/Seattle/details.aspx
What I get when I click is:
http://www.accuweather.com/m/NAM/US/WA/Seattle/details.aspx
I searched for a registry settng that would define this URL, but the only setting I found pointed to "manila:IDS_WEATHER" or something like that (don't remember the exact syntax). I remember seeing a large number of files named "manila" in the Windows folder, and also remember someone saying this was the app name for the TF3D interface. I took a look at one of those files - they seem to be XML files, and the one I looked at had several tags such as
<trans-unit id="IDS_MENU">
<source>Menu</source>
</trans-unit>
I would be willing to bet that one of these _manila files includes an "IDS_WEATHER" tag with the actual URL that gets used by the weather app; changing that URL may fix the problem. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of these _manila files and I don't have a way to search all of them for "WEATHER".
Any ideas on how to fix this?

Don't have an answer to the specific question, but if you were to copy all of the manilla xml files on to your desktop you could then use the Windows search to search for snippets of the url within them.
However, it's entirely possible that this data is compiled into the applications binary files. If you have no luck, email accuweather and tell them there are embedded devices that have the wrong URL. They surely want the inbound traffic so it's in their interests and relatively trivial for them to set up a redirect from the broken one on their site. To be honest, this would be the best solution as it would work for everyone!

I thought of that, but the files don't have any extension (e.g. 00a49dc2_manila); doesn't Windows Search require an extension, so a specific viewer can be associated with them? I couldn't figure out how to rename all of them to have an XML (or even TXT) extension so they could be searched.
However, I just answered my own question - I remember I had Notepad++ on my machine which allows me to search through files regardless of their extension. I'll give that a shot.

I was able to search through all of the "manila" files for "WEATHER" and found 463 hits among 63 different files. Of those, "accuweather" only showed up 4 times in one file (17ae3d30_manila), but none of them are the URL I was looking for. Back to the drawing board, I guess.

That file looks to be the html page it sends you to when you hit "About" in the weather tab.
How about this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2488224&postcount=73

Search button = google.com???

I don't know if this has been posted already and I'm not sure if this is a feature or some Hostile Takeover by Google.
When I have IE open on my HD7 no matter what page I'm on hitting my search button takes me to Google.com! I don't have anything against Google I actually prefer it, but I find this to be kind of strange on a Windows 7 handset.

Two words: Mobile Operators (Tmobile, AT&T, etc)

Is there any way to changes this? this is pretty annoying
My Trophy uses a Vodafone web to search. I have to go out of IE and then press search to use Bing.

Mobiplayer said:
Is there any way to changes this? this is pretty annoying
My Trophy uses a Vodafone web to search. I have to go out of IE and then press search to use Bing.
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From the secret microsoft documents I've read, this is a WP7 registry setting that carriers adjust before shipping the phones.
I don't think we're too far from having a reg editor given that apps have already been demonstrated that can browse the file system. Just chill a few weeks

I think you can edit registry entries through the MFG application. I sure wouldn't mess with it for fun, though....

According to this document
All you need to do is change the following 2 keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes
"DefaultScope"="Bing"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\Bing
"Url"="http://www.bing.com/search?q={searchterms}&src=IE7-Mobile"
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now the question is how to add this reg keys in a .xap file or how to get access to the registry on the wp7 device

[XAP + Source] Advanced Explorer [Version 1.4]

Hello XDA Community,
@DEVELOPERS: I need some developers with other devices to make things (at least parts of advanced explorer) work on other devices (i have a htd hd7). !Programming & Testing!
Please PM me
To bring all together what xda achieved for WP7, i wrote a helper app for the following tasks,
- File management
- Registry management
- Copy files from desktop to phone
- Copy files from phone to desktop
- Set max unsigned apps
- Provision any given XML
If you post in this thread how any of those features could be implemented on other devices, i will maybe implement them. You can always send me a modified version and i will maybe update this post with the new version!
Usage/(Release-)Notes on the website!
If you encounter any errors, or wanna give some feedback => just leave a post here or use the idea page or write me an email (go to contact on the homepage)!
I included the source code, so that anybody can modify it at will but do not use anything here for commercial purposes (contact me first).
Homepage for this project:
http://sites.google.com/site/yaafdevelopers/projects/advanced-explorer-for-wp7
You can give feedback / bugreports:
http://advancedexplorerwp7.codeplex.com/
(Go to Discussion or Issue Tracker)
You will find the latest version and the Release-Notes there. I will continue to watch this thread!
Because some people asked how to support/donate me:
I appreciate every donation! Thank you!
reddragon

He that is great stff... i am glad you added the source i was thinking about how this could work having had a little peek at the code in the samples that Ms provided.
wings over a thanks too

Question...If you send a file, where does the device dump it into the computer? I was getting an error sending the file to my computer at first, but then I configured correctly and it sends fine, but I don't know where it is...
Edit: Nevermind, I got it. Upload/Download Root folders. Good work on this app man. Pretty nifty. Uploaded a .doc from my laptop to the phone, copy/pasted it into My Docs and it appeared and opened on MS Office Word perfectly.

nice ! but ...
Nice app !
But can't send from \windows directory ?..

Re: can't send from \windows
Hey,
like i said in my first post i brought together what was achieved...
Im using the HTC app COM dll files for file system access. Actually you can send files from \windows but not all. (in usage or no access)...
If somebody knows a better way, or something for other devices => just implement and send it, or post here!
The problem: Now it works on my device, so I can do what i wanted to do (coping .pdf and other stuff on the wp7) I have not the time to search & wait for other devices.
I tried to code it very generic and emulated the System.IO namespace, so everybody can add his results or replace it with better results.
Just contact me and I will check the code and update the first post.
reddragon93

eternalemb said:
Question...If you send a file, where does the device dump it into the computer? I was getting an error sending the file to my computer at first, but then I configured correctly and it sends fine, but I don't know where it is...
Edit: Nevermind, I got it. Upload/Download Root folders. Good work on this app man. Pretty nifty. Uploaded a .doc from my laptop to the phone, copy/pasted it into My Docs and it appeared and opened on MS Office Word perfectly.
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actually you can double tab any file and it should open from any folder.
To get PDF working I copy the file to the PDF reader (most likely the app will crash if Adobe reader is not installed), but you will not see anything as PDF reader just pops up with the file
Just like always contact me if there are file types missing!

cool app, ty
how long did it take?

hi reddragon93, thank you for your work, i've an lg optimus 7, is there an eta for explorer for other device?
i need it!!!
thank you so much!

gianlucarugby said:
hi reddragon93, thank you for your work, i've an lg optimus 7, is there an eta for explorer for other device?
i need it!!!
thank you so much!
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I really can understand you because I needed this for myself (that's why I coded it in the first place)
But the answer is NO, because we have to wait until somebody finds a way to get access on other devices and shares the info (i will observe this thread for new infos).
And by the way you should not ask for ETA in developer forum (forum rules), but it's OK for me. Hope you will be the only one after my answer
I answered this question in my first post:
"If you post in this thread how any of those features could be implemented on other devices, i will maybe implement them"
Hope I answered your question.
reddragon

thanks, you were very kind,
apologize me for the ETA, i did not know, i'm just a student not a developer!
good work!

EDIT: I can't figure out how to mark a post as useful yet, so let me just say THANK YOU!!!
Awesome app. However, there are a few things that would be nice in terms of file types:
Any chance of getting support for loading .mobi files (Kindle ebooks)? I'd love to be able to sideload books that aren't in the Amazon store.
Currently, .log files won't open. Copy/renaming them to .txt should work, or a simple text reader/editor could be built-in.
Possible bug: the "Max unsigned apps" field in Settings is showing "Not set - (can't read from registry)" Setting it from within the app seems to work, though (and be remembered).
Feature request: ability to search the registry
Small change request: pressing Back on an Exception could do the same as OK (rather than exiting).
Overally, much thanks for an awesome tool!

Thanks for feedback
GoodDayToDie said:
EDIT: I can't figure out how to mark a post as useful yet, so let me just say THANK YOU!!!
Awesome app. However, there are a few things that would be nice in terms of file types:
Any chance of getting support for loading .mobi files (Kindle ebooks)? I'd love to be able to sideload books that aren't in the Amazon store.
Currently, .log files won't open. Copy/renaming them to .txt should work, or a simple text reader/editor could be built-in.
Possible bug: the "Max unsigned apps" field in Settings is showing "Not set - (can't read from registry)" Setting it from within the app seems to work, though (and be remembered).
Feature request: ability to search the registry
Small change request: pressing Back on an Exception could do the same as OK (rather than exiting).
Overally, much thanks for an awesome tool!
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Thanks for your feedback!
(1) I really needed the app for myself (real pdf support) so... The Thanks Button is only visible with 5+ Posts
(2) i will pm you maybe if i find some spare time. This is most likely pretty simple to implement. Can you edit your (or create a new) post and describe what happens if you double tab a kindle book with the current version?
(3) yeah i saw this before but didn't thought it is important enough to implement. I don't have the time for the own Editor (you have to handle really big files for example) but i can do the renaming thing behind the scenes (remember renaming = copy+delete until a better solution is found).
(4) on first app start i have really no solution in determining how the value is set (no access on this key). So my solution was to set this text ("Not set - (can't read from registry)" until you set a value => then i save this value local to the app, and set it every time the app starts (It gets reset every time i connect the device to the PC anyway)
(5) "search the registry": I thought on this one... But this will not be of much use as we have not really much read access
NOTE: The Problem with the registry is that we have FULL WRITE access trough the provxml method but not very much READ access (HTC COM .dll)
(6) really? I'm satisfied with the current behavior. Without searching I don't know if this is a small change maybe it is, maybe not. At least it looks like one but that doesn't mean anything
reddragon

Thanks for the response, reddragon. I'm at work right now, so the .mobi thing will have to wait. It's a very common request among WP7 users around here, though.
I've found that selecting the Edit context item will open any file in Word, which is typically sufficient for viewing and even editing purposes! True plain text files open fine regardless of extension, and even binary files will usually have enough ASCII in them to determine useful info. You can also send any file (via email) from Word, if you want to email an attachment rather than just transfer to a PC.
Unfortunately, I've found that XML files just... don't work. Double-clicking them opens IE, which complains that it can't handle that file type. Selecting Edit on them looks like it's opening some Office app, but the app then closes and drops back into Advanced Explorer (no error). This is the currently problematic filetype, as a *lot* of data is stored in XML.
The "Registry Editor" app already provides registry search (and despite the security restrictions on read it *mostly* works) but without system copy-paste it's tricky moving data between apps. I enjoy being able to pan between the FS and registry... hell, I want a Windows (desktop) app that does this, now.
It looks like there's FS search (an option on the command bar, and a text box that appears) but I can't get it to do anything. Pressing Enter has no effect, tapping either Refresh or Search again just reloads the page. Am I using this right? It would be great to be able to either scroll long folders (\Windows) or find a filename behind a bunch of GUIDs.
Some files show as "0 b" size, even though they almost certainly aren't. Is that just because some program has an exclusive lock on them and their size can't be read in that state?
Any chance of the ability to create folders in the GUI (I think I see how to do it with provxml files, but that's not exactly convenient)?
Thanks for the explanations on the registry. I was wondering how you could write to locations that you can't read from... Also, I didn't know the sideload limit resets itself. That's something I'll have to watch out for, as I'm near the nominal sideload limit already. Hmm... maybe I should look into writing an app that lets the phone install a .XAP directly, to minimize the amount of PC connecting that's needed.
Sorry, I know that's a lot of comments and questions. If it helps, I showed this to a couple of other HD7 owners today, and the immediate response of both of them was "I've got to get that!" This is a great app, super-convenient and good for making the occasional Samsung Focus owner jealous ;-D
Actually, I'm a developer myself (mostly C/C++, but I know C#). I'll crack a look at the source when I get a chance (probably this weekend) but would you be interested in a patch if there's something I can improve? One thing I might add is an optional "Did you mean that?" prompt on the Back button, as it's a little too easy to hit and knock you clear out of the app (optional of course, as I understand some people don't have such problems).
Thanks again!

does anyone know the latest ETA on compatibility for samsung devices?

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GoodDayToDie said:
Thanks for the response, reddragon. I'm at work right now, so the .mobi thing will have to wait. It's a very common request among WP7 users around here, though.
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Like I said: I will pm you most likely, today or this weekend.
GoodDayToDie said:
I've found that selecting the Edit context item will open any file in Word, which is typically sufficient for viewing and even editing purposes! True plain text files open fine regardless of extension, and even binary files will usually have enough ASCII in them to determine useful info. You can also send any file (via email) from Word, if you want to email an attachment rather than just transfer to a PC.
Unfortunately, I've found that XML files just... don't work. Double-clicking them opens IE, which complains that it can't handle that file type. Selecting Edit on them looks like it's opening some Office app, but the app then closes and drops back into Advanced Explorer (no error). This is the currently problematic filetype, as a *lot* of data is stored in XML.
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Yeah the best way to handle the edit mode would be an editor inside the app, but that's quite some work i guess... So if somebody is willing to write such a control just contact me!
But the current workaround is quite simple: Upload your file, edit it with the powerful editors you know and send it back to the phone...
In fact what i did was send the complete windows/applications folder and all files that where successfully send can be edited (on the others you have no access anyway).
GoodDayToDie said:
The "Registry Editor" app already provides registry search (and despite the security restrictions on read it *mostly* works) but without system copy-paste it's tricky moving data between apps. I enjoy being able to pan between the FS and registry... hell, I want a Windows (desktop) app that does this, now.
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Well I think it's not that difficult to implement a search for registry. It's funny to say that all the time but I thought on this one too and if you look on the source code you will see that i positioned the search/filter text box out of the explorer pivot to use it for registry search or other purposes. If you find it really that useful with the current read restrictions... yeah I should just implement it...
GoodDayToDie said:
It looks like there's FS search (an option on the command bar, and a text box that appears) but I can't get it to do anything. Pressing Enter has no effect, tapping either Refresh or Search again just reloads the page. Am I using this right? It would be great to be able to either scroll long folders (\Windows) or find a filename behind a bunch of GUIDs.
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In fact this is a filter function so that large folders can be loaded much faster. Just enter "a*" and make the keyboard disappear (tab anywhere else) and you see only the files/folders starting with "a". I don't know why "enter" on keyboard doesn't do anything, I will look into this. I should update the usage in my first post, thanks.
GoodDayToDie said:
Some files show as "0 b" size, even though they almost certainly aren't. Is that just because some program has an exclusive lock on them and their size can't be read in that state?
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yep.
From the htc COM call i get 0 bytes....
GoodDayToDie said:
Any chance of the ability to create folders in the GUI (I think I see how to do it with provxml files, but that's not exactly convenient)?
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Hehe, i thought on this one too as it is already implemented (just create a folder in UploadRoot drop a file and start downloading it to the phone => the folder gets created). I will look into this.
Can you (or anybody) provide me with an example on how to rename a folder via provxml. And in Yaaf.WP7.NativeAccess.IO.File i have in the "Move" method some code commentated. Can somebody please un-comment, debug and tell me why the hell this provision-xml is invalid / not working, thanks.
(ProvisionXml is completely new to me as this is my first smartphone)
GoodDayToDie said:
Thanks for the explanations on the registry. I was wondering how you could write to locations that you can't read from... Also, I didn't know the sideload limit resets itself. That's something I'll have to watch out for, as I'm near the nominal sideload limit already. Hmm... maybe I should look into writing an app that lets the phone install a .XAP directly, to minimize the amount of PC connecting that's needed.
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I didn't look into that but i think it is not enough to simply create the guid folder and drop content there... Anyway you can use the "NativeAccess" Projekt to get all the access i used in the Explorer. But you have to create links from your main projekt to the COM-dlls so they get included into the xap file.
GoodDayToDie said:
Sorry, I know that's a lot of comments and questions. If it helps, I showed this to a couple of other HD7 owners today, and the immediate response of both of them was "I've got to get that!" This is a great app, super-convenient and good for making the occasional Samsung Focus owner jealous ;-D
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That's what keeping me up i guess
GoodDayToDie said:
Actually, I'm a developer myself (mostly C/C++, but I know C#). I'll crack a look at the source when I get a chance (probably this weekend) but would you be interested in a patch if there's something I can improve? One thing I might add is an optional "Did you mean that?" prompt on the Back button, as it's a little too easy to hit and knock you clear out of the app (optional of course, as I understand some people don't have such problems).
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I'm always interested in any patch especially support for other devices (I have a htc so I can't debug stuff for other devices :/ )
Yeah there could be an option for that. It's pretty easy to implement so... But i don't have this problem so i didn't realised that one.
GoodDayToDie said:
Thanks again!
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Thank you for your feedback
Muzzy777 said:
does anyone know the latest ETA on compatibility for samsung devices?
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Well I answered this on the first page of the thread already, thanks.
EDIT: I updated the program and my first post and implemented some of your feature requests
reddragon

Configuration Service Provider Reference for Windows Mobile Devices

Have you used the forum-search? You'll find a post which describes you how to get these books to your phone (it's by me). I can't give you the link because I send this from my HD7.

really great app. Also like the pc<->phone feature
I use it now very often, so I think it needs:
-2 Filebrowser Tabs
-or an option to "bookmark" certain folders

diboze said:
really great app. Also like the pc<->phone feature
I use it now very often, so I think it needs:
-2 Filebrowser Tabs
-or an option to "bookmark" certain folders
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I talked to other people, at first this feature looks awesome, but after some time you would see that you don't use 2 tabs!
The bookmarking thing is a good idea...
Elerador said:
Have you used the forum-search? You'll find a post which describes you how to get these books to your phone (it's by me). I can't give you the link because I send this from my HD7.
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I'm looking into amazon kindle... what i can do for sure is copy the file into the kindle folder and start amazon kindle...
But i forgot how to start a program via app-guid. I remember that i saw an COM.dll which can do that.
__ow said:
Configuration Service Provider Reference for Windows Mobile Devices
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i know that link but i don't see how you can move folders (if it is possible)
reddragon

Love the update! Thanks for cluing me in on the workings of the filter; I wasn't trying wildcards and it therefore looked like it was always empty.
That said, a bug report (reproed on the older version too):
Registry manual mode can crash with a System.ArgumentException "Invalid fullpath".
Start Advanced Explorer
Pan to Registry
Tap "edit manual"
Observe exception
App crashes on hitting OK

[Q] Binding of Isaac on the Surface RT or windows RT?

So, I wanna try playing Binding of Isaac on the surface RT when it gets shipped later.
Yes, yes, its a x86 program, but there seems to be an exception with the linux version being bundled with the humble bundle-- its a .swf file.
Is there anyway to play this .swf file, since surface rt supports flash?
Thanx!

Embed it in a local HTML page?

GoodDayToDie said:
Embed it in a local HTML page?
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I apologize for my ignorance. How do you do that?

Disclaimer: I am not an HTML guru (just a noob actually, googled for this) nor have I tested it with binding of isaac (I did have another swf that worked though on x86 windows).
Open notepad.
Copy and paste this in:
Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>The Binding Of Isaac</title>
</head>
<body>
<object width="800" height="600">
<param name="movie" value="flashmovie.swf">
<embed src="flashmovie.swf" width="800" height="600">
</embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>
Change flashmovie.swf to match whatever the filename is for the binding of isaac is in both line 7 and line 8.
Save it in the same folder as your binding of isaac swf, any name really as long as it ends in .html so will open in internet explorer.
I dont know what the window size is for binding of isaac off the top of my head, I think it is 800x600 though. If not you may have to adjust the width and height parameters in lines 6 and 8.
Should then play from within internet explorer. It might not, I'm not even sure if it plays nicely being embedded into web pages like that.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
Disclaimer: I am not an HTML guru (just a noob actually, googled for this) nor have I tested it with binding of isaac (I did have another swf that worked though on x86 windows).
Open notepad.
Copy and paste this in:
Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>The Binding Of Isaac</title>
</head>
<body>
<object width="800" height="600">
<param name="movie" value="flashmovie.swf">
<embed src="flashmovie.swf" width="800" height="600">
</embed>
</object>
</body>
</html>
Change flashmovie.swf to match whatever the filename is for the binding of isaac is in both line 7 and line 8.
Save it in the same folder as your binding of isaac swf, any name really as long as it ends in .html so will open in internet explorer.
I dont know what the window size is for binding of isaac off the top of my head, I think it is 800x600 though. If not you may have to adjust the width and height parameters in lines 6 and 8.
Should then play from within internet explorer. It might not, I'm not even sure if it plays nicely being embedded into web pages like that.
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Thanks for the reply, but this doesn't work. Odd because I could just play SWF files on regular windows using the browser simply by opening the file through either internet explorer or Chrome.

Just to make sure: are you fully up to date? You need to have a recent enough version of RT (last ~8 months, I think) that it doesn't have the Flash whitelist any more.

I just gave it a try out of curiosity. First, I didn't see any Linux Humble Bundle download that gave me a swf. I just ran the Windows version and pulled the swf from the temp folder the game creates. Using the same HTML code posted above, the swf runs in desktop IE10. It does not,however, run in Metro IE10. But lastly, it's not worth anyone's time trying this, because even at the lowest details, the game runs so slow as to be unplayable.

jhoff80 said:
I just gave it a try out of curiosity. First, I didn't see any Linux Humble Bundle download that gave me a swf. I just ran the Windows version and pulled the swf from the temp folder the game creates. Using the same HTML code posted above, the swf runs in desktop IE10. It does not,however, run in Metro IE10. But lastly, it's not worth anyone's time trying this, because even at the lowest details, the game runs so slow as to be unplayable.
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Wow, something I wrote worked???
I just went on my humble bundle account, set platform to linux. It gave me the option of .tar.gz, .deb and flash. Flash being a swf.

SixSixSevenSeven said:
I just went on my humble bundle account, set platform to linux. It gave me the option of .tar.gz, .deb and flash. Flash being a swf.
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Weird, I see .tar.gz, 32-bit rpm, 64-bit deb, and 32-bit deb, even when I view it on my Surface RT.

jhoff80 said:
Weird, I see .tar.gz, 32-bit rpm, 64-bit deb, and 32-bit deb, even when I view it on my Surface RT.
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This is what I see on my humble account (I forgot to drop image res before uploading so I wont embed it, not everyone wants a nice big picture): http://imgur.com/I9nqf7g

Better way than IE10
Hey,
I just discovered another Option to Play *.SWF- games on winows rt devices:
Switch to Desktop -> Charm Bar -> Systemsettings -> System & Security -> Flash Player
Go to the advance tab & scroll down,
-> Settings for trustworthy Files or something -> add -> add file -> select *.swf accept and Close everything.
To Launch the game, double clicking the file should do the Job.
Guide might be inaccurat, my surface rt is running with german as Default language. You can see where I am too tierd to fight autocorrect, can't you?.
please report,I think your Idea of running Flash games locally is great.
best regards,
kalle.

Hmm don't know anything about playable fps but what wrote in my first post is working i Desktop mode. You can open the *.swf file with IE10 and then Need to Switch to the Desktop and allow ActiveX to start playing. Fullscreen is not working.
Best regards.
kalle

[GUIDE] Open multiple websites in one click in Windows 8

Hello XDA,
here is a simple guide from my side describing a simple fun trick that allows you to open multiple websites in a single click on Windows.
I have tried this trick on Windows 8 Pro 64-bit and it works great for me.
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STEPS -
1. First of all, create a notepad file on the desktop.
2. Now, open it and paste the code as follow:
Code:
@echo off
start www.forum.xda-developers.com
start www.google.com
start www.facebook.com
Here, instead of the websites I've mentioned, you can use any websites that you'd like to use and open up, but make sure that it is written in the same format as in the code above.
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3. Now save the file and change the extension to '.bat' !
Note - If you can't change the extensions, open up windows explorer, click on 'View' and check the checkbox that says 'File name extensions'. Or in some cases, you may need to go to folder options and select appropriate options(Most probably with the same name saying 'File name extensions' !
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4. Now change the name of the bat file as you desire, in my case it's 'websites.bat' !
5. Now run the 'Websites.bat' file and the websites that you've mentioned will open up in your default browser. :laugh:​
PS - HATERS gonna HATE

Reserved...

Nice idea...works fine..
reduces time of opening tabs manually
thanx for sharing

amit.lohar said:
Nice idea...works fine..
reduces time of opening tabs manually
thanx for sharing
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Glad you liked it.

#Superuser said:
Not everyone uses chrome ! I use Firefox instead and it's better rather than entering websites' name after you have started your browser once, and then opening desired websites. Duh ! Click a file !
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So if they are the tabs you use most often then just set Firefox to open all previous tabs on start up, which will be the ones you obviously use most, and you can resume viewing the thread you were on as well if your lucky...

#Superuser said:
Not everyone uses chrome ! I use Firefox instead and it's better rather than entering websites' name after you have started your browser once, and then opening desired websites. Duh ! Click a file !
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firefox also allows you to set a selection of startup tabs. Internet explorer does too I think. Opera probably does.

penguin449 said:
So if they are the tabs you use most often then just set Firefox to open all previous tabs on start up, which will be the ones you obviously use most, and you can resume viewing the thread you were on as well if your lucky...
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SixSixSevenSeven said:
firefox also allows you to set a selection of startup tabs. Internet explorer does too I think. Opera probably does.
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Wait, you took it the wrong way. I said that if you have started your browser once, but you don't have to use the websites you like at that time, and close the tabs. And when you need it, do you gonna open them manually or open new windows every time. This method is rather time saving and all the setup is to be done once only.
Now no more hates.

Hi,
I did a little thread cleaning. Please let's not get picky about other ways of opening tabs. Even if you can do it inside your browser, this is a distinct way of doing it and there are things you can do with the batch scripts, especially if you have more than one script, that you can't do inside the browser.
Thanks!

Eh... calling this either development or hacking is stretching things a bit, and implying that it's something special to Win8 is outright fabrication. You could have done this on Windows 98, no joke (probably 95, if you had a default browser set up; it would have opened separate windows instead of tabs because browsers back then didn't use tabs, but it would have worked). It's a (trivially basic) batch script...
Oh, and at least on IE, hitting the "Home" button will open your home pages in tabs for you, even if you're already in a browsing session with other tabs open. Just a little tip, I didn't even have to open a new thread with a reserved post under it or anything!