Storify – My #SPC12 Thoughts
A collection of my tweets from #SPC12.
Storify – My Thoughts on Gaza
My thoughts on Gaza http://storify.com/adamtoth/my-thoughts-on-gaza
Playing Angry Birds Space on Windows 8 on the TouchSmart
Installing Windows 8 on an HP TouchSmart IQ800 Series
I have one of those first generation all-in-one HP Touchsmart computers (the IQ824 CTO to be exact) wall mounted in my kitchen, and I’ve been super happy with it, and gotten more use out of it than I ever could have imagined. It came installed with Windows Vista, and I upgraded it to Windows 7 when that came out and worked out a bunch of kinks. With the Windows 8 RTM, I decided to see if I could get some more mileage out of it and figure out if this Windows 8 touch experience could give it some new life.
Windows 8, UAC, Visual Studio, and always Run as Administrator
One of the biggest kinks I’ve had to work out so far on Windows 8 is fighting with UAC. Since I do a lot of SharePoint 2010 development, I need to run Visual Studio as an Administrator in order for the SharePoint tools in Visual Studio to work properly. After using Windows 8, I quickly found out that you can’t completely disable UAC in Windows 8. (more…)