Windows 8.1 App Watch

I guess you can term Goal.com as the football (or soccer) equivalent of DigiTimes. This is one website that has made a name for itself in spreading fake rumors and even more fake headlines.

Beyond this questionable strategy, however, you will find a worthy resource of football news, match reports and features. This, again, is the case for the official Goal.com apps on various platforms, they lack the necessary refinements that you find on other sports apps. And Windows 8.1 is no different.

Even the official description could use some work:

“The new Goal.com app brings you the latest news direct from our worldwide network of reporters, with exclusive content, interviews, transfer gossip, live scores and much more from the world of football.

No matter where you are or what you’re doing, you will be able to get all of the latest football news within seconds, with the Goal.com app. Goal.com gives the most comprehensive and expert coverage from all the major domestic leagues and international tournaments.”

But the app is here, and even though the initial release lacks the necessary polish, we can expect future updates to take care of this. In its current state, however, the app works fine, without any hiccups or glitches, and brings the latest news from the site and presents it in a Modern UI environment.

Which brings us to the design, which again, is serviceable. Better options to select and follow a team would be welcome, and enhanced navigation would make for a much improved experience.

Hopefully, all that is coming in future refreshes, of what is currently a pedestrian app as of this writing. It does, however, support all modern versions of Windows, including Windows RT 8.1.

Utilize your Apple gadgets memory effectively

iPhone/iPad are the latest technology devices those are used by many people across the world. Many applications are installed by default in Apple devices which consumes a lot of memory, but can be removed via striking photo streams.  Advanced featured applications are compatible with these devices. If somebody wants to remove some applications then proper procedure is followed.

Photo stream is the effective image application that is used in iPhone devices that also occupy some space.  If someone wants to save space in his/her iPad/iPhone then he/she must switch off some applications those are not necessary for them. Many people confused about photo stream application and do not know about how to switch off this application. Photo stream app is installed in iPhoto section in iCloud preferences. ICloud account is necessary to view photo stream application then this app is turning on by using preference section.  But somebody want to remove or switch off this application then he/she must follow given below steps to save space.

Procedure to turn off Photo stream

• First of all go to iPhoto section then chose preferences, now click on photo stream icon
• Now turn off Photo stream section and turn off button clicked then photo stream app deselected. Now extra space allocated for user to install other useful applications to use in easier ways.
• Same procedure is followed on all iOS devices. By removing this app all photos are deleted. First of all go to tap settings & now turn off “photo stream” section. If you turn off photo stream section but do not off iPhoto then photo stream section work and photos saved in iPhoto section.

When photo stream section then many actions performed and settings will disturb.  Some feature points and settings that changes and happening events appear when we disable Photo stream are given as follows:

• All photos from this section are removed.
• Now new captured photos with iOS multimedia devices uploaded in iCloud section but not saved in iPhoto.
• When you import new photos then these photos not appear.
• But photo stream available for 30 days. If you reselect this section then those photos appear which are not deleted from this section.

 If you remove Photo stream app then extra space available for new applications. You can choose other Photos application that occupy less space and also light so that you get benefit. You can select photos for editing and removing purposes. Photos applications are also used for sharing purposes with the help of internet connection. You can upload and remove photos. Need is that user have legal account and then use photos and other applications in secure ways. If you remove photo stream application then space become according to your image size. If image size is about 1GB then after removal of this application 1 GB space become available for using other applications.

How To Boot And Install Windows 8 Developer Preview From USB Flash Drive

With the exciting release of Windows 8 Developer Preview at the Microsoft Build Conference yesterday many developers are ready to start playing with the new Windows. But what if the PC you wish to install Windows 8 on doesn’t have a DVD-ROM drive as is the case with many slate PCs and UMPCs. We have a solution for you, a simple step-by-step tutorial for making a bootable Windows 8 USB flash drive.

DISCLAIMER – This process has only been test using a Windows 7 PC, proceed at your own risk.

Step 1 -  Format the USB Drive

This step is simple just make sure you choose NTFS in the File System drop down.

Step 2 – Set USB Drive’s main partition to Active

For this step you have to open a command prompt, do this by finding Command Prompt in your Start menu and Right-clicking it and selecting “Run as administrator”

Type the following two commands:

diskpart
list disk

Make a note of the disk number of your USB drive and run the following:

select disk X (Where X is the number of you USB drive)
list partition

Again make a note of the partition number then type the following:

select partition Y (Where Y is the partition number)
active

This will set the partition to active and you can exit diskpart by typing “exit”.

Step 3 – Creating the bootable USB flash drive

You will need to download the Windows 8 ISO of your choosing, to do so go to dev.windows.com and go to the Downloads section.

You will also need an archiving tool, I am using 7zip but you could also use WinRar.

Right-click on the Windows 8 ISO file and Extract files. Remember the folder you extracted the files to.

In you command prompt from earlier navigate to the directory you extract the Windows 8 ISO to.
Once the run the following commands:

cd boot
bootsect /nt60 X: (Where X is the drive letter of you USB drive)

Now you can use Explorer to copy all the files from your Windows 8 directory to the root of your USB flash drive.

You should be able to boot to the USB drive now and install Windows 8, you may have to alter your PC’s BIOS settings to enable booting to USB.