New Laptop Tips & Hints

Hi Dave,

Only having 2 copies for comparison (and both behave the same), I thought the behaviour was normal!

Cheers

Huge

You are opening PDF's with Microsoft reader ( modern application )

You should be using Adobe Reader XI

'nana

Which of the 'modern applications' do you use in preference to their desktop version?

I'd recommend using google chrome to read pdfs, and ban all adobe software (especially flash).

That's a ***** good idea.  And I agree about Adobe stuff.

Thanks.

I use Lightroom and find to be superb. Photoshop is industry standard and extremely powerful, particularly when you consider the third-party plug-ins that are written for it. Adobe Acrobat is the standard for most finished documents in business. High-level legal contracts might use something else but in my business, Acrobat does the job flawlessley. But admittedly we don't guard against fraud, just errors, when we "publish" a report to a client or archive a contract. PostScript drives the world's PC printers.

Admittedly, Flash seems to be a bit of a nightmare in the rapidly evolving online sapce, but it seems a tough challenge, and anyway, they bought that with Macromedia, didn't they?

Does Chrome work as a plug in to Outlook so that PDF preview works without having to actually open the PDF?

That's easy. Skype.

But having said that, there are a few that only exist as Modern applications. Yes they tend to be small info feed type applications but I think that they are easy to develop so why not.

Why is there no Qobuz desktop application?

But have you changed your configuration?

Google Chrome is never designed to act as a plugin to Outlook (or any Microsoft product). To read a pdf attachment in Outlook, you need to save it first and then open it from Chrome.

Not a good recommendation for me then.

Can someone explain what a "modern" application is please?

How does it differ from a desktop application?

Thanks

Dave

I thought that it would be easy to find on Microsoft.com. But this is the best I could find.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...s/apps/dn726767.aspx

http://dev.windows.com/en-us/design/modern-design

I am beginning to like this Win8,  not sure about the "charm" things lurking in the corners tho'

Apps have been minimized (zapped) & wots left reduced to small.  

Now I need to set about transferring all the old stuff & hoping the progs that need to be re-installed will work OK.  I've abandoned MS Office due to rip off pricing & gone Libre Office  

On the Start screen, bottom right, left click?

Dave

Yes done that Dave,   I meant I reduced the apps that I've kept down to small size

The hardest thing so far is this new laptop has a separate numeric key block (the old one didn't) & with that & other keys in different places it does not "touch" for me at the moment.     

Mike-B

Thought I may have been taking a flyer. I'm sure you'll find your way around the laptop and OS before long and have things set-up as you want it.

Dave

I'm getting there,  just given up on Win "Easy" (not) File Transfer,  will do it the old way & copy to/frm HDD