If you’re a developer or enthusiast, you’ve probably been using it for the past year since the Developer Preview was released. After a year of testing and tweaking, the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version was made available in August to TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Since then, the new OS has seen several systems and built-in app updates. Running Windows 8 on a production computer I recently made the switch from Windows 8 on my main production system that has a dual monitor set up....

Using Reading View with Modern IE 11 When you’re on a page with a long article or multiple pages, sometimes it’s nice to be able to read it in one clean fell swoop. Reading View removes the clutter of ads and other elements of the page that can disrupt your reading flow. For example, here’s a look at one of our articles here on groovyPost. Simply click or tap the book icon located at the lower right of the address bar....

Paint 3D Reference Guide This reference guide is intended to help get you up and running with Paint 3D quickly and answer some commonly asked questions of first-time users. It’s not exhaustive, however, so if you have a question that’s not answered in this guide, please leave a comment, and we will do our best to get answers for you and update our guide for other readers. How do I launch Paint 3D?...

Today Microsoft released the 1.0 version of the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7. The Tools allow IT administrators to manage roles and features installed on computers that are running Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, or Windows Server 2003 from a remote computer running Windows 7. Details from Microsoft: Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on remote computers that are running Windows Server 2008 R2 (and, for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003) from a remote computer that is running Windows 7....

Restrict the Ability to Load Website Images in Chrome Open Google Chrome and click the Options icon (Wrench) at the top-right of the window. From the menu click Settings. At the bottom of the settings page click Show Advanced Settings. Scroll down to Privacy and click Content Settings. A pop-up menu will appear, scroll down to Images and click Manage Exceptions. Next is the image exceptions page. On this page, type in a web address, select whether to allow or block images and then press Enter to save it to the list....

Walking into a tax preparer shop like H&R Block will cost you a bare minimum of $99.95 ($129.95 if you pay state taxes). Paying taxes is bad enough so paying a preparer to help you navigate through complex tax law is definitely not groovy! Good news groovyReaders, you might not need to. Depending on your income level, there are several different options for filing both your State and Federal returns for free....

Quick Find comes from the creator of Tab Resize, which we’ve covered a while ago, in an article about viewing multiple tabs in Chrome. Before we talk about Quick Find in detail, let me mention that Tab Resize has been updated and it now has, apart from a better use experience, new features like multi-monitor support, left and right alignment and the ability to use an empty tab. You can find it here in the Chrome Web Store....

Eric Doerr — Group Program Manager, Microsoft Account, posted on the Official Microsoft Blog: To see if Two-Step Verification has been rolled out to your account, just go to: https://account.live.com/proofs/Manage and sign in with your Microsoft Account Password. Then check the Security Info section to see if Two-Step is an option for your account. Microsoft has increasingly focused on delivering connected devices and services that are currently used by more than 700 million people around the world....

Send a Fax without Fax Machine If you don’t have a fax machine of your own, this leaves you with only a few choices: When you look at the options, none of them look that great. If only there were a free alternative that worked… Well, I found one! Filesanywhere is an internet fax service, but it is based on a software system that works like Dropbox. They give you 1GB of free online storage, and there is even an Android app that lets you access these files and fax them from your phone....

Digital copyright mismanagement has become a real barrier on the globalized internet front where information is typically available to everyone. Are you living in a country where certain websites and media are frequently blocked? If so you’ve probably seen plenty of music and video content that can’t be displayed. Hola Unblocker is a browser extension that uses a crowd sourced DNS and VPN solution to allow access to sites that otherwise wouldn’t be available to certain regions....

Right now, I am sitting in my house in my pajamas, and I can pull up 12 free iOS apps from the Starbucks App, Pick of the Week. And these aren’t crappy apps that would be free anyway. It’s not just a bunch of flashlight apps and tic tac toe games–these are legit paid apps that usually sell for $2 to $5 in the App Store. UPDATE: It looks like the Starbucks free Pick of the Week has been discontinued as of Sep....

Steve Jobs died peacefully today after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer, Apple confirmed. He was 56. Jobs, who co-founded Apple with inventor Steve Wozniak in 1976, just last month resigned his post as CEO of the company he revived from near disaster. Jobs, ousted from Apple in 1985, returned in 1997 to engineer what will go down in corporate history as one of the biggest turnarounds of all time....

Photo Credit: Austin Krause When you subscribe to a cellular service contract, you’ve probably paid to much. Granted upfront you might save a few bucks by getting a free phone however in the long-run –you won’t come out ahead. At&t is the worst offender when it comes to overcharging on contract customers vs. prepaid plans. When comparing the two, did you know you’re paying about double? Most cases this represents about a two thousand dollars bogey....

Now I know what your thinking. Translation? That’s been around for YEARS! True, it has been around for years “FOR WEBSITES” BUT the same can’t be true for RSS Feeds. How/why would I use the RSS Translation Feature of Google Reader? Recently I noticed a BLOG mention one of my articles here on groovyPost.com. It was written in Japanese when I went to check it out. Simple, I’ll just use Google Translator to translate the page!...

Since I do a lot of research for writing, I have had the chance to try out a lot of scanning apps over the years. To be able just to use your phone to scan a page or an image is just amazing. Many of these apps also have Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as well, which we will look at later. Here are the five best applications to scan documents with your iPad or iPhone if you have an iPhone....

Whether you link your kids’ allowance to chores, dock their spending money for a less-than-stellar report card, or pay them just for existing as decent human beings, you need an effective method of monitoring that stipend. And if you’re only using pen and paper—or worse, your memory—you might be making it a bigger hassle than necessary. Instead, try outsourcing your bookkeeping to your phone. From customized budgeting options to prepaid cards, these apps let you—and your kids—virtually keep track of who’s getting paid what and when....

The UI changes are slight but very useful. I don’t know about you but I really got sick of scrolling down to the bottom of the conversation every time I needed to reply to an email. Not to mention it always seemed like I had to tap the button twice before my reply box would even open. That’s all solved with this updated version. Check out the quick screenshot tour below for all my favorite updates from the release!...

How to “Bing” a Picture To use it, just tap the camera button on any of those apps. For example, below, I used the Bing app for Android and took a picture of flowers on my deck. It takes a moment to scan the picture and then provides search results you can scroll through. It’s also worth noting that you can use it to search photos you’ve already taken that are stored in your gallery....

Measurements + Free Template The Facebook profile picture comes in at 160 x 160 pixels, while the cover photo size is 851 x 315. You can click on the image below to here’s the direct download our free template, which I will be using for this tutorial. Get Started with Your Facebook Timeline Out on the web, there are many inspirations which you can find to help you get a cover photo idea....

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Demo On the Windows 10 demo site, you can get an idea of how all of its new features work. It features video walkthroughs, Q&As, and device specific demo’s. It allows you to get an idea of what you can expect from Windows 10 on different devices. Want to compare how Cortana or Microsoft Edge works on the desktop, tablet, or Windows Phone? It just takes a couple of clicks....