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Windows Phone 8.1 Screen Shots and Stuffs

Karthikeyan5 Comments

This post is about my random thoughts on Windows Phone 8.1 and what it has to offer in no certain order, its quite like a rant, like i’m writing a diary. If you’re into editorial stuffs, you might like this one 😉 Its image heavy, and the comments are at the bottom of the screenshots. We have a new Downloads folder, sweet! No more searching where the downloads went 🙂 SD has a System Volume Information, oh Windows! Perhaps it has the encrypting the apps part in it and extras. It has an index.   Yeah I know 🙂 Okay! …

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Getting Cortana in India

Karthikeyan0 Comments

So all around the Internet (or at least in the Windows Phone world) people are saying, If you want Cortana outside of US, change your region to US. This video suggest the same, and it also has a background audio which was used in the commercials for the Apple iPhone, how ironic. We had other ideas, we thought of something else that works for now. I had an idea that Cortana might work if you keep your region  unchanged as India and you just change all the language settings into US, at least the Bing services works that way now. But …

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Windows Phone 8.1 has search feature for Text Messages, Finally!

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A reddit user just discovered while trying the new SDK that Windows Phone 8.1 has now search feature for text message. It’s a very basic feature yet it was dumped in Windows Phone 7 and 8. Search feature in text messages is quite handy while searching for a particular text, let it be related to your registration Id from some service or important texts from your friends/family. Some users in the comments are also claiming that you will be able to search for text messages using Cortana voice commands, like “Show texts from my wife”. There are so many little …

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