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Expand Your Touch Apps Selection on the Windows 8 Developer Preview

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Well we have arrived in the month of February and that means the Windows 8 Consumer Preview is due out later this month.  As I wrote about yesterday the preparations seem to be starting to bring the next step in the development process to the public and I can see the buzz . . .

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Dropbox: Free Cloud Storage for Beta Testers

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Dropbox, the popular cloud storage service, is offering 5 GB of free storage to users who test Dropbox’s current Beta applications.

Usually, this sort of news is announced via a press release, but instead, Dropbox distributed the information in the notes of the latest software build.  This odd method of announcement makes . . .

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@WinObs Tweeted Links for 04 February 2012

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When the Technology We Create Is Meaningful Facebook Turns 8, And Together We’ve Grown Twitter focuses on Asia after hiring one of Google Asia’s key figures 2012 Technology Predictions 15 of the Most Popular Pictures on Pinterest Why notebooks and good ads are about emotions [Video] DreamSpark and AppHub Sign Up Stepto . . .

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Is the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Arriving Soon?

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I am not sure when it is arriving beyond the confirmed time frame of late February but it certainly appears that preparations are being made for the launch of what will be a consumer preview.

The below screenshot is from a page on Bing (thanks to Liveside for the heads up) that . . .

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@WinObs Tweeted Links for 03 February 2012

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How Tech Can Prepare You for Extreme Weather Micron CEO Steve Appleton, 51, dies in plane crash Websites From Hell reminds us that the Web was once a very ugly place Smartphone shipments top all PCs for the first time Spotify Audiobooks? Not yet…But here are 10 books you can get now . . .

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Windows Phone Marketplace Continues to Expand

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Another sign that the Windows Phone platform is continuing to grow is its continued expansion into more countries world wide.

According to an announcement earlier today from Todd Brix on the Windows Phone Developer Blog the new locales are Argentina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines.  This expansion means that developers in . . .

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