If you need replacement screws for the bottom panel – the original ones are quite soft – I used
You can find this at Home Depot. The head doesn’t really matter.
Top – original screw, Bottom – one from Home Depot.
Some modders will try to sell you a flat-ended screw (“Type B”) at a rip-off level prices – don’t buy that. You don’t need self-tapping or self-drilling screws either (has drill-bit end). You already have the hole.
Before I begin, it’s probably worth mentioning while I’m a Microsoft employee, this is a personal blog.
You might have noticed that OneNote notebooks stored on SkyDrive or SkyDrive Pro tends to sync down to your computer as “Internet Shortcut”. It’s basically a short cut to the URL somewhere on skydrive.com.
Well that’s fine, until you have this problem: you have a personal requirement to always have local copies of cloud-backed services! You can easily accomplish this (for any file-based cloud syncing service, like Dropbox) by having your sync folder added to your Document Library, and having File History back these up to an external drive. However, backing up a shortcut to URL isn’t really that useful.
Here’s what you can do. Open OneNote 2013, go to File, Options, then Save & Backup.
Click on Backup Folder in the list, and click on Modify. Change the folder to be a folder that you’re backing up (My Documents\OneNote Backup is a good place).
To initiate a backup, click on [Back Up All Notebooks Now]. Optionally, change the frequency of your backups.
That’s it. I guess the only downside is that if you never open OneNote, backups won’t be initiated.
http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/dominion-shuffler/2c95e635-bd65-4878-9e8c-ab2db19ab16f
This was actually released to the store about a month ago, I just forgot to put up an entry for it.
It was yet another weekend project that took slightly longer than a weekend.
This was written in WinJS. I used my Surface RT and my desktop computer as test platform, but I’m sure it scales well to various screen resolutions based on my experience with the simulator.
I saw a few videos on YouTube of people playing Tetris Grand Master 2 and Pop’n Music at Full Tilt Ice Cream in Ballard, WA. So I decided to go there to check it out today.
When I walked in, I saw a Ms. Pac Man cabinet, and the two machines pictured above. Walk in a bit, and there’s about 10 pinball machines. I have no interest in these, however…
Here’s some useless trivia for Pump It Up.
Pump It Up, a DDR clone by Korean company Andamiro, was released in October 1999. Couple months later in December, Andamiro released a 2nd version, Pump It Up: The 2nd Dance Floor. The sequel contained a hidden song called Extravaganza.
Here’s how to access it:
Yeah, it’s pretty crazy. Not many people knew at the time that PIU2 had hidden songs at all – I didn’t either. At the time, it was considered to be the hardest song on Pump It Up! That is, of course, until 3rd Stage (OBG) came out in May of 2000.
Anyways, here’s the actual trivia for Extravaganza: it’s a complete rip off.
After several months in Canada, I’m back in Seattle. I searched a lot to find out how Gameworks has changed since last year, but I found nothing, so here’s a post after a visit so people can find their way through search engines. This post is about Gameworks in downtown Seattle, WA.
