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It was reported recently that the new puzzle game Snap Attack would go live on the Windows Phone Store and the Windows Store. It seems that this report is correct, as the game has made its official appearance in the Windows Phone Store and Windows Store. "Wordament Snap Attack is a brand-new, fast-paced word-building tournament that challenges your brain in 2 1/2-minute rounds. Players from around the world compete on the same board, using the same clock, making as many Snaps as possible. At the end of each round, a real-time leaderboard shows how all participants ranked by score," says the description of the app. The game is very easy to play and as a player, you will have two and half minutes. Your task is to make as many snaps as possible in the stipulated time. Snaps are the words that the player makes, the more words the player makes during the given time, the higher the score of the player will be. This game is a free, scrabble type game in which the players get seven ...

Recently, it was reported that some of the Microsoft Word versions suffer from a type of security vulnerability that makes these systems easy targets for hacking attacks. Not many details have been released so far about this security flaw in MS Word – for obvious reasons. But, it has something to do with the processing of the Rich Text Format (RTF) files in MS Word. How these hacking attacks happen? Hackers are taking advantage of this security flaw and designing special RTF files that would be emailed to your email account. When you open this RTF file attachment in your Outlook application, your system is infected. This is because Microsoft Outlook is a part of the MS Office suite and therefore, it would use the MS Word application in the system to process Word and RTF files. Now, according to the statement issued by Microsoft, the following MS Word versions suffer from this security flaw – MS Word 2013, 2007 and 2003, some of the Microsoft SharePoint Server versions and the Microsof...

Outlook stores huge amount of data on behalf of various utilities it in, such as calendar, task manager, address book or emailing. Even for the emailing, there are multiple folders in the application, say Inbox, Outbox, Sent Box and Deleted folders. Unless you clear your mail folders on a regular basis, you will end up getting them exceeding the size limit which in turn will result in undesired Outlook problems like Outlook not responding. You could avoid such problems by making use of Outlook’s Auto Archive feature. What is Auto Archive? Auto Archive feature in Outlook will control Outlook folders from reaching the size limit. This feature ensures that only important items are stored in the mail folders. The items that you least use will be archived to other folders. Users are allowed to edit the Outlook setting in order to customize Auto Archive feature. Here are the steps. Instructions Open your Outlook application and navigate to the Tools option which is located at the to...

Microsoft has proved that it is not only good at developing desktop operating systems, but also mobile operating systems. Most of the Windows Phone 8-powered mobile devices still continue to be sold like hot buns in the market. Ask any users of the Nokia Lumia 520 or Nokia Lumia 625 about their experience with the OS, and you will find that most are quite happy. Windows Phone 8.1, the latest update of Microsoft’s mobile OS, has brought about a number of user friendly changes. These improvements are certain to attract many new users to the Windows mobile OS. Windows Phone 8.1 features Some of the users of Windows Phone 8 found that the capacitive buttons in Windows Phone 8 devices made them look a bit conventional. They came to this conclusion after comparing Windows Phone devices with Android devices. None of the Android powered devices have capacitive buttons. They have virtual buttons instead. Microsoft has given due attention to this concern of users who contacted the Redmond via W...

Recently, Microsoft launched the Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager. However, this update comes as a surprise for most users as they were expecting the update in the second quarter of this year. This was stated by Brian Huneycutt, who works as a developer in Microsoft’s Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering team. The Cumulative Update 1 is now available for the users in the Microsoft Support site. In the blog post, Huneycutt also stated that the organizations, who are looking to use the latest Cumulative Update 1, should apply it only "if you are encountering, or believe you may encounter, one of the issues fixed by current CU (or a prior one)." He explained that while applying CU1, the organizations would be able to set a new servicing baseline for Configuration Manager. It was also said that Microsoft has plans to ship its CUs for System Center every quarter now, which would definitely boost the working of the organizations. ...

Microsoft released their latest operating system, Windows 8 with a surprise in it, the Metro style user interface that is now widely found in the Windows Phone 8 devices. In this user interface, the programs and applications are shown as Tiles on the screen rather than as icons. However, the new user interface was not so well received by users all over the world as they found it rather intimidating and difficult to work with and this ultimately lead to the sales failure of the operating system. Microsoft was not able to foresee this widespread hatred against their operating system and this hatred was fueled by the difficulties people faced when they tried to customize their computers. With no Start menu button present in the Windows 8 start screen, people were not able to edit programs installed in their system. One of the main Windows 8 problems was that even though it had a desktop mode in the system, when you start the system, you always have to go to the Windows 8 Start screen. Ho...

Customer can easily make a ticket in SharePoint; in addition, conversion of mails to tickets and linking of emails to tickets using the Outlook ribbon is possible due to the Crow Canyon Plugin available for Microsoft Outlook. Easy installation of the plug-in is possible and after completion of the installation, a section of it is available in the Outlook ribbon. This helps in easy and fast collaboration with SharePoint application during the use of Outlook. You can easily produce a new ticket with the use of the plug-in in SharePoint. The plugin can also be used to convert a mail into a brand new ticket. Linking of a mail with a ticket that is already present is possible with the plug-in. The Link Email To Ticket button can be used once the mail available in the inbox is chosen and the required ticket that needs to be linked is selected. The mail then turns out to be an element of the ticket’s email history. A few main important features of the plugin are mentioned below. Creat...

Facile and errorless communication is possible with Windows Live messenger. Easy installation of Windows Live messenger on your system is possible but some users may be able to witness a 1603 error. The 1603 error appears due to the installation being halted as a result of the anti-spyware program. You have to follow the below mentioned Windows Live technical support guidelines to resolve the issue and continue with the successful installation. Steps to follow Terminate any anti-spyware programs if they are currently active. If Windows defender is active, Right Click on the icon and choose the Shut down Microsoft Antispyware option. If there are other spyware programs running on your system, you have to terminate them also and for getting help on terminating the programs, you may view the manufacturer's documentation.  If you are unable to find help with the documentation, you may ask your friends or any experts in handling computers for terminating the remaining spyware progra...