Episode 025 – A Festivus for the Rest of SurfaceNation

December 23, 2015

Universal Windows podcast

Basic show notes for now. Complete Show notes coming before the New Year

Intro

Tech Podcast Network

Ask Colin about Aluminum Pole

Festivus – December 23rd – We have the rights to use the song https://youtu.be/6nAaYubpBgI

Airing of Grievances

Skylake Shortage

MS Apology http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-a8pologies-to-surface-owners-2015-12

OneDrive Reversal

Peter Henry Lumia

Feats of Strength

Dell Latitude Tough

Urban armour gear rogue

Festivus Miracle

MS Sales Revenue October outpaced iPad http://uk.businessinsider.com/microsoft-makes-progress-against-ipad-2015-12

Crossover – 12 Surface Tips for the 12 days of Christmas

Swipe from the left to list open applications

Train your surface to recognize your handwriting better

Win+P for Presentation mode – PH

How Do I use CTRL+Fn keys like I do on a normal keyboard? Press the Fn key at the same time as the function keys to have them act as normal function keys. You can also toggle them between special/normal by pressing Fn and CapsLock.

Enable Double touch and drag on touchpad – Open ‘Settings > Devices > Mouse & Touchpad’: Allow double-tap and drag.

Make a recovery disk

Launch Recovery menu by holding CTRL while restarting Surface

Pair your phone with Bluetooth and your surface can enable your hotspot – works with Win10 Phone

SP3 supports the new pen with the eraser. Just replace your Pen with a SP4 pen

Get a bluetooth mouse

If you don’t have a Hello compatible device try a PIN or a Picture password

Use sleep study to understand what is consuming your battery and adjust

Stocking stuffers

Run the Get Started App to learn more about Windows 10

Run the Surface App to learn more about the surface

A Christmas Barrel – A Holiday Radio Drama

Show theme by Rob from the Failed Musicians Podcast

Special thanks to Tea with Warriors, Ashley Paramore and Rishi Srivastava for musical contributions. I’m sorry I couldn’t give you all shoutouts during the episode but we recorded before we had permission to use your music and we added it in post production. Shoutouts next episode for sure.