Sentences with phrase «useful live tiles»

Users will also see immediate aesthetic improvements on the home screen thanks to the ability to use a background image, which flows freely through the always - useful live tiles.

It's a compromise that might work well, giving access to important settings and useful Live Tiles that flicker with information.

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Live tiles is a really useful feature.

You have the option of displaying notification content as Live tiles, which is useful for certain apps.

In fact, once you stop worrying and learn to love (or at least ignore) the Live Tiles, the Windows 8 desktop is nothing short of the best Windows desktop ever — fast, useful, and all - around awesome.

These animated tiles are known as «live tiles» and can be used to convey useful and pertinent information, such as headlines, updates, and so on.

Live tiles don't work with desktop apps anyway, so they're only useful for tablet users who actually use Modern apps.

Many of these are «live tiles» in that they show you useful information such as how many new emails or messages you have or the weather forecast.

Of course, Windows Phone owners know Live Tiles as a useful way to provide information to the smartphone user without requiring to fire up any apps.

Problem was that it was up to the developer to decide how well they wanted to support and implement live tiles so some would be «wasted space» as you said while others were incredibly useful.

Live tiles are also quite useful to get info about weather, stock quotes, currency valuation etc... if you are into those kind of things.

In the above screenshot from Microsoft's Jeff Wilcox (of 4th & Mayor fame), we see that it finally now has that Live Tile with the current temperature, making this app very useful for many and a good free alternative.

The app was «ok» before but with the Live Tile, new languages and speed, it's actually more useful than HTC's Sense app which was basically a portal to their Marketplace.

The team behind this incredibly useful app are preparing to unleash a rather important update to introduce Live Tile support.

Microsoft is working on improving the existing Live Tiles and their «at a glance» functionality with far more useful features.

Moving forward, I'd like to see the Xbox One support Live Tiles in some form, which not only makes apps like MSN Weather far more useful, but ist still one of the best overall features of Windows Store apps.

Rather than a sea of static icons, Live Tiles surface useful information that can be quickly scanned at a glance — the Facebook tile shows you who has recently tagged you in a photo; the MSN Weather tile shows you current conditions and a four - day forecast; and even websites can be pinned to the Start screen, displaying the latest updates and additions.