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I’ve now submitted my first application to the Windows 8 store, a news aggregator for Aston Villa, fingers crossed it will make it through to release without a hitch and I can start working on updates and additional features, before starting work on my next application.

Having a play with my new Nikon D5100 DSLR quite pleased with my first effort (which is  now my desktop wallpaper)

Having more usb sticks than I can count I still my find myself in the awkward position of never having essential documents with me when I need them. This may be because of my lack of organisation or the need to regularly re-format the usb sticks for other uses either way I need something better.

I briefly tried Dropbox but wasn’t overly keen and I’ve yet to try Microsoft’s SkyDrive though that may change with Windows 8, I use iCloud for my iPhone contacts etc…. but not documents.

That’s where Google Drive comes in, the new cloud storage service from Google, having been a fan of many of there other services I figured I’ll give it a go. So I went to sign up, unfortunately I was told it wasn’t available to me and I could register my interest which I did, expecting to have to wait anywhere up to a few months, I was pleasantly surprised the next day when the e-mail arrived telling me I could now start to use it.

Installation was nice and easy, a download of less than 1mb and a few minutes later I was ready to go, initial impressions are good;

1. The installation pops a short cut on your desktop for quick access which is perfect as I intend to use it as a replacement for “My Documents”.
2. It would appear and I stress that I haven’t tested this yet as I need to clear out my Documents folder that you can re-point “My Documents” to the Google Drive location which is a nice touch, see this website here for instructions on how to change your “My Documents” location.
3. All my Google Doc’s were automatically sync’d which was nice, although as a rare user Google Doc’s most were out of date and I’ve started afresh.
4. You can manually choose which folders to sync which will be useful for avoiding large files that would bust your data limit (5gb).

I will be interested to see how it pans out when using across several computers, but it will be nice to access my documents across all the different machines I use without trying multiple usb sticks.

With great difficult I’ve finally got my sites favicon showing up with IE 10 (Metro and Desktop) and thus showing when you pin a site to the metro home screen. For whatever reason Firefox and Chrome are far less fussy than IE about getting an icon to work, perhaps time for Microsoft to improve the code around the use of favicons to make it more user friendly.

So how did I do it.

1. I used Greenfish Icon Editor Pro (Freeware) available from snapfiles here http://www.snapfiles.com/downloads/gficoneditor/dlgficoneditor.html none of the online converters were creating a file that would work with IE (note they would work with Firefox/Chrome).
2. Uploaded the finished favicon.ico to the root directory of my website.
3. Edited the header.php file for my theme, this file can be found in the following directory /wp-content/themes/themename/
4. Added the following line of code to the aforementioned header.php file; <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.alistairbeasley.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” /> , this needs to go in between <head></head> but before <title /> prefrably as the first line after the opening <head> tag.
5. After that if you’ve already viewed your page in IE you’ll need to completely delete your browsing history, a ctrl-f5 refresh won’t work.
6. You should be done and when pinning the page to your Metro start screen you should see something like this.

Note that Metro will pull the dominant colour from your icon and use that as the tile colour, I assumed this would be white, however I suspect it must take an average of all the colours used.