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What is a Microsoft Account?
Your Microsoft Account is essentially your personal key that opens the door to a myriad of Microsoft’s connected services. When you create a username and login to gain access to any of Microsoft...
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You Can Change Your login Email Address on your Microsoft Account
Using a different Microsoft account on a Windows Phone is not desirable for the following reasons: The only way to switch to a different Microsoft Account on a Windows Phone is by hard resetting the...
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Enable Two Step Verification on your Microsoft Account & Your Phone
Enabling two step verification on your Microsoft Account creates a password recovery code that you’ll need to use if you ever need to recover your Microsoft Account password. Enabling two step...
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Send Photos when Chatting on Skype
With today’s Skype update for Windows phone 8, we can now send photos from our phone to whomever we are chatting via the Skype app. I had to look around a little to find this new feature & thought...
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You Can Assign Custom Ringtones to Text Messages
The Windows Phone 8.0 Update 3 brings the ability to assign custom ringtones to text messages, and you can assign a unique text message ringtone to individual contacts After you install this update,...
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Share OneDrive Files with Another Microsoft Account
OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud-based data repository and every Microsoft account includes a minimum of 15 GB of free OneDrive space. You can manually upload files to your OneDrive space or you can...
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The Files App Finally Gives Windows Phone 8.1 a File Explorer
Microsoft published a “Files” app to the Marketplace around the end of May that is compatible with Windows Phone 8.1 only. The Files app enhances the phone’s functionality by providing the phone with...
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Receiving & Saving Bluetooth Shared Files on Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 8 uses Hubs and application sandboxes to store and access user files. You can browse and access the files that are stored on the phone by accessing the hub or app that is used to view and...
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Pairing & Unpairing Bluetooth Devices with Windows Phone
Pairing a Windows Phone to another Bluetooth enabled device is pretty easy to do, but you might be disappointed when you do it. When I got my first Windows Phone – a Samsung Focus (WP7) – one of the...
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OneReader by PompolutZ Lets you Share PDF files
OneReader by PompolutZ is a free PDF Reader app that can be installed on any Windows Phone 8. One of its unique features is that, unlike the Adobe PDF Reader or Microsoft’s PDF Reader apps,...
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Backup options on Windows Phone
In an earlier article, I discussed how you can backup your contacts, calendars, and tasks from a windows phone by syncing the data to an Outlook.com account. This article continues that discussion by...
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Bookmarks, RSS feeds & email subscriptions
Thanks for visiting PocketPrimer! I hope you find some useful tips here and that you’ll check back frequently for updated content. To be sure you stay informed of updated content and new articles, you...
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Disable Two Step Authentication on a Microsoft Account
In a previous post I discussed how you can enable two step authentication on your Microsoft Account and then use it on mobile devices. If you change your mind and decide you want to disable it, just...
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Add a PIN Code to the OneDrive App for Windows Phone
You can now add a 4-digit PIN Code to the OneDrive app to prevent people from using the app to view, edit or delete your files. Open up the OneDrive App > tap the three horizontal bars found at the...
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Access Multiple Accounts via the OneDrive App for Windows Phone
If you’re like me and you use several different OneDrive accounts, you can now access all the files in your multiple OneDrive accounts on your phone by adding all your accounts on the OneDrive App....
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Create Virtual Photo Albums in the OneDrive app for Windows Phone
The OneDrive app for Windows Phone now lets you create and share photo albums from the photos that you are storing on OneDrive without copying or moving photos from one folder to another. Create an...
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Search for Files On OneDrive for Windows Phone
You can now search for text within files, photos or music that is stored in your OneDrive account quickly and easily via the OneDrive app for Windows Phone To search for files, photos or music on...
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The OneDrive app for Windows Phone Provides Some Great Functionality!
The OneDrive app for Windows Phone allows you to: Create and Share Virtual Photo Albums without copying or moving photos from one folder to another. You can now take photos and videos from any...
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Share Your Calendar in Outlook.com
You can share your Outlook.com calendars with other Outlook.com accounts. Sharing calendars is especially useful for families (i.e., sharing a family calendar with all members of the family), for...
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The 2015 Microsoft MVP Virtual Conference
On Friday, May 15th, I made a presentation at the 2015 Microsoft Virtual Conference that focused on how you can: Maximize your use of a Microsoft account (namely, your outlook.com and OneDrive...
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