A summary of the links we shared throughout the day to our Twitter account @WinObs
- Free eBook Download – Introducing Windows 8.1 for IT Professionals Technical Overview | WindowsObserver.com
- Unexpected Firmware Update Arrives for Surface RT | WindowsObserver.com
- Techmeme: Google-Backed File-Sharing Service Spreads Malware (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)
- Fresh Paint for Windows Phone 8 updated with pencil mode, Bing integration, and SkyDrive sync
- Techmeme: Yahoo Mail switching to HTTPS connections by default in January, four years after GMail (The Switch)
- Check Out Flickr's New Photo Layout Before It Arrives Later This Year
- 10 years of Update Tuesdays – TechNet Blogs
- Techmeme: Node.js-based Ghost blogging platform opens to the public (Lee Hutchinson/Ars Technica)
- Gates, Zuck, Dorsey chip in to teach 10M students coding | Internet & Media – CNET News
- Xbox One brings the legendary Mount Panorama circuit to life in ‘Forza Motorsport 5’ – TechNet Blogs
- Windows 8.1 design principles hand developers back their sanity – MSDN Blogs
- Techmeme: Microsoft demonstrates Xbox One Friends app with Twitter-like followers and feeds (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- Teacher uses Skype to connect students with astronomer who worked on Hubble Space Telescope – TechNet Blogs
- No, you don't have to sleep 4 hours and eat once per day to be a successful entrepreneur – GeekWire
- Techmeme: Nokia Looks to Free Netflix, Other Promos to Boost Lumia Sales (Ina Fried/AllThingsD)
- Windows and HTC jump into jumbo phones | CNET Update – CNET News
- Join Microsoft in the ‘Hour of Code’ campaign – TechNet Blogs
- Mediagazer: International New York Times kicks off rebranding with global events and free digital access (Joe Pompeo/Capital New York)
- Seattle cloud startup Blue Box unpacks $1.5M in new funding – GeekWire
- For shame: Trolls defeat Scientific American, Popular Science | Ars Technica
- Shuttle's final journey captured in epic time-lapse video | Crave – CNET
- Hanselman's Newsletter of Wonderful Things: August 26th, 2013 – Scott Hanselman
- How Does Hibernation Impact PC Performance
- Blog Star of the Week: The Mobile Photography Blog – Nokia Conversations : the official Nokia blog
- Nokia Looks to Free Netflix, Other Promos to Boost Lumia Sales – Ina Fried – Mobile – AllThingsD
- Here's what the Xbox One's friends list will look like – GeekWire
- Techmeme: BlackBerry seeks to reassure customers with open letter on its future (Hayley Tsukayama/Washington Post)
- Arduino creator explains why open source matters in hardware, too | Ars Technica
- The Top 10 Comic Stories From This Weekend's New York Comic Con