{"id":5333,"date":"2014-09-12T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2014-09-12T09:11:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T08:11:31","slug":"short-takes-windows-phone-screenshots-and-force-closing-apps-android-static-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/short-takes-windows-phone-screenshots-and-force-closing-apps-android-static-ip.htm","title":{"rendered":"Short takes: Windows Phone screenshots and force closing apps; Android static IP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m clearing down my browser tabs and dumping some of the the things I found recently that I might need to remember again one day!<\/p>\n<h3>Taking a screenshot on Windows Phone<\/h3>\n<p>Windows Phone 7 didn&#8217;t have a screenshot capability (I had an app that worked on an unlocked phone) but Windows Phone 8 let me take screenshots with Windows+Power. For some reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-gb\/how-to\/wp8\/photos\/take-a-screenshot\">this changed in Windows Phone 8.1 to Power+Volume Up<\/a>. \u00a0It does tell you when you try to use the old combination but, worth noting&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Some search engines are more helpful than others<\/h3>\n<p>Incidentally, searching for this information is a lot more\u00a0helpful in some search engines than in others&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Until Bing becomes as useful as Google, I&#8217;ll be sticking with the evil advertising giant. Perfectly illustrated here: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/2keMORGLQ4\">pic.twitter.com\/2keMORGLQ4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Wilson (@markwilsonit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/509604509946236928\">September 10, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One might think Microsoft could surface it&#8217;s own information a little more clearly in Bing but there are other examples too (Google&#8217;s built-in calculator, cinema listings, etc.)<\/p>\n<h3>Force-quitting a Windows Phone app<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes, apps just fail. In theory that&#8217;s not a problem, but in reality they need to be force-closed. \u00a0Again, Windows Phone didn&#8217;t used to allow this but <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsphone.stackexchange.com\/a\/3499\/9037\">recent updates have enabled a force-close<\/a>.\u00a0Hold the back button down, and then click the circled X that appears in order to close the problem app.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/wp81-task-kill.png?resize=120%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Enabling a static IP on an Android device<\/h3>\n<p>Talking of long key presses&#8230; I recently blew up my home infrastructure server (user error with the\u00a0power&#8230;) and, until I sort things out again, all of our devices are configured with static IP configurations. One device where I struggled to do this was my Hudl tablet, running Android. It seems the answer is to select the Wi-Fi connection I want to use, but to long-press it, at which point there are <a href=\"http:\/\/acer.custhelp.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/11130\/~\/how-do-i-set-a-static-ip-address-in-the-android-operating-system%3F\">advanced options to modify the connection and\u00a0configure static IP details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m clearing down my browser tabs and dumping some of the the things I found recently that I might need to remember again one day! 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