Hello,
Again this is the first time using apps. No phones, no pads. I understand that apps are just programs - per se! But some of the apps require internet connections and stuff and some are just the renaming of an already on the computer program. I wish to use the photo viewer and it appears except for the starting up as an app and whatever else it does, looks like the Windows 7 Photo Viewer. Is it indeed an onboard program that is dressed up to look like the metro app style stuff or is it a communicating with the clouds type of app? I was attempting to find the plain .exe, but was unable to locate it successfully. What is wrong with my picture of the situation?
Thanks in advance!
Glenn
Hi there
I think the confusion has come about because (Usually) the younger generation have been so brought up on using "Text-ese" that in ANY language the original word has been so compressed as to be un-recognisable.
An "App" is simply an APP(LICATION) whether it's complex like photoshop or simple like some of the mobile phone stuff it's JUST A PROGRAM or piece of code).
Installing it might require a different "Installer" --usually with MS or other "standard" windows type programs there is usually a setup.exe file somewhere for installing the program or there could be a .MSI type file -- works the same way for installing the application.
Now with say ANDROID phones the application is usually called xxxxx.apk and (after you've gone through all sorts of REDICULOUS hoops via "Google app store" or other such b/s ideas) you just press upload and install -- and the thing will install.
Whether it's a Windows "bog standard" application, a Metro application or any other wretched application the program developer should have provided an "install" program.
At this stage we don't need to go into complex mechanisms such as Registry keys etc.
ALWAYS START FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES and go on from there -- over 30 years of teaching ALL sorts of levels of students the most common result was ALWAYS START AT THE VERY BEGINNING.
I couldn't believe it when about 3 weeks ago on a trip home -- My DAD --first time in his life in probably one of the most comms and Internet savvy nations on the planet decided he wanted his FIRST EVER mobile phone -- so for one reason or another I got him an iPHONE and a couple of manuals.
The Manuals turned out as a bit of a disaster -- on PAGE 1 NO less there were instructions on DOWNLOADING APPS.
What he really needed was a really simple manual starting with was
1) Turning the phone off and on
2) connecting to a network
3) how to make and receive a call.
(Might seem obvious stuff but if you've never used this type of device before it's necessary and only takes a few extra lines).
THEN gradually the more complex stuff.
Believe me My DAD is no idiot - in WW II he was repairing damaged planes that had just returned from Bombing raids often WITHOUT manuals and had to get them fixed within HOURS - often jury rigging spare parts etc. !!
A Metro developers guide will soon be around I'm sure.
but the age old rule KISS - KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE still applies.
Cheers
jimbo