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Get some more juice out of your batteries on Windows Phone!

How ever big the battery is, you will feel it less at the end of the day. Though Windows Phone does a brilliant job in battery backup sectors when compared to other buggy laggy Androids or the steeply priced iPhones that lack the power to get through a day. 

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Here are some more tips to get more out of the battery.

1. Use battery saver in settings. Yes, it does turn of automatic Email syncing or Push Notifications.

2. Turn off unnecessary sounds like the camera shutter sound, or maybe the lock screen click sound.

3. Turn off navigation keys vibration in settings -> touch

4. Disable Double Tap to wake.

5. Disable Glance on Nokia Windows Phones

6. Turn off Automatic Brightness settings and set the brightness to low

7. Use Airplane Mode when you dont have coverage to prevent your phone from constantly searching for networks

8. Turn off unwanted background apps by going to battery saver->usage.

9. Set screen time out to 30sec.

10. Turn off automatic email sync.

11. Turn of Xbox Games sync.

12. Turn off Bluetooth, Wifi and GPS when not in use.

13. Turn off Cortana.

14. Update your phone by checking for updates.

You may do everything above or a couple of the steps to get a better battery backup

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For developing apps for Windows 10 you need to do some setup

You have installed or upgraded to Windows 10 and now you want to develop apps for Windows 10 using a JavaScript template. With Windows 10 you can develop it once and then you can deploy to various devices. However to do this you need to get ready with developer mode. This post shows how (this assumes you are using Visual Studio 2015 Community).

Launch Visual Studio 2015 Community. Create a blank Universal Windows app using Javascript template in VS Community 2015.

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You may get this message if it is not in developer mode. In which case follow intructions on the message.

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This is the folder structure of my Universal Windows project using the blank JavaScript template which I named it as DojoApp (I was planning to bring in Dojo Toolkit here but there are some problems).

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Here is the default.html code:

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Click F5 to start debugging, the developer mode window comes up again. Now click on   Settings for Developers link. The Update and Security window appears and in For Developers

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Choose the Developer mode button. The following window is displayed.

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Click Yes.
Click F5 again the DojoApp gets displayed and you will see this after the splash screen display.

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Hike Messenger updated with some awesome changes

Hidden Mode: Hide your chats with a password!

Set who can see your profile picture

Hide content in the notifications

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