{"id":1177,"date":"2012-06-06T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2012-06-06T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T08:13:14","slug":"in-windows-8-the-perfect-metro-news-app-for-obsessives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1177-in-windows-8-the-perfect-metro-news-app-for-obsessives.html","title":{"rendered":"In Windows 8: the perfect Metro news app for obsessives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing with the Metro apps in Windows 8 Release Preview. It is only a small thing, but I am impressed with the ease with which you can customise the Bing News app to add your own special interests. See the video below for a quick demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>You will also see that I struggled to find out how to remove a custom section. This seems to be the way with Windows 8 in Metro: easy when you know how, but you have to figure it out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LWL-4OG6iIk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing with the Metro apps in Windows 8 Release Preview. It is only a small thing, but I am impressed with the ease with which you can customise the Bing News app to add your own special interests. See the video below for a quick demonstration. You will also see that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1177-in-windows-8-the-perfect-metro-news-app-for-obsessives.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Windows 8: the perfect Metro news app for obsessives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[201,586,999],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tablets","tag-bing","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}