It was our Director’s last day at work, so we thought it appropriate to give him a memorable send off by properly decorating his office.
Our folks did a particularly good job on the restraining order. Here are the details:
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Windows Phone 7 was released about one month ago, and some of you in Canada may have noticed a lack of local results in both the Bing search and Maps application (also powered by Bing) in Canada. For example, you’ll try searching for “McDonalds” in Toronto (or your local city) and the results will take you to a McDonalds in South Carolina or some other US address (as shown in the image below). Not quite within walking distance. You also won’t see a “local” option in the search results.
Here’s how you correct this to get local Canadian search and map results:
Enable “Local” results in Bing search and Maps:
- Go to the application list
- Open “Settings“
- Open “Region & Language“
- Scroll to bottom and set “Browser & search language” to “English (United States)“
Enable voice searching:
- Scroll to top of the “Region & Language” settings, and set the “Display language” to “English”
- Set the “Region format” to “English (United States)“
- Touch the “Tap here to accept changes and restart your phone” link to restart your phone and have the settings
The two downsides to this workaround are that all distances will be provided in miles instead of kilometers and News results will source US publishers rather than Canadian ones. A pain worth suffering? That’s up to you.
Thanks to David Schwartz for the info!
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