Microsoft not allowing new Lumia users to set Google as default search engine

For some of the new Lumia Phones, Microsoft has disabled the option of changing the default search engine to Google. On the majority of Lumia Windows Phones, there are two search engine options “Bing” and “Google” in the advanced settings of the Internet Explorer .

This option is now not found in the newly released handsets – the Lumia 630 and the Lumia 930. These are two Windows Phone devices that Microsoft released after its acquisition of Nokia. The search button on every Windows Phone always leads to Bing search by default. This is an option that no Windows Phone user can change. But older users of Lumia Windows Phones are provided with the flexibility of changing the default search engine to “Google” in the Internet Explorer of the Phone.

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Automatically change Windows Phone lock screen

Wishing for a good Lockscreen pic isn’t a bad thing considering the lock screen is the first thing seen when Windows phone is turned on. So here is a cool new app called “Lock pic” (by developer “rouge code” from the Windows phone store) that automatically changes the pictures of the lock screen at regular intervals which results in giving a fresh look to the windows phone when it is turned on.

By installing this app in Windows phone, the picture of the phone’s lock screen gets updated for a preset period of time. The source for this app to collect the photos and display on the lock screen can be set by the user. So with the ‘Lock pic’ installed on the Windows phone, user can select:

• The source from the photos for Lockscreen have to be taken:

This app give the flexibility of selecting from: Bing image search, Flickr image search, Bing image of the day, NASA Astronomy picture of the day, Phone photos.

• The time period for which the Lockscreen photo has to change:

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