Creatingan icon-based tile The easiest way to look great on Live Tiles is to just display your app's icon against a transparent background. This is the "standard" way to do tiles. To achieve this look, you can either create tile images with transparent backgrounds, or just let Windows display your app's icon on a regular tile. Designyour tile for the Start screen. You can customize two aspects of your desktop app tiles: the app name, and icon. The background color is derived from the user's chosen background color and isn't programmatically customizable. DO: Avoid truncation of your application name. changethe kind of information that is displayed on the tile. For this kind of app, your responsibility is to create a tile whose contents are timely, obvious, and accurate, which means updating the tile when the app state is changed. I think about live app tiles in the same way that I think about UI animations: they are a good thing Step4: Rejoice in the Glory of Colored Titlebars. The last thing to do is double-click the "windows.theme" file on your Desktop and watch the magic happen. And that's it. The color that shows will be whichever you set in the Personalization settings, which Dallas covered here. FromCNN's Manu Raju. The House of Representatives will be in recess until next week and return Tuesday night for a conference meeting before a potential vote later that week on electing a new Windows10 is missing a pretty important and rather obvious feature; it doesn't let you customize the color of an app tile. For app tiles that feature only an icon in a box, that box often looks ugly against whatever color has been set for the Start menu. Whenis the big emergency alert test? Expect your phone to ominously blare Wednesday. On Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. Eastern, 1:20 p.m. Central, 12:20 p.m. Mountain and 11:20 a.m. Pacific time, every Atile is a modern app's representation on the Start screen in Windows 10, and can be either static or live. Windows 10 includes a new 3D animation for live tiles, and allows you to turn live tiles on or off for your apps pinned to Start. Whatdoes set as app tile mean in Windows 10? Tiles are shortcuts for Windows 10 apps available in the Microsoft Store. If you click or tap on a Windows tile, the respective app is launched. If you want to open the Weather app, for instance, all you have to do is click or tap on its tile, and you get a detailed weather forecast. Wednesdays emergency alert test is a way for FEMA to make sure the national system is still an effective way to warn Americans about emergencies. uvXw.