So in the end I was able to reprogram a remote and talk to my new tuner. Whether or not the tuner itself proves useful is beside the point. I take pride in my little achievement that no one but another engineer can appreciate. But I'm an engineer, and I'm supposed to be able to do things like that.
A title bar of GNOME Calculator. A title bar is a graphical control element and part of the window decoration. provided by some window managers. As a convention it is located at the top of the window as a horizontal bar.
The Charm Bar is a new feature in Windows 8, you can access it through anywhere no matter if you are in desktop UI or Modern UI. You will see two boxes on the screen. A small box just above the taskbar on the left. It displays the current date and time along with the battery and connectivity strength.