Author: Adam Z. Lein

If you’ve got Halo Waypoint on your Windows Phone, you may have noticed an update available today. That update brings ATLAS to the Waypoint application, and it is extremely cool. The ATLAS feature lets you choose a map in Halo: Reach. The maps show weapon and vehicle locations, and you can get real-time position and score information for Multiplayer games, for you and your team. This comes in handy if you want to have a …

This week’s new Xbox LIVE for Windows Phone game is called “Hasta La Muerte”. The graphics appear hand drawn and very two dimensional. The first thing that’s kind of strange and a bit difficult about this game is the first menu. You have to tilt the phone in order to make the little character walk into the different areas. Once he’s there, you can press the button to activate it. You can’t just press the …

The Xbox 360 is expected to see a new upgrade to the dashboard interface on December 6th tomorrow, but along with that Windows Phone users will also be able to download an Xbox Companion app which will let you control certain aspects of the new Xbox 360 interface. You’ll be able to use your phone to search the Xbox catalog for movies, TV shows, music, games and apps using Bing. You’ll also be able to …

If you’ve got a Windows Phone, you know that there’s a “What’s New” feed in the pictures hub that shows the latest photos that your friends have posted to social networks like Windows Live and Facebook. Mainly you’ll probably only notice Facebook photo updates showing up here, but once in a while I noticed some Twitter posts that didn’t show a thumbnail image like the Facebook and Windows Live updates, but only included a link …

Here’s an app for Windows Phone 7 that some of you might find useful. Handyscan lets you use the camera in order to scan documents and upload them to either Dropbox or Skydrive. The $2.49 paid version even lets you convert the scanned images to PDFs, which is a pretty nice feature. It also lets you email documents, while the free version only allows for Skydrive/Dropbox uploading. The app includes some other useful features like …

You may remember a nice little YouTube app called LazyTube that brought a decent YouTube app to Windows Phone when Google wouldn’t allow Microsoft to create an integrated YouTube app themselves. Today, we see that same developer’s new version of their YouTube app, and it’s called MetroTube. The upgrade is an incredible example of how a Windows Phone app should be done. It takes YouTube thumbnails and overlays their titles with beautiful typography. The app …