Author: Adam Z. Lein

There’s a new Xbox LIVE game in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and it’s called Parachute Panic. This is a fun little game where little hand drawn stick figures fall out of hand-drawn airplanes on a piece of graph paper, and you have to make sure they open their parachutes and land on the boats at the bottom. You can tap the men to open their parachutes and swipe your finger to make the wind …

Here’s a cool new app for Windows Phone 7 that lets you create panoramic 2D and 3D images from photos in your Pictures library. The software has a neat interface for letting you manually add and stitch together a series of photos that you’ve already taken. After you’ve created a panoramic, you can pinch to zoom in on a scene and pan around with a 360 degree panoramic 3D effect. You can also browse through …

Finally a new Windows Live Messenger client is available on Windows Phone 7. C&R Holding’s Li’Messenger is now available for free in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. It doesn’t offer a whole ton of features, but it connect directly to the Windows Live servers and supports multiple points of presence. That means you can log into the same account that you use on your other PCs and Xbox all at the same time and respond …

Back in December we heard that OEM’s had shipped 1.5 million Windows Phone 7s to carriers, and today, about 1 month later, that number has increased to 2 million according to an interview with Greg Sullivan by Bloomberg News. I’d say that’s not bad at all. Do you think that’s a pretty good start? In other stats revealled today, you’ve got 24,000 registered Windows Phone developers and over 6,500 applications in the marketplace. Windows Phone …

One of the only ways for Windows Phone 7 manufacturers to differentiate their devices from other Windows Phone 7 is to provide their own applications exclusive to specific devices. Samsung has just released a new Photo Studio program for their Samsung-branded Windows Phone 7s. The app description is as follows: Photo Studio is an all-in-one solution for taking, editing and sharing pictures though your WP7. Photo Studio allows the user to take pictures with effects …

We know there are already quite a few Twitter apps for Windows Phone 7, but you can always have more, right? Birdsong is a new one that brings some features you may have been waiting for. This one’s got configurable timelines, so you can add saved searches, or lists as separate timelines. It’s got integrated picture viewing and Twitpic image uploading. It nicely supports the global Windows Phone 7 themes. And here’s the big one, …