DLNA stands for Digital Living Network Alliance and it’s a non-profit trade organization who’s primary goal is to help make it easier for consumer devices to share music, pictures, and videos between each other. About 26 companies are currently promoting DLNA. Back in the Windows XP days, Microsoft created Windows Media Connect, which had a similar function. These days the media sharing functions built into Windows Media Player and Windows 7 are fully DLNA compatible. …
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A Look at Halo Waypoint for Windows Phone 7
If you’re an Xbox player, you probably know that the new Halo Reach game was released last night. Well, there will also be a Halo companion application for Windows Phone 7 called Halo Waypoint. It’s not really a game, but it’s a useful tool for keeping track of your progress, milestones, and other gameplay-related data that you might accomplish in the real Halo games. It will also give you access to other Halo related content …
Continue readingWhat is this OneNote Thing About?
One of the things that I’m excited about in Windows Phone 7, but haven’t really heard too much about just yet, is the OneNote Skydrive syncing. We don’t know exactly how that might work, but many of you may not even know about how useful OneNote can be on the desktop. So let’s take a look at that, and then maybe you can imagine how having OneNote on Windows Phone 7 might be useful. We’ll …
Continue readingMore Photos From the Lawrence of Arabia Secret Cinema Event
As you may have read yesterday, Microsoft showed its first Windows Phone 7 advertisement at the Lawrence of Arabia Secret Cinema movie screening in London. The trailer is very brief, but mimics a famous scene from the movie. As we noted yesterday, Secret Cinema is a community of film lovers who schedule secret screenings of films in various interesting locations. Participants also like to make more of a party out of the film screenings by …
Continue readingBye Bye Brain Windows Phone 7 Game
Plain Concepts has recently shown a video demo of their new tower defense style 3D zombie game called “Bye Bye Brain”. The game’s 3D graphics are accellerometer enabled for angle-of-view changes based on the phone’s tilting angle. It’s design is also very well integrated with the Metro style theme and it looks fantastic. The video below shows both a video screen capture of the game as well as actual game-play on a Windows Phone 7 …
Continue readingBarnes & Noble eReader Update With Lots of New Features
Remember the Barnes & Noble eReader software that comes with the T-Mobile HD2? It just got an update that brings a lot of new and exciting features! In the Library view, you now have a grid option so that you can see many more book covers at the same time. You’ll also notice a new section at the top called “Lend Me.” That’s where you can recieve book loan offers from your friends with Nook …
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