If you’ve been looking for a good “Breakout” style game for Windows Phone 7, IonBallEX might be it. This is the usual bouncing-ball type game where you’ve got a paddle at the bottom to deflect the ball in different directions in order to get it to break all of the objects on the screen (or accomplish other goals). Or at least, it starts off that way. You’ll also have to use the bouncing ball to …
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Fourteen New Xbox LIVE Games Coming to Windows Phone
Microsoft has announced fourteen new Xbox LIVE games for Windows Phone that will be coming to the Windows Phone Marketplace in the coming months. Most of these games are the silly cartoon type that we’ve become accustomed to on mobile phones. The really good games (like “Splinter Cell: Conviction”) for mature audiences only will require Mango’s new support for parental controls. The fourteen new games announced are: “Beards & Beaks: Cave Area” The turf war …
Continue readingOneNote for iPhone Now Available in More Countries
Microsoft OneNote has become quite a popular note taking and research tool lately. It’s already very nicely integrated with Windows Phone 7 and there is a free app available for the iPhone. Today, the OneNote Mobile app for iPhone is now available in a few more markets where as previously it was only avaialable in the U.S.A. Now you can find it in the Apple App Store in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and …
Continue readingNew Free Xbox LIVE Games: Minesweeper & Sudoku
Microsoft just announced the availability of two new FREE Xbox Live games for Windows Phone 7. If you’ve been using Windows Phone 7 for a while you know that for a long time the only free Xbox LIVE game available was Flowers. Now you can download Minesweeper and/or Sudoku as well! Both support Xbox LIVE acheivements and leaderboards, both have a similar panoramic design and simplistic game-play interface design, and both are advertisement supported. The …
Continue readingEditorial: Facebook Chat Is the New Standard for IM
While being frustrated by all of the various instant messaging clients available for mobile devices and PCs, I noticed that the majority of the people I know were often available on Facebook chat. I had been thinking about this for a while and recently I noticed the same thoughts expressed by Zack Wittaker over at Zdnet. There’s no need for Blackberry Messenger anymore, everybody you know is on Facebook and Facebook chat is supported by …
Continue readingHow to Use SkyDrive from Windows Explorer as a Network Drive
For those who are using Windows Phone Mango, or those who are looking forward to using Windows Phone Mango later this year, you’ll probably want to find an easy way to access the cloud-based free 25Gb SkyDrive that Windows Phone is so well integrated with. Sure, the SkyDrive website works pretty well, but why isn’t it just fully integrated with Windows via some sort of app that you just sign in to? Unfortunately there is …
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