Category: Pocketnow

It’s no secret that Microsoft sometimes developes software for competing platforms and often snubs their own products in the process. This time we’ve got David Mendlen, Senior Director of Developer Marketing at Microsoft, who’s created a Windows Phone 7 app for TiVo. The software is $1.99 in the Windows Phone Marketplace and it works with Series 3 and above TiVo HD boxes. It allows you to see what shows have been recorded on your TiVo …

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 …