Here’s a cool video demonstrating a usage scenario for Windows 7, Windows Live services, and Windows Phone 7. It’s a 2:30 minute video featuring a musician named Andrew Belle and it’s based on real events that happened between September 10th to 24th of 2010. The video documents the making of a song called, “Sky’s Still Blue” which can be downloaded from Zune or Microsoft for free. Windows Phone 7 didn’t really play a big part …
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Use Windows Phone 7 as a USB Drive
Mobile Tech World has figured out a registry hack in Windows on the desktop that will let you see a Windows Phone 7 as a removable disk drive. You’ll only have access to the Music, Pictures, and Videos folders which will only be recognized by the Music & Videos hub and Pictures hub. In other words, you can’t drag/drop things like PDFs or Word Documents to the device and have them show up in Acrobat …
Continue readingGameloft’s Assassin’s Creed and Oregon Trail Now Available
A couple new Gameloft games have just appeared in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, and they look like some good ones. Both are Xbox LIVE enabled for achievements and leaderboard scoring. Assassin’s Creed looks to have some great 3D graphics and action game play, while Oregon Trail gives you that classic strategy/adventure game play and cartoon-style graphics. Assassin’s Creed costs $6.99 and The Oregon Trail is $4.99. Both are also available as free trials if …
Continue readingOffice Mobile in Action on Windows Phone 7
Office Vice President, Takeshi Numoto, recently wrote a blog post about Office Mobile on the Microsoft Office Blog. It happens to include the below video from Guy Gilbert, Group Product Manager for Office Mobile, showing how easy it is to use Office Mobile on Windows Phone 7. If you’re not yet totally familiar with Office 2010 Mobile on Windows Phone 7, the below video will show you many of the cool features it’s got. You’ll …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 App Showcase: YouTube by Lazyworm
If you downloaded the original YouTube app for Windows Phone 7, you might have been disappointed to see that it only really links to the mobile YouTube site. Sure it does enable YouTube video playback for embedded YouTube videos, too, but it’s not as feature-rich as some of the YouTube apps on other platforms. Well, a 3rd party developer decided to make a better interface for browsing YouTube on Windows Phone 7. YouTube by Lazyworm …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 App Showcase: Avatar Gadgets
Here’s a fun app that makes use of your Xbox Live Avatar. Avatar Gadgets is $0.99 in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and it gives your avatar a few fun utilities to play with. You’ve got a ruler, flashlight, lighter, coin flip, level, and bobble head. Your 3D Avatar character will interact with all of these little utilities and it’s pretty funny to see him do so. You can also switch characters and load some …
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