Eariler today we saw a tweet from Daniel Egan announcing that the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace is now open to all registered developers. Previously, they were only accepting submissions from about 2000 developers who applied for early approval. The idea was to keep it managed for a while to make sure the app approval and update process would run smoothly. It’s a good thing they did, too because as early-adopters, we noticed a few bugs …
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Windows Phone 7 App Showcase: Last.fm
A number of our readers have been wondering about the Last.fm application for Windows Phone 7. Here we are with a quick little video demo of the app. You’ve got all of the features you might expect, including search, recent tracks, recent stations, and events. There are options for playing recommended radio, library radio, and neighborhood radio. You’ve even got the scobbling feature. It will continue to play music while the screen is locked, however …
Continue readingHTC’s Attentive Phone Adds Features to WP7 (Video)
The “Attentive Phone” app from HTC is a free download for Windows Phone 7’s from HTC and it adds a few nice accelerometer feature enhancements to the Windows Phone 7 dialer. Well, actually it adds 4 enhancements. You can quiet the ring on pickup, so if you’re phone’s just laying on the desk the ring will be loud and then when you pick it up, it will quiet down. Pocket mode is pretty nice. That …
Continue readingOneNote 2010 Now Syncs Multiple Notebooks on SkyDrive
Last month, in using Windows Phone 7, I noticed an annoying issue where OneNote 2010 on Windows Phone 7 could only sync with one Notebook stored on SkyDrive. At that time, it could only sync the notebook it automatically created called “Personal (Web)”. You could go to the SkyDrive website in the browser and if you clicked on a different OneNote Notebook, it would download as a Zip file and you could open individual pages, …
Continue readingCelebrate the Windows Phone 7 Launch with Katy Perry or Maroon 5
Here’s a fun promotion for the launch of Windows Phone 7 in the U.S. starting November 8th. Visit select AT&T stores on November 8 to get FREE tickets* to either a Katy Perry concert in New York City or a Maroon 5 concert in San Francisco that night. Admission is first-come, first-served. For a list of participating locations, check out this link. I wonder if these artists will also promote Windows Phone 7 at their …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 App Showcase: Polyglot
We were recently tipped to a new Windows Phone 7 app called “Polyglot”. This is a pretty basic text translation program with a text to speech feature for the pronunciations. It’s powered by Microsoft translator, and has a decent design. There are two vertical input panels with scrollable language selectors on the left. Select a language to translate from, then a language to translate to, type some text, and hit the translate button. Unfortunately, the …
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