Amazon revealed the Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 today, and it’s looking pretty good. It will have a nice panoramic design like many of the Windows Phone 7 hubs, and feature its own built-in store for purchasing any of the 725,000 books available. It also supports Amazon’s Whispersync technology which syncs your place across devices, and even lets you email links to specific books to your friends. Source: WinRumors Originally published on Pocketnow on …
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Copy and Search in Windows Phone 7
While the Copy & Paste feature is not available in the original version of Windows Phone 7 that we’ve got now, some of you may have noticed that you can actually select text in Internet Explorer. What’s that about? You can tap a single word and it becomes selected. Tapping and holding on the word doesn’t do anything. It doesn’t bring up a copy menu like you might expect. Well, guess what… after you select …
Continue readingWatching PowerPoint Broadcasts on Windows Phone 7
Another nice feature in Windows Phone 7 is how easily you can watch remote PowerPoint broadcasts from PowerPoint 2010. There’s a new feature in PowerPoint 2010 that lets you broadcast a presentation from your desktop over the internet to anybody that you send a link to. Basically it uses the free Office Live service to set up a web connection to your local PowerPoint software where the slides are shown over the web while you …
Continue readingSave Money With The Data Off Switch on Windows Phone 7
Now that many cell phone carriers are offering tiered data plans for less money than an unlimited data plan, watching your wireless data usage is more important. New Windows Phone 7s coming to AT&T and T-Mobile next month will have apps built in that will help you monitor your data usage on your account. If you decide to sign up for one of the cheaper data plans, you might be surprised when your new Windows …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 App Showcase: Local Concerts
When I first downloaded the “Local Concerts” app for Windows Phone 7, I expected it to simply show a listing of concerts showing near a specified location on certain days. Of course the app does do that pretty well, but what surprised me was that it also looks at my music library on the phone and shows me nearby, upcoming concerts by musicians that it knows I already listen to. For example, Brandon recently said …
Continue readingWindows Phone 7 App Showcase: Lyrics by musiXmatch
One of the cool things in Windows Phone 7 is the ability for 3rd party applications to integrate themselves into certain hubs. The Lyrics by musiXmatch app shows up as part of the Music + Videos hub and allows you to search for lyrics to a song that you might be listening to. The app was a free download, however it has mysteriously disappeared from the Windows Phone Marketplace. Hopefully, it was only removed temporarily …
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