If you’ve got a Windows Phone, you know that there’s a “What’s New” feed in the pictures hub that shows the latest photos that your friends have posted to social networks like Windows Live and Facebook. Mainly you’ll probably only notice Facebook photo updates showing up here, but once in a while I noticed some Twitter posts that didn’t show a thumbnail image like the Facebook and Windows Live updates, but only included a link …
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Handyscan Lets You Scan and Upload Anything to the Cloud
Here’s an app for Windows Phone 7 that some of you might find useful. Handyscan lets you use the camera in order to scan documents and upload them to either Dropbox or Skydrive. The $2.49 paid version even lets you convert the scanned images to PDFs, which is a pretty nice feature. It also lets you email documents, while the free version only allows for Skydrive/Dropbox uploading. The app includes some other useful features like …
Continue readingMetroTube: An Amazing YouTube App for Windows Phone
You may remember a nice little YouTube app called LazyTube that brought a decent YouTube app to Windows Phone when Google wouldn’t allow Microsoft to create an integrated YouTube app themselves. Today, we see that same developer’s new version of their YouTube app, and it’s called MetroTube. The upgrade is an incredible example of how a Windows Phone app should be done. It takes YouTube thumbnails and overlays their titles with beautiful typography. The app …
Continue readingXbox LIVE Game: Shuffle Party
“Shuffle Party” is another new Xbox LIVE game coming out tomorrow, and it’s a lot of fun. The game features a few different styles of shuffle board game play. There’s a bowling style mode where you have to knock over pins with a shuffleboard puck. You’ll see your Xbox LIVE avatar show up here once in a while. There’s also a “Challenge” mode, which puts obstacles and coins and different scoring areas on the shuffleboard …
Continue readingXbox LIVE Game: Ghostscape
One of this week’s new Xbox LIVE games for Windows Phone is called Ghostscape. It costs $2.99 and a free trial will be available tomorrow as well. The game is a mystery solving type game where you’ve got to explore a haunted house, find clues, and photograph ghosts that you might find. Most of the scenery is very two dimensional with a few 3D parts added about. You play by tapping different areas and picking …
Continue readingZune’s Black Friday Sale on Music & Videos
Don’t forget to check out the Marketplace section of your Zune Desktop software for some Black Friday sales. In the videos section, you’ll find a selection of movies on sale for 400 Microsoft Points (about $5), as well as a selection of new releases on sale for 800 points (about $10), and a number of TV shows for around 1600 points per season ($20). The movies and TV shows that you buy can be synced …
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