The AT&T Social Media Team has recorded a little YouTube video showing a few of their favorite Windows Phone 7 tips. The AT&T team will tell you about the pocket to camera feature, Zune Pass, the expandable menu at the bottom of most screens, pinning a contact to the start screen, the tap & hold menu in the email, and the voice control feature for launching apps. You probably already know about all of these …
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Recover Your Purchased Apps Using Zune’s Purchase History
Say you need to hard reset your Windows Phone 7 or simply buy a new device. When you sign in with your Windows Live ID most of your data will be restored automatically. In some cases, all of your purchased apps and games will also be reinstalled automatically. Sometimes apps don’t get reinstalled though or they’ll take a really long time. If you’ve forgotten which apps you bought or can’t remember which ones were trials, …
Continue readingPC World Lies About Windows Phone 7?
In case you were wondering if we had read Galen Gruman’s “Microsoft Disaster” article regarding Windows Phone 7, we had, and we noticed at least one glaring error. Galen Gruman wrote: “You can’t select ranges of text (much less copy or cut them); what you can do in Word and OneNote is essentially limited to jotting down some characters and adding formatting such as boldface, one word at a time.” Of course, this is totally …
Continue readingMaking Music with the Windows Ecosystem
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 …
Continue readingUse 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 …
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