The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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New Free Xbox LIVE Games: Minesweeper & Sudoku
Microsoft just announced the availability of two new FREE Xbox Live games for Windows Phone 7. If you’ve been using Windows Phone 7 for a while you know that for a long time the only free Xbox LIVE game available was Flowers. Now you can download Minesweeper and/or Sudoku as well! Both support Xbox LIVE acheivements and leaderboards, both have a similar panoramic design and simplistic game-play interface design, and both are advertisement supported. The …
Continue readingEditorial: Facebook Chat Is the New Standard for IM
While being frustrated by all of the various instant messaging clients available for mobile devices and PCs, I noticed that the majority of the people I know were often available on Facebook chat. I had been thinking about this for a while and recently I noticed the same thoughts expressed by Zack Wittaker over at Zdnet. There’s no need for Blackberry Messenger anymore, everybody you know is on Facebook and Facebook chat is supported by …
Continue readingHow to Use SkyDrive from Windows Explorer as a Network Drive
For those who are using Windows Phone Mango, or those who are looking forward to using Windows Phone Mango later this year, you’ll probably want to find an easy way to access the cloud-based free 25Gb SkyDrive that Windows Phone is so well integrated with. Sure, the SkyDrive website works pretty well, but why isn’t it just fully integrated with Windows via some sort of app that you just sign in to? Unfortunately there is …
Continue readingZune Social’s Facebook Integration Upgraded to Support Posts
Lately the whole social networking for music thing has seen a resurgence. Spotify has some cool Facebook integration and iTunes’ Ping is another attempt at socializing users music libraries. Of course we know Zune kind of invented the idea many years ago, although I think Microsoft got the idea to do a legal music-sharing social network from the illegal-days of the original Napster. Anyway, the Zune HD’s Facebook app had this really cool feature where …
Continue readingT-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide Review
Today we have the latest update to T-Mobile’s myTouch line of Android smartphones. The HTC myTouch 4G Slide is naturally the upgrade to the older myTouch 3G Slide and there are a lot of new features that make it a worthy upgrade. The myTouch line has always had kind of a unique design aesthetic. It looks like it’s mainly targeted towards the lower-end market, but some of the high end features may suggest otherwise. Read …
Continue readingFirst Custom Windows Phone 7 ROM Appears for HD7
While many will agree that Windows Phone 7 doesn’t really need custom ROMs to make it better (since it’s easy to uninstall anything you don’t want), a lot of people still enjoy pushing the limits of their smartphones. Today we hear that Ansar of XDA-Developers has created the first custom ROM for the HTC HD7 using the DFT hard SPL tools. The custom ROM doesn’t add a huge amount of differentiation, but it does make …
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