The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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Connecticut’s Microsoft Store Grand Opening
Slow news day? Got that right! How about I tell you about my visit to the grand opening of the Microsoft Store in Danbury, CT then? First of all this is the first Microsoft Store to open in New England and it’s the 3rd to open in the North East USA (with two others already up and running in New Jersey). Of course there was a line to get into the store for the grand …
Continue readingCamera Extras Now Available for Nokia Lumia Phones
Wednesday we saw a few cool features from Nokia that will be coming to Nokia Windows Phones soon. It looks like one of the coolest features is already here. The Camera Extras add on for Nokia Windows Phones adds options like Smart Group Shot and Panorama shooting modes. We saw the Smart Group Shot feature demonstrated in San Francisco on Wednesday and it’s similar to Windows Live Photo Gallery’s Photo Fuse feature where you can …
Continue readingWindows Phone 8 Start Screen: Where is the App List?
Microsoft unveiled the new Windows Phone 8 Start screen the other day and there are quite a few new features and extended customizability that users have been clamouring for. You can now make tiles different sizes to show more or less data or just take up more or less room on the Start screen. You’ll notice the little arrow that points you towards the app listing is gone now as is the bit of negative …
Continue readingWindows Phone 8: Catching Up And Breaking Ground
At today’s Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco, as you know, Microsoft gave us our first glimpse of what is to come in Windows Phone 8 mainly from a developer perspective. There were a few features announced that many could consider ground breaking, while there were a few others that can certainly be considered catching up to the competition. First up, probably the most ground breaking part of Windows Phone 8 is its shared core …
Continue readingSharp’s New Feel UX Android Skin
We haven’t really seen much of Sharp’s current Android skin, but they’ve just announced that they will be teaming up with a design firm called frog in order to create a new Android based user experience called “Feel UX”. You’ll find it on Sharp’s AQUOS smartphones later this summer. Some of the main UI improvements include lock screen widget functionality and real-time weather animation. Using different gestures on the lock screen you can swipe through …
Continue readingWhich Looks Better? A Comparison Between Popular Apps on iOS and Windows Phone
A while back, Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak said about Windows Phone that “I’m kinda shocked how every screen is much more beautiful.” So we thought it would be fun to look at a few popular iOS apps and how their Windows Phone counterparts compare in the looks department. The difference in which is more beautiful has a lot to do with the design philosophies of each platform and most of the apps tend to conform to …
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