The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i is a budget friendly laptop that should handle basic computing …
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Will Microsoft Announce Windows Phone 8 at the Developer Summit?
We just got a “Save the Date” email for a Windows Phone Developer Summit that will happen June 20-21 in San Francisco, CA. We can’t help but wonder if this may be when Microsoft decides to announce Windows Phone 8 and of course detail all the new bits and API’s that developers will need to know in order to make great apps for the next version of Windows Phone. The graphic in the email is …
Continue readingUsing Android Apps on a Windows 8 Tablet (Video)
You may remember seeing Joe Levi’s video about using Bluestacks software to run Android apps on a normal Windows 7 PCs and that was very cool, but I thought it would be fun to see how the same software works on a Windows 8 tablet… especially since we can expect a number of new Windows 8 tablets to be released later this year. Take a look at the video below to see how it works. …
Continue readingPAC-MAN Kart Rally Xbox LIVE Game Preview
This weeks new Xbox LIVE game has a very exciting new feature that hasn’t yet seen much action on Windows Phone 7; real-time multiplayer! PAC-MAN Kart Rally is a racing game similar to any other racing game except you’ve got PAC-MAN characters along with some power-ups and booster features. The graphics aren’t terrific, but I’m actually happy to see touch screen controls for this racing game instead of the usual tilt-controls that so many others …
Continue readingWhy People Love Windows Phone
If you look at user reviews for any Windows Phone available today you will be hard pressed to find any with less than a 4 star average rating. The majority of users who buy these phones rate them very highly. Only once in a while you’ll find some one that returns a Windows Phone and rates it poorly because it doesn’t do something esoteric like Bluetooth file transfer (which may have been useful in 2005) …
Continue readingApple Co-Founder Very Impressed by Windows Phone 7
We heard a while back that the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, was lining up for a Nokia Lumia back when it was originally released, and now he lets everyone know what he thinks about it in an interview from aNewDomain. Here are a few good quotes: Just for looks and beauty, I definitely favor the Windows 7 Phone over Android. I’m kinda shocked how every screen is much more beautiful than the same apps …
Continue readingWhy SkyDrive is So Much Better Than Google Drive
This week, some new upgrades to SkyDrive were revealed just before Google revealed their “Drive” cloud storage service. Many sites gave the Google Drive service a lot more coverage than the SkyDrive upgrade, but most users and commenters were able to realize that SkyDrive is much better than Google Drive, DropBox, and many other cloud services. Sure, there are a few things that it doesn’t do as well, and those may be deal-breakers for a …
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