August 23, 2011
Torchbear is a social game where you create a torch, give it a mission and pass it to someone where they add their comments and pictures to your torch allowing you to track your torch around the world and track the success of your torch’s mission. The 5 Golden Rules of Torchbear: You can only […]
Tags: Apps, Games, social, torch, torchbearApps, News
August 22, 2011
Developers rejoice! The moment when you can submit your apps for Windows Phone Mango has finally arrived. We noted last month that App Hub would begin accepting Mango apps in late August. The infrastructure for accepting your Mango apps is coming online as we speak! Some of you may already be seeing new content as […]
Tags: Apps, developers, Mango, Microsoft, sdk, software development kit, Windows Phone, WP7Apps, News
August 22, 2011
We Recently saw a good number of the HTC apps get updated to Mango. Then we say MSN Movies get updated yesterday to include a few Mango features. Now the first Xbox Live title ever gets the same treatment. Flowerz has been updated to version 1.2 which turns out to give it instant resume when […]
Tags: Flowerz, Mango, Windows Phone, Xbox LiveApps, Games
August 21, 2011
MSN Movies app by Microsoft was updated recently and it has signs of Mango goodness. Even though I found that it doesn’t have that awesome auto resume on multitasking (something I uncovered on the recently updated HTC apps). It does however show up when you search for movies on Bing. When you press it it […]
Tags: Apps, Free Apps, movies, MSN, MSN Movies, Showtimes, Windows PhoneApps
August 20, 2011
Microsoft has an added something new to the Marketplace. Now if an app isn’t available for your device it will give you a message that says This application is not available for your device. Press here for more info.” When you click on the message it will say: This might be because your phone software […]
Tags: Apps, Marketplace, Windows Phone, windows phone 7, WP7Apps, News
August 20, 2011
Microsoft announced a legion of new games coming to Windows Phone via Xbox Live. Here we take a closer look at Fight Game: Rivals, the game looks to be a serious heavy weight when it drops on Windows Phone, Fight Game: Rivals is like nothing we have seen on WP7 yet and I for one […]
Tags: achievements, Fight Game Rivals, Fighting, gameplay, Games, Windows Phone, Xbox LiveApps, Featured, Games, News
August 20, 2011
Voddler, a video streaming service that streams movies and shows is looking to expand to a new platform. They are currently taking votes on their Facebook page about what platform should be next. Oddly enough they have Windows Mobile 7 coming in at first place, Windows Phone 7 is third, and Windows Phone in fourth place. Call […]
Tags: movies, Streaming, tv series, TV Shows, voddler, windows mobile 7, Windows Phone, windows phone 7, WP7Apps, News
August 20, 2011
A mobile version of the Hit XBLA Toy Soldiers is coming to the Windows Phone 7 soon. Subtitled as “Boot Camp”, it packs in its bigger brother’s shooting gallery mini-games with cross-platform leader boards. Microsoft’s Gamescom announcement didn’t offer any game-play details but promised the title will be out in the Autumn. These videos found over the mystical, magical workings of this new site […]
Tags: boot, camp, cardboard, fly, Game, rocket, toy, toy soldiers boot camp, war, xblaApps, Games
August 19, 2011
Former Microsoft Silverlight Program Manager Justin Angel decided that he was going to download every app on the Marketplace in order to figure out what programs developers were using for their apps and a little bit more: “Wrote a query that runs on the entire WP7 marketplace and looks for XAPs with the exact same DLLs” […]
Tags: c#, f#, justin angel, Marketplace, Silverlight, windows phone 7, WP7Apps, News
August 19, 2011
As promised the update for IM+ is now available. In addition to some new tweaks to the application performance, the update brings a big negative. Just as IM+ warned when the announcement of the update was made, if you choose to go ahead and update your phone to the new version of IM+ you will […]
Tags: Aim, aol, Apps, ICQ, IM, instant messaging, Windows Live MessengerApps, News