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ChevronWP7 Unlock Tool Coming Soon (Few Weeks Away)

October 17, 2011 No Comments

The Chevron Team (Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh, Long Zheng) have finally announced that their upcoming unlock tool (chevronWP7) for Windows Phone will be coming in just a few short weeks. The application is pretty much an unlock tool that is approved by Microsoft in which you can sideload apps without paying the apphub membership fee. All […]

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Mango Apps: TouchDevelop (TouchStudio)

October 8, 2011 No Comments

It hasn’t even been a month since Microsoft Research has updated their TouchDevelop (TouchStudio) app on the Windows Phone Marketplace to Version 2.2.  I am happy to announce that TouchDevelop has just been updated to Version 2.3, which actually makes it a Mango app. Now the app can help you make mango apps right on […]

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WP7 Dev Tools: WP7 Featured List

October 7, 2011 2 Comments

Our friend and developer Marios Karagiannis, creator of the hit game MonsterUp has developed a tool in which Windows Phone developers can keep track of when or if an app is featured anywhere in the world.   In his own words: I created a small tool that enables anyone to see if an app is featured […]

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Microsoft: Starting End of October You Can Modify 7.0 Apps Post Mango

September 26, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft caused quite a stir a few weeks back when they announced that developers couldn’t modify their 7.0 app after they updated it to Mango. Now, Microsoft plays a different tune as they not only announce that in October you will be allowed to get back into that 7.0 version and change it – they are […]

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Mango Beta Users Will Not Have to Rollback to NoDo

September 26, 2011 No Comments

Brandon Watson has just confirmed our speculations that users running the Mango Beta will not have to rollback to NoDo. Just now he tweeted: “Got a case of the Mondays? Here’s a fix: #wpdev folks will roll forward to Mango RTM, & will *not* roll back to NoDo. Thank you engineering.” Thank you indeed! Those […]

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Windows 8 Developer Preview Samsung Tablet Selling on Ebay

September 20, 2011 No Comments

I was shocked to find out that no one had put up the Samsung developer preview tablet on ebay yet. Someone finally has and it is a testiment to how awesome Windows 8 is that it even took so long. The tablet right now is going for US $2,025.00 with 5 days left! I know […]

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Developer: TouchDevelop Gets Updated to 2.2 (TouchStudio)

September 15, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft Research has updated their TouchDevelop (TouchStudio) app on the Windows Phone Marketplace to Version 2.2.  TouchDevelop is a very popular app among developers for allowing you to start creating an app from the app itself. It even has gained some traction among Windows Phone users that are just curious and want to start learning how […]

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Play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas With Kinect and Windows Phone (Video)

September 12, 2011 No Comments

I am hoping to see more and more tinkerers make a connection between the Xbox 360, Kinect and Windows Phone. All three all amazing products and its insane what kind of crazy apps some people come up with. Check out this guy who actually manages to get Kinect working with Windows Phone and Grand Theft Auto: […]

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Developer: Bee Mobile Offering Windows Phone DevKit (Shopping Mall)

September 6, 2011 No Comments

Bee Mobile is offering a Windows Phone Devkit to help developers build apps. Here’s the breakdown of the devkit by Bee Mobile:   Shopping Mall is a powerful sample project which shows the capabilities of all Bee Mobile Metropolis components in one Windows Phone 7 application. The idea of the application is that it prompts […]

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Windows Azure Toolkit Announced for Android – WP7 Kit Updated to V1.3

August 31, 2011 No Comments

Microsoft has just announced an update to Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone. THey have also announced a toolkit specifically for Android Developers. To make it easier for Windows Phone developers to use Windows Azure, we have created the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone. This toolkit provides a set of Visual Studio project templates […]

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Nokia Begins to Advertise the Lumia 710 – Welcome to the Amazing Everyday (video)

With the Lumia 800 being Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone at the moment, its no wonder that it has been getting...

Lenovo LePhone S2 Running Windows Phone Coming 2012

Lenovo announced yesterday its LePhone S2 running Android which seemed to kill any chance of them making a Windows...