David K 
Gotta love panoramic controls – just slide through and you get a dictionary, translator and thesaurus page by page. Fairly simple app but it does what you ask it to do. any thoughts on if background images help or hurt WP7 apps? Anyway, here it is in action. It’s called ArkWords and here’s a link … Read more
Gotta love a nice open marketplace. One that lets anyone just throw anything onto it. So we know that one time someone created a banking app that actually sent your info to them. Not cool. But what if it turns out that it’s just the tip of the iceberg? SMobile Systems looked at over 48,000 … Read more
Here’s another WP7 app. This one lets you follow the standing of soccer…but it’s European so I guess we’ll call it football. Anyway, it appears to have standings and live game summaries. Dang thing is in German though so I can’t tell;) Otherwise it looks good – except the green. Do we all agree that … Read more
Good to see that MS is letting some third parties play with actual devices…even if it was being closely supervised:) Engadget was provided with a Samsung prototype which they say will never hit the streets. This makes sense though. This is a phone slapped together to test WP7 and we should all expect that WP7 … Read more
Check it out since it’s coming soon enough to combined your car, video games and phone. This is part of an ad campaign (more here) which notes “One proof of concept being explored involves a mobile brand experience, in which consumers can add a local Chevrolet promotion event to their calendar to go test-drive … Read more
And here we thought WP7 availability was months off…here’s part of the press release: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the release of Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 to mobile platform partners. Redesigned from the ground up with new performance and mobile specific features, Flash Player 10.1 is the first release that brings the full Web … Read more
Windows Phone 7 comes with its distinctive large tiles on the home screen. User bkf1 of XDA tried to slim line this by making some tiles smaller so you get more on the page and more info is available. I was surprised by the comments at XDA and how many people really like the large … Read more
Sometimes it’s nice to turn off your phones backlight but not let it go into sleep mode. By doing this, it lets background events continue without draining your battery by having the screen on. If you’re using a GPS app, for example, it can continue to track you. Another example is using Active sync where … Read more
Just came across this game on YouTube. It’s pretty neat. You get 7 letters (one is locked but I presume based on the level of play there are more or less letters) but you need to spell that longest word you can with the letters you have to beat the clock. Spelling words that are … Read more
Earlier this month we previewed an app from Clarity Consulting that acts as a remote control for Power Point. Well today they’ve given us a new video and new detail no how it works. Turns out that the interaction between Power Point and the phone is through Microsoft’s Push Notifications so the phone sends a … Read more
The game Frozen Bubble is being ported to XNA to get it over to Windows Phone 7. If you’ve never played it, it looks like Snood – which I love:) The developer notes: I am currently porting Frozen Bubble from perl to C# XNA. My goal is to have the game up and running under … Read more
Some people were concerned that WP7 wouldn’t have a lot of multiplayer real time games. The reasons is because MS did not provide some developer tools for this. MS provided turn by turn games (like chess) but not real time multiplayer games where both players play simultaneously. Anyway, here’s a clip of a multiplayer online chess … Read more