Vlingo Speaks Out About The Fuze

It looks like here was an XDA thread with the ‘fixed’ Vlingo cab that was started on June 10 and it appears as though a representative of Vlingo added to the thread and stated the following (emphasis added by me): Hi – this is some great and clever work. We’re glad to see users finding … Read more

Vlingo Beta Available for the Fuze

setup 2 I presume most of you have heard about Vlingo by now (if not from an angry WM user who feels slighted or by an iPhone user or BB users bragging). If not:

Vlingo lets you control your mobile phone with the power of voice. With Vlingo, you can simply speak to your phone to send a text or email message, call a friend, search the mobile web, update your social status, and more. As the inventor of the mobile phone voice user interface, Vlingo is the only technology that allows you to open and use virtually any application on the phone simply by pressing a button and speaking to the phone.

Recently a beta was released for WM but it was for a handful of phones and the Fuze/Touch Pro was not included on the list. That won’t stop us from testing it though:) Rdavidsmith from PPCGeeks has provided a ‘fixed’ cab that works on the Fuze (which I also uploaded here to our forums for conveniences).  So let’s go through a few setup shots followed by my initial findings:

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.Net CF 3.7 Available

Every time you get a WM phone one of the first things you have to do is install  .Net 3.5 Compact Framework (because so many apps rely on it and it improves speed of your device).  As we reported, this was true for both the Tilt and the Fuze. Recently we’ve been playing around with … Read more

JMZ Presents Lockscreen Changer

JMZ has written a simple application to change the lock screen background in WM 6.5 so that you can have a different photo for the lock screen than your regular background photo. Pretty neat. At this point it’s VGA only (so Touch Pro/Fuze/Diamond) and the download is available from JMZ Taylor’s website or from the … Read more

Skinning Nitrogen

Just yesterday we discussed the Nitrogen player and overall there’s been pretty positive feedback so let’s keep a good thing going. One thing I didn’t go into detail on is skinning Nitrogen. It’s very simple- just take one of the skins from this thread and move it to (storage card)\program files\nitrogen\skins and then in Nitrogen … Read more

Phone Upside Down = Backlight Off

G-off Display is a simple little app that turns your backlight off when your phone is held upside down. Not face down, but like in the picture. It actually works wells because if you just drop your phone in your pocket that’s the natural direction it will fall and within a second the backlight will … Read more

Ultra Light Nitrogen 1.0 Music Player Released

I kept seeing XDA threads about a music player called Nitrogen and I kept ignoring them. I mean, I have Windows Media Player so why change it? Well that was before I performed a simple test. I loaded WMP and let it play an MP3 and my memory usage shot up from 43% to a … Read more

BGR Reviews and Loves The Touch Pro 2

The Boy Genius took the plunge and reviewed a European version of the Touch Pro 2 (so it’s missing US 3G). But boy did that genius love it. You know, I wanted to give a few snippets to show how much they love it but it’s tempting to just copy and paste the entire thing. … Read more

Map Your Home Key, Back Key and Keyboard

If you’re the owner of a Fuze or a Touch Pro you’re about to be very happy. XDA member Tarkim has released Raphael Keyboard Configurator (v1.1 is available at the time of this writing). This simple application lets you map the Touch Pro/Fuze’s keyboard as well as the home, and back keys and he claims … Read more

Get Ilium Software’s NewsBreak Lite Free

NewsBreak is Ilium’s applauded RSS reader and now Microsoft is providing it for free (with a five feed limitation). This is normally a $20 piece of software. It’s really fast and easy to use and includes podcasts. I tested it out on my Fuze and it was up and running in seconds and the speed … Read more

Clean Out Duplicate Contacts

Somewhere between reloading ROMs, going through new phones and adding contacts in last name, first name versus first name, last name order we all get a lot of duplicate contacts. In the past I’ve cleaned this by using software on my PC. Thanks to zaijian of XDA we now have Contact Cleaner which is a … Read more

No Mom, Just Playing With My Phone

In what I’m sure will be treated as a mile stone in WM development elAlem of XDA released a beta version of hdWobble, a program that lets you make things go bouncy bounce:) Being a beta, you have to set the bull’s eyes over the intended ‘objects’ and you can change the location and size … Read more