Got a TiVo? Want to be able to control what it records from your Windows Phone? TivoMote is a fun new companion for your HD TiVo (Series 3 and greater) box that lets you see what’s already recorded on your Tivo, search for new shows and record them from your phone or see what TV … Read more
If you live on that border town between MS and Google and use Google Documents then there’s a new Windows Phone app for you. It’s called GDocs and it’s free. Here are the features: GDocs is a simple client for Google docs for windows phone. Currently it supports: * Viewing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings and … Read more
Microsoft is giving a free t-shirt to Windows Phone developers who have an app in Marketplace. All you need to do is provide your information at https://www.myappisonwindowsphone.com/default.aspx. The first 75 devs also got a $99 Visa card but I’m guessing that’s already accounted for.
Amber Central (a free WP7 app) aims to get Amber Alerts on your phone to help search and safely recover missing children. It’s always welcoming to see an app that is designed solely to help others but on top of that, the app is very well built. Take a look at the features: A real-time … Read more
Play»Convey (which was available for WM)is now available for Windows phones. It lets you track various sports and easily share the stats with those around you so if you attend your child’s sporting events you can share the stats with the team for example. Seems pretty neat. here’s their feature list: Features: Play»Convey keeps track … Read more
Developers just received a newsletter from Microsoft talking about the current state of development and where things are headed. Nothing earth shattering here but still interesting (note: hyperlinks were removed): January 27, 2011First Windows Phone 7 Developer Payouts Processed We are very happy to announce that all developer payouts have been processed this month as … Read more
A new app appeared in Marketplace from AT&T tonight called AT&T Code Scanner and as expected, it’s a 2D code scanning application. One anomaly is that AT&T could use native access to the phone and thus make a direct call to the camera so that you could ‘live’ scan a code but they didn’t. So … Read more
Microsoft has released a preview of Windows Phone 7 + Cloud Services SDK which aims to bring cloud services to Windows Phones. One portion of this SDK permits phones to communicate directly to each other which gets past the problems with mobile phones not having a fixed IP address. But this is the beginning of … Read more
Sidekick users may recall the app MoneyClip. Well it’s now available for Windows Phones in an update version: MoneyClip – the award-winning full-featured personal finance manager from the Sidekick is now available for your Windows Phone 7 device. Take control of your finances and always know where you stand. MoneyClip is an easy-to-use finance application … Read more
Looks like the payments to developers (slated to begin 4th week of January) are underway. But you don’t know it’s happening. Magically, if you have a verified account it just has more money in it. OK there’s more motivation – keep making apps now please