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With regular old Windows, there are plenty of ways to do screen captures. From the simple Print Screen key for the whole screen, other key combinations for windows and applications in focus, or the use of any of the great 3rd party applications. But with the new Metro applications? If you’re running Windows 8/RT Metro [...]
Every wish you could share your latest high-score with your friends? Or perhaps an app isn’t displaying correctly on your device and you want to show the developer exactly what you’re seeing? Of course, there’s always the desire to share a good auto-correct moment with others. Whatever your reason may be, you’ll need to know [...]
Sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference. Here’s one of those little things with Windows Phone that really makes me like using it day in and day out. When you’re listening to your favorite tunes, Windows Phone will swap out your lock screen image with pictures of the artist you’re listening too. [...]
Have you recently purchased a used Samsung Focus S, or perhaps you’re getting ready to sell your Focus S. Before you do anything, you should take a couple minutes and wipe the phone of any personal information. As with all Windows Phones, you can always do this from the Settings / About screen. Just tap [...]
Today Microsoft announced a new version of the Facebook app was released to the Marketplace. Who doesn’t want an updated Facebook experience? The marketplace will automatically notify you of any updates. But when I hit up the market, there was no updates listed for me. The reason is because the market will automatically check for [...]
An often overlooked feature in Windows Phone (Mango) is the powerful speech engine. This comes built into the phone, and can do some really great things. You can quickly call contacts, launch installed applications, search Bing, or even compose and send text messages. In some ways, I consider it to be better than Apple’s Siri, [...]
Who doesn’t want to customize the ringtones on their smartphone? It’s always among the top things on my list when I pick up a new device – check the sounds that come with it, and get my favorites on it. In November of 2011, Microsoft released the Mango update for Windows Phone, which included this [...]
In the past, screen captures on Android have meant rooting the device. Some devices had special key combinations that would allow for a screen capture. Google just didn’t include this as part of the operating system, so some devices would do it and others not. For the devices that you could do screen captures on, [...]
With version 5 of iOS, Apple has enabled the ability to update the operating system of the phone without having to connect the device to a PC (or Mac). This means you can now upgrade your device any time there’s an update without waiting until you get back to your computer. Apple has released v5.01 [...]
XAP files are the modern version of the CAB files we used to have back in the Windows Mobile days. Basically, a XAP file is the complied installation file for a Silverlight application. Typically, you would never need to copy this to your device, as you would simply download the application directly from the marketplace. [...]
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