How To Use Speech to Control your Windows Phone

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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, [...]

Tweeting From Carbon for Windows Phone

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Got Windows Phone? Then you’ve got Twitter built right in. So why would you want a stand alone app that’s dedicated to Twitter? The answer is pretty obvious once you start using a really good Twitter client – enter Carbon. I’ve been lucky enough to have access to early beta versions of Carbon and provide [...]

MWC 2011: Microsoft Shares New Features and Future Direction for Windows Phone

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During the keynote at Mobile World Congress today, Steve Ballmer talked about where Windows Phone is today, and then shed some light on what features we can expect over the course of 2011. The first item on the list is the pending Copy & Paste update – according to Steve, we can expect that in [...]

Christmas Giveaway! Palm Pre 2 plus Accessories!

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The good people at Palm (err…HP) have sent us a Palm Pre 2 to give to one of our readers, something we are more than happy to do! The winner will receive a brand new Palm Pre 2, a touchstone charger and a very nice leather case. Be sure to follow our Palm Pre 2 [...]

How to Send Google Buzz Posts to Twitter

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As I am sure you all know Google has just released their latest project into the wilds; Google Buzz. Buzz looks to be an interesting service that is somewhere between facebook and twitter. Who knows if it will be the social network of the decade, but I’m jumping in to try it out. One obvious [...]

Twikini Updated and Reviewed

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I’ve talked about Twitter clients a fair amount around here, including a review of the beta version of Twikini back in May. Since that post, Twikini has seen a couple of releases and there’s another release coming up really soon that adds support for posting a link to your exact location using Google Maps. In [...]

Mobile Twitter – The PockeTwit Way

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PockeTwit is one of the more popular Twitter clients for Windows Mobile devices. I’ve written about this app a couple times in the past and the developers keep making it better and better and adding more and more features. So it’s worth a re-visit. PockeTwit works on both touch and non-touch screen devices. When looking [...]

Twikini – Taking a Look at a New Twitter Client

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Do you tweet? Are you looking to tweet from your Windows Mobile device? You can always go direct and use Twitters mobile site – http://m.twitter.com, but today’s crop of applications offer a lot more than the basic web experience that Twitter offers. Over the next couple days I’m going to take an look at a [...]

Pocketwit is Still the Best Twitter Client for Windows Mobile

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Windows Mobile has had a hard time when it comes to good Twitter clients. There’s a short list of clients, and a even shorter list of clients worth installing. Pocketwit has been atop of that list for a while and the latest version has helped cement it’s position even more. With version 0.68 Pocketwit has [...]

CntrStg, CES 2009 and Twitter

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I’ve written about CntrStg here in the past. This past week I’ve been down here in Vegas for CES and running CntrStg. It’s been such a busy weekend that I haven’t had a time to make any posts.  CntrStg was a huge success and we’re definitely looking to do it again and maybe even at [...]