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Posts made in November, 2010

When buying music, where from?

When buying music, where from?

By on Nov 30, 2010 in Windows Phone | 0 comments

I am in a bit of a quandary when it comes to where I get my music from. On the one hand, using Zune Marketplace would seem to be natural now that I have a Windows Phone. On the other hand, iTunes dominates, is DRM free, and anything I buy in iTunes plays just fine on my WP7, including music videos. Then there’s the fact that many artists often do things...

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Windows Phone Tip #1: People Tiles

By on Nov 29, 2010 in Windows Phone | 0 comments

I am finding one of the cooler features to be the ability to pin a person tile. It’s really easy to to: Go into the People Hub Press and hold the desired contact Select Pin to Start Now that’s just stupid simple. Like the “Me” tile, it alternates between showing the contact’s image, name and latest update from the contact’s social...

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Simple Tip 1.3.0 coming

By on Nov 27, 2010 in Windows Phone | 0 comments

I finally got the Dotfuscator Runtime Intelligence account setup and submitted a dot release for Simple Tip to the App Hub for testing. So far testing looks good, although I wasn’t able to use renaming. Seems some of the XAML related to transitions created in Expression Blend was throwing some warnings up that I am guessing was the problem. The app would crash...

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