As I thought I would, I love it. The more I use my Windows Phone 7, the more I love it. It really hit me getting ready for work this morning: I love this OS because it is a direct reflection of ME. When I look at the start page, I see myself in it. My family, friends and other assorted loved ones, the last music artist I listened to, a photo from my pictures, my...
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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...
Read MoreMicrosoft’s weather app is clean and simple. It also follows you (if you allow it to) and always makes your current location the primary one, even if you haven’t added it to your watch list. Get it here (Zune desktop software required).
Read MoreBTW, today was the first day in the office with my new Focus. Our networks are hidden which means the last tie to my iPhone remains un-severed and I will be carrying two phones for a while.
Read MoreI 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...
Read MoreI 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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