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How To Change your Images on the Rotating Pictures Tile for Windows Phone (Mango)

January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Did you notice that the image on your Picture Hub Tile rotates. And you really don't like those pictures. Well, you can change them and have your favorite pictures rotate on this tile.  You can change the background image once you are in the picture hub as well. This has changed a little since "before Mango Update" in our earlier article.Windows Phone 7 has a great fast, snappy User Interface. The Tiles on the home screen are movable and some of them even display live information. It is … [Read more...]

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How to Enable App Purchases for your Children’s Windows Phones

December 31, 2011 By 5 Comments
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If you love the Windows Phone platform it is only a matter of time before your children will have a Windows phone as well. However with a legitimate sign up of a Windows Live ID  Microsoft recognizes that your child is a minor and won't allow them to download a paid application on their Windows Phone. Even after adding a Credit Card to their account using the "add credit card" in the MarketPlace on the Windows Phone.  Since everyone's account set up is different I think with my "How To" you … [Read more...]

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Carbon Twitter Application for Windows Phone A Must Have

December 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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My great friend Mike Temporale at Mobile Jaw has been involved in a beta application for a new twitter client on the Windows Phone named Carbon. We all know twitter is very well integrated on the Windows Phone, except for Direct messaging. But if you are Twitter power users you really want to have a good look on MobileJaw's review of just the candidate release of Carbon.Some great features and screen shots are explained in very great detail.  Below are some screen shots courtesy of … [Read more...]

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Kinectimals now available on Windows Phone.

November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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We have seen the previews already online but now the Xbox Live game  Kinectimals is available to all Windows Phone users. Kinectimals is a great kinect game for the Xbox 360. However now you can have the same fun with Kinetimals for your Windows Phone. If you have Kinectimals on the Xbox 360 your Windows Phone becomes they key to unlock five new cubs on your console.This irresistible experience on your Windows Phone gives you the chance to use your device to visit Lemuria and play with, … [Read more...]

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How to Filter your Facebook News Feeds on your iPhone, IPad, Android and Windows Phone Facebook App

October 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Facebook always had the option on your desktop to filter your news feed to just read the updates of people you had put into a custom list. However in a couple of the last updates on Facebook, Facebook has been automatically creating some lists for you as well. My main complaint on the Mobile Facebook apps was that you couldn't filter your news feed to these list on the Mobile device applications. It is possible but it is not that obvious and requires a little trick.  In this article I explain … [Read more...]

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Review Navigon Navigation for Windows Phone 7 [Video]

October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Navigon navigation applications (Now a Garmin Company) for Windows Mobile, iPhone and Android phones have been always top of the line. Now they have done it again for Windows Phone. After the latest Mango update for Windows Phone (7.5) Navigon released two applications Navigon Europe and Navigon USA.We have reviewed other Navigon applications in the past and I couldn't let this one pass by. The Navigon USA version is only $29.99 till November 15, 2011 compared to the European version of … [Read more...]

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How to: Why Can’t I see the Facebook Updates of Friends in the People Hub and Friend Tiles

October 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
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I have been frustrated for awhile why I couldn't see any Facebook updates of certain friends in the People Hub and those Individual and Group Tiles but was able to read their posts and updates from the official Facebook app from the Marketplace. Well!!! it has to do do with the the Privacy setting of that specific person.The Facebook app is an official app from Facebook it self and published in the Marketplace which will allow you to see the updates from your friends set by their custom … [Read more...]

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How To Fix and Use Your Integrated Twitter Account on Your Windows Phone

September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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There were many issues during the roll out of the Mango Update for Windows Phone 7 to Windows Phone 7.5 of the twitter integration. Many people had issues that either the feed wasn't showing up in the "What's new" section of the People Hub, Group Tiles or individual Tiles.  Linking the Twitter Names to your contacts was an issue as well. However this has now been fixed and here is how you easily can fix this without doing a hard reset. If you have some issues in general the steps below … [Read more...]

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