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Comcast Xfinity is Milking us with the new Digital Adapters – Quality is Back to the Future

September 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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As most Comcast / Xfinity costumers now know they need to get a small digital decoder box for the TV's in their household that don't have a cable box from Comcast already. However this small digital converter box that you have to put in between will set you back to the future.I have three TV's in my house:Living room : HD TV with HD DVR Cable box (No Issues) Basement: Old Tube TV for the kids plugged-in straight to the Wall Bedroom: Small flat screen HD Ready plugged-in straight … [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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Changes to the Zune Music Pass for Windows Phone, XBOX 360, Desktop and Zune HD

September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Microsoft Zune Pass is currently a great deal. For $14.99 a month you can download and stream unlimited music and keep it as long as you keep your subscription. In addition to this you are allowed to download 10 songs per month for you to keep forever. However on October 3rd,  2011 the Music Pass will go down in price to $9.99 a month but you will loose the 10 songs forever downloads. All current Zune Pass customers are allowed to keep their current plan $14.99 plan if they want and will … [Read more...]

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How to Use Groups as Live Tile in Windows Phone to Filter your What’s New Feed

September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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This is going to be a re-post of an article I have written about Groups when the first Beta Mango update was released to developers. Why, very easy the Windows Phone Mango update is rolling out to the public and I really want users to know about this amazing strong unique feature on the Windows Phone 7.5.Now that Mango is in the hands or is going to be in the hand of end users we can show you  the great new functionality of Groups in the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango update. With all the … [Read more...]

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Burn the Rope a XBOX Live Game for Windows Phone

September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The Xbox Live games for Windows Phone are for the most part great games to play. Soon they will launch Burn the Rope. A preview of this game promises another great XBOX Live game on the Windows Phone. Features include over 100 levels, accelerometer controls and great graphics.Burn the Rope is a challenging game where you try to burn as much rope as you can in each level. There’s a catch! The fire only burns upwards, leaving you to rotate the level to keep your flame alive! Bugs along … [Read more...]

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How To Connect to Hidden WIFI Networks on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

September 27, 2011 By 3 Comments
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From day one the Windows Phone Answer Forums have been flooded with complaints about not be able to connect to a hidden Wi-Fi network.  When the developers Mango updates came out this was still not an option. However with today's official roll out of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) you are now able to connect to a Hidden Wi-Fi network. And this is how... How to connect to a hidden Wifi Network.Go to Settings Wi-Fi settings On the bottom select "advanced" (scrolling might be … [Read more...]

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How to Update your Beta Mango to Windows Phone 7.5 with No Roll back

September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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On the Msdn forums a detailed post appeared today how to update your Mango developer build Windows Phone with no roll back to a previous back-up. It looks pretty easy, just let it run some extra updates.If the Zune software gets stuck between the two updates just it cancel and restart the search for the update. Details   Source: MSDN forumWindows Phone 7.5: Updating OS from Beta 2 to RTMThis morning, we started rolling out the ‘Mango’ updates … [Read more...]

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Web Based Marketplace for Windows Phone Live Now.

September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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As part of the Mango announcements Microsoft also announced a web based Marketplace to browse and purchase apps for the Windows Phone. As earlier announced today Microsoft updated their Windows Phone and Where is my Phone's Update pages, but besides that they also launched their web based Marketplace. No need for a Zune client om your desktop to find or browse for apps. Purchase and Free downloads This web based Marketplace (US :  http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/marketplace ) for … [Read more...]

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