On August 13th Microsoft released a set of videos from sessions at its Design Days which outline the key areas of Metro UI for developers. Despite not being a developer myself I have found the two videos I have watched to be extremely interesting and very informative about the minutiae of the Metro UI; it’s [...]
Paul Thurrott has just published a review of the next update to the Zune PC Software. The main changes and new features are understandably focused around Windows Phone 7 with the devices only able to sync to a PC via the Zune software; without this software or later versions it is not possible to sync [...]
Stand by people, within hours there should be a new version of MetroTwit released which will bring many bug fixes but more importantly URL shortening and even theme, accent and colour support. URL Shortening has been one of the most requested features of the Metro inspired, Windows Twitter client and this addition should allow more [...]
Microsoft have published a new Windows Phone 7 video aimed at consumers, in fact, as WMPoweruser points out, this could well be used as an advert. Interestingly this isn’t the latest build of Windows Phone as noted by the lock screen and the icons used on the Start screen, in fact I’d say this build [...]
Windows Phone announced a competition some time back in conjunction with Imagine Cup 2010 for student teams to submit their Windows Phone 7 applications for a chance to win $8000 for the team and Windows Phone each. Today the winners, runners up and notable entries have been announced with some showing really good use of [...]
Regular readers of this blog will know I have been quite excited about the latest Twitter client for Windows which has been hugely inspired by the Metro UI and today it has entered its public beta. You can download it here. I love this Twitter client, I normally don’t like them but this client provides [...]
A very useful application for anyone who lives or visits London, as we all know how reliable the Tube network can be, will be this London Tube Companion. A good feature of this app is that it will provide push notifications so wherever the user might be on the device they can still be informed [...]
I’m not a big fan of “tip calculators” as they are only a very, very simple calculator however some people seem to really like those and they wont be disappointed with Windows Phone 7. There appears to be at least one tip calculator in the works, this one from Jason Zanders. One nice design aspect [...]
Ahead is an app for Windows Phone 7 that “lets you manage your projects on-the-go”. There aren’t really any wow factors to this application but I can see practical uses for it. Ahead — Manage your projects on-the-go. from Ahead App on Vimeo. The team sum up the app as being able to: Get tasks [...]
Mobility Digest have shown off a new app for Windows Phone 7 that will allow users to control Windows Media Center on their PC with a mobile device. The application looks very good, conforming to many of the Metro design rules and looks to be very functional. I do find it odd that Microsoft don’t [...]
