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Microsoft Releases Lync 2010 Client For Windows Phone 7

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Good news for professionals who own Windows Phone 7 devices: Microsoft has released a mobile client for their remote conferencing service Lync 2010 to the Windows Phone Marketplace. With Lync 2010 for WP7, you can hold instant message conversations or VoIP calls with your professional colleagues with just a tap of your finger. Lync 2010, like its desktop version, follows a solid security protocol to protect your confidential conversations. In what follows, we will take a brief look at Lync 2010 and the features offered by this mobile remote conferencing app. Read More

What Is The WP7 Homebrew Store, Bazaar, & How To Install It

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If you are a smartphone user, then you most probably have heard about Cydia, the alternative app store for jailbroken iOS devices. In Android, no such alternative is necessary, as anyone can flash an APK file to their device. That left out Windows Phone 7 - or not any more, as the platform just got its very own marketplace for apps that didn’t get Microsoft’s approval to be published in the official Marketplace, or are just homebrews. Every other day, the XDA community, or other developers, launch XAP files containing useful apps, which would never be published in Marketplace for a variety of reasons. Bazaar hopes to be a new way of streamlining the whole process of finding and installing new homebrews to unlocked Mango phones. Read on to find all about this potential game-changer, which is still in it’s beta testing phase. Read More

HRS Hotel Search For WP7 Lets You Find And Book Hotels On The Go

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You have bought the tickets for your vacation, done last minute shopping, taken care of all the urgent tasks at work, and are all set to board the fight when you realize you haven't booked a hotel! HRS Hotel Search lets you search for and book rooms in over 250,000 registered hotels using your Windows Phone 7 device. You can customize the search in terms of days and nights you want to stay, whether you would be staying with a child, the star rating of a hotel, etc. Read More

ScoreMobile FC For WP7: A Must-Have App For Soccer Fans

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If you know what El Classico means, if hearing names like Messi, Ronaldo and Rooney gets you excited, then surely you are a fan of the beautiful game called soccer (or football, if you aren't from the US). Every soccer fan using a Windows Phone 7 device is sure to have scoured the Marketplace for apps related to the sport. There are quite a lot of soccer apps in WP7 (ESPN Goals being one example), but it’s always nice to see something new making its way to the genre. ScoreMobile FC is a brand new app which brings to your phone just about everything related to soccer. You can see news, scores, results and even live text commentary for soccer leagues around the world. Read More

Beyond Browser For WP7: Designed For Quick Access To Favorite Sites

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It is a tiresome task to type the URL of a website on your smartphone every time you launch the browser. Beyond Browser for Windows Phone 7 seems to have been designed for quick access to your favorite sites. It displays a collection of Quick Links and Popular sites on its homepage along with your bookmarks and browsing History. In addition, the browser allows you to add your own links to the page so that you don't have to enter their URLs or search for them from within browsing history each tie you launch the app. Beyond Browser also supports screen lock, which is pretty rare for Windows Phone 7 apps. Read More

Converse With The Witty CleverBot On WP7 With CleverBot Chat

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Wish you had a Siri-like assistant on your Windows Phone 7? An app that did more than just execute pre-defined commands, something that you could talk to for the sake of random fun? Try CleverBot Chat, an app that lets you chat with the popular AI web buddy CleverBot, and get witty, swift replies on literally any topic. Read More

How To Get Interop Unlock On A Developer Unlocked HTC Windows Phone

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Android devices can be rooted, and iOS gets jailbroken, but what about Windows Phone 7? The equivalent of rooting and jailbreak for WP7 is known as developer unlock. You might own a device that has really been unlocked by Microsoft because you are a developer, or have employed one of the other ways of unlocking a WP7. But after Mango, even if you have a developer unlocked WP7 device, you still don’t get root access on it. That is because of the introduction of a new unlock privilege level named interop unlock. If you don’t have interop unlock, some XAP files might not run on your device, and there are other restrictions as well. Previously, there were hacks that allowed Samsung and LG users to upgrade to interop if they already had a dev unlock. Now, the hack is almost universal. Recently, an exploit for HTC devices was discovered as well. Read on to find out how you can get your developer unlocked HTC WP7 upgraded to interop unlock. Read More

Nextgen+: A New Windows Phone 7 Custom ROM For HTC HD7

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Custom ROMs and Windows Phone 7 are two expressions which are very rarely used together. Unlike Android, you don’t get that level of customization with WP7 devices. With Mango, the security features have been further enhanced, making it even more difficult to get your device unlocked, let alone flash a custom ROM to it (as was explained in our post on the methods of unlocking a Mango phone). Fortunately, the developers over at the XDA forum are always looking for ways to bring something new to the WP7 community, and hacking teams like DFT and DeepShining have released a few custom ROMs for some Mango phones. These ROMs might not be too different from the stock firmware in WP7, but they still come up with some pretty good features. The latest to join the list of these custom ROMs is the brand new Nextgen+ for unlocked HTC HD7 devices. Read on to learn more about the ROM’s features and the method to flash it to your device. Read More

Technology News Magazine eWeek Releases Its WP7 App

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Even though Windows Phone 7 is a budding platform, there is no scarcity of news readers in its app Marketplace. Still, when a years-old technology news source the likes of eWeek launches its very own app, your first impulse should be to download it and try it out. With all the news apps out there already, what's so different that eWEEk has to offer? Does it come up to par with the experience one would expect from a modern news app, or is it just another one of the bunch? Let's find out after the jump! Read More

Skinery For WP7: Create & Apply Custom Skins To Start Screen Tiles

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A lot of people who have shifted to Windows Phone 7 from Android (or jailbroken iOS), complain that among the main features they miss on the platform, one is the option to apply customizable themes. Even I was quick to notice that some of the Live Tiles on my Start screen do look a bit dull because of the single, solid color which serves as their background color. HTC HD7 owners can enjoy customizable skins by flashing currently available custom WP7 ROMs for their devices. as a huge bonus point. Now, however, anyone using a WP7 device can have a tastefully customized Start screen using a free app named Skinery. Read More

Xbox Companion For WP7: Remotely Search & Play Content On Xbox 360

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Microsoft treats Windows Phone 7 like a spoiled child at times. It might not be their most productive or profitable venture, but the guys over at Redmond make sure that WP7 gets what other platforms will be envious of. The latest addition to the list of such things is the Xbox Companion app. If you own an Xbox 360, along with a Windows Phone, your gaming life  just got a whole lot better. Xbox Companion is a free WP7 app that connects seamlessly with your Xbox, allowing you to do a bunch of cool stuff on the gaming console right from your phone! Using the app, not only will you be able to manage all the Xbox titles you own, Xbox Companion also comes with options to let users browse through game news and reviews of popular entries in the Marketplace these days. Read More

Manage Your Movie Collection In WP7 With Better Movie Manager

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Do you wish to sort your ever-growing movie collection with respect to the movie title, genre etc? Or have you ever felt the need to queue the movies that you want to watch, or keep record of the ones that your friends have borrowed, but never really bothered to return? Better Movie Manager for Windows Phone 7 does all that for you. Along with advanced search for the latest and old movies, you are just one touch away from organizing your movie collection. You can make your own movie list, search for new movies, delete movies from the existing list, and make a wishlist of all the movies you want to watch. Read on after the break for more. Read More

Pin A Website Logo To WP7 Start Screen With Web2Tile [How To]

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One good thing about Windows Phone 7 is the metro interface, and among the things that distinguish this interface from its competitors are Live Tiles. Where all other mobile platforms just have the same old stagnant icons, the tiles on WP7 can give the user quite a lot of information at a glance. The home to these Live Tiles is the Start screen in Windows Phone. On the Start screen, you can pin just about anything, ranging from apps to shortcuts, and even webpages. If you have ever pinned a webpage to your phone’s Start screen, you must have noticed that doing so puts a miniature screenshot of the opened page on the said screen. This seems out of convention with the metro interface that focuses on not wasting even an inch of space on your phone's main screen. Fortunately, you can take matter into your own hands and with a simple bookmarklet, it is possible to pin any webpage’s favicon or logo to the Start screen instead of a small image of the page. Read More

Windows Phone 7 Connector: Browse And Backup Files & Sync iTunes [Mac]

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Microsoft and Apple are, quite literally, two worlds apart, as are their respective mobile devices, but should necessity ever call on you to get them together in one room (i.e., on one system), it is more than likely that several Steve Jobs & Bill Gates memes will cross your mind. If you’re a Mac user, and need to connect a Windows Phone 7 to your system to be ale to browse and sync files with it, you'll find Windows Phone 7 Connector very useful. This Mac app, while invoking memories of the All Things Digital conference held in 2007, allows you to browse your Windows Phone 7 on a Mac, sync files to your system, and copy or delete them from your phone. The app supports two way sync, so you can sync your music, podcasts, images and other files from iTunes to your phone, and vice versa. You must have iPhoto installed on your Mac for syncing to work perfectly. Read More

SkinScan For WP7: Scan Skin Aberrations To Check For Malignancy/Cancer

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The ozone layer is getting thinner with each passing day, which means we have to be more wary of the sun and chances of contracting skin cancer than ever before. It's not possible to visit a dermatologist every week. SkinScan  for Windows Phone 7 can scan the moles on your skin, and see if they have any chance of being malignant. You can also send the changes in your mole to a skin specialist for a second opinion, or just store the info in your Microsoft HealthVault for a later referral. Read More

getHired for WP7: Search For Job Opportunities Near Your Location

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Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could search jobs with just a tap of your finger on your Windows Phone 7? getHired is a WP7 app that can search jobs for you in 53 countries with a single tap. This mobile app detects your physical location, and searches countless jobs relevant to any word you enter in its search bar. It also saves your recent job search history depending on the number of recent searches you want the app to remember. Read More

Travel Expert Pro For WP7 Assists You In Planning Your Trips Abroad

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You have been saving up to go to some exotic location for your annual, two week vacation, but you are so busy with last minute details that you do not have the time to check the currency rates of your destination, make hotel reservations and note down the Flight number. Travel Expert Pro does all that for you on your  Windows Phone 7. You can search the details of any country, its ongoing currency rate, the latest news relevant to it, and map down a reminder about the route and flight that you have to take. You can also write additional notes or details related to the route you have to take for travelling to your destination. Read More

How To Recover Your Lost SkyDrive Files To The Office Hub In WP7

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Being a product from Microsoft, Windows Phone 7 enjoys deep integration with SkyDrive and MS Office, and the two features are rather well-interconnected. The documents or notes you store in the Office hub of your WP7 device are synced directly with your SkyDrive account. However, as with any smartphone platform, stability issues might arise in any area of the OS. For the past few days, Mango users have panicked upon finding that their notes and docs stored in the Office Hub have suddenly vanished from their SkyDrive account. Any attempt to retrieve them, resulted in an error message, declaring that files can not be recovered and have been deleted from the servers. Fortunately, that is not the case, and these files can be recovered easily. Read on to find out how. Read More

AutoPanorama: Easily Create Panoramic Photos On Windows Phone 7

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There was a time when it took an expert photographer to take panoramic photos of an outstanding view, and even that would be slightly flawed. Imagine how cool it would be take panorama photos without having to fuss about the right alignment of all the images? AutoPanorama for Windows Phone 7 does all the merging and aligning for you to create the perfect panoramas. You can make a panoramic photo out of more than 50 images! To assist you with alignment, the app offers a a slight preview of the previous image each time you are going to take the next photograph. The best feature of this app is its simplicity; you do not have to browse through a lot of options and screens to get the hang of it. Read More