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Jorge Ramon03/25/11
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Creating a Website Using JQuery Mobile, Part 3

JQuery Mobile is a great UI framework for developing mobile applications, which works by applying progressive enhancements to your clean, semantic HTML, and transform it into rich user interfaces.In this series I have been showing you how to quickly put...

Kin Lane03/25/11
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Android Like Web Notifications Toolbar

I just had a new idea for a startup. I’m in love with everything about technology startups except actually starting another one myself. So I kind of work the opposite of the rest of Silicon Valley, when I have an idea I just put it out there on the open...

Jeff Blankenburg03/25/11
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What I Learned in WP7 – Issue 3

This is the kind of news I like to hear as a Windows Phone developer and user. According to Millennial Media (a company I’ve never heard of), they are claiming that Windows Phone will be one of the top platforms that software publishers intend to...

Mitch Pronschinske03/24/11
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Video: Will the Mobile Wars Become a 3-Horse Race?

The last few years have been a dogfight between Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones, and its been hard for any other mobile platforms to seem relevant...

Peter Cole03/24/11
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‘World’s Thinnest’ Tablets from Samsung

They are here! I must say, these tablets look really nice (in the photos and in specs.) If they perform as well as they sound, I bet they could give the iPad 2 a run for it’s money. In addition to being slightly thinner and lighter than the iPad 2, both...

Den Delimarsky03/24/11
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Microsoft ships the NoDo update - propagation in progress

Microsoft officially released the NoDo ("No Donuts") update for Windows Phone 7. This is the first major update to the platform that introduces many long-awaited features, like copy/paste capabilities, fixed camera switch bugs and major performance...

Mishkin Faustini03/22/11
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Building a Cross-Platform Game on PC, Xbox, and WP7 with XNA Framework Game Studio

In today’s development world being able to target multiple platforms from the same game codebase is a rarity. Often times the same game project needs be re-written to run on a different platform causing a lot of headache, frustration and lost time. This is...

Giorgio Sironi03/22/11
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How to enrich lawyers

It seems that today Google patented the Doodles, the special logos that appear on its homepage in occasion of events such as anniversaries of inventions or of births.

Axel Rauschmayer03/21/11
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How the iPad 2 Smart Cover performs its magic

iFixit has figured out how Apple’s Smart Cover for the iPad 2 works. This blog post summarizes the findings.

Mihai Fonoage03/21/11
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Perfect Mobile Platform

What would make up the perfect mobile platform? What characteristics should it posses? Here are some of them, in no specific order:User Interface/Experience - a rich user interface that provides a great user experience. When using the phone, everything...

Jeff Blankenburg03/19/11
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What I Learned In WP7 – Issue 2

Today I discovered something I never really thought about before. Fonts are really, really small files. If you have a need for an icon, chances are that including the entire font in your project would be smaller in file size than even one image. ...

Den Delimarsky03/18/11
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How to find out where the IsolatedStorage is in a Windows Phone 7 app?

Experienced Windows Phone 7 developers already know that there is an actual file system on the device that is similiar structure-wise to that of the actual Windows OS. A lot of the content managed by the device is stored in local spots scattered across the...

Jeff Blankenburg03/18/11
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What I Learned in WP7 – Issue 1

Since I published the 31 Days of Windows Phone, I have come across an amazing list of cool things you can do with these devices. In discovering these things, I’ve probably started more than a dozen blog posts to tell you about them. Sadly, I...

Den Delimarsky03/17/11
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How you can add custom ringtones to your Windows Phone 7 from your app (w/out Marketplace)

We all know that Windows Phone 7 doesn't carry support ringtone modifications (not by default). This can be a bit frustrating for people who don't like any of the 30 pre-loaded tunes (although it's probably hard to find one). In this article I am going to...

Axel Rauschmayer03/17/11
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One way in which Android really is more open than iOS

This post explains the tricky meaning of “open” with regard to Android: Sometimes Android is not open at all, sometimes its openness has negative consequences. The post concludes with one aspect of Android that is more open than iOS, in a manner that...