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Simone Chiaretta01/10/11
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My wish list for Windows Phone 7

After the first unboxing of my new Samsung Omnia 7 and reporting my comments on WP7 after a few weeks of using it, now I’m writing my wish list on what I’d want in the next updates for WP7.

Senthil Kumar01/10/11
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Adding ApplicationBar in Windows Phone 7 using Expression Blend

In one of my previous posts , I talked about Adding the Application Bar in Visual Studio . In this blogpost , I will explain about adding the ApplicationBar in Expression Blend . Expression Blend provides more Designer support while Adding the Application Bar...

Axel Rauschmayer01/10/11
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Google’s Duarte on Android Honeycomb

Engadget has a great interview with Matias Duarte on Honeycomb. Honeycomb is the newest version of Android and currently in development (guided tour at Engadget). About Duarte:

Den Delimarsky01/09/11
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Microsoft at CES - A quick glance at Windows 8 and the rest

CES 2011 wasn't the place where we could find out more about the upcoming release of Windows 8. And not because it is a system that doesn't bring anything innovative, but rather because this year Microsoft decided to focus on the entertainment side of their...

Den Delimarsky01/07/11
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Windows Phone 7 - Meanwhile at CES 2011...

CES 2011 is in full force and there were many exciting announcements made regarding new tablets, Android devices. Microsoft released the new build of Surface - an interactive desk that is now thinner and less expensive. Windows Phone 7 wasn't left aside...

Ben Forta01/07/11
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RIM Highlights PlayBook Browser With No Compromises

This new RIM video highlights the PlayBook web browser and "a truly uncompromising browsing experience" which means support for Flash.

Axel Rauschmayer01/07/11
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What is the best way to combine a cell phone and a laptop?

The Motorola Atrix cell phone in its laptop-like “docking station” [source

Nikos Printezis01/06/11
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Visual Studio async CTP with Silverlight

Well, silverlight applications have a lot of asynchronous operations (WCF, WCF RIA operations, etc.), I recall a project in which I had to do this procedure: download a set of users asynchronously, if the download was not successful, do some finishing...

Senthil Kumar01/06/11
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Shortcuts keys for Developing on Windows Phone 7 Emulator

The Windows Phone 7 emulator in the SDK comes with some shortcut keys that help to speeden things up while Developing on the Emulator. Following are some of the keys that i explored on …References Keyboard Mapping for Windows Phone Emulator

Richard Freedman01/05/11
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iPhone app development with Linux

My employer, Chariot Solutions, held an in-house, week-long iPhone development course, taught by the folks at Big Nerd Ranch. The course was great, we all learned a lot, and several of our folks are working on some apps, including one that they announced...

Den Delimarsky01/05/11
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MonoDroid in public beta

It was announced by Miguel de Icaza, the project lead for Mono (the open-source implementation of the .NET Framework) that the MonoDroid beta is now open for public access. MonoDroid is an abstraction layer on top of the Android SDK that allows .NET...

James Sugrue01/05/11
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Appcelerator Kicks Off The New Year With Developer Education

As you've probably guessed, I use Appcelerator Titanium for my mobile development, and I like it a lot. This week they are running a series of three webinars focusing a range of topics, some suitable for beginners, others aimed at more advanced users. If...

John Blanco01/04/11
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Trying to Invent the iPad — Back in 2001

One of my clients is headed to CES in a few short days with some Rapture In Venice software in tow (in progress right now!) and it’s reminded me of my last experience with CES. It happened back in 2001…

Den Delimarsky01/03/11
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Developing SevenDrops - A Dropbox-based photo uploader for Windows Phone 7 [3/6]

So now there is the JSON-formatted data that represents the unique token and secret. It is time to extract it and store locally, so that the user won't have to call the same method over and over again to obtain this data (notice that this is also not...

Ted Neward01/03/11
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Tech Predictions, 2011 Edition

Long-time readers of this blog know what’s coming next: it’s time for Ted to prognosticate on what the coming year of tech will bring us. But I believe strongly in accountability, even in my offered-up-for-free predictions, so one of the traditions of...