March 16, 2010 - 2:00 am
Tags: apple, appleipad, develop-apps, employers, greener, greener-pastures, his-sights, microsoft, remainders, team-members, things, windows, windowsphone7series
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In today’s Remainders: new beginnings. Tim Bray, co-founder of XML, starts a new job at Google (and has his sights set on Apple); several Windows Phone 7 team members are leaving…to develop apps for Windows Phone 7; and more.
March 16, 2010 - 1:00 am
Tags: app store, apps, interview, microsoft, one-lingering, possibly-catch, posts-tagged, windows, windows phone, windows phone 7, windowsphone7
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Microsoft’s already done a lot right with Windows Phone 7 , and it’s not even out until late this year. But after today’s announcements , there’s one lingering question: How can Windows Phone 7 possibly catch up, in terms of apps? More
Ritual Steve Ballmer humiliation isn’t just for blogs anymore! Nope, now even Microsoft’s corporate class—in this case Microsoft Developer Division VP Scott Guthrie—is in on the joke.
We love Hulu. And we wish it lived on TVs, phones, tablets and places other than laptops. StreamTransport, a Windows Hulu ripper, is a start.
March 15, 2010 - 9:32 pm
Tags: ipad, ipod touch, itunes news, library, play count, playlist, since-the-last, smart, smart-playlist, smart-playlists, the-information
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Apple’s iTunes News feed offers some helpful advice on Play Count for Smart Playlist users, especially those with iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads: In addition to the Internet and your local network, iTunes is also alert to a different kind of network — the one made up of the iPhones, iPods (and soon iPads) that it runs on, as well as the computer you sync them with. Whether tracks have been played since the last sync is part of the information that gets updated when you sync.
March 15, 2010 - 9:20 pm
Tags: account, account-setup, apple, from-the-iphone, googlesync, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, level-or-ninja, like-on-android, microsoft, tipb asks, unique, yahoo
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Gmail may only be the 3rd most popular email service on the planet (behind Yahoo! and Hotmail) but it ranks first in the hearts of geeks everywhere and can be used in a variety of ways on the iPhone: IMAP (or POP if you’re really old school) right from the iPhone Mail app.
March 15, 2010 - 9:00 pm
Tags: details, fusion, gaming, gets-schooled, parallels, surprise, unofficial, video, virtualization, windows
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Filed under: Gaming Many Mac owners who install Windows do so for gaming. Those uninterested in Boot Camp can try out virtualization software, which lets you run Windows in a virtual environment on a Mac. The two most popular are VMWare Fusion and Parallels
March 15, 2010 - 8:56 pm
Tags: came-out, divx, iphone, lot-more, native, none-solid, posts-tagged, support, surprise, windows, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 divx, windowsphone7
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This is an unexpected treat: Windows Phone 7 ’s SDK came out today , and apparently it includes DivX support up through DivX6. That means no DivX7, but it’s still a lot more than you can find on the iPhone. More
March 15, 2010 - 6:11 pm
Tags: first-xbox, gamerscore, house, longer-means, looks-awesome, microsoft, phone, windows, windows phone, windows phone 7, Xbox 360, xbox live
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Harvest shows what Xbox Live gaming will be like on Windows Phone 7 , and it’s pretty damn impressive. Achievements, explosions, and glorious gamerpoints.