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by Daniel Rubino
Feb 20, 2012
We've mentioned Bazaar before--it's the first serious attempt at a homebrew Marketplace for Windows Phone, a place where developers can centralize and easily distribute their work for end...
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by Daniel Rubino
Sep 06, 2011
Oh this is not something we want to post as this is just bad, bad bad. Evidently, on September 13th Microsoft is reducing the number of devices upon which you can sync with the Zune music service...
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by George Ponder
Jun 15, 2011
Looking for a way to import your Opera desktop browser favorites to your Windows Phone? Look no further, Opera Link for WP7 is an app that will pull your Opera desktop favorites on to your...
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by Daniel Rubino
Dec 17, 2010
While we don't know just how many Mac users out there have a Windows Phone, for those brave enough (we salute you) there is some good news as Microsoft has published an update to the Connector app....
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by Daniel Rubino
May 21, 2010
We gave a brief review of CloudFiles, the first Dropbox client for Windows Mobile, a few days ago. Bottom line: we're impressed, very impressed.As we mentioned, we expected it to "1.0" any day now...
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by Daniel Rubino
May 17, 2010
Confession: we here at WMExperts, unfortunately, know jack about Linux, their distros (sounds like a fun party) nor how to really do anything in the OS.Still, we imagine there are a handful of...
Review
by George Ponder
Mar 09, 2010
Every once in a while, you come across a killer app (or service) that you cannot believe that you’ve lived without for so long. I’m sure many of you have been using Evernote for some time, and will...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 07, 2010
Unsurprisingly, there wasn't much at Microsoft's CES booth that we hadn't seen before. The HTC HD2 and yesterday's official announcement that it will be available "this spring" on T-Mobile was...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 15, 2009
Let's talk the Cloud a little more, shall we? To recap: A large number of Sidekick users learned that their data — e-mail, contacts, calendar, etc. — had gone up in smoke, on the server side. The...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 13, 2009
By now you've undoubtedly heard about the rather catastrophic data loss involving the Sidekick. If not, the short, short version: All of the data on the Sidekick is stored on the device or on...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 03, 2009
Heads up, all you My Phone users out there. The service will be offline starting at 8 a.m. EDT Monday through sometime Tuesday morning while Microsoft upgrades the service.From the My Phone blog:...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 27, 2009
Here's an interesting tidbit about Microsoft's My Phone sync service, which is still in beta but will go mainstream as part of the Oct. 6 Super Duper Windows Mobile 6.5 launch day. According to...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 29, 2009
The European cellphone market, led by the European Commission, has adopted Micro-USB as the standard for cellphone charging/sync ports. We first made mention of this movement back during the...
Review
by George Ponder
Jun 17, 2009
Geeks (like myself) tend to have a lot of gadgets. Those gadgets tend to come with an assortment of cabling for power, audio and synchronization. Trying to sell a geek more cabling can be like...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 09, 2009
On my computer, you will find nary a sign of any Apple software as iTunes stopped being a "neat" app about, I dunno, 4 years ago. But for those of you who still load that behemoth and want to...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 19, 2009
That little maintenance outage Microsoft My Phone underwent? Turns out it was an update to the Web portal. And alongside that will come an update to the phone client.Oh, and the service is moving...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 15, 2009
Looks like Microsoft's going to continue to have some fairly major competition in the cloud. Dashwire, the popular sync service and a direct competitor to Microsoft's beta My Phone service,...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 04, 2009
Allow us to get up on our soapbox for a minute. We're well aware that in 2009, it's entirely possible to go the entire lifespan of a phone without connecting it to a computer.But, Microsoft,...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 01, 2009
If you listened to last week's podcast, Dieter and I were talking about ActiveSync and security at one point (one of many tangents we like to take) and I mentioned how I never actually sync...
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by Dieter Bohn
Mar 08, 2009
It's been a couple of weeks now since Microsoft's My Phone beta first went live. Some of you are loving it, some of you are loathing it, and some of you are still waiting to get your confirmation...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 17, 2009
After all the to-do Monday morning from Microsoft, it looks like the My Phone beta — read our full post on the announcement here — is starting to go live. But it looks like it might be a rolling...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 30, 2009
There was a fleeting moment of consternation in the run-up to the Windows 7 beta as it was rumored to lack support for Windows Mobile. The definitive answer: Fugetaboutit.Speaking as a longtime...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Note synced to "Device\My Documents\Notes\"
Later, move Note on device to appropriate sub-category
Finally, rc46 has some closing advice:
I know this sounds like a bit of a hassle but in reality...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Windows Mobile phones are becoming more powerful and getting bigger screens with higher resolutions, and that means more of us will start using them for media playback. (We
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Before you start snickering, there are, in fact, people who still use AOL as their main e-mail account. And who are we to judge? Now AOL is offering a way to sync your calendar, contacts and...
Review
by chris
Jan 03, 2009
OK, so the launch of the Live Mesh mobile client wasn't exactly smooth. But first things first: This is beta software, and glitches are inevitable. Let's keep that in mind. Now that...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Remember how we mentioned our excitement over Microsoft's Live Mesh mobile client? It's been released (along with the Mac client).
From the Live Mesh blog:
We are delighted to release our...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Just a quick heads up. Microsoft fixed the problem with the Live Mesh mobile client overnight. You'll have to download a new build of the application, which you can get at m.mesh.com/install/...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
You've undoubtedly by now heard the Windows 7 news coming from the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. What has us excited is the news surrounding Live Mesh. Today, Microsoft...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
With all the wireless capabilities I wonder why we still mess with all these cables in order to sync to our computer. There has to be an easier way to get our info from the web to our devices....
