We recently saw a video from Jace who ran us through some of the improvements in IE9 on Windows Phone Mango and we did get some comments about the missing one click “browse open tabs” option , which is now in the menu slider and now the folks from Kinsoft has put up a video which shows a simple way on how Microsoft could implement an easy way for users to access the open tabs by using the slide gesture.
I kinda like that , What do you think ? and since we are on the topic on what to improve here are 2 more suggestions
Give users the option to disable the URL bar in landscape
We have seen some nice Wallpapers for Windows Phone and we had a request for some wallpapers that female Windows Phone users could use, so here are a few .. Blokes could use em too just don’t expect blood and explosions in this set.
Want a new HTC Mozart ? The good folks from Microsoft Australia is giving away one of those devices to 2 lucky winners. The rules are quite simple , Entry is open to Australian residents
Tweet a message, between 9.00am AEST Tuesday 9th August to 8.00pm AEST Monday 15th August, with your most creative answer to “Who on Twitter should win a HTC Windows Phone?”
Tweet must include hashtag #WP7comp and mention @AUTECHED
Press release for GPS Share below a free app that allows users to share their GPS location via SMS and E-mail
GPS Share is a free location sharing application. It allows GPS locations to be stored, rated and shared with others.
Free location sharing application. Allows GPS location to be stored, rated and shared with others.
· Store favourite locations easily and quickly
· Edit saved locations
· Update or edit explicitly the GPS position for a location
· Import location data that’s been sent to you, supporting the following formats:
o GPS Share full plain text
o GPS Share mini plain text
o KML format
o GPX format
· Share stored locations with others via SMS or E-mail
· View a location on map
· Rate a location
· Conforms to Windows Phone 7 application usage so is a breeze to use
· Attach a photo to a location
· Organize locations in alphabetical order, or by rating
· Display photo thumbnail in “My locations”
· Satellite or Street map view
· Landscape/Portrait orientation support
· Easy to use coordinate data entry
Charlie Kindel , GM WP7 Developer Ecosystem has decided to call it quits at Microsoft after 21 years at the company. Charlie Kindel joined Microsoft in 1990 and in the recent past he has been responsible for defining and evangelizing the Windows Phone Developer Experience. With the next major update ( Mango ) close to release, we are sure to hear a lot of interesting guesses from various new sources as to why the Windows Phone GM is leaving Microsoft so close to the Mango Update Launch but the folks from Geekwire had to chat to the man to find out why he decided to call it quits ..
Wikipedia Reader is a another Wikipedia app for Windows Phone, press release below
Wikipedia Reader is a Wikipedia article and image reader. Easily access 18+ Million articles on your phone in more than 100 languages! (Make sure you see screenshots!)
Wikipedia Reader
- is fast and interactive
- complies with your phone’s theme and accent
- support offline browsing
Wikipedia Reader structure:
- Panorama home page with recent articles in image tiles and bookmarks list
- Search article (with auto complete)
- Full history
- Random Article
- Article of today
- Settings (Language, Image quality, font size, etc.)
- Support for 100+ languages!
- Article viewer (sections, share, bookmark, jump to section, etc.)
- Image Viewer (image description, save to phone, share, pinch to zoom)
Textise is an app that generates text-only version of web pages.
Textise is an Internet tool that can create a text-only version of almost any web page. The Textise app harnesses this power to give you a quick and easy-to-read browsing experience on your Windows Phone 7.
Features:
* Text-Only web browsing: View millions of web sites in easy-to-read text.
* Font size selector: Choose a font size that suits you.
* Home URL: Select a URL as your ‘Home URL’. It’s easily retrievable and right there when you start up the app.
* Recent history: One-click navigation to pages you’ve recently visited.
* Reality: Opens the WP7 browser to view the whole web page.
* Theme-sensitive: Adapts to your preferred theme, ‘Dark’ or ‘Light’.
* Auto ‘Skip To Content’: Where possible, Textise can auto-navigate to the main content of a page.
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