Windows Phone Starter Kit for WordPress is a plugin that you install on wordpress that will allow you to offer your site’s content via a Windows Phone App. The application is developed by Chris Koenig and is an open-source initiative. The features of the WP7 app inclide the ability to view posts, view comments associated to the posts, and add their own comments.
The code sample contain 2 elements : a WordPress Plugin ( which you have to install via wordpress, will probably only work will self hosted wordpress installations )and the source code for a windows phone application Starter Kit ( which you can customise to your site’s needs )
News Framework is an offline news reading framework which uses RSS feds from news website and can turn it to a simple Windows Phone 7 application for the website. The configuration, content and styles can be managed from outside of the framework itself to fit the needs. The app is developed by TanzimSaqib, the app is open source and is available from newsfx.codeplex.com
Features currently supported:
Offline news reading experience
Text size adjustment
Save for later
Share with friends via SMS/Email
News by category
Rotation support
Search within the news
Theme support
Open Source: to be released very soon. Only a demo app is currently available.
Full functioning demo included: An unofficial Mashable fan app.
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We have seen quite a few twitter apps and the good folks from mykindofphone.com have done a good job to cover most of them. Now GTRoberts have tipped us to another twitter client for WP7 that failed to show up on our radar.
Mahtweets is a opensource Twitter social media client for the PC that allows the users to manage multiple social networks like facebook, twitter, flickr, FourSquare and the developer have also released the source code for the WP7 version which looks like twitter client and we are not sure if the other social networks are integrated to the WP7 version. The features for the WP7 version are not mentioned on the site but they have the source code available if you want to give it a go on the wp7 emulator.
CloseSudoku is an open source Sudoku game for Windows Mobile. The game offers 90 puzzles in 3 difficulty settings. Every game also contains information about the elapsed time and the date of the last play. Numbers can be filled in by clicking on the board and selecting the required number or you can choose a number and then place it on the board (‘Popup’ and ‘Single number’ input mode). Users can change the application skin (colors, elements size).
ArkSwitch is a finger-friendly task manager for Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and up ( will work older WM wm6.5.x with some limitation ). Check out our review for an older version here. Its quite easy to install
1. Install the CAB.
2. Either reboot (it will run on startup) or start it from the start menu –> Tools.
3. Click the left half of the top bar (or other area if customized) to bring it up.
and there are a few themes available, so you can quickly change the look of the app.
changes in [v1.2.0]
- FIX: Shortcut creation (was fixed in an unofficial v1.1.4a release earlier)
- ADD: Quickly killing the foreground app by “scratching” the activation field!
- ADD: German translation
- ADD: More registry tweaks, including one to disable the “Close All” confirmation
Palm Heroes an award winning turn based RPG for Windows Phone. With WM6.x’s end of life the developer has released it in to the wild as open source project. Which means the game is now free for WM6.x users. The game should support all major resolutions. With features like online multiplayer and many single player maps this game should be a must try for all Windows Mobile users. The game supports various languages like English, Russian, Slovak, German, French, and Czech language.
Palm Heroes is not something that casual games can pick up and enjoy. It will require you to spend some time to familiarize the controls. If you have played Heroes of Might and Magic and liked the gameplay, then you will love this too. Try this Unofficial Pocket Heroes Manual to get started.
The sevenauth project aims to make it simple to let WP7 app users authenticate using existing mechanisms, rather than having to remember yet another username and password. I am taking a stab in the dark and going to assume the app has plans to support Seven Authentication system. From the video demo from Arktronic ( who is no stranger around these parts, chances are you might have used his ArkSwitch App or seen the demo for his WP7 app ArkWords ) we can see 3 login methods supported
Google ( see developers comment below )
Yahoo
OpenID 2.0
I am thinking many app which requires users to sign in to access data might find this useful. Here is the video demo
Square Away is a new open source puzzle game for Windows Phone 7 from orktane.com. The developer has released the source code and the game was developed by using nRoute ( which is an open source application framework for creating MVVM-style applications in Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone 7 ). They have also released a short video of the game in action
AppTastic: Yanko – thanks for the concept! We’re looking forward to getting a lot more feedback from the users here. We’re committed to making AppTastic the best marketplace...
Tony: Looks so good. Please make a paid app – no ads.
Twimagic: http://www.Ringer.org is the best ringtone maker I’ve ever seen! Completely free, online, no registration!
Andrew Chobaniuk: Thanks for the heads up! [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Emiel Zuurbier: I would like to see the posibility of making a trip that uses different kinds of transportation as from train to bus, bus to subway, subway to train. With a map and directions,...
MrVamosMuchachos: Nice idea. You could take some ideas from the application “SBB”. It is the public transport app from switzerland. [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
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Emiel Zuurbier
MrVamosMuchachos
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