Windows Mobile Marketplace

Microsoft is informing owners of the Windows Mobile 6.x OS via email, Windows Mobile 6.x Marketplace will be discountinued May 9th, 2012. This is Microsoft’s first real public seperation from the Windows Mobile platform. As the older platform has begun to fade away, more accurate data has been able to be collected for Windows Phone. Up until recently most data collectors combined the Windows Mobile and Windows Phone operating systems into to one group when describing Microsoft’s mobile market share. Read past the break to learn of the changes.

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This set of apps made by team.fluxion does as it says, its a modification for Windows Mobile which gives the user the experience of using XP on their device.

Read on to see what it looks like!

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A short while back, I reviewed the wonderful SlideUI Controls from devslide & since then I’ve spent a bit of my free time playing around with them, seeing what I can create. This is my second proper creation using devslide’s controls and this time it helps you make simple animations! (more…)

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A short while ago, I wrote an article on the wonders of the SlideUI Mobile Controls from devslide which can be found here.

They say these changes are made “based on customer feedback".
I know that at least 2 of these changes have been made from stuff I have said personally.

I asked them if there was any way to add a background image to the PaintBox control, the one you can draw on & they said they would add it to the next build.
I thought that may just be something to keep me quiet, but lo and behold, its now in there.

Read on to find out what’s changed…

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Saint

I am a huge fan of the look of Microsoft’s new mobile OS – Windows Phone 7. The simple layout, the typography, the colour scheme, I loved it all. I decided that I wanted to make an app for Windows Mobile that looked like Windows Phone 7, just to see if I could.

Ive also recently been testing out devslide’s SlideUI Mobile Controls, a set of advanced & sexy looking controls for developers to use in their apps. My favourite control, as I said in my review of the SlideUI Controls, is the PaintBox control which lets you draw strait onto it. Putting my love for Windows Phone 7 & the Paintbox control together, resulted in Saint! (more…)

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Screen Off

Over the years on the xda Developers forums Ive seen many cases of people having problems where their screen goes off (which puts the phone to sleep temporarily) and it disconnects their data connection or pauses their music or stops something else which they want continuing. People seem to always ask if there is a way to turn off the screen to save power without stopping the tasks your phone is performing. Finally, thanks to virgilp, ‘theres an app for that’!
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Those who have ever used a Windows Mobile device know that many of the apps available for the OS are, how should I put this… “less than attractive”, so the people over at devslide have created their own bunch of UI elements to help us spruce up our apps.

SlideUI Mobile Controls are a bunch of buttons, text boxes & other similar controls which people are used to seeing on their Windows Phone device daily, but the huge difference is they look so much more attractive. Here is a bit about my experience using SlideUI Mobile Controls in my apps.

Simple example app using slideUI controls

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As you may know, newly updated & customized ROMs come out of xda-developers like a factory of Windows Mobile goodness, but to many people the process of “cooking” a ROM is a complete mystery. I personally still think its 75% magic. Luckily, theres a step by step guide in the works which should explain it simply enough that even I can understand it. Its even got pictures!

Windows Mobile ROM cooking

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AM TasksPlus

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firestorm iconset

Icons for the most popular Windows Mobile applications are now available in a .zip, either with glossy black or glossy translucent backgrounds. head over to xda-developers for the download and more info

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