<Date: 2011-01-05>
<Author: ICEMAN>
<Category: Microsoft, Windows Phone 7>
Amazon had recently made the announcement to release a Kindle application for Windows Phone 7 in the coming few weeks and its finally here. Amazon’s official Kindle app is now available in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace for FREE! The application is fully optimized for Windows Phone 7 platform and allows users to read Kindle books on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. The app also features Amazon Whispersync which automatically syncs your bookmarks, last page read, and highlights across various platforms and devices. Read more...
Permalink: Kindle For Windows Phone 7 Is Now Available For Download!
Angry Birds is taking over the world! It is now available on the most popular operating system in the world, Windows. Rovia have used Intel’s AppUp store, an app store for netbooks, to launch Angry Birds. For a price of $4.99, you can get started playing Angry Birds on your PC right now. Read more...
Permalink: Angry Birds Now Available for Windows via Intel AppUp Store!
<Date: 2011-01-04>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Hardware, Microsoft>
Steve Troughton-Smith, a Mac developer, has managed to get MeeGo 1.1, an upcoming Linux based mobile OS, working on the popular HTC HD2. This is the 4th (or 5th if you trust the Windows Phone 7 port demo videos) OS to work on the HD2. HD2 was one of the first phones with a 4.3” display as well as a 1Ghz SnapDragon processor. While Windows Mobile 6.5 has slowly faded away, HD2 is living thanks to wonderful support by the community by porting Android ( up to 2.3 ) to the phone.
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Permalink: MeeGo 1.1 Ported to HTC HD2 –4th OS to Work On The Same Phone!
<Date: 2011-01-04>
<Author: Trivon>
<Category: Microsoft, Xbox 360>
Kinect hackers are hard at it again. A team in Germany have now created an augmented reality mirror through various hacks using Microsoft Kinect. Read more...
Permalink: New Augmented Reality Mirror Kinect Hack Shows Your Skeleton
<Date: 2010-12-17>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Android, Google>
A while ago, we had posted on how you can unlock the bootloader of your Nexus S phone. It was only a matter of time that a method to root the phone was made available. Here’s how you can do so via XDA: Read more...
Permalink: How to Root Nexus S [Guide]
<Date: 2010-12-17>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Microsoft, Windows Phone 7>
HTC have taken it on themselves to release a YouTube app for their Windows Phone 7 Devices. It’s a horrible fact that Microsoft didn’t bother to include a YouTube app, amongst many other features, in Windows Phone 7. Call it version 1.0 or whatever you like, but even iPhone had it since version 1.0 Read more...
Permalink: HTC Release a Real YouTube App for Windows Phone 7
<Date: 2010-12-16>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Microsoft, Xbox 360>
Just in case you didn’t know, Kinect is amazing. This new hack just proves how it keeps blowing ours minds away everyday. OpenKinect puts a keyboard anywhere you like so you can play it with your hands, feet or even create a big enough keyboard on the floor for two people to play together. Oh and it works at 30fps with minimum lag. Read more...
Permalink: Another Amazing Kinect Hack: OpenKinect puts a Keyboard Anywhere You Want to Play
<Date: 2010-12-16>
<Author: Imran>
<Category: Microsoft, Xbox 360>
Another day, another new Kinect hack. Kinect has become sort of like a canvas that is allowing hacker’s imaginations run wild. This time Kinect has been hacked to allow control of XBMC, a popular media center app, using just hand gestures. While this isn’t an elegant solution as you can tell from the video, it could be improved to become as useable as the Kinect hub on Xbox 360. Or Microsoft could just add more features to the Kinect hub to allow us to browse through our movie collections, minority report style. What up! Read more...
Permalink: Kinect Hack Allows Control of XBMC Through Hand Gestures
<Date: 2010-12-16>
<Author: Ollie>
<Category: Microsoft, Windows Phone 7>
Loads of rumors have been surfacing that Microsoft is planning on bringing a major update called ‘Mango’ to Windows Phone 7 which could be seen this fall and ‘Apollo’, which is a potential codename for Windows Phone 8 which is expected to arrive in 2012. Read more...
Permalink: Mango update for Windows Phone 7 to bring Silverlight and HTML5 in Fall’ 2011 – ‘Apolo’ Windows Phone 8 expected in 2012
<Date: 2010-12-16>
<Author: Ollie>
<Category: Microsoft, Windows 7>
Microsoft has released a new plug-in that lets Firefox take advantage of Windows 7′s native H.264 support. Firefox at the moment doesn’t support H.264 but Windows 7 does. The plug-in scans for HTML5 video tags and passes the video to the Windows Media Player plug-in for playback. Read more...
Permalink: Microsoft Releases New Plug-in To Enable H.264 Support in Firefox on Windows 7
