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Pin It: Local Scout

Local scout is one of the nicest features of Windows Phone 7.5. Newer Windows Phone device have a live tile Local Scout on the start screen right out of the box. If you updated a gen 1 Windows Phone to

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Mango Moments: Favorite Features

Having used Mango (beta) for a few months there were many features that immediately made a positive impact on my day to day usage. I’ve picked some of my favorites from the official list from Microsoft  (this post will be

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Mango Moments: Little surprises

I had been using Windows Phone Mango for a few months prior to the official update today. I had expected to find a few surprises once I had updated, and I have. Below are the little things that I’ve come

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Impatient? Try to force the Windows Phone Mango update.

This is being shared all over the internet, but for my loyal readers I thought I would let you know that it appears you can trick Zune into giving you the Mango update even if it says it is not

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Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), Where’s my phone update? Web Marketplace & More

UPDATE: 9/27 If you have a Windows Phone, you no doubt have been asking yourself this question. Well today, we have an answer…sort of. It has been rumored over the last few days that Mango would be released today. According

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Let your fantasies come true. Yahoo fantasy sports on WP7 is here.

If you are a Windows Phone user and have a Yahoo fantasy sports team, I’m sure you’ve been looking, and probably unsuccessfully, for a WP7 app that will let you manage your teams. Well the wait is over. The folks

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Windows Phone 7 Mango: It really is incredible

As a registered developer I’ve been lucky enough to have Mango installed on my Samsung Focus for nearly a month. This week Microsoft officially released the “Beta 2 Refresh” of Mango to registered developers. This “Beta 2 Refresh” release is

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Windows Phone Facebook Findings: Shake it/ pages

I came across two Facebook related items I thought it would be worth posting. The first I came across by accident. In the official Facebook app for Windows Phone if Facebook cannot connect to content the application tells you to

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One week without donuts. My experience post NoDo on the Focus

It’s been nearly a week since I successfully updated my Samsung Focus with the Windows Phone NoDo update. My impressions thus far are positive. Since the time the update was released wpcentral has become aware of some additional items that

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NoDo fixes WeatherBug Live Tile

When I first got my Windows Phone my weather app of choice was WeatherBug. While comparable to other weather apps such as The Weather Channel app, I always preferred it. WeatherBug always seemed to load radar animations much faster than

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