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UI Designer For Windows Phone lets you design your app on the move
December 28, 2012 | By PeyPey

UI Designer

The Idea -I built the UI Designer in hopes of allowing anyone anywhere to design UI for the Windows Phone.

The Functions – The UI Designer currently has 6 basic controls you can add, Text Boxes, Text Blocks, Buttons, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons. You can customize various things about the control such as title and color of the control. The ultimate goal is to have every function available to users by the final update. We will also be developing a full blown YouTube curriculum along with it.

The Trial -The trial includes a limit on the number of controls you can add to the page at one time, but allows you full access to the various customization options.

The Paid Version -The paid version unlocks full access to all the controls.

Windows Phone Kid’s Corner Wins Pogie Awards For the Brightest Ideas Of 2012

December 27, 2012 | By Pradeep

One of the unique features of Windows Phone 8 is Kid’s Corner. It grants your kids access only to the apps, games, videos, and music you choose for them which prevents them from accessing your important stuff. NYT’s David Pogue today posted the “Pogie Awards for the Brightest Ideas of 2012″ and Kid’s Corner was one of them. Remember, Windows Phone have already won this award for Camera button implementation a year back.

KID’S CORNER Windows Phone phones may not be flying off the shelves, but it’s not because the software isn’t any good. And Kid’s Corner is particularly inspired.

The problem: Your offspring in the back seat claims to be bored, begs you to hand over your phone. (Yes, yes, that’s right — it’s a first-world problem. But still.)

In the Windows Phone 8 software, with a quick left swipe from the Lock screen, you open Kid’s Corner, a sanitized version of the operating system that contains only apps, music and videos that you’ve handpicked in advance. Web browsing, e-mail and phone calls are off limits. So are in-app purchases.

Help a 22 year old blogger choose Windows Phone

December 27, 2012 | By Bernard

Taylor Soper, blogger at GeekWire.com, is in the market to replace his HTC G2 for T-Mobile, and is debating between the Apple Phone 5 and the Samsung Droid Galaxy 3. He hasn’t discounted Windows Phone, though he thinks he “just won’t go that route”. Let’s convince him otherwise.

Taylor is 22 years old and owns a Machintosh computer (hello Windows Phone Companion for MAC). He already blogs frequently about Microsoft. His most used applications on a phone are social networking, camera, maps, music, and voice recording. I have never met a more appropriate user for Windows Phone, with its integrated Facebook and Twitter, stellar camera (and picture sharing ability), downloadable maps, cloud-based Xbox Music (as well as Spotify, Rhapsody, Nokia Music,free Pandora, etc.), and the ability to post voice notes using WP8′s OneNote.

So head on over to GeekWire and answer Taylor’s poll, write in the comments, and tweet him to help him join the Windows Phone camp. He’ll join a good crowd that includes the likes of Jessica Alba, Will Arnett, Andy Samberg, Gwen Stefani, Cam Newton, and most recently Mark Cuban.

HTC HD2 WP8 port leads to Windows RT on the HTC HD2

December 27, 2012 | By Surur

The HTC HD2 is famous for running every OS ever written, and now the latest to add to that is full Windows RT.

The pictures above and after the break were tweeted by Cotulla, who has been working on porting Windows Phone 8 to the HTC HD2.  It seems the work on getting UEFI to work on the device also paid off for Windows RT, which makes sense since both Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT boast the same kernel.

It is unfortunately unlikely the work will come to other handsets (except possibly Android handsets) but it does show that Microsoft could potentially create a phone that ran bot Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT if they really wanted to.

See many more pictures after the break.

Nokia Updates Accessories App For Lumia Windows Phone Devices

December 27, 2012 | By Pradeep

Nokia today released an update for its Accessories app for Lumia Windows Phone devices. Accessories app is a companion for your Nokia Accessories like Fatboy Pillow, PowerUp speakers that will allow you to manage battery life, control them, etc,. The new update brings the sleeping mode screen that shows you the weather, time, and upcoming calendar events at a glance when your Lumia device is docked to Nokia Accessories.