The Windows Phone Guy

SilverMoon: spectacular UI controls!

Nuno Luz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:40:38 GMT

Developers, dust of you old applications source code backup HDD’s, grab your keyboards and start updating those old and dull .NET CF UI controls! Silvermoon , is a bunch of free UI controls will help improve the look and feel your apps. Well at least...(read more)

Moving your e-mail to the Storage Card

Nuno Luz — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:34:31 GMT

A question I get allot from users is “can move my e-mail to the Storage Card?”. The answer is, yes you can, but you’ll need to edit your registry to achieve that: HKLM\System\Inbox\Settings\PropertyPath = "\Path to your Card\Mail" Try it out...(read more)

Microsoft Vine Beta, now available

Nuno Luz — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:41:06 GMT

The new social sharing tool from Microsoft is now live for everyone to begin sharing their life's. With it you can boost or create your own communities and share useful information. To know more visit Vine’s website ....(read more)

TIP: Download YouTube Videos

Nuno Luz — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:17:45 GMT

This is something we are used to do on the PC, but now that we can easily view YouTube videos on our devices thanks to browser support and other apps, why not download them? In order to download videos, you can use Web Video Downloader, aka WVD. Here...(read more)

Speed City – Free 3D game!

Nuno Luz — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:06:30 GMT

Speed City is a fast paced motorbikes 3D game from OmniG Software: For touch screen and non-touch screen phones Free full version An endless challenge with randomly generated racing routes Stunning city scenes and lifelike physics simulation 3-D graphics...(read more)

Mobiwee: On-line backup services round-up - UPDATE

Nuno Luz — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:57:35 GMT

It seems there is one more service to add to this list and its name is mobiwee. With this new service running in Beta you can: Send SMS’s from your PC Set-up your email on your device automatically Install applications from your PC Wirelessly (cool!)...(read more)

More on Flexilis

Nuno Luz — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:43:28 GMT

It seems that Flexilis is quite interesting, it has some nice features for missing devices such as “Locate” “Scream” and “Nuke”: Locate: Click the 'Locate' button to locate your device and the map on this page will display the location of your...(read more)

On-line backup services round-up

Nuno Luz — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:34:16 GMT

It seems that more and more companies are beginning to offer on-line backup services for Windows Mobile Devices and in some cases other devices. First we saw Dashwire arise with a cool innovative, complete and very easy to use...(read more)

EAMobile games

Nuno Luz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:45:58 GMT

Now that many of us are starting to get our deserved vacations, its great to be able to put these work tools called Smartphones to a different use, like gaming! So here’s suggestion: EAMobile has a selection of titles that range from classic games to...(read more)

Dasher – Innovative Input Method

Nuno Luz — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:04:22 GMT

Dasher is an innovative piece of software that allows us to input data easily without the use of the keyboard and by recurring to just one hand. You can use the finger or the stylus to visually navigate between the letters and numbers collections that...(read more)

This Fall: Microsoft Retail Stores

Nuno Luz — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:52:36 GMT

Gizmodo has had access to the image study of the future Microsoft retail stores created by a company called Lippicot. Though these are not the official final designs, they sure let us foresee some very interesting and dynamic spaces where people will...(read more)

iPhone is less secure than Windows Mobile and Blackberry

Nuno Luz — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:37:54 GMT

It seems that the iPhone is not yet ready for the business environment due to some security issues that have been reported by Jonathan Zdziarski to wired.com . According to him, by using some exploits widely divulged around the internet, one could...(read more)

Marketplace will reach 30 million devices

Nuno Luz — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:29:28 GMT

Microsoft has recently announced that Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be available for all Windows Mobile 6xx versions. For devices with 6.0 and 6.1 a download will be available by the of this year. Therefore developers will be able to reach a wider...(read more)

Monkey Island Revisited!

Nuno Luz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:15:00 GMT

Lucasarts is prepping a re-release of the infamous and full of humor adventure “Secret of Monkey Island” with updated graphics (no nothing of that 3D rubbish) that is faithful to the original version. The game sure looks good and comes with...(read more)

AT&T Jack will meet Windows Mobile 6.5

Nuno Luz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:04:21 GMT

According to the official Windows Mobile portal , the AT&T Samsung Jack will have an upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5. Check it out here ....(read more)

Delete or select multiple contacts easily

Nuno Luz — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:06:31 GMT

A common question I get from costumers is how can they manage more than one contact at once, for instance to import them to their SIM card or delete several contacts. The answer is a free app called PPCContactsMgr v1.6 which is free and can be downloaded...(read more)

New Exchange 2010 features: SMS sync is confirmed!

Nuno Luz — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:03:00 GMT

So it seems that my suspicions where indeed correct , and that Exchange 2010 will sync your device’s SMS’s, so you can always have a backup of your text messages even if you loose your device. Also users will be able to send and view SMS’s...(read more)

Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer toolkit is now available!

Nuno Luz — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:43:18 GMT

If you are a developer or just have a wish to try out the new Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM’s, just go ahead and download the new DEV Kit from Microsoft’s website. This new toolkit adds new documentation on some new features of this new OS iteration, sample...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 will not support Smart Device Development

Nuno Luz — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:36:00 GMT

I was trying out the new Visual Studio 2010 Beta with support for the new .NET FX 4 Beta, and have just found out that Microsoft has not included the support for Smart Device Development such as Windows Mobile and Windows CE. Although this might come...(read more)

Which devices will support/have upgrades for Windows Mobile 65.?

Nuno Luz — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:34:33 GMT

Microsoft has just announced Windows Mobile 6.5 availability and which devices will be the first ones to receive the upgrade. According to Microsoft the first Windows Mobile 6.5 devices will be available on the second half of 2009. The first official...(read more)