Ever get tired of scrolling through Google news for something you actually care about? Have a few different topics you like to stay informed on but really don't care what Charlie Sheen is up to? Have I ever got an app for you! It's called, "Project Emporia" and its a news reader app for Windows Phone 7.
Emporia lets you save a couple different (or if you're like me a lot of) topics then feeds you any news or interesting tidbits of info including blog posts that pertain to said topic.
Find an article you really like and emporia has a couple things you can do with it. First off you can save it so no matter how long ago you read it it's on your phone for you to show your friends, your coworkers, your dog or the waitress at that club you like. Also if you have a twitter account you can tweet about it right from the app! Living in the dark ages and don't have a twitter account? No worries! So long as you gave an email account synched with your phone (you've done THAT right?) you can email a link to the article to someone you know... Or don't know and can guess at an email address.
All in all its pretty snazzy and seems really polished. The only real thing I see it missing is the option to share via Facebook. That would be swell.
Go get it!
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Update Review: NoDo
Once again Microsoft has given me a reason to come back and shout out my love of the OS to the blogosphere. Nodo has arrived for my HD7 on bell (a week or two ago but I'm a lazy blogger) and is chalk full of great features!
First thing that comes to mind is that copy and paste is here! It's really here! Really! For real! Also its a lot smoother then it was on my old WM6.5 device Microsoft really came through on that one.
Next best (at least for all of us gamers) is a boost in loading speed while resuming apps, particularly apps that are heavy in graphics. No more waiting two minutes to resume Zombies after my coworker sets the phone down without telling me it's my turn.
Then theres the generic bug fixes and improvments on both search and the marketplace. Still have issues with bluetooth headphones not working with videos though. Seriously Microsoft if you read this FIX THIS it's so annoying when someone sends me a link to a youtube video on the bus and suddenly my phones making loud noises and my headphones seem to suddenly stop existing.
All in all I'm very pleased with the update and am still in love with the OS. Cant wait until mango ships! /happydance!
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First thing that comes to mind is that copy and paste is here! It's really here! Really! For real! Also its a lot smoother then it was on my old WM6.5 device Microsoft really came through on that one.
Next best (at least for all of us gamers) is a boost in loading speed while resuming apps, particularly apps that are heavy in graphics. No more waiting two minutes to resume Zombies after my coworker sets the phone down without telling me it's my turn.
Then theres the generic bug fixes and improvments on both search and the marketplace. Still have issues with bluetooth headphones not working with videos though. Seriously Microsoft if you read this FIX THIS it's so annoying when someone sends me a link to a youtube video on the bus and suddenly my phones making loud noises and my headphones seem to suddenly stop existing.
All in all I'm very pleased with the update and am still in love with the OS. Cant wait until mango ships! /happydance!
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Sunday, March 6, 2011
Gaming on the HD7
Hey guys, guess I lied about the fast and plentiful updates, this phone has been so amazing I haven't found the time to stop playing with it and write a post.
Today I'll be talking about gaming on the HD7. I've been doing a LOT of that lately, mostly on these three games from XBox Live: "The Harvest", "Zombies", and "Ilomilo".
The Harvest is an adventure RPG set in the future. You pick a character type (I'm playing as Scarab and he's a beast at mitigating damage) and off you go to save the human race from an alien invasion of "Harvesters". As you progress you get more special abilities, unlock special characters, find gear and learn how best to destroy everything nearby.
Zombies is a direct copy of the famous board game and is also loads of fun, more so with friends. It's you're basic screw your neighbor, zombie killing, survival horror/comedy game... Ok maybe it isn't so basic but it's still a barrel of laughs when you play "Your shoe's untied" Five squares from the escape helicopter.
And lastly but not leastly (leastly?) have "ilomilo" a puzzle game where you try and reunite the two friends Ilo dand Milo. Move block defy gravity, operate catapults, find more friends and more. The greatest thing is how immersive and addicting this game is, you use your accelerometer to look around corners or over ledges so playing this game you will find yourself pointing your phone around much like your parents and your old Sega controllers while playing Road Rash...Or maybe that's just me...
Moral of the story? GAME ON!
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Today I'll be talking about gaming on the HD7. I've been doing a LOT of that lately, mostly on these three games from XBox Live: "The Harvest", "Zombies", and "Ilomilo".
The Harvest is an adventure RPG set in the future. You pick a character type (I'm playing as Scarab and he's a beast at mitigating damage) and off you go to save the human race from an alien invasion of "Harvesters". As you progress you get more special abilities, unlock special characters, find gear and learn how best to destroy everything nearby.
Zombies is a direct copy of the famous board game and is also loads of fun, more so with friends. It's you're basic screw your neighbor, zombie killing, survival horror/comedy game... Ok maybe it isn't so basic but it's still a barrel of laughs when you play "Your shoe's untied" Five squares from the escape helicopter.
And lastly but not leastly (leastly?) have "ilomilo" a puzzle game where you try and reunite the two friends Ilo dand Milo. Move block defy gravity, operate catapults, find more friends and more. The greatest thing is how immersive and addicting this game is, you use your accelerometer to look around corners or over ledges so playing this game you will find yourself pointing your phone around much like your parents and your old Sega controllers while playing Road Rash...Or maybe that's just me...
Moral of the story? GAME ON!
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Friday, February 18, 2011
App Review: BloghuB
Hey there! I figured for my first official app review what better app then then the one I'll be using from now on for all my blogging on the go, BloghuB!
Despite only having played with this app for a short while I feel myself falling in love! It has a few glaring issues like no autosave (so if I back out to main menu to respond to a text or someone calls me I lose the whole post... Which by the way sucks this is the third time trying to post this) but has plenty of great features.
Lets start with formatting. This app gives you all the basics, bold, underline and italicize work as expected even with multiple options on at once. It has plenty of choices for font size from big to littleand lets you change bothfontcolor and highlightcolor.
You can align left
It has a dedicated link button and you can snap a photo and add it right from the app... but apparently it doesn't work.... At least with blogger...
If you blog a lot or even a little grab this one!
Despite only having played with this app for a short while I feel myself falling in love! It has a few glaring issues like no autosave (so if I back out to main menu to respond to a text or someone calls me I lose the whole post... Which by the way sucks this is the third time trying to post this) but has plenty of great features.
Lets start with formatting. This app gives you all the basics, bold, underline and italicize work as expected even with multiple options on at once. It has plenty of choices for font size from big to littleand lets you change bothfontcolor and highlightcolor.
You can align left
You can align center
You can even align right
It has a dedicated link button and you can snap a photo and add it right from the app... but apparently it doesn't work.... At least with blogger...
If you blog a lot or even a little grab this one!
Thursday, February 17, 2011
It's here! It's finally here!
My HTC HD7 has finally arrived and I am so far loving it the UI is super responsive, the web browser is nice and snappy and pinch to zoom is SO FLUID it's unbelievable! I'll get into some more indepth reviews later on but for now theres just a couple things I wanna say I love...
1) Wireless sync with Zune software, no need to plug it into my comp to sync which, with my limited USB slots, is one hell of a boon no more need to unplug my printer to put media on my phone.
2) The super LCD screen is quite frankly gorgeous. Really crisp and clear with vibrant color, not quite as high contrast ratio as my friends Galaxy S's SAMOLED screen but its a huge leap past the standard amoled on my old Omnia I8000.
3) Xbox Live support - Havn't gone too in depth into this yet but so far its been useful was playing with my phone when I noticed somone on Live wanted me to join them in Black Ops, just one more way the phone is described as a "Social genius"
4) The peoples hub. I know android has this too but coming from an iphone and WM6.5 it has brought a smile to my face almost every time I pick up my phone. Have my girlfriend and friends Facebook pages on my homepage who post a LOT being able to see the comment and post on it without having to launch a dedicated app is wonderful.
Anyways, I'll leave the rest for later! Off to enjoy my phone!
1) Wireless sync with Zune software, no need to plug it into my comp to sync which, with my limited USB slots, is one hell of a boon no more need to unplug my printer to put media on my phone.
2) The super LCD screen is quite frankly gorgeous. Really crisp and clear with vibrant color, not quite as high contrast ratio as my friends Galaxy S's SAMOLED screen but its a huge leap past the standard amoled on my old Omnia I8000.
3) Xbox Live support - Havn't gone too in depth into this yet but so far its been useful was playing with my phone when I noticed somone on Live wanted me to join them in Black Ops, just one more way the phone is described as a "Social genius"
4) The peoples hub. I know android has this too but coming from an iphone and WM6.5 it has brought a smile to my face almost every time I pick up my phone. Have my girlfriend and friends Facebook pages on my homepage who post a LOT being able to see the comment and post on it without having to launch a dedicated app is wonderful.
Anyways, I'll leave the rest for later! Off to enjoy my phone!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
And we're back!
Guess what faithful readers who have most likely forgotten about this blog, I am back and with exciting news! I'm transforming this blog from its current state into a blog devoted to the new Windows Phone 7 OS!
I know you guys are going to be sad about the lack of updates for WM6.5 and of course my Omnia II but... well.. seeing as that's now an outdated phone and a discontinued OS I've gone ahead and ordered an HTC HD7 from Bell Canada and am EAGERLY awaiting its arrival! Once it gets here be sure to expect (at least until I get bored again) more posts about useful tips and tricks and many reviews!
The Phone is due to arrive sometime next week so hang in there!
I know you guys are going to be sad about the lack of updates for WM6.5 and of course my Omnia II but... well.. seeing as that's now an outdated phone and a discontinued OS I've gone ahead and ordered an HTC HD7 from Bell Canada and am EAGERLY awaiting its arrival! Once it gets here be sure to expect (at least until I get bored again) more posts about useful tips and tricks and many reviews!
The Phone is due to arrive sometime next week so hang in there!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Sorry about the wait *cough*
Two months later and I'm STILL loving my Omnia II. I apologize for the giant lapse in posts as I've been busy with work and social life and the blog kinda faded away into the back of my mind for awhile. Needless to say in the time I've been gone I've found some neat things to share with you! Before I start though, I'd just like to say thank you to the two people who commented, love to see that people find what I write interesting. Always a bonus.
First off, to answer the comments: Allreader still works great in winmo 6.5 I've not had any issues with it myself and am currently reading "A Song for Arbonne" by Guy Gavriel Kay. So far, so good. As for your comment about divx playback, I'll be the first to admit I'm not much of a videophile, and am not sure how to go about finding out the bitrate for the videos on my phone. Max resolution though is 800x600 as thats the cap of the display itself which on a small screen is still brilliantly crisp unless standing in direct sunlight then the reflective screen is kind of lack luster...
For the other commenter I did some research as I myself have voice mail included in my bundle with bell and haven't had the need for an answering machine app and came up with iSecretary which seems to be rather full featured from what I can see Only used it once with a test call from myself but worked like a charm, not quite voice mail quality but not bad.
As for things I've found and started using a lot for myself, I've grabbed Skyfire browser, YouTubeplay, PDAcraft Paint and Windows Media Center Remote.
Skyfire so far is an awesome browser if you're on WiFi as it gives you a fully rendered webpage and pretends you're a desktop, this browser will DESTROY your data usage if you aren't careful. It has full Java and flash support (with the correct updates downloaded for winmo 6.5, easily available on a quick google search) and is amazing for browsing those pages that require you to "mouse-over" to get to certain menus. Also Skyfire supports "Save Target as" and "Save Picture As". That is a VERY useful feature to have on a mobile browser, I've not found a way to do that with either Internet Explorer or Opera, but I may just be missing something so don't hold me to those two missing that feature.
YouTubePlay is also a very useful app that I use all the time it allows you to browse and view YouTube videos quickly and easily in its own app non-Dependant on a secondary web browser like the "YouTube" app that comes shipped with the phone. It also allows for the download of said YouTube videos and can launch previously saved videos from inside itself without having to switch to your media player. Now the player itself is missing some major features like the ability to seek or rewind. As an ADDED bonus youtubeplay can extract the audio of a YouTube video as an MP3 file and save it to your phone (music videos anyone?).
PDAcraft Paint I won't bother giving a full paragraph review as its just a simple MSPaint port. But it can draw circles, use fill and spray can and all your oldies. Yay for MSPaint ports!
The last app I've downloaded, Windows Media Center Remote I've only had since yesterday morning and as of yet haven't been able to get it to work correctly but from the forums where I snagged the program people say it does indeed work once you've got it properly configured and theres reports that yes it does work with both Winmo 6.5 and the Omnia II so I'm holding out hope for it and will keep poking at it. It's supposed to be able to allow you to pause, play, rewind, skip and control volume etc of any computer running windows media center on your network, for example, my Media Center PC. I can get it to connect and it brings up my keys but crashes promptly as soon as I touch any button.
Anyways, I encourage you to KEEP COMMENTING I may take awhile to get back to you but I SWEAR I will eventually. Thanks for reading and I guess thats all for now. Now I'm off to fiddling with that remote app. Hope this works.
First off, to answer the comments: Allreader still works great in winmo 6.5 I've not had any issues with it myself and am currently reading "A Song for Arbonne" by Guy Gavriel Kay. So far, so good. As for your comment about divx playback, I'll be the first to admit I'm not much of a videophile, and am not sure how to go about finding out the bitrate for the videos on my phone. Max resolution though is 800x600 as thats the cap of the display itself which on a small screen is still brilliantly crisp unless standing in direct sunlight then the reflective screen is kind of lack luster...
For the other commenter I did some research as I myself have voice mail included in my bundle with bell and haven't had the need for an answering machine app and came up with iSecretary which seems to be rather full featured from what I can see Only used it once with a test call from myself but worked like a charm, not quite voice mail quality but not bad.
As for things I've found and started using a lot for myself, I've grabbed Skyfire browser, YouTubeplay, PDAcraft Paint and Windows Media Center Remote.
Skyfire so far is an awesome browser if you're on WiFi as it gives you a fully rendered webpage and pretends you're a desktop, this browser will DESTROY your data usage if you aren't careful. It has full Java and flash support (with the correct updates downloaded for winmo 6.5, easily available on a quick google search) and is amazing for browsing those pages that require you to "mouse-over" to get to certain menus. Also Skyfire supports "Save Target as" and "Save Picture As". That is a VERY useful feature to have on a mobile browser, I've not found a way to do that with either Internet Explorer or Opera, but I may just be missing something so don't hold me to those two missing that feature.
YouTubePlay is also a very useful app that I use all the time it allows you to browse and view YouTube videos quickly and easily in its own app non-Dependant on a secondary web browser like the "YouTube" app that comes shipped with the phone. It also allows for the download of said YouTube videos and can launch previously saved videos from inside itself without having to switch to your media player. Now the player itself is missing some major features like the ability to seek or rewind. As an ADDED bonus youtubeplay can extract the audio of a YouTube video as an MP3 file and save it to your phone (music videos anyone?).
PDAcraft Paint I won't bother giving a full paragraph review as its just a simple MSPaint port. But it can draw circles, use fill and spray can and all your oldies. Yay for MSPaint ports!
The last app I've downloaded, Windows Media Center Remote I've only had since yesterday morning and as of yet haven't been able to get it to work correctly but from the forums where I snagged the program people say it does indeed work once you've got it properly configured and theres reports that yes it does work with both Winmo 6.5 and the Omnia II so I'm holding out hope for it and will keep poking at it. It's supposed to be able to allow you to pause, play, rewind, skip and control volume etc of any computer running windows media center on your network, for example, my Media Center PC. I can get it to connect and it brings up my keys but crashes promptly as soon as I touch any button.
Anyways, I encourage you to KEEP COMMENTING I may take awhile to get back to you but I SWEAR I will eventually. Thanks for reading and I guess thats all for now. Now I'm off to fiddling with that remote app. Hope this works.
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