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Kinect Star Wars App for Windows Phone: hands-on video

1 month ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

Star Wars for Kinect on Xbox 360 has received a mixed reception primarily due to the inclusion of a dance simulator dressed up in the Star Wars universe, aside from that it let you force push and light sabre duel to your hearts content. The Kinect Star Wars companion up, that's just launched on Windows Phone, does things a little differently. For starters the app's main functionality is found in the ability to aggregate your social networking feeds from both Facebook and Twitter in a...

App Friday: 0800 Wizard

1 month ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

Ofcom is planning to make calls to 0800 numbers free from mobile phones, but the consultation it announced this week won’t deliver those for some time. Until then there’s the 0800 Wizard app from Skycom. How can it offer free calls to 0800 numbers so you don’t fear those warnings telling you “calls from mobile phones may be charged”? By rerouting the freephone number you dialled to an 01 or 02 number. That way the call is covered by the monthly bundled minutes that...

Harry Potter eBooks available for Amazon Kindle and Kindle app

1 month ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

From today Harry Potter fans young and old will be able to follow the adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione at Hogwarts using an Amazon Kindle or via the Kindle App for the first time. English-language versions of all seven books in the Harry Potter series are available as eBooks from the Kindle Store, following an agreement with J.K Rowling and eBook shop Pottermore. Although you can browse the titles at the Amazon Kindle store, books can't be downloaded from the Kindle Store. Instead you...

Vimeo app launches on Windows Phone Marketplace

3 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

Online video service for the cool kids Vimeo, has officially launched an app for Windows Phone. The app allows users to upload, including in HD, and manage their videos via their phone, whilst of course also watching videos uploaded to the service. The app is set out to allow users to search for videos and view a list of featured videos to promote new discoveries. Fans can also cue up videos to watch later, check out their inbox and show appreciation for your fellow Vimeo users by liking and...

Ask Ziggy Siri-alike hits Windows Phone Marketplace, the ultimate pub quiz companion

4 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

Just as Apple made everyone think that videocalling on phones was cool again with Facetime, it seems to have inspired everyone to crack on with Siri-alike voice activated services. We’re all for seeing voice recognition improving - Google Voice Actions was anything but polished when it first landed - so we’re excited to see Ask Ziggy arriving for Windows Phone phones. Available to download from the Marketplace now for free, Ask Ziggy works like a charm and, amazingly, doens't...

Metro newspaper app launches on Windows Phone

4 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

Windows Phone users will now be able to catch up with free newspaper Metro via their handsets as Associated Newspapers launches an official app for Windows Phone handsets. Metro is available free in many cities around the UK, but the free app enables you to catch-up on news on your Windows handset, including the HTC Titan and Nokia Lumia 800, without having the pick up a paper. As well as news and photographs from the paper, there’s also extra video content. The app uses the same vertical...

Fun Face Swap app hits Windows Marketplace, we get deja vu

5 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

There’s nothing like that feeling of being ahead of the curve, only to see someone else months later doing what you did and passing it off as ‘new’. It’s like that time when you had a Green Day CD before anyone else at school, thought you were hardcore and then bitched when other kids started listening to ‘Good Riddance’. Anyway... Microsoft has released the new Face Swap app to the Windows Marketplace. As its name suggests, it allows you to take a snapshot...

Microsoft SkyDrive app: iOS and Windows Phone

5 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

Microsoft's answer to Dropbox, SkyDrive is a free utility that offers users 25GB of free storage, and if it was good before, it just got much better with a mobile app for Windows Phone 7.5 and iPhone. The Windows Phone app will be available in the next few days and the iPhone app is available right now in 32 languages worldwide. Acting as a beautified file explorer, the SkyDrive app will bring huge amount of functionality for Windows Live account holders. With an attractive user interface...

TV planning for Christmas on your phone: Catch up apps and TV guides

5 months ago | POSTED IN Windows Phone

Hands up if you plan out your Christmas TV viewing with a kind of military precision that would make Patton blush? Yep, us too. We’ve already had Elf and Scrooged! on our screens this weekend just gone. Our foray into festive viewing has well and truly begun. But we’ve got eleven more days to get through yet. And then there’s the big day itself, not counting Boxing Day and assorted post-Christmas Day programming. Channel 4 is showing Big on Chrimbo Day (classic Tom Hanks) which...