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How to port Symbian QT apps to Windows Phone 7

Microsoft and Nokia worked together to provide a package that will guide Nokia Symbian Developers to learn Windows Phone development.

The package includes:

  • The “Windows Phone Guide for Symbian Qt Application Developerswhite paper, about 100 pages

Change the look of Windows Live Messenger

The look of Windows Live Messenger is great, no? Yet sometimes you wish you could adapt it to the theming of your desktop, only if just a little. This can be achieved by applying a skin, something which only the …

Linking Windows Live ID’s possible again

Remember how all of a sudden you couldn’t link Windows Live IDs anymore? How disappointed we were and in some cases how angry we got because of this possibility disappearing just like that? Well, all the feedback you gave, here …

Linked Live IDs disabled

Remember our previous post about Windows live sign-in now set for use with one account? How we were wondering why Linked-IDs was not mentioned in the team’s post when telling how to best set up things in the new design? …

Windows Live Mesh for Mac

Got Mac and want Live Mesh to keep your files and folders synched? Download the new version now.
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Windows Live Mesh for Mac brings Live Mesh and the previous version of Windows Live Sync together into one product. With Windows …

New Bing Weather Results

Bing recently refreshed the look and feel of Bing Weather. They are showing forecasts from multiple providers such as Weather.com, Weather Underground and AccuWeather, but that’s not all. You can now also look at the Doppler radar, evaluate the …

Sign-In changed, one account only!

Last week the sign-in page for Hotmail (and other sign-in pages that use Windows Live ID) has changed from multiple user tiles to one account…image
Why? That’s a good question. According to Eric Doerr there were some problems with …

Bing Maps World Tour application updated

Hey, have you checked the Bing Maps World Tour application lately? The Tour now showcases 153 locations where Bing Maps features new outstanding high-resolution aerial imagery that is being captured and published as part of our Bing Maps Global Ortho …

Photosynth for iOS v1.1 released

Two months after the first release, the Photosynth Team released version 1.1. of the Photosynth app for iOS.

They’ve added in-app sharing via email and enhanced the saving of images to the device’s camera roll with the ability to crop. …

Second IE10 Platform Preview Available for Developers

Microsoft has made available to developers the second IE10 platform preview.

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With the second Platform Preview, developers can start working with several site-ready HTML5 technologies for building beautiful, interactive Web applications with great performance and security. You can read the …