Windows Phone: Lost Screen App

You just realized you don’t have your phone in your pocket or purse! #Panic! #Panic! You’re also safety conscience, and you have a lock on your phone. Now all the good people of the world, have been limited on how they can return your phone. You’re only hope is you remember where it is, and go back and get it. Sure there is Login to WindowsPhone.com and use the FindMyPhone feature. OK, I’ll give you that. Remote Ring, Remote Secure Wipe …. those are nice features. This nice little app, by Scott Hanselman ( @shanselman on twitter ) will also help get your phone back the next time you leave it behind!

This quick video/screen cast shows you how to setup the app, and add your private information to the lock screen on your phone.

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Windows Phone + Cortana + XBOX music

When you hear that new (or old) song on the radio, or in a club, wouldn’t it be great if you could grab a copy and save it on your phone? Well you can, and it’s **VERY** easy to do with Cortana on Windows Phone 8.1

This is a quick video/screen cast that listens to the radio, grabs a song, and adds to it a new playlist.

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Microsoft Azure Websites: Full Support for Wildcard DNS and SSL

Microsoft Azure Websites is Pure Awesome. The speed and amount of work that can be done in a very short period of time is just amazing.

Today, I’m sharing a feature that I’ve been waiting for, for a long time. Wildcard support for DNS and SSL Certificates. In the past, you could use a wildcard certificate, but because Wildcard DNS wasn’t supported, you had to manually enter your sub domains one-by-one. This doesn’t scale very well.

In this screen cast I show you how to setup a *.Wildcard DNS and SSL under an Azure Website. It’s just shy of 5 minutes.

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Uber: Town Car Service on Demand

Uber is a new(ish) type of fancy car service that is on demand, and is now available in PHX Metro (and growing quickly to most parts of the world). I’ve used Uber in AZ, CA, and WA and NYC. Always great service; fast and clean. They have an iPhone and Android app, (and a non official Windows Phone App). After requesting a ride, these apps let you see where your car is on the map so you know right when (and where) you’re car is going to arrive.

It’s easy for pickup (at the mall or something) because you also get the Driver name and Phone number for texting back and forth.

Uber has a rating system, where you can rate the driver, and the driver can rate you as the passenger; So it’s much safer than a random off the street cab, since you can rely on riders before you, and their feedback. The cars and SUV’s I’ve ridden in, have always been new(er), clean, and the drivers are friendly and don’t stink.

Lastly, you don’t pay the driver. You pay using the Uber app, and then Uber pays the driver. Tip is even already included.

If you’re going to be traveling, and you think you might need a car service, give them a try. Full Disclosure: By use the links provided, if you sign up for Uber we both get a $20.00 credit.

This is my referral link: https://uber.com/invite/uberscottcate

 

The Awesome WestJet Christmas Story

This was a great 5 minute video showing the great story of Christmas, on WestJet. What a great way to touch so many peoples lives.

http://scottcate.looplogic.com/westjet-christmas-miracle