If you have low vision, or find your self squinting to see really tiny, Windows Phone 8 has a really nice feature named “Screen Magnifier”. This could help if you’re in a dark area (like on a plane, or cab at night), so it’s a nice feature to learn and love. It’s a little hard…
Windows Phone 8 has a very nice version of Internet Explorer v10 built in, and does an amazing job with HTML5, video, pinch/zoom, tabs, pinned tiles, and a bunch of other great features. One nice feature is that under Settings, you can tell IE10 on Windows Phone 8, to pretend to be the full desktop…
Betwext is an online service that is all about SMS texting. Text your customers, group text each friends or family or colleagues. And it has this little hidden gem of a service named “REMIND”. It does …. well …. exactly that. Reminds you. You send a text with a note to yourself, and the date and…
If you ever wanted to see the traffic back and forth to your phone, this post will show you how. This is a must know trick, if you’re a mobile developer, and is something I use on a very regular basis. Abstract: Open Fiddler, which listens on port 8888. Then change your phone wifi connection,…
Text While Driving? You know you do it — sucka …. and you shouldn’t. Keep your phone in your trunk, and do all your communication hands free. Using the Windows Phone Voice to Text techniques, you’ll be able to easily safely message without ever taking your hands off the wheel. This also works great for…
A few days ago, I wrote about the Windows Phone 8 Facebook application being broken. Last night, I rec’d an update from the Marketplace, and my (or my Wife’s) main concern was the Events page wouldn’t show any information about the event. Here is a link to The Verge, which has many more details on…
Using rules+folders in gmail or Exchange? By default your email is only showing you the “INBOX” of your email. Mail in other folders is, well, not in your inbox. This video shows you how to pin an email folder to your home screen.
Did you know with Windows Phone 8, you can change the text size? Out of the box, that phone shows some pretty small fonts, even on a larger screen like my Nokia 920. And if you’re using an even smaller phone, the font is just that much smaller. Settings > Ease of Access > Font…
What if you make an audio mistake during a screen cast? Do you have to start over? Not with the Loop Logic screen recorder. In post production, online after the video uploads, you can create sections of the video (called chapters) and then hide them from playback. I’ll let the video speak for itself. Bottom Line:…