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, to the proxy of the machine IP you have fiddler running on. BAM … you’re watching traffic in fiddler on your machine, for data flowing through to your phone. #MasterDebugger

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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 taking and making phone calls, though we didn’t demo this in the video.

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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 the update.

Thank you!

Next: Please add the ability to see historical events. As it is now …. events as close as yesterday are ‘historical’, and can’t be seen on the phone 🙁 #babysteps

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.

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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 Size, let’s you change the font size and this video shows that in action.

Enjoy!

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