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Microsoft plans to bring back "Find on Page" feature in IE9, but it might come much later
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For any Windows Phone 7 user out there, it might not be something used on a consistent basis, but the “Find on Page” feature with IE8 is nevertheless something handy to have on. However, it seems that Microsoft decided to remove this feature entirely with IE9 in Windows Phone Mango.
Fortunately, Microsoft has heard the complaints from numerous people and plans to bring back the feature sometime down the road. Well, the good news is that IE9 is capable of being upgraded independently of the operating system – meaning, it can potentially be brought back with some sort of update. However, it’s also possible that they will simply hold off from doing that, and instead, bring it back with the arri...
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Microsoft tops 30,000 apps for Windows Phone
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Microsoft's Windows Phone platform may not be the near the top when it comes to market share, but it is getting there when it comes to the number of apps available in its Windows Phone Marketplace.
The latest numbers from the Windows Phone AppList, a website that catalogs the number of app in the Marketplace, show there to be just over 30,000 apps available. Microsoft reached this number a mere 10 months since the Marketplace debuted. Additionally, there are now over 8,000 registered developers for the Windows Phone platform.
While these numbers pale in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of apps available for Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms, when compared with other smartphon...
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Microsoft details new Windows 8 File Explorer UI
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Microsoft today revealed details on its revamped Windows 8 Explorer interface design. The file manager update focuses on delivering a more streamlined user experience through a ribbon UI that spans across the top of the Windows Explorer interface. It doesn’t look drastically different and retains much of the heritage Windows features while optimizing them for a better user experience.
Microsoft program manager Alex Simon posted the details on the Building Windows 8 blog. Simon noted that out of 200 commands in Explorer, they found that the top 10 commands made up 81.8 percent of usage. To make these most used commands most accessible, Simon says that the ribbon UI would be best to achieve an...
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Snow Leopard to get iCloud support in 10.6.9 update?
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Apparently those of you who aren't upgrading to Cupertino's latest and greatest desktop OS will be able to sling bits through iCloud with the upcoming 10.6.9 update. The screenshot above comes via an eagle-eyed developer, who's already upgraded his MobileMe account to the service and also happened to open its forebearer's preference pane on a machine running Tiger. No word on when it'll drop (we'd place our bets alongside iOS 5's launch this fall), but looks like those of you running Snow Leopard got some readin' to do.
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Samsung said to be considering webOS acquisition from HP
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Following rumors that Samsung was considering a purchase of Hewlett-Packard’s PC business — rumors that Samsung would later deny — DigiTimes is having another go at this potential unholy union. This time around, however, the site claims Samsung is eying HP’s webOS platform instead of its PC business. DigiTimes on Monday reported that Samsung has hired HP’s ex-vice president of PSG marketing Raymond Wah to head up Samsung’s PC business. The report goes on to claim that Samsung is also “considering purchasing webOS to compete head on against Apple and Google, according to sources from notebook players.” The South Korea-based electronics giant is clearly having issues with Android right now. De...
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Samsung webOS rumors reignite amid ex-HP PC VP grab
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Speculation that Samsung will purchase webOS from HP continues, with the latest whispers out of notebook manufacturers suggesting that it’s the little-loved smartphone and tablet platform that the Korean firm has its eye on, not HP’s PC business. Samsung has already snapped up the former VP of HP’s PC marketing team, DigiTimes reports, to give it a boost in its notebook sales; now, so the talk goes, it’s considering a play for webOS.
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Windows 8 tablet apps start appearing
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Two apps are already well under development for Windows 8 tablets, ZDNet has found. Microsoft isn't expected to unveil any technical info and software development kits for the tablets until its Build conference, but that hasn't stopped USA Today and Jetstream software from planning their own apps for the devices.
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SkyDrive To Make Its Way Into iOS,Android And Mac Along With Windows
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We posted, a few days ago about a SkyDrive app for Windows Phone 7supposedly demoed at TechEd NZ. Now it seems the scope of the project may be even bigger.
I don’t know how many of you have used Live Mesh from Microsoft which was discontinued last year. Its an awesome service started with great vision from former executive of Microsoft Mr. Ray Ozzie. It was his pet project actually. Its a file synchronization platform, which syncs your files across devices and the concept of Live Desktop allows you to view your synced files online such as pictures. You can create synced folders and add files to it in any of the devices, it may be a PC or Mac or even a mobile device with mesh client. Live Me...
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Japanese Microsoft website leaks new WindowsPhone.com features
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Nanapho.jp have uncovered more leaked Windows Phone 7.5 info.
This time, hidden in a guide for changing the language of the windowsphone.live.com/Home site to Japanese we see a screen shot of the WindowsPhone.com website which is not in fact live, and it shows several new features.
Firstly, it shows that users will be able to see their purchase history on the WindowsPhone.com website, and also re-install apps en masse from the site itself. It also shows that videos will now also be synched to SkyDrive and be playable from the WindowsPhone.com website. You can also get to your Office docs from the website directly.
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DFT and Orange Team together create HTC HD2 ROM which can be updated normally by Microsoft
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The Dark Forces Team and Orange Team have combined their forces and achieved the seemingly impossible – they have created a ROM for the HTC HD2 which can be updated normally like any other Windows Phone 7 handset over the Zune desktop client.
Beyond this the ROM also retains Root and ChevronWP7 status, meaning users are both free to edit the registry and side-load applications.
Lastly the ROM also allows custom packages to be side-loaded via Zune, making for the ultimate custom ROM machine.
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PlayBook OS version 2.0 leaked: is RIM really sacking BES?
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This one comes with a health warning: even if the leaked screenshot above is legit, it's easy to over-interpret. Nevertheless, it purports to show the account setup page from BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0 and it distinctly lacks any option to sync with BlackBerry Enterprise Server or Internet Service. Instead, you're able to configure Exchange/Active Sync, IMAP, POP, CalDAV and CardDAV accounts, which suggests that RIM is switching to the same integrated email, contacts and calendar solutions as everyone else. Of course, it could be that the BES/BIS simply isn't enabled on this particular device, or that it'll be added in a later version of the OS. Then again, we can't help but recall those Colt ...
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Stuck on Windows Mobile? Get the Windows Phone 7 look
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We still hear reports that Windows Mobile outsell Windows Phone 7, and I am sure there are tens of millions of Windows Mobile users out there.
Filipe from lolfactory has created this free Windows Mobile today screen plugin which emulates the Windows Phone 7 start screen. The app uses .NET Compact Framework 3.5. and is still under active development, with Felipe planning to add jump lists and other mango features.
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Microsoft Windows 8 quad-core tablet to be giveaway at Build?
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During this week’s Tech Ed event in New Zealand, Microsoft showed off some new devices, including one that is reportedly a Windows 8 quad-core tablet. According to attendee Alan Burchill, who is also an IT consultant and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, the unnamed slate could be a giveaway at Microsoft’s upcoming Build developer conference in September.
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Screenshots possibly show HTC Sense 3.5
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Check out a couple of these screenshots posted by the guys over at XDA China that show what could possibly be the finalized version of the HTC Sense 3.5 user interace for Android devices.
One of the screenshots shows the lock screen which looks to be the same as the one featured on HTC Sense 3.0. The home screens are where most of the changes are made. The icons, including the ones for the phone and for the menu have been revamped.
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Why developers shouldn't abandon WebOS yet
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Hewlett-Packard's surprise announcement that it would end production of its WebOS smartphones and tablets left a lot of developers in a lurch (although exact numbers are hard to come by). As of now, the WebOS development community is effectively an ecosystem in search of a platform.
What next? The smartphone OS market is consolidating, with the lion's share divided between Google's Android and Apple's iOS. Either one of those would be a fine choice for WebOS developers looking to jump ship, but neither offers a development environment that much resembles the WebOS SDK. Meanwhile, Microsoft has been actively wooing WebOS developers to come over to Windows Phone 7, with promises of free smart...
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