Content tagged with "windows phone"

10 of My Favourite Windows Phone 7 Tips [updated for Mango]

Feb 03 2011 at 10:30

I’ve seen lists of tips from 5 to 100 items, but most are filled with fairly standard things that I consider obvious (e.g., “create a new text message by pressing New Message”). So here’s a list of the tips and tricks that I have found most useful but aren’t obvious at first glance.

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Know the keyboard "shortcuts" in Windows Phone 7 [updated for Mango]

Dec 31 2010 at 02:46

I’m not talking about your regular Ctrl+C, Alt+F4, etc. shortcuts here, but more the “shorter route” meaning of shortcut. Those of you who got a new #Windows_Phone phone for Christmas (or before) are probably now aware of the different keyboards available. These are as follows: Continue reading...

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Opening Windows PowerShell in the current directory

Feb 01 2012 at 09:48

I came across this little trick on tripledot.be and thought I’d share it here, too.

I’ve been using the Shift + Right-click > Open command window here shortcut for years, but there isn’t such a link for starting PowerShell in the same fashion. Or so I thought…

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What's wrong with Google's numbers?

Dec 21 2011 at 13:32

I noticed recently that Google shows a massive amount of results, even for searches that you’d think are fairly uncommon. I also noticed that the number of results seems to change a lot in the same search. Are they up to something? Are these numbers made-up? Is there a difference between a result of the search and a result that’s shown to the user? Continue reading...
Some ideas for film/book-based games

Dec 13 2011 at 21:29

Here’s a few ideas for some new games that some friends on Live and I came up with a couple of days ago. They’re nothing serious, but they could actually work pretty well if made by the right people (i.e., not EA). Continue reading...

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