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Aviary Releasing SDK For Windows Phone Platform

February 10, 2012 | By Pradeep

Aviary, the company which provides photo-editing tools for the web and mobile is planning to expand its support to Windows Phone platform. Aviary will make it possible for app developers to incorporate its photo-editing technology into Windows Phone apps using the SDK which will be released soon.

According to Todd Bishop,

Aviary was convinced to make the investment in the Windows Phone SDK based on factors including Nokia’s focus on photography in the new Lumia line of Windows Phones, with Carl Zeiss lenses. “At a hardware level they’ve just done everything right,” said Paul Murphy, a vice president at Aviary.

via: Geekwire

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Vote For Apps At Windows Phone Marketplace Requests Page

February 9, 2012 | By Pradeep

We already have an official uservoice page for Windows Phone to post our feature requests. Scott J Dorman, a Microsoft MVP has started a new uservoice page for marketplace requests alone. As usual you can vote for your favorite apps that you would like to see on Windows Phone Marketplace.

So far Skype, Instagram, Mint, Audible, Pandora leads the list of apps.

Check the page here.

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Developers: Photon Cloud Adds Support For Windows Phone Platform

February 8, 2012 | By Pradeep

Photon Cloud has added the support for Windows Phone platform for its network engine. Photon Cloud allows you to rapidly develop online multiplayer games . You can now add multiplayer to your games within a fraction of the time you normally would need to develop fast and reliable networking. It even supports cross-platform gaming. There is a free SDK which allows you to develop in C#/.NETck 4.0 and easy UI creation and view-management via Silverlight/XAML.

Check out here for more details.

via: wpcentral

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PREVIEW: “Deveci Games” announces LAST COMMANDO to be released this week.

February 8, 2012 | By valequenta

Deveci Games twitted today, announcing their new top down shooter game named “LAST COMMANDO” to be released this week.

Below are some of the features of the game:

18 different weapons including AK-47, M4A1, Desert Eagle, SV98.
10 different stages total of 50 levels: Mansion, Hospital, Backyard, ….
High quality textures, impressive sound effects.
Achievements: More than 100 achievements to complete. Achievements helps unlocking weapons.
3 game play difficulties
Engaging gameplay with two virtual thumbsticks

Watch marketplace for LAST COMMANDO to be released this week.

You can check gameplay and footage videos below.
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Winners of the Greek Windows Phone App Contest announced

February 7, 2012 | By sofoklis

Earlier this year, all students of the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications of Larissa Institute of Technology (TEI) in Greece, were invited to participate in Windows Phone App Contest to create an application for Windows Phone 7 platform. Sponsored by Microsoft Hellas and Nokia the competition proposed to intensify and accelerate the Windows Phone 7 programming and encourage students to express themselves and be as creative as possible with their ideas.

All the mobile app projects were reviewed by faculty members and leading professionals and the eight winners of the contest who were selected from among thirty eligible participants will now receive their prizes. Top two winners will be awarded with a new LUMIA 800, and the six runner ups with an HTC or LG windows phone 7 smartphone. Next week, the local .NET student community will be hosting a campus event where developers will present their applications and receive their new smartphones.

As a result of the increasing popularity of Windows Phone 7 platform, the postgraduate program MSc in Network Computing offered by the department, recently included Windows Phone programming on the main course structure.

All new apps are added to the Greek marketplace and can be found on the website: www.cs.teilar.gr/WP7

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Developers: How To Get Your App Featured In Windows Phone Marketplace?

February 7, 2012 | By Pradeep

How To Get Your App Featured In Windows Phone Marketplace? I know many Windows Phone developers ask the same question again and again. Before answering the above, what will happen when you get featured on Windows Phone Marketplace.

Panorama Placement: Panorama placement is the premiere placement for promotion on the Windows Phone Marketplace. The value of this placement is immense as we have seen a 2000% increase in downloads for an app (on average) that is featured in panorma mode.

Featured Icon Placement: Being promoted as a featured icon is the second best way to be featured on the Marketplace. Apps that get Featured Icon Placement on average see an 800% increase in app/game downloads during their time being featured.

Featured List: The third mode of getting featured in the Marketplace is the Featured List. It does return an average of a 150% increase in app/game downloads.

The answer to the question of “How To Get Your App Featured In Windows Phone Marketplace?” depends on whether your app has all the three important attributes listed below,

Delight
Utility
Functionality

You can read each of them in detail through this blog post from MSDN.

This post was the fifth and final post in a series of five posts on strategies for being successful on the Windows Phone Marketplace. The first post (publishing in the right geographies) is here. The second post (trial mode and the art of the upsell) is here. The third post (finding the pricing sweet spot) is here. The fourth post (the differentiation game) is here.

Great job by Paul Laberge.

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Guide Me Free updated to Mango

February 2, 2012 | By astrzelba2

Guide Me FREE is an application that allows you to find nearest Points of Interest (POI’s).
Then you can navigate to this point by simply pressing Navigate button!Currently supported POI’s:

Banks
Hotels
Restaurants / Food
Cafe
Bars / Pubs
Gas/Oil stations
Airports
Train stations

Now with Mango update it also supports Fast Application Switching
Furthermore every POI type can be pinned to Start Menu.

You can download this app from here for FREE.

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SPORTS NOW! updated to v1.1, brings quick-jump support; More updates coming soon…

February 2, 2012 | By simzz

Sports Now, a premier Windows Phone sports app, has been updated to version 1.1. Sports Now is a great sports app that holds its own against the ESPN or ScoreMobile sports apps.

The update brings the ability to quick-jump from one sport to another. Additionally, college sports and faster updates to live tiles are coming soon.

Its key features include live score feeds for the 4 major US sports, as well as the ability to pin games as tiles to your home screen. The tiles are then updated automatically.

The scores page is perfect for getting up to the minutes scores for all your favorite sports leagues. Additionally, there are several other great features, including:

Ability to set a favorite team for each sport
League standings, stats, news, and scores
Tweets from each official league feed
Free, ad-supported app
Pin scores to tiles

Coming soon: Tile updates every 5 minutes.

Sports Now is 100% free, is ad-supported, and can be found in the Marketplace here.

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AppDeals : Get great deals! Plus we offer to 5 developers to have their app featured for FREE in February!

February 1, 2012 | By aheadsolutions

2 of 4 AppDeals was launched one month ago and we can already say it’s a big success. We want to thank all Windows Phone users and developers that are more and more every day to use AppDeals app, making it one of Windows Phone must have app today for users that want to be informed about selected or exclusive deals and get paid apps for less or for FREE!

For its 1st month anniversary, AppDeals app offers the opportunity to 5 developers to have one Windows Phone app featured for FREE on AppDeals.

Those developers will be chosen in February among the first 100 developers than SUBMIT THEIR WINDOWS PHONE App on our new AppDeals web site!

With the number of AppDeals users growing up fast, we will be able to provide users with more and more exclusive deals. So don’t hesitate to tell your friends about this app and hopefuly you will discover some great apps you’ll love and use!

At Ahead Solutions we want to build up great mobile services. AppDeals is one of them. We will be happy to welcome Windows Phone developers that care about their apps and either want to publish news or propose a deal to Windows Phone users like Utlimate Poker Manager, MyThings Pro, AlcooloTest, GeoMemory, Measure Note, Intrusion Alarm, AlterEgo and many more already did…

Don’t hesitate to contact our team anytime you need it.
AppDeals is a unique service that now helps users and developers!

appdealqr Sebastien.
CEO & Founder, Ahead Solutions.

Follow us on twitter: www.twitter.com/appdealswp

Download AppDeals for FREE here.

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Visual Studio Achievements For Windows Phone Now Available From Marketplace

February 1, 2012 | By Pradeep

Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone allows users to track their achievements and share it with others. Microsoft announced the program two weeks ago, using a Visual Studio Extension achievements are unlocked based on your activity.

From Microsoft,

A software engineer’s glory so often goes unnoticed. Attention seems to come either when there are bugs or when the final project ships. But rarely is a developer appreciated for all the nuances and subtleties of a piece of code–and all the heroics it took to write it. With Visual Studio Achievements Beta, your talents are recognized as you perform various coding feats, unlock achievements and earn badges.

Download the free app here from the marketplace.

via: wpcentral

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Microsoft Releases Amazon Web Services SDK For Windows Phone Beta

January 31, 2012 | By Pradeep

Windows Phone Interoperability team at Microsoft today announced the availability of the beta version of Amazon Web Services SDK for Windows Phone. The SDK will let developers quickly connect and integrate Windows Phone applications with Amazon Web Services such as S3, SimpleDB, and SQS Cloud Services. This will help developers familiar with AWS and working on Android, iOS or any other platform to port their apps to Windows Phone with this SDK.

You can download the SDK , along with the complete source code. More details can be found here and here.

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US Developers: Win Awesome Prizes By Taking On 30 to Launch Challenge From Microsoft

January 31, 2012 | By Pradeep

30 to Launch is a new program for Windows Phone developers powered by Microsoft Platform Ready (MPR) group. You have to sign up for the challenge and complete a Windows Phone app and publish it in marketplace. Also there will be an opportunity to register for App Hub for free in week 2 of the challenge.

Contest Prizes:

Four (4) Grand Prizes. Each winner will receive a Prize Package consisting of the following items:
? Samsung – 46″ Class 3D / HDTV
? Samsung – 2.1-Ch. Home Theater SoundBar System with Wireless Subwoofer
? Two DVDs for 3D Movies
? A pair of 3D Viewing Glasses
? Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect
? Two Xbox Games
The total Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of this Package is $3,000

Five hundred (500) incentive prizes. Each winner will receive one (1) Nokia Lumia 800 phone. Approximate Retail Value (ARV) $500.00

Get ready and start your app development soon. Try to be in the first five hundred people and win the awesome Lumia 800.

More contest details here.

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Developers: Guidance For Choosing Between Panoramas, Pivots And/Or Pages

January 30, 2012 | By Pradeep

As part of the 31 Weeks Of Windows Phone Metro Design series, Microsoft UX Designer Arturo Toledo today posted a very important aspect of app development in Windows Phone. How do you choose between Panoramas, Pivots And/Or Pages for your app ?

According to Arturo,

Panoramas are for content consumption.

Pivots are mostly for content consumption and in some cases for content input.

Pages are for one dimensional (one view) content consumption scenarios (whether lists or video, audio, images/photos…), great for content input and great for content generation.

Read his post on his blog to get a clear view of panoramas, pivots, etc,.

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