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Windows Phone 7 Facebook app finally crosses 1 million monthly active users

October 14, 2011 | By Surur

It has been a hard slog, and now, on the eve of the one year anniversary of the launch of Windows Phone 7, the Windows Phone 7 built-in Facebook app has finally crossed the 1 million active user mark.

Based on earlier estimates this translates into about 6 million Windows Phone 7 users in total, a number I am sure far below what Microsoft expected to sell over the last 12 months, but still a reasonable constituent.

By comparison the Facebook for iPhone app has around 90 million users, while the Facebook for Android app has has 67 million.

Hopefully with a new generation of devices and more committed partners in the next 12 months Windows Phone will also cross these milestones at a significantly higher pace.

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Rendezvous, the ultimate Facebook event application

October 12, 2011 | By DanielKoroush

Rendezvous is a Windows Phone 7 application that allows you to easily set up get-together with your friends. Through Facebook connect, you will be able to view upcoming events, rsvp to your invitations, see your friends’ upcoming events and most importantly create your own events quickly and invite your friends.

Creating events through Rendezvous provides a rich experience over traditional methods such as phone call or text message by allowing you to view venues nearby, group deals near you using Groupon deals and grouping your friends together.

Rendezvous is free and can be found in Marketplace here.

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Facebook Mobile updated to HTML5

October 11, 2011 | By andrewbares

Facebook just updated touch.facebook.com to support HTML 5, which works with WP7 Mango devices, Android and iOS.

The website looks a lot better than before, and now features an endless scrolling news feed, along with the ability to view private groups and more.

However, touch.facebook.com already has some issues with Windows Phone. The drop down menus for notifications, friend requests, and messages don’t display the background properly, so the text is sloppily displayed over everything else. Also, the website doesn’t work at all for my Samsung Focus, whereas it works fine on my HTC HD7!

Overall, I still recommend visiting the full Facebook website over the touch.facebook.com website, or simply using the built-in Facebook integration!

Credit: Neowin

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WP7 Facebook feed issues being caused by new Facebook privacy settings

October 4, 2011 | By Surur

We have had complains from readers that the Facebook feed in the People hub has not been working properly, missing updates from users and at other times being told they do not have permission to view pictures which they have been allowed to view on the desktop and Facebook app.

It turns out the explanation is simple, but pretty difficult to fix.

Microsoft said in this support thread:

“Facebook considers Windows Phone to be a third-party app, rather than an official Facebook app. This means Windows Phone only has access to information that is shared with apps and websites.

Each individual has control over what they share (Account > Privacy Settings > Apps and Websites: Edit your settings > Info accessible through your friends: Edit settings). If someone disables “My status updates,” their friends will be not be able to see the updates in third-party apps. They will, however, show up on the Facebook website and in official Facebook-branded apps. Turning off platform apps entirely makes the user’s whole Facebook profile disappear from Windows Phone.

This can be very annoying, but people should be able to control what they share. The ideal solution would be for Facebook to make Windows Phone an official app. Until that happens, updates from some friends may not appear in the People Hub.”

So unless Microsoft can twist Facebook’s arm or users set their privacy settings to be a lot laxer, the People hub will be limited to what it can do, and users will still need to check the official FB app.

Good thing Microsoft owns at least a bit of Facebook, isn’t it…

Via WPCentral.com

Thanks Koki for the tip.

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New version of CleverPhoto by CleverSoftware released

September 29, 2011 | By Avory

CleverPhoto 1.2.0.0 by CleverSoftware is one of the best and most powerful photo editors for Windows Phone7. It comes with more than 25 high quality adjustments and effects that can be applied many times!

CleverPhoto will gratify beginners (simple and clean interface), as well as power users (effects capable of of the highest quality touch up).

Modify the photo with easy to use operations: rotate, crop, flip, color border or grunge frame.
Make adjustments with brightness and contrast, color selection, black and white, old photo, sharpness and blur.

Enjoy a variety of filters like tilt-shift, lomography or x-ray.

All the effects are easy to use and can be applied many times on a photo of any size, selective undo option lets you remove any not desirable effect.

Create sensational photos and share them on Facebook and Flickr in few easy steps.

Features included:

Manipulations

Crop Photos
Rotate Photos
Adjust Brightness
Adjust Contrast
Flip horizontal
Flip vertical

Effects

Black and white
Sepia
Negative
Add Noise
Vintage
Color selection
Old photo
Blur
Sharpen
Emboss
Vignette
Lomography
Edge detection
Posterize
Tilt shift
X-Ray

Frames

Instant photo
Grunge

Share

Easy Facebook upload
Easy Flickr upload

Price: $1.49. Download it from Marketplace here.

Trial version lets you do everything except saving and sharing.

CleverPhoto is under constant development so stay tuned for more updates and don’t hesitate to send your comments, questions and suggestions to: [email protected]
For all the up to date news like our facebook site – ww.facebook.com/clever.software.net

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Mehsplosion? Nerdsplosion!

September 20, 2011 | By Max Lieblich

Mood Projector has reached version 1.5 and is available in the Marketplace for $0.99 (with a free trial)! Mood Projector extends Rage-O-Meter to new emotions, with more coming in future updates. Mood Projector integrates with the Facebook Silverlight Mood Projector app.

Simply choose your emotion, set the level, edit the message (if desired), and then post it to Facebook, the Facebook Splosion Stream, or Twitter, or send it by email or SMS. Integrated browsers let you observe the Facebook Splosion Stream or the Twitter #splsn stream. It all lives in one convenient panorama.

Version 2.0 will feature logging and graphing. Watch your emotions evolve over time!

I am a novice developer who started at zero a little over a month ago. The wealth of available MS tools, tutorials, books, and websites have helped me learn a tremendous amount in a short time. To anyone out there who is thinking of taking the plunge, go for it! I would never have guessed a month ago that my apps would be downloaded over 1600 times by now!

Download Mood Projector from the Marketplace and start sploding today.

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Vent your rage with the Rage-O-Meter

September 3, 2011 | By Max Lieblich

Rage-O-Meter is now available in the Marketplace!

Using a technique perfected by medical residents in Philadelphia, the Rage-O-Meter lets you blow off steam quickly and efficiently. Just drag the pulsating orb of rage into position, hold down the broadcast button, and release your rage into the world.

The Rage-O-Meter is integrated with Twitter and Facebook to help disperse your rage quickly over a large network. The Rage-O-Meter goes to 11.

The Rage-O-Meter is free and available from the Marketplace here.

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New Windows Phone 7 Logo now also spreading to Facebook comments

August 17, 2011 | By Surur

Just a little tidbit, but it is of note that Microsoft is readying for the roll-out of Mango by spreading the new square orange logo ever wider, this time to your Facebook comments if you comment using the built-in Facebook integration.

The new square logo was first spotted at a Mango event all the way in May but was only officially confirmed by Microsoft Japan on the 1st August 2011. It is part of the increasingly pervasive Metro styling which eschews gradients and curves for a more “Authentically Digital” look.

Thanks Loopyeyes and Dan for the tip.

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Facebook 2.1 for WP7 released, fixed image loading issue

July 23, 2011 | By Surur

One of the main reasons people browse Facebook is to see pictures uploaded by their friends.

The bug in Facebook 2.0 which prevented one from seeing the picture galleries of friends was therefore a pretty big issue, and one which has now finally been addressed in the just released Facebook 2.1 for Windows Phone 7.

If the update is not immediately available to you, uninstalling the app and then re-installing should force the latest version onto your phone.

Thanks Kevin for the tip.

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Clever Software releases new version of CleverToDo – a popular ToDo application with unique features!

July 15, 2011 | By Carol

Simplify your daily life, lighten your memory and stay productive with a great application based on “Get Things Done” methodology. CleverToDo is really simple for new users and yet very powerful for pros. Discover unique set of features with clever and intuitive design which will allow you to focus easily on tasks and projects.

Version 1.8 has some new features for better work & time management:

Repeating tasks
Schedule your everyday medicine, every two weeks classes or even every 1 year car check! Set it once, choose repeating period and free your memory!
Custom filters
Create custom filters and search for specific tasks without necessity of setting the filter each time you want to find for example all tasks with a “call” tag.
Dropbox backup, Cloud backup
It is always better to have a copy than not to have one. Backup your tasks and projects easily and gain access to them from your PC!
Better Live Tile support
Reliable live tile shows you the number of tasks scheduled for today and the text of 3 upcoming tasks, giving you a quick look over them without necessity to open the app.
Possibility to add time to task
Sort your tasks better with the possibility to set not only the date but also a specific time to your task.
Quick notes

Now you don’t have to quit the app in order to write something down! Manage your notes in one application along with your tasks and projects.

More features coming soon along with a great surprise, so stay up to date!

Try CleverToDo for free and then if you like it – it’s yours for just $3.99! CleverToDo can be downloaded from Marketplace here.

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See some screen shots after the break.

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Fail++ – Optimal Time Wasting App

July 14, 2011 | By SocialEbola

Recent studies* have shown that 76% of time spent on the web is spent looking at pictures of kittens and people doing stupid things. Now finally you have an app that will cover you on the "stupid things" side.

Fail++ gives access to half a dozen or so funny blogs (with more to come in future updates – if the built-in poll in the app will continue in its current trajectory) including FailBlog, "There, I fixed it", Win blog, GraphJam and more.

When you start up the app, you get a list of blogs you can choose from – the blog you choose will be the one that greets you when you run the app.

You have 3 panorama panes with time-wasting content – “recent” shows you the newest pictures, “popular” shows you what other users like and “random” shows you… well.. random pictures from the site…

On some of the lists, you can page back and forth to see even more content.

The popular area shows you pictures from other blogs as well – it aggregates the most popular pics across all the blogs and gives you a taste of each.

Clicking on an image gives you the ability to zoom, save and share the image. You can share in email, text or Facebook. You can also favorite images so you can get back to them later and you can save them to your album.

You can also swipe left of right to move around and see more pictures.

To top all that, you can also get a live tile with one of the popular posts right on your start screen:

The app is free and can be downloaded here.

* Studies were not scientific in nature and were conducted mostly on the authors family and friends.

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Face Uploader for Facebook

July 11, 2011 | By WP7 Geek

Face Uploader by Mobilix Technology is designed to upload multiple photos at a time to your Facebook account. You can access all your photos from your mobile device to upload.

Here are some of the features of FaceUploader.

1.Upload multiple photos at a time
2.Create albums and upload photos to selected albums
3.Set privacy
4.Change application background image based on facebook images.
5.Save photo to device.

Face Uploader is $1.99 without a free trial and can be found in Marketplace here.

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BBC thinks Google and Facebook invented automatic picture uploading

July 8, 2011 | By Surur

stupid_logo_high_res_3 There is a reason why patents were invented – otherwise credit goes to those making the loudest noise.

Such is the case now with Google +. In this BBC article the reporter is apparently under the impression automatic uploading of pictures were a new feature developed by Apple and implemented first by Google.

They wrote:

There is also an Android smartphone app for the Google+ network which I’ve tested briefly. It offers Huddle, a group text-messaging system, but more interesting is an option which automatically uploads photos from your phone to your profile.

That’s an idea which Steve Jobs unveiled as a feature of Apple’s iCloud service. Now Google has got in first.

Of course we know that MyPhone has been uploading our pictures for ages now, and real time uploading started with the KIN phones and was perfected in Windows Phone 7.

Maybe slapping Google with a patent suite will get credit restored to where it is due.

Thanks John for the tip.

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