Mobility, from a PC point of view!

Let’s be honest shall we? The Apple iPad is a cool gadget; it is very good for the simple stuff that can be difficult to do on a mobile. However, it is expensive & not a real PC! So I went out looking for a tablet PC and lucky me my office had a spare one, l asked for it and took it

I was very happy in the first few hours, using the stylus on Windows Vista and navigating through the internet. Few hours later, I decided to install Windows 7, the installation was smooth and it automatically found all of my hardware and drivers.

Few days later, I was very annoyed because the device is not optimized for touch! In Internet Explorer you cannot grab the page and move it to scroll like on a mobile device. I always had to use the scroll bar which is annoying. The buttons were small for finger usage.

After few hours of search, I was able to optimize my tablet for touch. And here is what I have done.

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Diving into Licensing Class of Windows Phone 7

If you are building applications for Windows Phone 7 Marketplace you will love this.

It has never been easier to make a trial version of your application. A class provided my Microsoft makes it easier for us developers to build trial versions of our application in a very easy way.

On MSDN, Microsoft has documented a simple class which when calling it’s method IsTrial() the return value is a boolean expression which returns true if it is operating on Trial Mode and false if it is the full version.

The implementation should be like this.

Microsoft.Phone.License.LicenseInfo MyLicenseInfo = new Microsoft.Phone.License.LicenseInfo();
if (MyLicenseInfo.IsTrial())
{
// Do the limitation here
}

Find the Documentation here

Taking care of your Windows Phone Battery

Batteries has always been the bottleneck of smart phones, specially the ones with huge touch screens. Today, I’m going to give you some tips to enhance your battery life of your Windows phone, increase it’s lifetime and make it last longer (continue reading…)

Windows Phone 7, Animations Part I

Most of us the developers didn’t know how to create graphically nice applications. and by nice i don’t mean good looking and using themes and skins but i mean animations and some objects animations, My self included!

It was very difficult to create graphically nice animations that utilizes the GPU and ensures smooth animations so we found our selves trying to learn OpenGL/ES or any other SDKs like Fluid or SilverMoon which all are complicated enough and can waste a lot of time learning them. (continue reading…)

RSS Reader for Windows Phone 7, Now on Codeplex.

Since Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 7, i loved the fact that it can use LINQ to XML. It is really a life saver, simple and performance optimized! (continue reading…)

Performance Optimization, How to?

Have you ever wondered how can you optimize your application’s performance?

Yes, this is a question that all developers ask. No matter what platform they use or what is their target device. Performance is something that all of us should keep in mind when writing applications, specially when we are building applications for Mobile Devices as they have limited resources (RAM/CPU).

So let’s get started with the Coding for Performance Tips.

Today we will be talking about Memory.

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Windows Media Player & Windows Phone 6.x, Great Combination!

I have always knew that our Windows Phones can be hundreds of times better than any MP3 Player in the market, my only question was how to easily sync?

Apple got the iTuens, Zune uses it’s own Zune software, so what is there for Windows Phones? Yes, Windows Media Player. (continue reading…)

How to : Access the internet on a Wireless network with Proxy

Have you ever wanted to connect your Windows Phone to your work WiFi to browse the Internet and never succeeded because it requires a Proxy Server setup?

Continue reading to find out how easy it is to connect to your work WiFi and use the proxy server for Internet browsing.

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