Category Archives: Windows Phone

Ideas for mini-apps

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

We want to test our “Learn XAML” app with some real world examples. If you have an idea for a useful example that you think is fairly simple, send it over and we will try to make it happen. By … Continue reading →

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Epic Pics And Videos app in the marketplace!

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

We released a new application that’s based on Fail++, but designed to work better on Tango! On top of that, the app now supports videos from the various blogs. You get access to a dozen blogs (and if you are … Continue reading →

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Try out “Bubble Porn”–our newest app (SFW)

Posted on March 15, 2012 by

We published a new app to the marketplace called “Bubble Porn” – also known as “Mormon Porn”. (Download now!) The app essentially lets you create optical illusions that trick the brain into seeing things that are not there. Here’s an … Continue reading →

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Learn XAML (beta) available for all on the marketplace!

Posted on March 11, 2012 by

You can now download our newest app in the marketplace! The app lets you write little samples, or applets to test on your phone. By using JavaScript and XAML, you can tinker and hack your way around to try and … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone sample pictures are numbered..

Posted on March 10, 2012 by

I may be very late to the party, but did anyone else notice the Windows Phone sample photos (the one coming with the phone by default) are numbered 0 to 7? Some of them more subtle than the others, which … Continue reading →

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Don’t use PhoneApplicationService.State[] in Mango

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

People who tell you, unequivocally, to not use a certain service in a platform are usually wrong. What they really mean to say is “don’t use service X under this and that circumstances”. However, like in politics, a simple bold … Continue reading →

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Announcing "Marketplace Miner"–show only the publishers you want

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

So, you are looking for new apps on the Windows Phone marketplace, but you keep seeing apps from publishers you do not want or you may consider “spammy”.. What to do? Download and run Marketplace Miner. It will show you … Continue reading →

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XPath support for the Html Agility Pack on Windows Phone

Posted on July 6, 2011 by

The latest break both Urban Dictionary and Fail++ had were caused by HTML markup changes on the respective sites. I kept putting off being able to push parsing logic from my server because I was lazy and kept thinking “I … Continue reading →

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Dev tools: SEXap–modify WMAppManifest inside a XAP

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

Hey developers! (Get the tool here) I recently decided to create a version of Urban Dictionary which was ad-free and cost money. Of course, the challenge then becomes how do you modify the XAP (the icon, title etc) to be … Continue reading →

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Virtual Pivot Control

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

I am working on an update for Urban Dictionary 7 (one of my Windows Phone apps) and one of the pieces of feedback I got a number of times is that, when people are viewing a word, they expect to … Continue reading →

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