Microsoft – We Want Your Apps!
Microsoft are determined to get more apps out there and today they released three new starter kits for Windows Phone developers. By using these starter kits you can create a real app with the minimum amount of work and customise the results.
Here are the three starter kits…Download any and get started with Windows Phone development.
Imagine the thrill of becoming your office’s resident Microsoft Word expert because when it comes to the use of Microsoft Word, everyone needs help. Becoming a Ms Word Whiz is important for your productivity because learning the important Word Tips and hacks is a handy skill for you in your daily life. While Microsoft Word is an important application in most people’s daily life, not everyone understands how to maximize its capabilities. Even those who consider themselves proficient Ms Word users still need some more skills to perfect their proficiency. Unknown to many, Microsoft Word is packed with an abundance of features, which you can master with simple Word Tips. The MS Word tips and tricks, of mastered, will make your work stress-free, and you become more productive and efficient. For instance, knowing the keyboard shortcuts is one of the key Word Tips that can reduce your time spent on a project by half.
Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts
The Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts allows you to easily create a Window Phone 7 for any podcast that provides a valid Rss Feed. This kit provides background audio, live tile updates, history tracking, twitter intergration and much more.
Starter Kit for WordPress
This starter kit helps you turn a WordPress blog into a Windows Phone application quickly and easily. By uploading a pre-written WordPress plugin and changing one line of configuration file, your Windows Phone application is able to connect to and read from your WordPress blog. All that will remain is the creative theming of your application to match your blog!
Starter Kit for Schools
This Starter Kit is targeted at schools, universities, teams, clubs and other organizations that want to develop a customized mobile identity. Content is driven by simple configuration settings and includes support for multiple RSS feeds and the application is fully customizable. All source code and a sample theme is included as well as being available on GitHub.
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Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.