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How To : Get Windows Phone 7 Like Toast Notifications in Android

      Windows Phone features toast notifications, for example if you got a missed call a small screen pop-up’s which shows “Missed call from [person name]“. WP7 Notifications Lite for android brings Windows Phone like toast notifications in  android devices. To get WP7 inspired toast notification in android you don’t have to root or [...]



Windows 8 Features Metro Inspired Blue Screen Death

Blue screen of death also know as BSoD isn’t going anywhere. Two days back Microsoft announced the Windows 8 Developer Preview and according to Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) 500,000 people have downloaded the Windows 8 Dev Preview in two days. One of our reader while testing Windows 8 got this nice metro inspired blue screen [...]



Windows Phone 7 Mango RTM 7720 updateWP error Fix

If your going through the steps of installing Mango RTM 7720 on your Windows Phone then you might get stuck at the place where UpdateWP.exe crashes. The quick fix for this annoying problem is to goto Program Files > Zune folder then delete or rename  updateWP.exe & wm7update.dll (I recommend you to rename them to something .. [...]



Windows Phone 7 Mango RTM 7720 Timeout Error Fix

If your following the Mango RTM 7720 installation guide at step 16 to be exact when we run the ISVTo7720.bat it gives a timeout error at the point where the phone restarts. The quick fix for this problem is propsed by Ludovic B from xda developers forum. I have an omnia 7 and I had timeout [...]



Free Package Tracking App for Windows Phone 7

     PacketracerFree as the name suggest is a free package tracking app available for Windows Phone 7, Its not only the best app to track parcels but its the only one available FREE at the marketplace which let you traces your parcel, express anywhere and reports status anytime.



One Click Windows 8 Transformation Pack for Windows 7

Windows 8 UX Pack is a free tool which lets you easily install and then unstall Windows 8 theme on your Windows 7 PC. It will install all the required themes and applications that help making your system resembles Windows 8 without modifying system files at all.



Personalize your Windows Phone lockscreen with metro lockscreen

Metro Lockscreen is a free app available in the Windows Phone marketplace which lets you personalize your phone with your name and photo, You can change the font size and add what ever text you want.



Get Windows Phone 7′s Picture Hub in Android

Android developers are working quiet hard to bring metro inspired apps in android market, Photo Safari is another free app which brings Windows Phone 7 Picture Hub to Android. Photo Safari is a fast, functional and complete gallery application that looks and functions like a Windows Phone 7 gallery application.



Top News & Weather apps for Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone Marketplace have tons of apps for news & weather, if your looking for free top user rated news & weather apps then checkout the list of top 5 apps below: 1-) USA TODAY The latest news stories, sports scores, weather and photos you’ve come to expect from USA TODAY are now available for [...]



Download Windows 8 Tablet Theme for Windows 7

Microsoft demonstrated the next generation of Windows user interface at the D9 Conference. The new Windows 8 features the same metro inspired UI which we find in Windows Phone 7. On 1st June Microsoft posted a video on YouTube which gives a first look at the new “Windows 8″ user interface.



Mac OS X Screensavers pack for Windows

Ausrif from deviantart has done a quiet nice job by collecting screen savers from through out the web and then archived them to make one big .rar file.



Draw and Animator app for Windows Phone 7

Now you can create simple & fun animations on your Windows Phone using a free app called ‘Easy Animator’. Easy Animator lets you quickly create animations on your phone, you can add frames, draw items with your fingers (multiple colors), and then play your animation. It is not a replace for the full feature animation creator, [...]



Top Windows Phone 7 Games by user rating

Windows Phone Marketplace doesn’t filter app/games by user(s) rating, After playing with some third party app i was able to access WP7 games filtered by user’s rating. Checkout the list of top 10 free games available in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace filtered by user’s rating.



How To : Get Windows Phone 7 like contact list in Android

In Windows Phone 7 contacts are displayed in alphabetic tiles,It uses the new JumpList feature which allow  to quickly reach contacts your looking for. WP7Contact is another free app available in the android market which gives you same alphabetic tiles and enable JumpList feature on your android device. Checkout some of the screen shots below:



Download Windows Phone 7 Lockscreen for Android

WP7Lock Lite is a free app available in the android market which brings the same metro inspired windows phone 7 lock screen to  your android phone, It shows time,day,date and new messages or calls. With WP7Lock installed you’ill have to swipe up to unlock the device just like 1000′s of windows phone devices out there. The [...]