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This blog post was authored by Craig Horsfield, a Senior SDET on the Windows Phone Test and Operations team. - Adam Testing your app throughout the development process can help you create a really great Windows Phone app. Testing helps ensure...

Many of you have heard about PhoneGap (aka Apache Cordova ), the popular open source framework you can use to create mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. PhoneGap has supported the Windows Phone platform since Windows Phone 7.5 , and had a major...

As some of you know, I use an Acer Aspire S7 and love it. It’s a great device that has travelled from event to event, city to city and work place to fun place and back again. It’s why I’m thrilled to be joined by Acer for this week’s tech chat as they...

Soccer fans tend to bring a lot of enthusiasm to the sport with the chants, team spirit and gusto. The global appeal of soccer, which in much of the world is called Football, gives us all a common sport to know and discuss. Today we’re excited to share...

Many years ago, I spent a week visiting my brother in Alaska. At the time, he was working on a fishing boat out of Homer, and I spent several days on the boat enjoying the sights of Kachemak Bay and the Kenai Peninsula. The impression that struck me immediately...

Adobe Photoshop Express for Windows is now available for download from the Windows Store . Photoshop Express for Windows 8 comes with a variety of features to quickly edit your photos on your Windows PC or tablet. You can do the basic photo enhancements...

The popular digital magazine app Zinio arrived in the Windows Phone Store this week as an exclusive for Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 models. (Miss it? You can grab it here .) It’s a beautifully-designed app that should please any magazine junkie. But it gets...

This blog post was authored by Joao Lucas Guberman Raza, a program manager on the Windows Phone team. - Adam In this post we cover important information for Windows Phone 8 developers who use the XAudio2 APIs, including best practices for battery performance...

As I mentioned in a previous post , I’m a writer for Windows by day, and a musician by night. Musicians don’t always have the best health habits. Late nights, hanging out in smoky clubs, and getting paid in drink tickets have taken their toll on my health...

Today Dell announced some exciting new workstation PCs, the Dell Precision T1700 small form-factor workstation, the Dell Precision T1700 mini-tower workstation, and the Dell Precision R7610 rack-mounted workstation. The new Dell Precision T1700 mini-tower...