Can you install every Operating System on Windows Mobile devices?

When you can live with small fonts and a tiny screen on your WinMo this is a geeky way to install Ubuntu on your smartphone.

Ubuntu on the HTC Touch Pro2

Video via Pocketnow

Btw this is already available for the X1 via X1BUNTU (“UBUNTU 8.04 for X1 WORKING WIFI”)

Engadget and more heads up XDA developer forum

Geeky but not usable? Please give us your opinion.

This video is the TechEd Middle East Dubai 2010 Opening Keynote by Eric Rudder. He presents ”Indiana Jones” game on the WP7 series

Although this game is on Zune HD available month ago, this is a great presentation because it shows the ability to resume the same game on a different platform.

Eric Rudder Playing Indiana Jones On Stage

Think about Netflix or Windows Media Center with this functionality. If you’re watching a movie on a PC, you can pause and move it to your TV. And if you need to get on the bus, or even a plane, you can resume it on your phone.

Great

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Windows Phone 7 skin LeSScro series for older WinMo phones

Skin WAD 2.x, Windows Phone 7 series LeSScro design with lot of fetaure supported… like Stocks… podcast…streaming… Meteo & more…

via “Hasty hacker hobbles together a Windows Phone 7 skin …” MobileCrunch via XDA-Developer (WP7 – LeSScro edition)

Do you like this skin?

No native apps allowed in Windows Phone 7 Series

Windows Phone 7 is only three days old, but leaked docs from Microsoft supposed to show that the requirements for the developer have turned up (via XDA-Developers)

#WP7 will use both Silverlight and XNA, this decision makes sense it will it the Xbox 360 integration.

Microsoft has been rebuilt their Mobile devices Windows-Mobile from the ground-up, the result could be described as the Zune Phone, the Zune HD has impressed many people

The only allowed apps will be:

XNA-written apps – mainly for games and full screen immersed apps, that don’t use standard controls; XNA uses .NET technology (managed, not native)

.NET apps (probably Silverlight?) without possibility to invoke native API, i.e. only “managed” APIs allowed

MSMobile via wmpoweruser

Applications that were made for Windows Mobile 6 are compatible with Windows Phone 7 Series.

via xda-developers

Developers though, can look forward to Microsoft’s legendary documentation and support.

Windows Phone 7 Series Features Video

The old Windows Mobile name is now gone, replaced by a longer name Windows-Phone-7-Series.

I have seen WiPho 7 or “Could WinPho7 Be a Contender?” around the web, which one is your favorite?

The Microsoft Turtle aka PB10ZU has a unique design look all its own.

When the first rumors of Project Pink leaked out last fall, the most interesting phone detailed was a little slider named the Turtle. Is this Microsofts Avatar moment, the company made flesh. Sharp, who cut their teeth building the Sidekick way back when, should release the phone in March, probably with direct Microsoft involvement.

And the phone they were supposed to make. MobileCrunch Remember when people were all excited about Microsofts weird tablet stuff. So the dots likely are being connected to whatever it is Microsoft ends up announcing this at Mobile World Congress. You can clearly see it’s manufactured by Sharp, which, as we all know, also manufactured the Sidekick, which Microsoft later purchased.

Look what was just seen poking its head out of its shell for the Federal Communications Commission.

Apparently, Turtle is somehow related to Project Pink and Windows Mobile 7

Idea via Gizmodo and Engadget

Microsoft tries to show that its phones can still compete with those of Google and Apple but their new smartphone OS flagship Windows Phone 7 will not support Flash at initial launch

Image via windows7themes.net

Windows Mobile 7 Won’t Get Flash according to Informationsweek and Engadget Adobe confirms no Flash in Windows Mobile 7 (updated).

“Update: Sorry kids, we have independent confirmation: Windows Phone 7 will not support Flash at initial launch.”

HTC will build the  first ‘Windows Phone 7′ smartphone in Q4

Engadget is still the greatest source in the Blogosphere for latest news

Today they unearthed the first ‘Windows Mobile 7 Serie‘ screenshots.

Screenshots via “Windows Mobile 7 interface and device leaked on MWC banners“

It seems that the iPhone has shaken the mobile industry even more than we had thought. Handset designers like HTC and LG may have been hand-picked to develop flagship phones and could show early forms of these at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft will seek to show that its phones can still compete with those of Google and Apple.

Today “Windows Phone 7 Series – It’s official !“

Chances remain that the company will only shown Windows Mobile 6.6 or similar, though these have been increasingly downplayed… Read the rest

Protecting Your Hard Drive and Filesystem On Windows 7

Following any OS release, there’s always a lot of excitement as well as a bunch of new wrinkles to iron out. Nowhere is this more true than with Microsoft’s Windows platform. While often touted as the easiest and most user friendly system out there, it tends to make up for that with more than its fair share of glitches and bugs.

As far as overall computer life is concerned, taking good care of your hard drive is of paramount importance. So here, in no particular order, are some of the best free software tools available at the moment for Windows 7 to keep your HDD humming smoothly and without incident.

Garbage Collection
Unwanted programs, applets, redundant files and other junk have a funny way of piling up over time so stealthily that, before you know it, you have untold Gigs of space eaten up by random trash. Rather than go through your entire registry entry by entry, these programs can easily sort through and rid your hard drive of all that detritus that you don’t need.

In this department, the clear winner head and shoulders above the rest is CCleaner. On any version… Read the rest

Essential Windows 7 Security Internals

Securing your desktop computer against threats is an essential task for everyone, therefore we will inform you about the most important Windows 7 security tools.

Windows 7 includes several new security features that can help you protect your system.

These features include:

1. Improvements to User Account Control (UAC)
2. Enhanced security for Internet Explorer
3. Ability to define network-specific firewall rules
4. Ability to protect data against theft

UAC helps prevent attacks by using a standard user account as the security context for performing non-administrative tasks. If a member of the Administrators group attempts to perform an action that requires elevated permissions, the user is prompted to confirm the action. You can configure whether the action causes the desktop to dim. You can also configure whether standard users are prompted for credentials if they attempt to perform an administrative task or install an application. You can use User Account Control Settings to select from

4 different levels of UAC settings:

1. Always notify – prompts if a user attempts to change a Windows setting or install a program
2. Default – prompts if a program attempts to make a change, but not if an administrator makes a change directly
3. Notify me only if a program attempts to make a change – displays the notification dialog, but does not dim the desktop
4. Never notify – elevates permissions automatically for administrators,

… Read the rest

key antipiracy protections of Windows 7 have been bypassed by hacker

Microsoft official statement

“We’re aware of this workaround and are already working to address it,”

more information @”Hackers bypass Windows 7 activation” (cnet)

A bug with Intel’s P55 chipset prevents Windows 7 from syncing their iPhone, and motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte has issued a BIOS update to resolve the issue for some.

Appleinsider

Gigabyte has released its beta BIOS for the GA-P55-UD4P motherboard and you can download it from here

In this post we won’t talk about Windows-7-defrag

When you are looking for another better, faster and free defragmenting software for your Windows-7 system and stumbled across this post, I’m sure you will find this post very useful.

Why is defragmenting so important for your system performance

“[...] defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. [...] The presence of immovable system files, especially a swap file, can impede defragmentation. These files can be safely moved when the operating system is not in use. [...] The outer tracks of a hard disk have a higher transfer rate than the inner tracks, therefore placing files on the outer tracks increases performance. [...]“

via Wikipedia

4. Smart Defrag

Smart Defrag is an application with full and ease of functionality. Smart Defrag doesn’t only offer the possibility to defragment your system, it also can optimize your systems file access time, by moving the most commonly used system files to the fastest areas of the hard-drive.

Auto Defrag is beside Smart Defrag’s optimize-system-files the most interesting feature.

Auto Defrag (standard setting) is… Read the rest

Playstation 3 Dualshock on Windows 7 x64 RC

This video tutorial is based on Windows 7 x64 RC but should also work on the future Windows 7 builds 32/64 Bit Versions.

Sixaxis & Dualshock 3 drivers

Sxiaxis Dualshock 3 driver for 32bits Windows xp,Windows vista,Windows 7

Sxiaxis Dualshock 3 driver for 64bits Windows vista,Windows 7

The software available here from MotionInJoy.com are provided “as is” with NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT.

Installation instructions

Download the drivers from here

Apple legal department: “Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we lowered our prices.”

Laptop Hunters $700 Matt and Olivia get an HP dv7

Windows Phones Security Center Deletes all messages permanently they will not move over to Deleted Items folder! [Timesaver]

MaximumPC presents in their post ”Windows 7 Buyer’s Guide: Which Edition is Right for You?” in a short and useful manner, which decisions need to be made, to choose the right Operating System for your brand, company, personal use Operating System

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