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In need of a snow day activity - why not create an app!
Bitsbox (computer or mobile device) - a set of tutorials to create fun games with command-based coding.
Create Flappy Bird (computer or mobile device) - a tutorial that shows you how to use block-based coding to create your own flappy bird game.
Mozilla AppMaker (computer) - learn to create an app by remixing one.
Pyonkee (iPad)-- Scratch block-based coding for the iPad. Touch Develop (computer or mobile device) - tutorials to create mobile games using block-based coding.
Microsoft’s Windows App Studio and TouchDevelop integrate. Mobile First. Cloud first.
Microsoft’s Windows App Studio and TouchDevelop integrate. Mobile First. Cloud first.
Windows App Studio Beta today released its most impactful update since the move to universal Windows apps last April. Many of you have already tried TouchDevelop, a powerful, touch-friendly programming language that includes a physics engine, a UI framework to compose forms for quick data display and entry and much more. With TouchDevelop you can write code directly on any device and use sensors…
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Windows Phone 7 and the Mac
As announced, here it comes: A report about my new Nokia Lumia 710 and its integration with my mac environment. I try to make it short and write only the most important things.
The Phone I bought a black one for ca. 300€ on amazon. The back of the phone is made of softer plastic, the front is glas with a recess for the rocker switch. I feels very solid and durable but not heavy. The screen is clear and every touch is recognized, the camera is only moderate but it has a flash so you can make photos at night (and if you think a camera is that important, buy a good one!). Sound quality is very nice and not muted.
So overall it's built quality is really good.
Windows 7 Phone I have a new iPod Touch and I have to say that I like iOS. Most of the time it is very easy to use and it looks mostly uncluttered. I think multitasking (if you really need it) is not so good implemented from a users standpoint and the homebutton is a little bit overloaded (press it one time for this action, 2 times for another, and again 1 time for the next action). Android is as far as I can tell not so different to use but I've only played half an hour with it, so lets get to WP7:
WP7 has a different approach for using. It has no program icons but tiles for the applications which can be animated. So if you add pictures for your contacts, the specific tile is animated with these images. Or the calendar tile shows you the next event. You still notice that WP7 is a young system because some of the preinstalled applications aren't that extensive but all of them are quite intuitiv. If you buy a Nokia you get some special application for free: Nokia Maps and Nokia Navigation. These two "little" gems are rocking cool. The navigation is very good and you can download the most used maps so it only needs little of your monthly data to calculate the route (but Nokia promised to enable full offline navigation) and the maps application tells you where next to you places of interest are. Also included is MS Office mobile which is very handy (and it syncs to the cloud), perfect integration with SkyDrive (the cloud service) and you can download a small development tool called Touch Develop (I will write a post about it because it is cool)
Fazit: The whole system is clean and intuitiv. The Nokia apps are really great.
WP7 and the Mac To get music, podcasts, your own ringtones, pictures, etc. on your phone you can download the Windows Phone 7 Connector from the Mac AppStore. While it looks a bit like iTunes it is far from being the same bloatware. Only if it can't connect to your phone (e. g. if the time on your phone and the time on the mac is very different) it needs too much memory but beside this bug it is a sweet sync software.
Ok, I have to admit that it would be really nice to be able to sync your address book with your phone but if you have your old phone at hand you can transfer them via bluetooth or import them from your old sim directly.
All contact, calendar events and pictures are synced with your LiveID online and with SkyDrive you get 25GB cloud space for free. All this is very good integrated in the system!
Conclusion The Nokia Lumia 710 is the best mobile phone I've ever had. It is easy to use, services like facebook, cloud (SkyDrive), etc. are very good integrated and the build quality is very satisfying. As Mac user you don't have the same integration as an iPhone user with iTunes but on the other hands you also have many benefits: SkyDrive is more useful than iCloud, the system feels fresher than iOS, the price, the navigation software, MS Office and live tiles.
So as far as I can tell you should buy one!