Top 6 Windows Phone Apps for Tracking FIFA World Cup

With the FIFA World Cup 2014 kicking off in Brazil on June 12, thousands from around the world are gearing up to watch. The last time the World Cup was held in Brazil back in 1950. Brazil has won the cup five times and you’d be crazy to watch the World Cup. Some will watch

The Seattle Times News App Now Arrives For Windows Devices

The Seattle Times is a reliable source for breaking news, entertainment, sports and traffic in Seattle, the Puget Sound region, and beyond. The Seattle Times News app is now available at Windows Store. It comes with the latest news and insightful, Pulitzer prize-winning journalism, and more. It has been optimized for quick and easy reading

How to Prepare and Submit a WordPress Plugin

Plugins make our life easier to build a WordPress website faster and easier. Plugins extend the functionality of the default WordPress engine that does offer a lot of feature out of box. All layout and style related code should be in WordPress themes which is another topic in itself. But when you need features that

Water Rings a classic childhood game on windows 8 and windows phone

Water Rings is a classic game which will refresh your childhood memories. This is based n the water filled bubble game where you had rings suspended in water and little posts to stack them. This is a 3D game which simulates the actual toy. Water Rings is a funny game for all ages. It can

Pandora Releases Official App for Windows Phone 8

[contentad align=right]Pandora Release App for Windows Phone 8 Pandora is a personal radio service that gives you access to the music you love anytime anywhere, all you have to do is search for one of your favorite artist and Pandora will create a custom station that will play similar tracks. Android and iOS users might

Microsoft Surface Keyboard and Hardware Start button not responding

I have been quite happy with the Microsoft Surface RT Device and the overall Windows 8 experience. Being a Windows 8 developer, i find it a very intuitive experience to working with Windows 8. But not all users are developers so an end users experience with Windows 8 does matter if Windows 8 really has

Win8 RT – Activation of the app for the Windows.Launch contract failed

While submitting an update to my existing windows 8 RT app I ran into a problem which was very weird. The only message I could see when I launched the app from the Surface RT was from the Event Viewer. Here is the error that was logged in the event viewer with Event ID: 5961

Windows 8 Design Style Principles at Philly Code Camp 2012

Over the weekend I attended Philly Code Camp where over 700 attendees were present with sponsors like Microsoft, Apprenda, Infragistics to name a few. It was one of the well-organized events I attended. You can read more about the event and event organizers at http://phillydotnet.org There was a great lineup of Microsoft Technology speakers with

Bible Pronto – A Free Windows 8/WinRT Bible App

If you are looking for a nice Windows 8/WinRT Bible app then Bible Pronto is what you need to install. Bible Pronto is a FREE bible app that provides unique reading experience with good metro user interface. You can download multiple bible versions for offline reading. Bible data is cached locally so you can read

Comment Contest: Free copies of Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML

CodeRewind is giving away 3 copies of Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML eBook through a comments content.