Splashtop 2, which provides mobile access to your computer and files, is now available for Windows Phone 8
How many times have you rushed out of the house without some important file you needed for work—or wished you had access to your desktop computer’s music or movie library from your hotel room on the beach?
Enter Splashtop 2, a popular app designed to provide remote access to your PC or Mac that just arrived in the Windows Phone 8 Store today.
Splashtop 2 users can view and edit files, use apps, and stream audio and HD video to their phone directly from a remote computer. Setting it up is pretty straightforward. First download the Windows Phone app, which is free through August 31, then install Splashtop’s free Streamer software on your PC or Mac. The Splashtop remote access service runs $1.99 a month. For more info, head over to the Splashtop site.
Trivial Pursuit, 3 other classic EA games now available for all Windows Phones. Plus: new Nokia exclusives arrive
It’s a great week for Xbox games from Electronic Arts, with four titles previously available only to Nokia owners now available to everyone and four new Nokia exclusives hitting the Windows Phone Store. Unless otherwise noted, these titles are available for both Windows Phone 7 and 8. Here’s the rundown.
All Windows Phone users can now test their driving and parking skills in the spatial-awareness Parking Mania ($2.99). If you love classic board games, you’ve got to try The Game of Life ($2.99). Sneak, scamper, and snack your way on an epic journey in SPY Mouse ($2.99). Or test the limits of your knowledge with Trivial Pursuit ($2.99).
Nokia owners get four new exclusive titles this week. Command and fight your way through the 3D third-person shooter Mass Effect: Infiltrator ($6.99), which runs only on Windows Phone 8. Burn rubber and race your friends over Wi-Fi on 14 different tracks in Real Racing 2 ($4.99). Tailor-make your own golfer and then play through world-famous courses in Tiger Woods 12 ($2.99). Or hoop it up with your favorite basketball pros in NBA JAM ($2.99).
Former Nokia Exclusives
New Nokia Exclusives
Parking Mania
Mass Effect: Infiltrator
The Game of Life
Real Racing 2
SPY Mouse
Tiger Woods 12
Trivial Pursuit
NBA JAM
Speed dial: 6 tips for quicker calling on Windows Phone 8
With everything else it can do, it’s sometimes easy to forget that Windows Phone is still, well, a phone. Looking for ways to call someone a little quicker? Here are a few tap-saving shortcuts I’ve discovered along the way.
1. Call back quickly. It never fails that when my wife and I need to sync up, I miss her call or she misses mine. To increase the odds of catching her, I tap Phone on my Start screen, and then tap the Phone icon next to her name in call history to ring back faster.
2. No answer? Try another number. Even if I call her back a few minutes later, I still might miss her. Instead of leaving voicemail, I’ll tap End call, tap her name at the top of the screen, and then tap one of her other numbers. (Tip: You’ll need to be quick because the name only appears for a couple of seconds.)
3. Go double wide. Another way I try to save a tap or two is to increase the size of my Phone Tile. Then if I miss a call or get a new voicemail, it shows up right there—no need to go to call history. Just tap and hold the Phone Tile on Start, and then tap the icon on the bottom right to resize the Tile.
4. Turn a number into a name. Instead of hunting through call history and trying to remember which number goes with which person (I’ve guessed wrong more than once), I’ll save the number as a contact so I can quickly find and call them next time. Just tap Phone History, tap the phone number, and then tap Save. I can tap New to make them a new contact, or add the number to a contact I already have. Check out this article on the Windows Phone website to learn more about saving contacts on your phone.
5. Can’t talk when someone calls? Text instead. If you have the latest update for Windows Phone 8 you might’ve already discovered this new feature, which I really love and use a lot. When a contact calls from their cell phone and you can’t talk, just tap Text reply, then tap a response and away it goes. I’ve customized my replies, too, so I can say what I want with two taps. This video shows the feature in action.
6. Who’s calling? Let Windows Phone tell you. I don’t always have my phone sitting next to me at home, so I have it announce the caller’s name out loud. That way, I know if I really need to run and pick up. To turn this feature on, go to Settings Ease of access Speech for phone accessibility. This setting turns on a few more things, too, including the ability to speed dial and forward calls with your voice. To learn more, see Use Speech on my phone.
I hope one or two of these were new to you. Have any tips or things you do to speed up calling? I’d love to hear ‘em!
Article source: http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2013/05/22/speed-dial-6-tips-for-quicker-calling-on-windows-phone-8.aspx
Trivial Pursuit and 3 more classic EA games now available for all Windows Phones. Plus: new Nokia exclusives arrive including Tiger Woods 12 and NBA JAM
It’s a great week for Xbox games from Electronic Arts, with four titles previously available only to Nokia owners now available to everyone and four new Nokia exclusives hitting the Windows Phone Store. Unless otherwise noted, these titles are available for both Windows Phone 7 and 8. Here’s the rundown.
All Windows Phone users can now test their driving and parking skills in the spatial-awareness Parking Mania ($2.99). If you love classic board games, you’ve got to try The Game of Life ($2.99). Sneak, scamper, and snack your way on an epic journey in SPY Mouse ($2.99). Or test the limits of your knowledge with Trivial Pursuit ($2.99).
Nokia owners get four new exclusive titles this week. Command and fight your way through the 3D third-person shooter Mass Effect: Infiltrator ($6.99), which runs only on Windows Phone 8. Burn rubber and race your friends over Wi-Fi on 14 different tracks in Real Racing 2 ($4.99). Tailor-make your own golfer and then play through world-famous courses in Tiger Woods 12 ($2.99). Or hoop it up with your favorite basketball pros in NBA JAM ($2.99).
Former Nokia Exclusives
New Nokia Exclusives
Parking Mania
Mass Effect: Infiltrator
The Game of Life
Real Racing 2
SPY Mouse
Tiger Woods 12
Trivial Pursuit
NBA JAM
Love magazines? Get a $50 credit from Zinio for your Nokia Lumia
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 better: To celebrate their debut, Zinio is also offering a $50 magazine credit to jump start your library. Click here to claim the credit. The deal ends June 30.
Zinio has an impressive stable of publications to pick from—everything from mainstream titles like The Economist, Esquire, and Rolling Stone to niche offerings such as Poker Player and Simply Crochet. Reader-friendly features of the official Windows Phone app include the ability to pull articles from multiple sources into your own customized reading list and read magazines offline. Zinio also serves up free articles each day from a selection of top-drawer titles. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Article source: http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2013/05/17/love-magazines-get-a-50-credit-from-zinio-for-your-nokia-lumia.aspx
Now in the Store: Angry Birds Rio for Windows Phone
Here’s another classic Angry Birds title for your growing Windows Phone collection. As we previously hinted, Rovio’s Angry Birds Rio arrived this morning. The game works on both Windows Phone 7 and 8 devices. Price: $0.99.
In the game, the original Angry Birds have been caged up and shipped off to exotic Rio de Janeiro, where they eventually elude their captors and set out to rescue friends Blu and Jewel—two rare macaws you’ll recognize from the 2011 movie Rio. The scenery in the game is fresh and exciting, and the physics-based gameplay is as fun as ever—with 210 challenging levels and more than 40 bonus ones. Speaking of bonus: The Windows Phone 8 version of the game also includes Xbox LIVE achievements and leaderboards.
Article source: http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2013/05/15/now-in-the-store-angry-birds-rio-for-windows-phone.aspx