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Toggle FM Radio sound between headset and phone speaker

When you listen to the FM Radio on a Windows Phone, a wired headset must be plugged into the phone because it acts as the FM radio antenna, but that doesn’t mean you can only listen to the radio through a wired headset.

To listen to the radio through the phone speakers, open up the FM Radio by tapping the Music+Video tile on the Start screen, on the Zune screen, tap radio,

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Select the station you want to listen to and tap the play icon on the bottom of the screen. 

You can toggle the sound between the wired headset and the phone speaker by pressing and holding your finger on the screen and choosing “switch to speaker” or “switch to headset” (the menu selection changes based on the phone’s current FM sound setting.

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Delete, forward and copy text messages on Windows Phone

To delete an entire text message thread, tap the Messaging tile on the start screen, then press and hold your finger on the thread you want to delete and select “delete” from the menu that pops up.  All of the individual text messages in that thread are deleted from the phone:

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To delete, forward, or copy an individual text message, tap the Messaging tile on the start screen, then tap on a message thread and press and hold your finger on the single text message you want to delete, forward, or copy:

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PhotoDom is a wonderful Flickr companion app for windows phone

I wanted an app that would let me copy links for my Flickr pictures to use in blog posts and forum threads, as well as share with friends and social networks - something the official Flickr app doesn't do - and PhotoDom does it very well!





Also it's really nice to view my sets.



I wish PhotoDom would also let me add pictures to my sets.

Go check out PhotoDom here.

Run Your Dailymile with Be Fit

I'm glad to see this app (Be Fit) in the Windows Phone marketplace. I especially like how it mimics the windows phone start page & rotating tiles with its own start page and rotating tiles.

Some things I'd like to see in future updates:

integration with photo hub so I can share pictures directly to Dailymile;

ability to tap users that are nearby to view their profile & friend them;

nicer & larger icons on the app's start page - really like the start page;

use of the phone's theme instead of the app's default blue theme;

integration of dailymile forums (this could just be a link to their forum)

Go get "Be Fit" here.

Manage your music collection with "Speak to Play"

Here's an interesting and useful app that let's you play the music on windows phone via voice command.

Click here to learn more and download or purchase “Speak to Play” from the marketplace.


 


Text N Walk looks like an interesting Windows Phone app:

Click the screenshot below to learn more about the application and download it from the Marketplace.

How to restore contact pictures to your windows phone

If you’ve set up the Outlook Hotmail Connector to sync your contact and appointment data to your Windows Live account, and then sync this information to your windows phone, you’ve probably noticed that pictures that were included with your Outlook contacts did not sync to Windows Live.

Windows Live accommodates photos with contacts, but the only contacts you'll see in your Windows Live Contacts that have photos are your Live Messenger contacts who have also posted a picture of themselves to their Windows Live account.

You'll need to manually restore the photographs to your contacts on the phone.

The easiest way to restore your contact pictures to your windows phone is to upload the pictures to your Windows Live account and then sync the pictures over to your phone.

Upload the Pictures to your Windows Live Account

  • Gather together all your contact photos and place them in a folder on your computer
  • Then, using Internet Explorer, login to your Windows Live account > go to Photos > Select the Mobile photos album > Create folder > input "Contact Photos" in the space provided (or whatever you prefer to call the album) > Next
  • Open up File Explorer in a new window on your computer, navigate to your contacts folder and select all the contacts. 
  • Drag all of the pictures to the "Drop photos here or select photos form your computer" box in Windows Live (the drag option will only work if you are using Internet Explorer)

Sync the Pictures to your Phone

  • On your phone, open up the Pictures hub > tap all >  now you'll see a "Contact pictures from Windows Live" album.  Open up the Contact pictures album and tap each picture to download it from your Windows Live account, then tap the three periods in the lower right hand corner of the screen and tap "Save to Phone"
  • Go to the people hub
  • Select a contact that you want to add a picture to and tap the pencil icon 
  • Tap "add photo" and then select the picture from your Saved Pictures.

When you sync your phone to Windows Live, the pictures will also sync to Windows Live.  You won’t see the pictures there, but if you get another phone and sync to your Windows Live account, the pictures will be synced over to your new windows phone.

At the airport, waiting to board the flight to the Netherlands

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Viewing YouTube on a Windows Mobile Phone

The easiest way to watch YouTube on a WM5.0 or WM6.x device is to input m.youtube.com into the Windows Mobile Standard or Professional phone’s mobile browser.

Then click the Link, “Download the YouTube application,” to download and install a YouTube client to your phone.

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If you have a Windows Mobile Classic device that runs WM5.0 or WM6.1 (the classic devices are not phones), you can download the software directly to your device by entering this link address into your device’s mobile browser.

After you’ve installed the YouTube application, select/tap Start > Programs > YouTube

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I’ve installed the YouTube application to two WM5.0 devices (IPAQ rx1950 & IPAQ hw6925) as well as to my WM6.1 Standard phone (IPAQ Voice Messenger) and my WM6.5 Professional phone (HP IPAQ Glisten).

Waiting in line at the Dunkin Donuts for my morning brew

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