Have you published an app to the Windows Phone or Windows 8 store and are you looking to monetize it through advertising? You may be very interested to learn about the AdRotator Nuget packages available for both Windows Phone and Windows 8. AdRotator is essentially a component that allow for setting up multiple advertising publishers…
Category: Software Development
Software Development, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8
Windows Store Apps with a local touch in Houston Texas
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
If you are like most folks, you want apps that matter to you and day to day life. Local apps that connect us with our education centers and favorite sports teams make life easier and more connected. As a technology enthusiast – I love seeing this growing group of apps that have a local touch. …
Software Development, Windows 8, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8
Details of Recent Outages for Youtube Apps on Windows Phone – More to come?
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
You may have read that Microsoft recently had their Youtube API key revoked from Google, leaving their visually impressive app more or less dead in the water (Source). This story followed a previous cease and desist from Google on the grounds that an earlier incarnation of the application did not properly display advertisements for certain…
Software Development, Windows Phone 8
InfoHub Labs – Part One – Windows Phone 8 Lab
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Microsoft has recently unveiled a great opportunity for Windows 8 and Windows Phone Developers. The “Keep The Cash” program allows developers the potential to make $100 per application published to either store. You can submit up to 10 apps per Store and get $100 for each qualified app up to $2000. *Offer good only to…
Software Development, Web
Create A Music Playlist Generator with Yahoo Pipes and Yahoo WebPlayer
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Introduction With the popularity of services like Spotify and Pandora, it is clear that playlist generation is something many of us enjoy. The highly popular /r/music is regularly introduced to services which generate playlists from aggregated content. These include sites like fuhshnizzle, tubalr, and my very own searchler. This post is going describe how to create your own music video…
Software Development, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8
Searchler Music Video Search Engine for WP7
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
I recently released a free application for WP7 called Searchler Music Video Search. It allows you to enter an artist, then from there you can generate a music video playlist of their top songs, similar artists (like Pandora), or albums and watch the videos inside the application with an in-app player. You can even pin…
Software Development, Windows Phone 7
Michael Phelps Fans Windows Phone App
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Codeplex always has great resources for practical use in .NET Development. Recently, a Social Viewer Template has been released for the Windows Phone 7 @ http://socialviewer.codeplex.com With this release, you can easily create applications which interact with popular social media applications such as Twitter , Flickr, and Facebook. Using the current stable release, I modified…
Software Development, Windows Phone 7
Color Theory Windows Phone App
by Paul DeCarlo • • 0 Comments
Having some experience in XNA/Windows Phone Development and with the recent release of the new Windows Phone SDK, it seemed the time was ripe to try out some Silverlight Development on the Windows Phone targeted for the new 7.1 “Mango” firmware. I took on a project of creating a Color Theory Application for the Windows…