If history has taught us anything, a phone’s only as good as the apps it can run. In that spirit, here are 50 good Windows Phone 7 apps (many of them free) for your consideration as you load up your new handset.
Apps & Web
Galaxy Tab Users Can Tune Into Slacker Radio, Tune Out Spotify?
Slacker Radio, a free streaming personalized Internet service, announced that you’ll be able to stream musiPreviewc via the Samsung Galaxy Tab when it comes out next month. The app will come pre-installed on the Galaxy Tab or you can download it for the Amazon Kindle, iPhone, iPod touch, WebOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile …
“The Walking Dead” Is Here to Stay
Two episodes into its first season, AMC’s zombie-show The Walking Dead has already been greenlit for season two.
Now, we could have said “I told you so,” but we’ll let the numbers speak for themselves. 4.7 million people tuned into “Guts” this Sunday, a slight decrease from the 5.3 million who watched the premiere. It’s still ahead of …
Batman on Broadway? Dark Knight Heads to the Stage
He’s conquered comic books, movies, televisions and even short-lived fad dance crazes, but can the Dark Knight really handle life on the stage? DC Entertainment, Warner Bros and Water Lane Productions have officially announced Batman Live, a touring live production that brings Batman face-to-face with, in the words of the press release, …
Warner Bros. Plans Harry Potter Museum – Can It Rival Universal’s Theme Park?
The Harry Potter movies may have finished production, but that doesn’t mean that they’re leaving Leavesden Studios, the home studio for all eight movies. Warner Bros. has bought the English studio – also used for The Dark Knight and Inception – and is reported to be planning to spend around $160 million to expand and refurbish the …
Where to Find the Best Free E-Books
The perk of the e-reader aside from easily concealing your embarrassing Dan Brown fandom? Free books. The Web is full of classic works inside the public domain, and it’s easy to take advantage of the thousands of free titles with most devices. Here’s a Techland ‘how-to’ in updating that reading queue for free.
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Top Ten Monday Tech Deals
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Buy one Kinect game, get one 50% off: Prices vary (Amazon)
Did you get your Kinect yet? Between now and Saturday, you can get half off one game when you buy one at full price from Amazon. There are 11 available titles right now, including Dance Central, Kinect Sports, …
New Comics for 11/10/10
Here’s a list of all the new single issue comics coming out this Wednesday. Look it over. Anything catch your eye? Something should, it’s a big list. I’m still coming down off my Walking Dead buzz over here so I might get over zealous with my picks.
(A ♠ marks my projected pull list.)
Marvel
♠ Amazing Spider-Man #648
Ant-Man …
RockMelt Web Browser: Built In Social Features, Live Bookmarks
There’s a new web browser in town: RockMelt. The tagline is “Your Browser. Re-Imagined,” which is technically accurate if you use Google’s Chrome web browser. RockMelt uses the same underlying code base as Chrome.
Where RockMelt differs, largely, is in its ability to integrate with your favorite social media sites. The left hand side …
Exclusive Preview: Tonoharu Part Two
Lars Martinson won a Xeric Grant for the first volume of Tonoharu, a series of graphic novels about a young American named Dan Wells who moves to rural Japan to become a schoolteacher. (It’s loosely based on Martinson’s own experiences teaching in Japan between 2003 and 2006.) The second volume comes out this week from Martinson’s own …
New Spider-Man Movie: MJ Out, Prez. Bartlett In
The cast for Marc Webb’s reboot of Spider-Man’s movie universe continues to slowly come together with the news that Martin Sheen and Sally Field will play Uncle Ben and Aunt May, respectively, and that no-one will play Mary Jane Watson after all. News broke about Sheen and Field late yesterday, and both actors are understood to be in …
Spielberg’s Terra Nova Fires All Its Writers, Confirms Preview
Here’s the new spin on Steven Spielberg’s troubled time-travel television series, Terra Nova: Yes, the whole writing staff have been laid off, but it’s not a sign that anything’s gone wrong at all.
Sound unconvincing? The official reasoning for the layoffs is apparently that the writers won’t be needed while the show’s pilot is shot …