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With any big change to your IT infrastructure comes risk, but of course you're hoping that the rewards will out weigh those risks. In fact, you're doing more than just hoping – you're planning, strategizing, and putting your organization in a good position to mitigate those risks. Deploying a new…

Most people are all too familiar with forgetting where they parked their car. Whether or not you’re one of these people, read on to learn about writing a location-aware Windows Phone app that can map, route, take pictures, and save state between invocations. IntroductionWorking with mobile phones…

As we get closer to the launch of Windows Phone 7, thousands of developers are beavering away to create apps for the platform. Once which has excited me the most is My Mediacenter Remote – a remote control app for Windows 7 Media Center. The app allows you to control Windows Media Center from the…

CCleaner is one of the most popular programs for cleaning up the extra files and leftover data on your PC. Although I haven’t had much use for it on my more modern PCs (Windows 7 apparently does its own maintenance regularly) I know I’ve used it in the past to restore friends’ older and somewhat…

Have you ever been happily driving down the road, listening to your favourite tunes, only to have your karma shattered by a careless driver cutting you up or flashing you to get out of the way? If you’re anything like me, you’ll shout and scream or gesticulate wildly and for what reason? To…

Sobees’ desktop Twitter client, a native app built using .NET technology, has just been updated with a fresh design and built-in real-time search, reports TechCrunch. The updated application looks a lot like competitor TweetDeck with its columnar interface, but it offers a few differences.  Llike…

The Associated Press has just launched a new application designed for Windows Mobile devices called AP Mobile. Soon to be made available in the Windows Phone Marketplace, the new application offers news from 1100+ local providers across 50 categories including top news, business, politics,…

The concept behind AllMyApps.com is genius. This website lets you create a list of all the applications you already have installed on your computer and saves that list so that you can re-install those apps at any time with just one click. If you’re formatting your PC in order to install a new OS,…

Thanks to Microsoft Student Partner Paul Jenkins, there’s a new Twitter client application to play with. The WPF-based app called MahTweets is an attractive, feature-rich .NET Twitter client which includes support for a number of Twitter-related services like YFrog, Twitpic, and Twitgoo. In…

The Archivist, the Twitter data-mining application we covered earlier here, lets you archive and search Twitter updates for any given keyword search or hashtag. This is an especially helpful app since Twitter themselves only archive tweets for around a month or so, making comprehensive searches…