Since quite a few of us here have Windows Phones, including myself, I thought we could keep an ongoing thread where we can talk about new and useful apps for the platform.

If you have a Windows Phone, you can grab apps from the Store app itself, or through your browser at the Windows Phone Marketplace.

I'll be talking about my favorite apps, and please feel free to join in.

 


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on Jun 26, 2014

Adobe Photoshop Express was released today.

  • Basics: Crop, Straighten, Rotate, and Flip 
your photos. Remove red eye.
  • Auto-Fix: One-touch adjustment for Brightness, Exposure and Shadows.
  • Color: Slider controls for Exposure, Contrast, Clarity, Vibrance and more.
  • One-touch filters “Looks”: Choose from over 20 eye-catching effects!
  • Get creative by adding the Looks Pack* and Noise Reduction Pack*
  • Share easily to social sites like Instagram and Facebook, and via SMS text.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/adobe-photoshop-express/2ba43182-ba12-42c0-b503-158284f48bf8

 

on Jun 26, 2014

Island Dog
Adobe Photoshop Express was released today.

Yup, just got it from the store.  I have an earlier copy of Photoshop on my other phone, which I will have to update shortly.

I also put a 64gb memory card in my main phone to store my media files, thus leaving more room in the phone's memory for apps, etc.  Beats me why the Lumia 820 wasn't as popular as other models, why people didn't like it, because mine have served me well and are more expandable [memory-wise] than some models, above as well as below it.

And to think, just a couple of years ago I wouldn't have had a smart phone with all these luxuries and benefits above and beyond call making and texts, and now I'm right into it.  Nope, I didn't need all that extra 'rubbish', now I wouldn't be without it.

on Jul 08, 2014

The Twitter has finally been updated with photo enhancements and other improvements.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/twitter/0b792c7c-14dc-df11-a844-00237de2db9e

 

 

on Jul 09, 2014

Video Tuner is a new app from Microsoft.  It lets you edit video right on your Window Phone.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/video-tuner/30073493-c325-4b82-a395-7f596f000cb6

 

on Jul 29, 2014

Live Lock Screen Beta from Microsoft was finally released last week.  This app lets you choose between new lock screen layouts and allows some customization with the lock screen wallpapers used.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/live-lock-screen-beta/f5685f66-5e43-46f9-b95e-bfc2a4a15de3?signin=true

on Jul 29, 2014

Island Dog

Live Lock Screen Beta from Microsoft was finally released last week.

 

How does this compare to or interact with the existing Nokia GLANCE screen etc.?  Or is this just meant to replace the existing 'lockscreen' (I have mine set to bing at the moment).

Thanks for any clarification.

on Jul 29, 2014

It's a separate app so I don't think it interacts at all with it.  This app lets you select multiple wallpapers to change at selected intervals if you want.  It can also pull from Bing images.

 

 

on Jul 31, 2014

 

I have had an app udate that has borked my ability to add, edit or deletc contacts.

Before when I went to my contacts page I could enter the person's name phone number and other contact details, now I just get option to add or edit accounts of my own,  which is useless to me because I have a list of new contacts I cannot add to my phone.

One explanation I've been offered is the retirement of the old Skype and its useless successor, that it now handles contact details, etc. However, that's not what I signed up for.  I don't want Skype or anything like it handling my contacts list.  I just want to be able to tap my 'People' tile on the front page, get up a page where I can add contact details and simply close it once the relevant details are recorded.

Now what I get is a page offering me options to create Google, Facebook and Twitter type accounts, none of which I want.  Worse still, if the update to Skype is responsible, I cannot uninstall it because I get a warning saying that I may render the phone inoperable should I continue.  Like WTF, I've never used Skype, never wanted it and sure as hell didn't install it of my own volition... and now I have to have it like it or not?

I've searched high and low to find a way to manage my contacts, but alas, it seems to have disappeared with the arrival of this new Skype POS

on Jul 31, 2014

one of the first things i do is uninstall skype after i do a hard reset. uninstalling it won't hinder the operation of the phone at all. as to the issue with your contacts, i've never heard of that one.

what os are you using, 8.0 or 8.1? i had numerous issues after updating to 8.1. even after doing a hard reset and restoring, i had the issues. only after a hard reset and setting the phone up as a new device, did my 1520 operate correctly. maybe that is your corrective action, starkers. don't call nokia. their tech support is rather worthless, in my opinion.

regarding that lock screen app, ID posted about, it'll be a nice app once the bugs are worked out. with it installed, i kept getting "resume" or "loading" screens after swiping up on the lock screen before the start screen would appear. most imes it was just a few seconds before the start screen would talk to me but every now and then it would take close to two minutes for the "loading" dialog to disappear and then the phone would reboot. i tried the 'kids corner' fix but it didn't help so i removed the app and everything is back top normal.

on Aug 06, 2014
on Aug 06, 2014

yeap! the folders feature works great on my 1520.

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