Ah, another week and another Windows Phone team member is moving on to other things. Yes, Jeff Wilcox who's a Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft and who was responsible for many aspects of the Windows Phone SDKs (7.0, 7.1) is moving to Microsoft's Azure team to work on their cloud services. From his personal blog: "I’ve decided that for 2012, I would like to move to the...
We love ourselves some 4th & Mayor, the wildly popular Foursquare app for Windows Phone which has outpaced the official app. We're now happy to announce that version 3.1 is live in the Marketplace. What are the biggest changes? Only the ones you have been asking for the most: The back of the app tile is now a Live Tile leaderboard Toast notifications when friends check-in...
If you're like us, you're waiting anxiously for Jeff Wilcox to get a Mango version of his uber-popular '4th & Mayor' Foursquare app out. And while simply re-encoding for fast-app switching is an easy task, Jeff is doing more than just that for version 3.0. In a few teaser shots seen above, we can get a glimpse of what is coming down the pipe. First, you can now see your friends and...
Busy weekend for developers as they've been pushing out update after update lately--see Flickr, Lindy Comics and Mixtapes. A few more have slipped by and we figured we'd quickly run through 'em in case you were curious. Check out the video for a fast run through of the apps in action. GChat hit v1.2, bringing it with it some bug fixes and more importantly, contact picture support (for...
We mentioned developer Jeff Wilcox the other day making his own Foursquare app...one to not only "fix" the broken one we have now but to go beyond. Jeff is on the verge of launching the app with it in final testing stages and launching a new site to promote it. And it's name? As you can guess, it's '4th & Mayor'. We're actually in a good position to judge how good it is since we've...