How to Play Xbox Live Games on Your Windows 7 Phone
The Xbox 360 is a great console, that’s for sure. But one of the major disadvantages is its size. It’s just so darn big! However, we can help - There is a way to get your normal Xbox live games, onto your much smaller Windows Phone 7! Wanna know how? Then keep reading!
First, you will need to install the Xbox Live Extras App on your phone. This is actually pretty simple to do. Tap the “Games” icon, and then flick left until you see your avatar. Tap your Gamertag and there should be some easy to follow instructions detailing how to install the app to your Windows 7 Phone.
Its also important to note that the app will only work in the following countries -
• United States
• United Kingdom & Ireland
• Canada
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Singapore
• Hong Kong SAR
If your country is not listed, then sorry, you can’t use the Xbox Live app!
What Can You Do On The App?
Basics -
The most basic things you can do with the app is viewing your Xbox Live profile, friends, and also sending messages. You can get to this by going to your avatar and clicking your Gamertag - Then flick left and you can see your Achievements, Friends and Messages.
Gaming On Your Windows Phone
But of course, this is what you downloaded the app for isn’t it? To play or find Xbox Live games compatible with your Windows Phone. To find games, tap the game you want to play, or you can tap “Get More Games” to find new games to play. Windows Phone also allows you to play games with your friends who are also on Windows Phone - Or more specifically, turn based games. When you tap a multiplayer game to play, tap “Multiplayer” and then you can invite friends with their email addresses. The email is sent to your friends, where they can join your game over the phone or through the web.
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The Literati™ Wireless Electronic Reader
The Literati™ wireless electronic reader was made for 'the literati' – the men and women (literally the “lettered people”) interested in literature.
The new 'Literati wireless electronic' reader doesn’t require you to read it's operating manual, or read it's instruction booklet. Nor does it require a degree in technology and gadgetry. The Literati reading experience begins with a simple bookshelf interface, from which users choose a book, and turn the digital pages
The Literati features a built-in bookstore powered by the Kobo global eReading service (www.KoboBooks.com), giving readers access to nearly two million titles (1.8 million of them free). Select from New York Times bestsellers, new releases, cookbooks, children’s books, magazines, newspapers, and more. Each Literati is preloaded with 25 treasured classics, and includes a special coupon code for automatically loading another 125 pre-selected free titles directly into the Literati user’s account. Users can also purchase and download new reading material with just a few clicks.
Some of the features of Literati:
- Supports industry standard 'ePub' format, PDF, TXT, and other file formats
- built-in Wi-Fi connection to a global bookstore
- 7-inch color LCD screen (480 x 800 resolution)
- 512Mb memory, expandable to 8Gb with SD memory card (not included)
- Up to 6 hours battery life
- 9.5" inches tall x 5" inches wide, ½" inch thick, and weighing only 14.4 ounces
- Night mode with inverted (white text on a black background) backlit screen
- Access Literati libraries from laptops, desktop computers, and smart phones with the free Kobo app
The Literati’s greatest innovation is its out-of-the-box simplicity. The device has been designed with easy-to-use navigation, allowing readers to spend quality time immersed in reading and not wasting time figuring out how to use the device. Buttons on either side of the Literati allow users to quickly turn pages backwards and forwards. And, as they read, users can look up words using the built-in dictionary, and type notes with the QWERTY keyboard.
The Literati offers a customizable interface which allows owners to personalize their own bookshelf with a variety of designs; typefaces, and font size. Additionally, you can adjust screen brightness, and save your bookmarks. The Literati also comes with a high-quality case.
Available in either black or white models, the Literati’s 7-inch color screen, built-in Wi-Fi connection to a global bookstore, portability and durability make it an appealing choice for those literati who simply want to read.
Mobile Development With Titanium – Tips
I recently started using Titanium from appcelerator for mobile development and wanted to share some tips. Its actually more of the problems I encountered and solutions I discovered.
Problem 1 - A project created by my friend won't import properly on my machine. When I mean it won't import properly, titanium developer reported that the import was successful. But when I navigate to test & package tab, it would be blank.
Solution: The problem here was that my friend did not commit the build directory that was created by titanium, to the repository. So when I imported the project there was no build directory in it. Titanium should ideally error out while importing or atleast give some sort of warning, but it did not do that. And normally as engineers, we assume that build directory contains some build output so we won't commit them. But you have to when you develop with Titanium.
Problem 2 - When I try to create a new mobile project, titanium will say "error creating project, try again" but nothing about what the error is.

Solution: the problem here was the default sdk version selected by titanium when I created a new project was not supported. So I had to change it to successfully create a project. Again, a generic message from titanium here doesn't help much. Once I change the sdk to 1.2.0 it was successful.









