Get 100GB Of Free OneDrive Storage For 2 Years

It’s not like Bing Rewards wasn’t cool enough already, but it just got a bit more awesome, for FREE. That’s right, free is one of my favorite terms, and Bing Rewards delivers quite a bit for me already. First off, I rack up my daily search points and get my Hulu+ membership paid for through them. Today though, today brought sometime special from the folks over at OneDrive and Bing Rewards. Right now you can hit the Bing Rewards and sign up.

Then click this special link (which you can view in the daily tasks if you don’t believe me) and claim your 100GB of FREE OneDrive storage for the next two years. Now, this isn’t limited to Windows Phone users, so you Android and iOS people can jump in on this too. Heck, even if you just want the cloud storage for your PC, it’s a steal.

So, stop reading, and hit the Bing Rewards page and sign up. Then hit the OneDrive offer and enjoy the free space for all those photos, videos and music you have on your drives. You can thank me later!

Sign Up For Bing Rewards Here: Bing Rewards
Free 100GB Storage Space Link: OneDrive offer

Updated: FreePrints Leaves Windows Phone - Then Comes Back!

Yes, I'm aware that Windows Phone is already dead, at least in name, but the platform itself is at a serious tipping point right now and it looks like it's tipping the wrong way. After the news that many larger banks are pulling the plug on their Windows operations, yet another developer doesn't see Windows as the wave of the future. The popular photo software, FreePrints will be shuttering their Windows based services on March 1, 2015.

FreePrints is a service that allows a user to upload images from their device directly to their servers and order prints of them. The prints are run a a very low cost or free, and shipped to the user. Without viable options from other vendors, FreePrints was one of the ways that you could do direct to print images from your Windows device. There are still a few others in the Store, but losing an App of this caliber is a definite blow to the community.

FreePrints closes the email with the fact that they will continue to offer their Android and iOS Apps and services going forward.

UPDATED 2/11/15 - Great news! It looks like FreePrints has reconsidered their pull out from Windows Phone! In an email this morning, FreePrints recommitted to the Windows Phone platform and were "moved by your enthusiasm for FreePrints." Here's the email below:

So, for the foreseeable future, FreePrints is on Windows to stay and we can't thank them enough for sticking with the platform.

Sent from my HTC One M8 for Windows
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App Review: Class Up Your Tweets With TweetNote

If you’re a Twitter user, you know what I mean by that 140 character limit getting in the way sometimes. It’s such an issue, there are services like TwitLonger and TweetMore. Well, as usual, most of the third party solutions for extending those tweets just don’t come into play for Windows Phone users. Fortunately, there is an App called TweetNote in the store. TweetNote takes a different play on extending tweets by creating an image of your tweet that will take up to 2600 characters. That’s no slouch of a tweet there.

The App itself is very functional and simple to use. Tap the tile to open TweetNote, press the “about” question mark at the bottom of the screen and tap the “Login with Twitter” button on the next page. This will allow you to post directly from TweetNote. If you choose to skip this step, you can still publish via the share button on the main pages. Once you are logged in to TweetNote, go back to the main screen that will eventually be a list of tweets. For now, you will just see the sample message. Press the (+) button to create a new TweetNote.

 

Once you are in the main screen, you have the option to name your TweetNote and type the message below. At the bottom of the screen, you will see a few options. The first is font style. The second is font color. The third is font size. The fourth is the background color. These four quick access options make TweetNote very easy to customize and will let you put your own stamp on your tweeted image. With just a few clicks of your virtual keyboard, you are publishing your gorgeous 2500 character rambling about whatever is on your mind. TweetNote couldn’t be much easier to use, unless they made it read your mind and published your tweet for you.

Now, something that is worth noting, especially for marketing people that are finding this as a brilliant alternative to those standard, boring tweets… Your image will not have clickable links. TweetNote produces an image of your tweet, not an actual text based tweet. This means you would have to share your image via a third party solution (or via the Twitter App itself) and put the clickable link in the text from that post. It’s a small thing to work around, and honestly, I have no idea how TweetNote could possibly link to an external source, but for some it might be tough to figure out. Either way, TweetNote is a great marketing program for social marketing experts and the flash and flair you can add to a basic message is perfect.

TweetNote is $1.29 in the store and is only a 5 MB download. This simple shell is amazingly fast and easy to learn. If you are looking for a way to add some fun to those tweets, hit up the Store and grab yourself a copy of TweetNote by clicking the download link below.

Download Link: TweetNote

Dear Microsoft…

Dear Microsoft,

I know this may come as a shock to you and your programmers, or not, but did you know that my Windows Phone using Internet Explorer thinks that it’s an… Wait for it… Android device? Yes, that’s correct. Your gorgeous beautiful device chain, from the Lumia 1520 to the HTC One M8 all believe that they are Android powered when you visit popular sites like Amazon.com.

In fact, to make it worse, when you click on the “Get The Amazon App” link on the mobile page, it prompts you to install the – ANDROID APP! You might think that this is a simple issue, with no real ramifications, but what if, and maybe it could be, what if those market share numbers are skewed for all the wrong reasons and we are all getting counted as Android devices? What if Windows Phone is doing so much better than we think, but Bank of America and Chase users are being seen as ANDROID users on their mobile sites?

I’m not screaming conspiracy theories or demanding a fix, but it sure would be nice if things like this stopped happening. If I wanted to be carrying an Android powered phone, I would switch back to my HTC One M7 and call it a day. Instead, I love showing off my M8 for Windows, but it’s a bit embarrassing when I take someone to Amazon and my phone says it’s a Droid. Please think about getting this recoded for Windows 10. It would be nice to have it all pretty and fun when I share my stuff!

Thanks,
Me

App Review: Customize Your Live Tiles With Tilemaker 8.1

Making your phone your own is something that some Windows Phone users have struggled with since day one. Sure, you can change sizes, colors and layouts, but creating your own tiles and looks is something that Microsoft just never made possible in Windows Phone. Tilemaker 8.1 from Study Circle brings this functionality front and center and does it with amazing ease. Simply select the type tile you want to make and you are rolling.

Start by opening up Tilemaker 8.1 and selecting the style of tile you want. You can set it to open an App (though only a select few of my installed Apps appeared on the list), a website or even a system feature. Overall, the process is pretty self explanatory and doesn’t get much easier than what Tilemaker 8.1 does. Click the type, select the icon or photo, select “add a function” and choose what you want your tile to do. Pretty simple.

 

Once you’ve created your Tilemaker 8.1 tile, you can add it to your home screen or you can save them for later use. Saving them is a great idea since you might want to have them around later, just in case you reorganize your home and accidently delete one.

Overall, Tilemaker 8.1 fills the void of home screen customization pretty well. There are other tile creation Apps out there that do the same thing, but Tilemaker 8.1 is free and very small. At a 6 MB download size, most users won’t even know it’s there. Now, the one drawback to the App, if there is one is the supported Apps that you can create a custom tile to. Although the developers added quite a few in July of 2014, it looks like this one may have been left behind in ‘freebie’ mode and no additional items are coming for the end user. Even still, when you have a customization App that is free, it’s hard to pass it up. Jump on over to the Store and grab a copy of Tilemaker 8.1 by hitting the link below.

Download Link: Tilemaker 8.1

Game Review: It Might Not Be Legal, But Classic NES – Super Mario Sure Is Fun

Before the debate begins, no, I don’t think this is legal, but that’s an entirely different story on copyright laws and use of ROM’s that I’m not going to have today. Instead, let’s have some fun and take a quick peek at one of the greatest games ever made and the amazing port to Windows Phone that Lunar Games pulled off here. Classic NES – Super Mario is about the closest thing I have seen to a clean port of a Nintendo title to a mobile device. In fact, it’s so good, Nintendo should seriously license them to do it all for them.

As far as the actual game goes, Lunar Games nailed this port. The controls of Super Mario are smooth and easy to use. You have the overlay D pad on the left with the A and B buttons on the right. Above those, you have the left and right buttons found on the Super NES for later use. My one complaint on the control system is that your big thumbs will cover a very large area of the screen when you are controlling the game – thus blocking the action and causing a few oopsies.

Something that helped me get over that issue was to try the ‘fixed joystick’ option at the start of the game. It helped a ton, but I almost think I would rather have a bit smaller controls or maybe a slightly smaller screen of play to help eliminate the viewing issue.

Other than the slight control overlap, Classic NES – Super Mario is a home run. Lunar Games has ported what looks to be about 20-25 classic Nintendo ROM’s over to Windows Phone and done so with such detail it’s downright unreal. There are a few times where slightly annoying full screen ads appear, which is on other sticking point I have with the design. If we are playing a game that runs best in landscape mode, the ads should auto-rotate to landscape mode as well. Just one to put down for future releases there.

Classic NES – Super Mario is available for download in the Windows Phone Store and is an ad supported free game. The 4 MB download size is so small the average device can take it in seconds. If you were/are a fan of classic Nintendo games, go check out Classic NES – Super Mario and enjoy it. You might also want to check out some of the other titles that Lunar Games has brought over as well. Zelda might be the perfect battery drain test App going forward for me, but you never know. For now, hit the link below and enjoy!

Download Link: Classic NES – Super Mario Bros.

Boost Your Cell Plan With A Lumia 635 From Boost Mobile

While many Windows Phone fans are beginning to mourn the fact that Microsoft still has not run out a flagship device for 2015, nor have they really contributed much more than a ‘hint’ that one is coming in the future, there is something of a victory to be had in the world of mobile devices. With the addition of the Lumia 635 to their lineup, Boost Mobile has brought the Lumia lineup to a front and center position on the largest assortment of prepaid MVNO’s in the US. Boost Mobile runs off the Sprint network and offers one of the lowest rates around for unlimited talk, text and data plans.
Boost Mobile offers three different plans for users to choose from. First, there is the $35 a month unlimited talk, text and data plan with 1GB coming at LTE speeds before slowing to 2G. Second, you can add just $10, bringing your total monthly cost to $45 for 5GB of that speedy LTE browsing. If that isn’t enough for you, for just $55 a month, Boost Mobile will give you a whopping 10GB of those speeds before you slow up. All in all, the 2 year cost of a Boost Mobile plan will set users back as little as $939.99. This compares to T-Mobile coming in at $1425.99 for their Simple Starter Plan and the same Lumia 635.
Boost Mobile plans are available online and you can order your Lumia 635 for just $99.99 and have it in just a few days. Not sure which plan is right for you? Start with one and give them a call if you need to change it up. Boost Mobile’s customer service people that I spoke with were very helpful and said that they can work with most plan changes, sometimes even performing them in the same month, but usually starting for the next billing cycle.
For now, hit the link below and check out the options that are available for Boost Mobile and your new Lumia 635. The extra cash you put in your pocket can be used for much better things, like a dinner out or a week of coffees every month.
Source: Boost Mobile

Steal Alert: Amazon is featuring the Boost Mobile version of the Lumia 635 for only $69 with free Prime shipping. (2/2/15)