| Windows Phone 7 : Creating a Favorites List |
| Once you start filling your phone with photos, it gets harder to quickly find the shots worth showing off to friends and family. That’s where Favorites comes in. It’s a place for the best of the best, so you don’t have to waste time tapping and pecking around on your phone |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Saving Pictures to the Web |
| You can save (or upload) pictures you take on your phone to the Web, where they’re easier to share. In Windows Phone 7 there are two possible destinations for your shots: Facebook or Windows Live SkyDrive, Microsoft’s free online storage service |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Saving Pictures to Your Phone |
| Not all the pictures you see in the Pictures hub are actually stored on your phone. Pictures from Facebook or Windows Live you see in What’s New, for example, are stashed elsewhere on the Web |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Recording a Video |
| Pictures are great, but making your own movies is even more fun. Videos you take on your phone are deposited in the Camera Roll album and sport a tiny triangular Play icon |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Viewing Pictures and Videos |
| Windows Phone includes some neat tricks to make browsing photos fun and easy. Remember that like just about everything else on your phone, photos respond to touch. And don’t forget to try the semihidden filmstrip view, which lets you quickly flick through photos in an album. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Taking a Picture |
| Taking a picture is as simple as pressing the Camera button on the side of your phone (or wherever it’s located on your model). As I mentioned, one of the things that really sets Windows Phone apart is how fast you can snap a photo |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Working with SharePoint Documents |
| You can open and edit Word documents, Excel workbooks, PowerPoint presentations, and OneNote notebooks from a SharePoint site on your phone. Make and save your changes as you normally would in the specific Office Mobile app, and the changes are saved back to the SharePoint site. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Connecting to SharePoint |
| SharePoint is a Microsoft technology that’s used by a growing number of companies for employee websites, portals, intranets, blogs, wikis, and more. Windows Phone 7 is designed to work with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Synching Notes to the Web |
| If you have a Windows Live ID, you can use it to sync your OneNote notes to Windows Live on the Web. A notebook named Personal (Web) will be created on Windows Live and synched with your phone. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Using OneNote Mobile |
| OneNote Mobile is a great general-purpose note taker, but you can also get creative and use your phone’s camera or built-in microphone to record information for a note. For example, take a photo of a whiteboard during a meeting instead of transcribing the notes on it. Or dictate a quick voice memo before the idea slips away. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Using Excel Mobile |
| Excel Mobile on Windows Phone is a powerful tool. You can enter text and numbers in a worksheet, change the worksheet’s formatting, and much more. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Using Word Mobile |
| In Word Mobile, you can make tweaks to documents, change the formatting, or add comments. If a document contains section headers, you can also view it in Outline mode to quickly skip ahead to a section of interest. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Saving and Deleting Documents |
| After you edit or make changes to a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document, you can save it to your phone as long as there’s sufficient storage space. It’s also just as easy to delete a document you no longer need. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Sharing Documents via E-Mail |
| If you’re editing or adding comments to a document on your phone, chances are you’ll want to show it to someone at some point. You can send Office documents as e-mail attachments only from the Office hub. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Opening Documents |
| You can open any Office document on your phone, but you can create new documents only in Word or Excel. In many cases, Office documents look the same on your phone as they do on your PC, but you might occasionally see some differences because Office Mobile doesn’t support the myriad formatting and style options available on the desktop |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Managing Storage on Your Phone |
| Your phone’s storage space can fill up fast, especially once you start snapping pictures and taking video. If you want to cram more onto your phone you can increase the amount of space reserved for e-mail and apps and pictures and videos you take. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Changing Zune Sync Settings |
| Dragging and dropping is the default way to copy files onto your phone in Zune. But it doesn’t have to be. You can tell Zune to sync everything on your PC to your phone. That way, any changes you make on your PC are automatically reflected on your phone (space permitting). |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Synching Files Wirelessly |
| Here’s a cool trick. If you have a Wi-Fi network at home, you can copy files from your PC to your phone over the airwaves. No USB cable required. Sound handy? It is. But there’s a catch. For wireless sync to work, your phone must be plugged into an AC power outlet. So technically, Microsoft hasn’t cut all the wires yet. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Synching with Your PC - Seeing What’s Synching |
| Once you start dragging and dropping, it’s easy to lose track of what you’ve added to your phone. That’s where the new Windows Phone summary screen comes in handy. It keeps a running account of every song, video, and podcast you copy from PC to phone and vice versa. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Synching Media with Your Phone |
| The standard way to sync files to your phone is by dragging and dropping. But if your media collection is relatively small, you can also set up Zune so that everything on your PC is automatically copied over when you connect. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Talking to Your Phone |
| The touch-sensitive screen might be the primary way you interact with your phone and order it to do things. But it’s not the only way. Windows Phone also comes with a nifty speech-recognition feature that lets you tell your phone what to do |
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