3rd party Foursquare app bringing advanced features to Windows Phone

While wait on the official Foursquare application to be updated/fixed but to permit bones functionality, we'll withal be missing all the new features that Foursquare has been rolling out our other platforms in their v2 and v3 designs. Yes, they say they're working on that besides only we don't see an immediate fourth dimension frame for release.

Jeff Wilcox, independent programmer and Senior Software Development Engineer on the Silverlight Phone & Devices Team at Microsoft, had decided to have matters into his own hands and make a super Foursquare app--an app that is most ready to for launch.

While his new version won't back up everything in v2/v3 from the get-go, he hopes to ringlet them out in frequent updates, so although nosotros don't know the verbal feature-set of his v1, hither'southward what he wants it to support eventually:

Photos of venues
Photos with tips
Associating a photo with a check-in
Commenting on bank check-ins
Leaderboard results when checking in
Additional special types

One thing that is actually nice virtually Wilcox's approach is his penchant for detail--the guy works on the Silverlight team and knows how things should expect and how they should work, case in point:

Building out an application this big with the right level of performance is not like shooting fish in a barrel, and I've had to build a number of specialized components forth the way. Many of these components I've polished plenty to deport but like y'all would expect the Windows Phone to – and this is important to me. I don't want a user to have an inconsistent experience from the rest of the phone, and and then I'm taking the fourth dimension to build these to a high level of quality.

I have an centre for particular and as a event actually find it offensive when I'k using apps that don't respect the OS pattern and user'southward preferences, for instance: I want my selected "emphasis color" to come through in the app. I would like the experience to feel accurate to the Windows Telephone, and not be a "port" of another app experience from another platform.

In other words, we tin can look quality, not something rushed and thrown together. Nosotros'll exist looking for this app and hope to take a hands on soon.

Source: Jeff Wilcox Blog; Thanks, @mF3rr0, for the heads up!

This huge Xbox 'Quick Resume' update will give gamers more control

Xbox Insiders Update

This huge Xbox 'Quick Resume' update will give gamers more than control

Microsoft is adding a new characteristic to Xbox consoles, assuasive you to permanently store upwards to two games in a Quick Resume country at all times. The feature is heading out first to Xbox Insiders in the Alpha testing ring earlier hitting the general public.