Google hasn’t released the official Google Reader API yet. Still it’s possible to fetch and sync Google reader items. Thanks to some unofficial guides available made by reverse engineering the Google Reader Web Requests. There are a lot of apps that are unofficially using the Google Reader API like Reeder for iPhone & iPad and ReadAir for Adobe Air.

The best unofficial Google Reader API documentation I have found is pyrfeed’s unofficial Google Reader documentation. The content in this guide is subject to change as it is not official. After going through this documentation, I was able to access Google Reader API with C#. I have made a small console application on Visual Studio that fetches the XML of the content in the Google Reader Account.

In a recent Microsoft and Nokia’s joint press conference, it was announced that the future Nokia devices will be Windows Phone 7 devices and Symbian will be left out.

I was a huge fan of Nokia until Symbian started to suck and awesomeness of iOS and Android emerged. And then there is Windows Phone 7, a new player in market that has a great potential and I simply love it.  Now with Windows Phone 7 as a primary operating system on Nokia devices, Nokia seems to be returning back to the awesomeness required for the modern mobile devices.

Windows Azure is a very sophisticated cloud computing platform. I first tired Windows Azure when it was in CTP, and after a long time I tried it again and was impressed by the improvements. The Windows Azure SDK 1.3 enables you to use Remote Desktop Services to access your Windows Azure roles that gives the access to the configuration of virtual machine. You can install apps on your cloud VM via remote desktop.

How about installing SQL Server on your Windows Azure VM Role and using it instead of Azure Table and SQL Azure to store data? Not really a good idea but in my opinion, it can be a good idea for the temporary storage of data.

With about 1900 lines of code, this developer has tried to explain Inception through code. This code written in C language simulates the sequence of events that happened in the movie.

If you haven't seen Inception, you may not know how awesome this is. The author Mark Szymanski commented in the code:

As a designer, UX designing is my favorite part of application development. I love the UI of Windows Phone 7 and I always have an urge to experience the UX designing of a Windows Phone 7 app.

I prefer designing User Experience on paper with colored pencils and than using any app on the PC because I think it is the most natural way and one can get a lot of inspiration. Our fellow blogger, Umair Khan Jadoon, is an enthusiast Windows Phone 7 developer and we had a chance to  sit together and make something that can help designers to sketch up the User Experience of our favorite platform. We came up with these UX Sketch Templates that can help designers to sketch up the UX of Windows Phone 7. So here they are, download them and print them out for your daily Windows Phone 7 UX design needs.

Here we have a new Windows Phone 7 Advertisement that was shown before the Secret Cinema screening of 'Lawrence of Arabia'. The video is available for viewing on the official Youtube channel of WindowsPhoneUK.

The 1 min video shows a Windows Phone 7 approaching from a distance which, at first, seems as if someone is riding a horse towards the Screen. Then it says “The Revolution is coming…”.

Microsoft MVPs: Rob Miles, Lecturer in Hull University in the UK and Andy Wigley, co-founder of UK-based mobile consultancy firm have published a jumpstart training course for Windows Phone 7 development. There are 12 sessions each of about 50 minutes that give you a detailed walkthrough of Windows Phone 7 development perspectives. The course is based on Windows Phone 7 Development Kit.

Alas! This will give Windows Phone 7 an early boost. Microsoft has announced 50 awesome game titles for Windows Phone 7 that will be available in the market place. These games include ones ported from other platforms including Xbox 360 and some exclusive titles. So far, Windows Phone 7 has an advantage over other mobile gaming platforms because of integration with Xbox Live. Check out this video for a preview of these games:

Here is the complete list of titles:

Mobile application development is the future. The evolution in the user experience of mobile device started with iPhone that changed the way people use their phones (I believe). Catching up the wave, Microsoft unveiled their new Mobile OS called Windows Phone 7 with a very different, unique and easy UI (based on Metro UI) bringing new opportunities for developers.

I also got indulged in the Windows Phone 7 Developer tools CTP and it is really fun to program. In my experience, this is easier than any other mobile platform development I have ever come along with. Windows Phone List Application is one of the type of project templates you can use for creating your appliaction in the current version of Visual Studio 2010 express for Windows Phone for creating applications that use list and navigation controls. In this tutorial I am going to tell you how you can load twitter timeline in Windows Phone List application. This also clears the idea of calling a web service Asynchronously which is treated as a separated thread in Windows Phone 7 applications. Also clears basic concept of populating the list.