Download and convert Youtube videos to mp3 ring tones with Mp3Tube

Mp3Tube is a tool for downloading Youtube videos and converting them to mp3 songs.
Mp3Tube provides a neat interface with the below features

• Search videos and browse hot music videos on Youtube.com
• Download and convert videos to mp3
• Make and manage playlists
• Pin your favorite playlists to the start screen
• Listen to the downloaded songs
• Edit mp3 songs to make ringtones

Users can get Mp3Tube for free (ads-supported version) here or pay only $0.99 for a full version without ads here.

Now in Marketplace: Box for Windows Phone

Sharing large or sensitive documents with co-workers and clients just became a lot easier: today Box released an official Windows Phone app for its popular file collaboration and storage service. Download it now

The free app makes it easy to view, share, edit, and comment on files. Since it’s designed for the office, Box also employs an app-specific passcode as an extra layer of security.

Finally, the new app offers some Windows Phone-exclusive features, such as slideshows and Live Tiles notifications for updated files. “We designed our app to really take advantage of this platform’s unique characteristics and capabilities,” the Box crew notes on its official blog. Check out their post for more details.

What Windows Phone apps do you use at work?

Now in Marketplace: Crackle for Windows Phone

“Dude, have you downloaded Crackle yet?”

I’d barely opened my laptop this morning and my Windows Phone-owning buddy (and big Stephen King fan) was already pelting me with instant messages. “All you have to do is set up an account and you’re watching flicks. I watched Christine on the bus to work this morning.” He urged me to blog about how cool it is.

He was right: The official Crackle app, which landed in Marketplace earlier this week, provides free access to hundreds of full-length films and TV shows, streamed to your Windows Phone for free. What’s nice is that you can play them as much as you want, and nearly two dozen new titles are added to the catalog each month from sources including Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star, Screen Gems, and Sony Pictures Classics. Download the app—or check out the Crackle site—for the complete list of titles.  The app is available in Australia, Canada, UK, and US.

Anybody else give it a whirl yet?

Announcing the Windows Phone Monthly Photo Contest

For as long as Windows Phones have been sold, people have been using them to make beautiful images. We’ve been floored by some of the photographs our users have been able to create (especially the photographs our users have shared with the hashtag #WPphoto), so we thought we’d start recognizing your photos by launching a monthly, themed photo contest.

All winning photos will be featured on the Windows Phone Blog, as well as across our Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest channels. We will of course provide credit and even link to your website or blog if possible.

To kick off this shindig, this month we’re asking you to submit your favorite pet photos. Here’s an example of one:

This photograph was taken by my colleague Lisa, who sends out the awesome Windows Phone newsletterevery month. It was taken on an HTC Titan II and edited using the Thumba Photo App and HTC’s Photo Enhancer. Here’s what Lisa has to say about it:

Domino curls up for a nap by the living room window. I think this photo captures how gorgeous her eyes look in the morning light.

When you send in your photos to windowsphone@microsoft.com, please let us know which phone you took it with, which photo apps you used, and 2-3 sentences describing the photo and the circumstances under which it was taken. We’re looking forward to seeing what you all come up with! Here is how to enter:

• To enter, please e-mail your entry to windowsphone@microsoft.com.
• In the subject line of your e-mail, please write “CONTEST: PETS”.
• The photo you send must have been taken with and edited on a Windows Phone. Please attach the original JPEG file to your e-mail, with metadata included. If the photo has been edited, please let us know which apps/settings you used.
• Please name your file using your first and last name, followed by the theme of the contest (this month it’s “Pets”). So, for instance, my e-mail would include a photograph named DavidChenPets.JPG.
• Please use the highest resolution possible when sending your photos.
• One entry per person, please.
• This contest runs from now until 11:59 p.m. PDT on August 31, 2012.
• After the contest deadline, we will look over all of your entries and choose our favorites. Entries will be judged on their creativity, resourcefulness, aesthetic beauty, and just the overall impression your photo makes on us.
• Winning entries will be posted on the blog, as well as shared on our Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest pages about two weeks after the contest has ended.
• Read the full rules here.

Is this Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 range?

Nokia is rumoured to be announcing 3 Windows Phone 8 handsets on September 5th at Nokia World and also at a Microsoft and Nokia event in New York on the same day.

Coincidentally three Nokia-branded Windows Phone devices have also leaked, depicted above.

On the far left is the supposed Nokia Phi, a Lumia 900-type device with a dual core processor, HD screen, NFC, LTE and a 4.65 inch screen.

The other two handsets are not named or specced, but one has a 4.3 inch screen, and the other one that’s around 4 inches. Both screens are flat, unlike the curved screen on the Nokia Phi. It is likely the smallest, cheapest device will have an WVGA screen rather than an HD screen however. For these devices only the bezel has leaked, and the final device may look significantly different.

All three features holes for front-facing cameras and have soft, rather than hard keys.

What do our readers think of this collection? Let us know below.

Pulse App Comes to the Web, Shines in Internet Explorer 10

 A few years ago, two graduate engineering students were faced with an interesting challenge posed by a class at Stanford University: Build a product and launch it in 10 weeks. 

Focused on the task at hand, Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta didn’t realize they were actually launching their careers. Together, they created Pulse, an elegant news reading application originally designed for mobile devices, and now available on the Web. Pulse incorporates colorful panning story bars and fills them with content from sources you select

Announcing Surface: New Family of PCs for Windows

Microsoft-made hardware to be available starting with release of Windows 8 and Windows RT.

Windows 8: See how it works

http://res2.windows.microsoft.com/resbox/en/6.2/main/c41a3f15-615e-4aca-a9a7-dca6fe967005_31.mp4

Mobile SkyDrive

Download the free SkyDrive app on your Windows Phone, iPhone, or iPad. On Android or other phones just use the web browser to sign in to SkyDrive.com.

Download SkyDrive

When you install the free SkyDrive app on your computer, you can access your photos and files from almost anywhere, store them, and securely share them. Put the SkyDrive app on all your computers— Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X Lion—and you never have to worry about forgetting a photo or file again.
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Nokia Asha 305, Asha 311 launched in India

According to reports, the Nokia Asha 305 and Nokia Asha 311 have come bundled with Nokia Browser 2.0, that uses Opera Mobile browser to decrease data usage by "upto 85 percent"

Preview the new Office

Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 Complete!

the Windows and Windows Server teams announced that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been released to manufacturing.  In keeping with our goal of delivering great tools on the same cadence as our platforms, I’m thrilled to announce that we have completed final builds of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5.
This has been an exciting road for all of us involved in these projects, and we’re glad to be able to deliver these to our customers.
For MSDN Subscribers, the bits will be available for download on August 15th. Visual Studio Professional, Premium, Test Professional, and Ultimate with MSDN Subscribers can also sign up for a free, one year developer account for Windows Store today, with Windows Phone developer accounts coming soon.

Microsoft Provides a Sneak Peek of Windows Phone 8

Microsoft announces new operating system based on the same core as Windows 8 devices.

Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone

Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM)! This means we’ve completed the product development and testing of the product and have started handing off the final code to our OEM partners. They can now begin preparing new Windows 8 PCs and devices they’ll introduce starting with General Availability

Say Hello to Outlook.com, New Modern Email from Microsoft

Microsoft introduced Outlook.com, a new personal email service that reimagines the way that people use email – from a cleaner look, to fewer and less obtrusive ads, to new connections to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Huawei launches WiFi data card E355 in India at Rs 5499

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HTC Desire VC launched in India for Rs 21999

HTC, in partnership with TATA DOCOMO, has announced the launch of its new smartphone in India - HTC Desire VC. Priced at Rs 21999, the phone has a 4-inch screen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels.

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Micromax unveils 10-inch tablet for Rs 9999

NEW DELHI: Micromax entered the budget tablet space in April this year with the Funbook. Priced at Rs 6499, the tablet had a 7-inch touchscreen, the latest Android 4.0 OS and a 1.2Ghz processor.

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