Windows Phone App Settings

Introduction

Here are some of my Windows Phone app settings. See also: Android App Settings, iOS App Settings, Phone Settings, Handheld Settings.

Calendar (Windows Phone 7.5)

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Settings

[x] Windows Live Calendar

Color: Theme Color (light green)

[ ] Windows Live Birthday Calendar

Color: Magenta

[x] Show to-dos on the calendar

Camera (Windows Phone 7.5)

Comments: there are news that the Camera settings in Windows Phone 7 phones won't stick, so check that you are using HD for camcorder if you want the best possible quality.

Camera Settings

Scenes

(*) Auto

( ) Portrait

( ) Landscape

( ) Sports

( ) Beach

( ) Backlight

( ) Candlelight

( ) Macro

Effects

(*) None

( ) Grayscale

( ) Negative

( ) Sepia

( ) Solarize

Resolution

( ) Small (640 x 480)

( ) 1M (1280 x 960)

( ) 2M (1600 x 1200)

( ) 3M (2048 x 1536)

(*) 5M (2592 x 1944)

Metering mode

(*) Center

( ) Average

( ) Spot

Flicker adjustment

(*) Auto

( ) 50Hz

( ) 60Hz

Camcorder Settings

Effects

(*) None

( ) Grayscale

( ) Negative

( ) Sepia

( ) Solarize

Resolution

(*) 720P (1280 x 720)

( ) VGA (640 x 480)

( ) QVGA (320 x 240)

Metering mode

(*) Center

( ) Average

( ) Spot

Flicker adjustment

(*) Auto

( ) 50Hz

( ) 60Hz

Auto focus

(*) On

( ) Off

Facebook 2.8 (Windows Phone 7.5)

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Application

Cache expiration: 10 minutes

[ ] Turn on banner image

[ ] Enable shake to refresh?

[x] Allow Facebook for Windows Phone to access your location?

Notifications

No notifications

Foursquare 2.12 (Windows Phone 7.5)

Account Settings

[ ] Ping Twitter by default

[ ] Ping Facebook by default

Application Settings

[x] Location Service

[x] Send error reports

Hotmail (Windows Phone 7.5)

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Settings

[x] Conversations

[x] In conversations, show replies and email from all your synced folders

[ ] Signature

[x] Always bcc myself

Sync Settings: Windows Live

Account name: Windows Live

Download new content: every 15 minutes

Download email from: the last 2 weeks

Content to sync: [x] Email

User name:

Password:

Server: m.hotmail.com

Logging: off (recommended)

Internet Explorer (Windows Phone 7.5)

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Settings

[x] Allow access to my location

[x] Allow cookies on my phone

[ ] Get suggestions from Bing as I type

[x] Allow Internet Explorer to collect my browsing history

Website preference: Mobile version

Open links from other apps in: The current tab

The Weather Channel 1.16 (Windows Phone 7.5)

Settings

(*) Metric

[x] Weather Backgrounds

[x] Use Location Service

[ ] Severe Weather Alerts (United States)

Twitter 1.2 (Windows Phone 7.5)

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General

Name display: Username

Date format: Relative

Font size: 20

Auto rotate: Always

Update timeline every: 3 minutes

Tweet cache: High

Image quality: High

Display language: English

[x] Use current location

[x] Hashtags in trends

[x] Location for tweets

Notifications

[ ] Mentions

[ ] Favorited

[ ] Retweets

[x] Direct messages

[ ] New followers

Theme

(*) light theme

Last modified: March 29th, 2013

Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)

URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/windows-phone-app-settings