Microsoft Live Lock Screen – An Attractive Screen Lock App for Windows Phones

Do you want to personalize your smartphone’s lock screen? There is lot of lock screen apps available in smartphone world, but if you are a Windows Phone user, here is a lock screen app with attractive designs. Microsoft released live lock screen app for Windows Phone 8 users that lets you to choose different 6 new lock screen layouts.

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Each design of lock screen layouts coming with a revamped design and you can customize it for the time, date and notifications. Also you can set a unique unlock animation for each time. There is an option change through multiple background images manually that keeps your lock screen fresh. Finally the app has Bing integration so you can get beautiful Bing Wallpapers that can be downloaded automatically every day.

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Microsoft Live Lock screen app works with all phones even entry level smartphones with 512 MB RAM. This is a beta app however it will be improved in upcoming versions.

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Official Instagram App Finally Comes to Windows Phone 8

Instagram is an online photo sharing social site has launched official app for Windows Phone 8 devices. The app is much awaited one for Windows Phones for long time, after the launch of Android and iOS apps. Instagram released as beta version and it comes with all the usual photo filters similar on Android versions. Windows Phone apps also getting popular, recently we have seen Vine app for Windows Phones launched.

Instagram app for Windows phone is designed with metro user interface and looking good. The app is missing one big feature that does not support video uploading. Also it does not support in-app photo taking, so you can’t capture photos within the app. You need to take photos with your camera and then upload the photos into the Instagram app.

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Instagram for Windows Phone 8 Features:

• Customize your photos with different custom filter effects
• Share your photos to friends and follow others with one click
• 100% free custom designed filters: XPro-II, Earlybird, Rise, Amaro, Hudson, Lo-fi, Sutro, Toaster, Brannan, Inkwell, Walden, Hefe, Nashville, 1977, and others.
• Video recording with breathtaking cinematic stabilization 
• Linear and Radial Tilt-Shift blur effects for extra depth of field. 
• Instant sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr and Foursquare
• Unlimited uploads 
• Interact with friends through giving & receiving likes and comments 
• Full front & back camera support 

Instagram app now lacks in-app photo taking and video uploading features, but Instagram is currently working and it will update the app with new features soon. The app is available for free and it supports Windows Phone 8 version only.

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State Bank of India Launches SBI Freedom App for Windows Phones

State Bank of India is the largest government sector bank has launched its official State Bank Freedom mobile banking App for Windows Phone devices. The app is already available for Android and iOS devices now they released the Windows phone version. The app allows you to access your bank account, check the balance, transfer your funds, pay bills online, book train tickets, make top-ups and more.

State Bank Freedom Mobile Banking App Features:

• Transfer funds within SBI or other Bank’s account.
• Immediate Mobile Payment Services (IMPS) : Fund Transfer, Merchant Payments 24x7
• Balance Enquiry / Mini statement services
• Request for your cheque book
• Enquiry about Demat Account
• Bill Payments ( Utility bills, credit cards, Insurance premium), Donations, Subscriptions)
• Top up for Mobiles
• M-Commerce services ( DTH recharge of Tatasky, BigTV, SunDirect, DishTV, Airtel DigitalTV and Videocon d2h)
• Booking of train tickets over the IRCTC portal through IMPS

To use this app, you have to register for mobile banking and getting your User ID and default MPIN. You can activate and complete your mobile banking registration through your ATM card or visiting your SBI home branch. You can get detailed registration information at app downloading site. The app is available free and works with Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8 devices.

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Aviary Photo Editor App released for Windows Phone 8

Aviary released its photo editor app for Windows Phone 8 devices that is already available for Android and iOS platforms. Aviary Photo Editor is a powerful, fast and fun photo editor and you can edit your photos on the go. Users can modify photos with stunning effects / filters, cool stickers and many other photo editing features like crop, rotate and brighten.

Aviary Photo Editor for Windows Phone is designed specifically for Windows Phone 8 using Metro style design. It is integrating with user’s photo library to allow them to quickly modify their images. And you can easily share your modified photos to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites.

Aviary Photo Editor Features:

• One-tap auto enhance
• Gorgeous photo effects and frames
• Funny stickers
• Color balance
• Crop, rotate and straighten your photo
• Adjust brightness, contrast and saturation
• Make sharpen and blur
• Draw and add text in images
• Cosmetic tools – fix redeye, remove blemishes and whiten teeth

Aviary Photo Editor for Windows Phone 8 is completely free for a limited time for the celebration of the launch. So get your free photo editor app quickly.

Aviary Photo Editor on Windows Phone Store

Get Official Skype App for Windows Phones

Skype is the popular software for making video calls through voice over Internet connectivity. We can make free video calls to our international friends. Microsoft acquired Skype before some months and released latest amazing version for PC users. While the Beta version of Windows Skype was released in February 2011 and that has some bugs. Now Microsoft fixed some bugs and released the latest Skype application for Windows Mobile users.