30 Days With Windows Phone 7: Day 23

Once upon a time, I used my smartphone camera to take pictures of things so I could share them on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, With Windows Phone 7 “Mango” I can still do that, but “Mango” also comes with a whole new bag of tricks for the camera that are much more useful. For today’s 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 post I will take a look at some of the more creative ways “Mango” uses the camera.

You can do a lot more than just take pictures with your smartphone camera.I do the shopping and cook the meals in our house, but my wife is the research assistant and creative genius behind choosing the meals. One of the most recent issues of Real Simple magazine came with a bunch of recipes broken down by weeks. The list of meals sounded tasty enough so we decided to give it a shot. The meals themselves were pretty good–although my kids didn’t appreciate the use of more eclectic ingredients such as beets and butternut squash.