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		<title>Prevent ugly images on Windows Phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Problem Sometimes images look nice on a regular computer screen, but when used in your Windows Phone application they become ugly. This effect is most often seen on gradients and images with smooth coloring. In gradient images you’ll start to see stripes and bands. It looks like the colors in the image don’t blend anymore. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2012/05/prevent-ugly-images-on-windows-phone/</link>
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		<title>colorizing images using expression blend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I recorded a screencast to demonstrate how to colorize images in a Windows Phone 7 application using Expression Blend 4. In Silverlight or WPF I use a shader to colorize images, but because shaders aren’t available in the same way in Silverlight for Windows Phone I had do come up with a different technique. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2012/03/colorizing-images-using-expression-blend/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s new in Expression Blend for visual studio?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intro With the release of Windows 8 Customer Preview came the release Visual Studio 11 Beta. This beta release van with a new version of Expression Blend. To get it, just download the Visual Studio 11 Beta and install the Ultimate, Premium of Professional version. If you don’t have installed or don’t want to install [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2012/03/whats-new-in-expression-blend-for-visual-studio/</link>
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		<title>Setting visibility based on wp7 themes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intro The Technical Certification Requirements for Windows Phone 7 applications state the following: 5.5.2 – Content and Themes Application content, such as text and visual elements, must be visible and legible regardless of the phone theme. For example, if the phone theme changes from black background to white background, the text and visual elements of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2012/01/setting-visibility-based-on-wp7-themes/</link>
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		<title>metro colors for photoshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did some designing for a Windows Phone 7 App this week. I wanted to test some graphics using the accent colors. I’ve saved the color swatches I use. If you’re using Photoshop or Illustrator and would like to use them too, you can download them here: Metro Color Swatches]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2012/01/metro-colors-for-photoshop/</link>
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		<title>Windows Phone 7 app &#8211; New Kids Button</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today my new app was published to the Windows Phone Marketplace. The application shows a big red button. When this button is pressed a quote from the movie and TV series of New Kids is played. In this I application I wanted to try a few things. First, I wanted to see how to create [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2011/10/windows-phone-7-app-new-kids-button/</link>
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		<title>Discovering Expression Blend 5 &#8211; ListView</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often you need to display a list of items in a application. The Windows Library for JavaScript contains a ListView control for you to use in your applications. The control can be bound to a data source and templated from HTML. Getting started We’ll start off by creating a new project and choosing the Fixed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2011/09/discovering-expression-blend-5-listview/</link>
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		<title>Sounds on Windows Phone 7 &#8211; KnockOnWood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week my KnockOnWood Windows Phone 7 app was released in the marketplace. The basic idea of the application is that it gives you something to knock on if no real wood is available. In other words, it should play a sound effect when the screen is touched. &#160; From Wikipedia: Knocking on wood, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2011/09/sounds-on-windows-phone-7-knockonwood/</link>
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		<title>Discovering Expression Blend 5 &#8211; Styles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous article I explained the different templates of the Expression Blend 5 preview. Today I would like to walk you through some of the basic of using CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, in Expression Blend 5. You’ll need CSS to define the look and formatting of your Windows 8 Metro Style application.  Expression [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2011/09/discovering-expression-blendstyles/</link>
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		<title>Discovering Expression Blend 5 &#8211; Templates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the BUILD event a lot of great applications were released. The big one of course was the Windows 8 preview. One of the released ISOs contains a couple of preview version of development tools. Expression Blend 5 preview is one of them. &#160; This preview of Expression Blend 5 doesn’t let you create Silverlight, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timmykokke.com/2011/09/discovering-expression-blend-5-templates/</link>
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