home brew

The inevitable has finally happened, and an important part of the Windows Phone homebrew scene, has gone the way of the dodo. It’s not that we didn’t know it was coming, but the date when the Chevron Unlock expired, August 11, came and went without any heraldry. What does this mean? If you are still rocking a chevron unlocked device, it will relock the next time you sync with the Zune Client on your PC.

If you have moved to an app hub account, you may have to unlock your device again using the Microsoft service after chevron expires. The Chevron team negotiated a deal with Microsoft. All users that purchased an unlock token became eligible for a free registration at Microsoft’s developer app hub. For many reasons a lot of the people who had chevron, signed up for, and paid for app hub registration, and this has been an ongoing saga for the team, Microsoft and those un-lockers.

As the process started, moving close to 10,000 users, and gaining them refunds for app hub registration proved to be a mammoth task.

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This is incredible, yesterday when I posted about Screen Capturer Version 2, little did I know that it would become an awesome full featured app in version 3. Screen capture has been one of the features that Windows Phone users, have been crying out for. The app has had a UI overhaul, and the interop limitation has been removed. There’s still a problem with the way the app syncs files to he PC, the way the files are named in particular, once generated from the app.

It’s an app you will want to be patient with, but for single or multiple screen shots it works really well, and the capture quality is pretty good. It won’t capture video, stills of video, or stills of games in play. It will allow you to capture itself. All you need is a developer unlocked phone, so that you can sideload the app. There’s a bit more of an explanation of how the app works here, which API it works with. It’s a little inconsistent, as I don’t seem to be able to find all the shots I’ve taken. It’s a great step forward though, and a boon for many.