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One of the great features of Windows Phone is the level of personalization you can do to your Start screen.  Not only can you pin any app to the Start screen (and in Mango, even some specific parts of an application), you can customize the look and feel of it quite easily.  One of these personalizations is the ability to change the wallpaper in the Picture Hub.  This features has been there since the original release of Windows Phone and it is easy to change it to suit your style a little better.

Admittedly this is a easy How To so if you are an advanced Windows Phone user, you may want to stop reading here and go to the next post. 🙂  For those that are new however, let me show you how easy it is to make this change.

One of the anticipated games for Windows Phone has finally come to Marketplace.  Lets Golf 2, the popular & dare I say fun golf game from Gameloft, was released earlier this morning.  The game is one that is truly cross platform as it is already available for both the iPhone and iPad as well as Android (Lets Golf 3 for Android was released a couple of days ago).

Lets Golf 2 should not be considered a serious golf game in the vein of the Tiger Woods franchise from EA Mobile.  Rather it is a fun take on the ancient game, with anime characters doing the golfing, each with their own skills and talents.  It is very much a casual golf game but a fun one to be sure.

Microsoft has dropped the price of three popular XBox Live games in the Marketplace for Windows Phone.  Full House Poker, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 and Assassin’s Creed have all seen big drops in price.

• Full House Poker – $1.99 (was $2.99) – Marketplace link
• Sonic the Hedgehog – $4.99 (was $6.99) – Marketplace link
• Assassin’s Creed – $2.99 (was $6.99) –Marketplace link

It’s the end of the day and you notice that your Windows Phone has just a sliver of battery life left according to the battery indicator.  How can you conserve that precious battery power until you get into your car or home to charge it again?  Easy, just remove some Live Tiles.

Like applications that are running in the background, Live Tiles use up power by regularly using your 3G antenna or WiFi connection to keep information in them up-to-date.  Logically this makes perfect sense as they are after all “live” tiles.  So removing some of them can help cut down on the battery consumption your phone is using in a pinch.