Windows 7 has hit RTM finally. Some users will start getting their greedy hands on the RTM ( some already have! ) soon, including yours truly, as soon as it hits MSDN and TechNet on 6th of August. This means that a lot of users will be (preferably) doing a clean install of Windows 7. I decided to create a list of some must have applications...
If Twitter clients weren’t enough already, Facebook recently updated its API to allow developers to create client applications that would let you update your status or keep an eye on your stream. But which are most popular Facebook clients amongst them all? To answer that question, this edition of Apps for Windows is dedicated to Desktop...
One of the most popular games in the world, Tetris celebrates its 25th birthday today. According to Telegraph
The game was created by Alexey Pajitnov, a computer engineer who was working for the Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
It has sold more than 70 million copies, been released for nearly every video-game platform of...
TED is one of the most fascinating annual conferences in the world. The videos from the conference always have something different and interesting. The new Silverlight 3 TED Video Player by Thirteen 23 lets you watch TED videos right from the comfort of your desktop. It is a Silverlight 3 out of browser application therefore available for...
Normally, this series is called ‘Apps for Windows’, but this one is titled for Windows 7 because the application is made specifically for this OS. This must be one of the first third party applications that supports Jump Lists, Taskbar previews and even controls in the previews like Windows Media Player does. Made by Neowin member Baptiste...
Google Chrome has gotten another speed bump with the latest upgrade. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably would have been using the updates through the beta/dev channel already, but now the stable channel has gotten these updates as well. Here are the upgrades from the Google Chrome blog:
Improved New Tab Page: The most...
I had been planning on starting a section on Apps for Windows since some time now, and no better way to start with version 2 of one of my favorite applications, The New York Times Reader. Previously based on WPF, and now shifted to Adobe Air, for cross platform compatibility, the new Times Reader 2.0 is available for Windows, Linux and OS...
