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 for Windows 7. They match most of what you had for Windows Vista and XP, but I’ve thrown in compatible drivers and antivirus software for good measure.  Read more...

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Here are 10 medical apps that you should have in your iPhone if you’re a health care professional.

1. Skeletal System Plus This app is by 3D4Medical which has one of the world’s largest collection of 3D medical images. If you’re studying anatomy, you should definitely have this app on your iPhone. It contains 350 high quality images with all 1200 parts labeled. You can zoom into each image, rotate it to see anterior, posterior, medial and lateral views and you can test yourself with a quiz in the end! Apps for just the skeletal system of the head and neck and also for the muscles of the body by 3D4Medical are also available.  Read more...

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Orasphere is an iPhone app designed by Orasphere Inc for dental practitioners to educate patients. It contains animated videos that explain routine dental procedures. Its an excellent tool for dentists to have on their iPhones so they can show their patients what they’re about to do.

Instead of verbally trying to explain a patient how a root canal treatment is performed, the dentist can educate the patient with an animated video. It saves a lot of time and energy, increases patient acceptance, and saves the dentist from the post treatment questions the patient will ask that the dentist might have already answered. Not only that, it makes you like a pretty cool dentist!  Read more...

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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 Apps for Facebook.  Read more...

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That’s right. Even though you can’t install all of them at once, that’s what it’ll cost you to buy all of them. Busted loop has done some calculations and found out the price of 55,732 apps ( as of July 7 ) to be $2.59 per app. It goes up to $3.34 if you just count the paid apps which make up 43,194 apps. They’ve also made a table which ranks the total costs of all the apps by iPhone app publishers. The top one is Iceberg Reader, they have 1206 paid apps with a total cost of $16,427.94  Read more...

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Wmpoweruser has published a list of restrictions (via WMExperts) imposed on developers for their apps to be approved for Windows Mobile Marketplace. The restrictions seem to have been totally inspired by Apple, which is really not a good thing. It also means that some previously popular Windows Mobile apps will be ineligible for Windows Marketplace. In a nutshell, here’s what you’ll be missing  Read more...

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TechCrunch, although being very pro-Apple, has spotted the fakeness behind the countdown timer for Apple’s App Store Billion Apps countdown. That’s not a countdown for a billion apps developed but for a billion apps downloaded from the App Store.  Read more...

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